Black Friday is increasingly an online shopping event, and that’s not necessarily a good thing for legacy retailers.

Robots are coming for people’s jobs in Europe, and the countries in the ex-communist east are particularly vulnerable.

No one dies for fashion in greater numbers than, it turns out, the trees. More than 150 million are cleared every year, shipped around the world, then pulped and processed into viscose.

When the days get shorter and the weather gets colder, retailers have one thing on their minds: the peak-season holiday shopping rush.