Baltimore Sun, Business

Macy’s Inc. plans to close 35 to 40 underperforming department stores early next year and will announce specific locations later.

Maryland residents plan to get away for Labor Day in about the same numbers as last year, even with gas prices nearly $1 per gallon cheaper than in late August 2014, AAA Travel said Monday.

Wegmans Pharmacy ranks highest among supermarket pharmacies in customer satisfaction, a J.D. Power study shows.

After looters destroyed her business during Baltimore’s April 27 riots, Taylor Alexander asked herself not whether she would re-open her two-year-old boutique, but how she could reopen an even better version of it.

School starts next week in most of Maryland, but the average family with grade school age kids has bought only half the necessary clothing and supplies, a survey out today shows.

Mannequin legs line the walls of Susan Costa-Walston’s Roland Park dining room, sheathed in knee-high socks in blue, gray and polka-dot patterns.

Another survey on back-to-school shopping is out — this time showing that parents plan to trim spending this year compared to last.

Federal authorities say IKEA is offering a free wall anchoring kit for dressers and chests that officials say can pose a tip-over hazard if not secured to a wall.

Several former executives of Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. plan to launch a retail brand that will be based in Maryland and sell classically styled men’s apparel for business professionals.

If you run into Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot while shopping for clothes or shoes this week or next, don’t be surprised.