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After Target announced it is leaving the Canada market and closing all of its Canadian stores, another retailer offered to help the 17,600 employees who are losing their jobs. Sears Canada will be hosting job fairs and is recommending that Target employees …

Home Depot president and CEO Craig Menear will become company board chairman in February. The current chairman and former Home Depot CEO Frank Blake plans to retire from the board role. Blake stepped down as CEO in November after seven years in …

Imagine going to summer camp but not being allowed to speak your primary language. That experience offers the perfect setting to learn a different language, according to Lowe’s. For the past five years, employees from Lowe’s distribution centers in the U.S. have gained unique, one-week training through an immersion program. …

Target is getting out of the Canada market, closing its 133 stores in the country because the Canadian division was unprofitable. Corporate leadership couldn’t develop a feasible plan to get Target Canada profitable until 2021 at the soonest, according to CEO and …

A former Lowe’s employee has sued the home improvement company, saying he suffered sexual discrimination. Adam Haimowitz of Tallman, New York, says his frequent complaints about the discrimination weren’t taken seriously by Lowe’s human resources employees, according to an article from …

When big box retailers first became popular options for consumers, the term big box fit due to store layout and size. Recently, however, many popular big box retailers have been trying to reduce size and introduce smaller versions of their stores. Developing micro-sized …

Don’t try this DIY project at home: creating human tissue. A team of medical researchers have developed technology they hope will eventually make replacement organs, such as livers and kidneys, for people, according to an article from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The …

Continuous research and The Home Depot’s annual revenue have shown the company is king of the big boxes. DIYers along with pros frequent its stores, leading Home Depot to increased sales growth. But why exactly do consumers choose Home Depot …