Shopping online lets buyers often skip out on paying sales tax. That amounts to as much as $400 million a year in lost sales tax revenue to the state of Minnesota. Brick-and-mortar retailers are lining up behind a congressional bill that would allow states to require all retailers to collect sales taxes due.
(11/17/2011)
Some analysts say Target's bigger-than-expected jump in quarterly profits announced Wednesday bodes well for the company's holiday sales performance.
(11/16/2011)
Minneapolis-based Capella Education Corp., which runs the online Capella University, is laying off 65 employees.
(11/15/2011)
A Target employee in Omaha has started an online petition urging the retailer to open at 5 a.m. on Black Friday.
(11/14/2011)
Plymouth-based Christopher & Banks is closing 100 of its retail stores nationwide in a move that could cost as many as 1,000 people their jobs.
(11/11/2011)
Minnesota credit unions added 600 customers and $1.3 million in deposits during this past Saturday's Bank Transfer Day.
(11/10/2011)
The owner of ten Twin Cities Jimmy John's sandwich shops illegally fired or disciplined workers involved in union activity, said the National Labor Relations Board.
(11/09/2011)
Window and door maker Andersen Corporation blamed the housing market slump as it laid off 250 employees.
(11/09/2011)
Best Buy officials were clear today they believe the company's greatest opportunities are in wireless devices.
(11/07/2011)
Saturday for some people is Bank Transfer Day, a campaign urging people to close their accounts at big banks and put their money in credit unions and small community banks.
(11/04/2011)
Minnesota credit unions seem to be benefiting from consumer discontent with banks. Since the end of September, the state's credit unions added about 10,000 new members and took in $71 million in deposits.
(11/04/2011)
Another top Target executive is leaving the Minneapolis-based retailer. Longtime chief financial officer Doug Scovanner will retire from Target next March.
(11/01/2011)
For the first time in nearly two years, the overall Business Conditions Index for a nine-state region of the Midwest and Plains took a negative turn. But the outlook in Minnesota is brighter.
(11/01/2011)
3M makes more than 50,000 products, but one of the company's most important technologies is at the core of a wide range of products, including road signs, grinders, and overhead projectors.
(11/01/2011)
Starting Tuesday the Star Tribune will charge some people who only read the state's largest daily on the Internet.
(10/31/2011)
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