Kohl’s will open stores for Black Friday on Thanksgiving Day (KSS)

Business Insider/Jessica Tyler Kohl’s will be kicking off its Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving. The department-store chain will open its doors at 5 p.m. on Thursday, November 22 and stay open all night. Black Friday doorbusters launch online at 12:01 a.m. CT on Thanksgiving Day.  To kick off the deals, it will also be offering select […]

Kohl’s could be the unlikely key to Whole Foods reaching 52 million new customers — and it’s ‘vastly negative’ news for Kroger (KSS)

Business Insider/Hayley Peterson Kohl’s is adding Aldi to as many as 10 of its locations as the department-store chain looks to drive more traffic to its big-box stores. If Whole Foods struck a similar deal with Kohl’s, it would expose the grocer to tens of millions of new customers and make it a bigger threat […]

Amazon widens its retail footprint with Kohl’s partnership

Sometimes when you’re down on your luck, you have to strike a deal with the enemy. That’s what Kohl’s is doing by partnering up with Amazon, ostensibly its biggest online rival, to sell Amazon hardware. The department store chain plans to open 1,000-square-foot areas in ten of its locations dedicated to the devices. This “store-in-store” […]

Amazon taps Kohl’s, Google snags Home Depot as AI assistants compete for your attention (and money)

Amazon and Google took steps today in their continuous march to bring AI assistants Alexa and Google Assistant closer to consumers by partnering with big box stores. Kohl’s will now sell some Amazon products, including the Echo and Echo Dot, in 10 of its stores in Chicago and Los Angeles, while Google announced that Home […]

Kohl’s beats thanks to higher margins (KSS)

(Kena Betancur/Getty (Reuters) – Department store operator Kohl’s Corp reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by higher margins despite a 2.8 percent drop in sales. Kohl’s shares were up 3.2 percent at $ 43.10 in premarket trading on Thursday. The company, like rival Macy’s Inc, reported weak sales in November and December as it struggles […]