Neiman Marcus Brings Its Insane Holiday Fantasy Gifts to a Mall For First Time by Phil Wahba at Fortune. "The retailer has just staged an exhibit at the upscale Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, Long Island as part of its efforts to drum up interest among the wealthy shoppers in the New York City suburbs ahead of a new store opening on February 19." Read more   Target's 'future of food' collaboration lands Kendall Square office by Sara Castellanos at Boston Business Journal. "Target's recently announced collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and global design and consulting firm [...]

  Costco November Comp Sales Flat, +6% Excluding Gas and Foreign Exchange "Costco...reported net sales of $9.68 billion for the month of November...an increase of three percent from $9.43 billion during the similar period last year." Read more   Dollar General Q3 Comp Sales +2.3% "We achieved 7.3 percent sales growth, 2.3 percent same-store sales growth and adjusted diluted earnings per share growth of 11 percent," said Todd Vasos, Dollar General's chief executive officer." Read the release   Reuters: Dollar General's quarterly sales miss estimates "The company's same-store sales rose 2.3 percent, also below the 2.7 percent growth expected by analysts [...]

  Target Goes Big on Discounts This Holiday Season, Bringing Some Headaches by Shannon Pettypiece at Bloomberg. "Its toy prices were 1.3 percent below those of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. during Black Friday and 5.2 percent cheaper than Amazon.com Inc., according to an online survey by Bloomberg Intelligence. Target also undercut Toys “R” Us Inc. and Sears Holdings Corp.’s Kmart chain, the survey found." Read more   Amazon Received 12 times as Many Twitter Mentions as Walmart on Cyber Monday by Phil Wahba at Fortune. "...509,000 to 51,100. Target, though a much smaller digital retailer than Walmart, got 112,000 mentions. Though [...]

  Target: We didn't 'crash' on Cyber Monday by Daphne Howland at Retail Dive. "Target was insistent Monday that its site hadn’t crashed, but rather that the retailer had resorted to a tactical metering of traffic that allowed customers to “stay in line” to complete their shopping expedition." Read more   Walmart: Nearly half of our orders since Thanksgiving have been placed on a mobile device "...that’s double compared to last year... Mobile is making up more than 70 percent of traffic to Walmart.com." Read the release   Target Canada creditors unsatisfied with recovery plan’s details by Marina Strauss at [...]