TJX Companies Incorporated

The holiday shopping season offers an unusual sale for investors: the stocks of most retailers. Even some of the proudest brand names are suffering because of the nation's reduced personal wealth, tight consumer lending and weakening job market. At some...

Daniel A. Gunther has good reason to keep his checkout line moving at the Meijer Inc. store north of Detroit. A clock starts ticking the instant he scans a customer's first item, and it doesn't shut off until his register spits out a receipt. To assess...

TJX Cos., which operates the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls stores, reported a 6% decline in third-quarter profit as unfavorable exchange rates and a tough economy crimped results for the discount apparel retailer. The company also forecast a lower-than-...

Monday Earnings Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc.; Starbucks Corp.; Tyson Foods Inc. Tuesday Earnings TJX Cos.; Tyco International Ltd. Wednesday Earnings Applied Materials Inc.; Computer Sciences Corp.; Macy's Inc.; NetApp Inc. Thursday...

American consumers went into hiding in September, leaving retailers with dismal sales and an uncertain future well beyond the holiday season as the fallout from the financial meltdown pushes spending even lower. As retailers reported their monthly...

When Meredith White was expecting her first son, nothing terrified her quite like a visit to Babies "R" Us. Aisle after dizzying aisle of baby paraphernalia beckoned, with dozens of varieties of bottles, nipples, wipes (and their warmers), pacifiers,...

When it came to buying their children new jeans and trendy tops, parents held the line: They focused on basics at discounters and waited for the best deals, resulting in weak August sales at many stores. That's a bad sign for the holiday season, because...

Federal authorities said Tuesday that they had cracked the largest case of identity theft in U.S. history, charging 11 people in the theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card account numbers from computer systems at such major retailers as TJ...

A ring of cyber-thieves has stolen tens of thousands of credit card numbers from Louisiana and Mississippi restaurants this year, leading to over $1 million in losses for the banks that issued them. The restaurants began reporting the thefts beginning in...

Federal authorities said Tuesday that they had cracked the largest case of identity theft in U.S. history, charging 11 people in the theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card account numbers from computer systems at such major retailers as TJ...

Federal authorities are calling it the largest hacking and identity theft case yet. But this week's indictments of 11 people who allegedly plundered millions of payment card numbers might not seriously dent the underworld where such crimes occur....

Identity thieves continue to break records when it comes to stealing peoples' lives and loot. Last week federal authorities busted what is alleged to be the largest hacking and identity theft case in the United States, involving the theft and sale of...