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While many retailers are discounting, canceling orders and otherwise scrambling to get rid of a glut of goods filling their stores and warehouses, some are embracing their higher inventory…

A pandemic-driven boom in warehousing demand is showing signs of slowing, as companies grow more cautious about leasing in an uncertain economy and look to pare back…

A warehouse crush across the U.S. is squeezing out smaller companies as big retailers fill industrial storage sites with their growing stockpiles of inventory.Logistics and real-estate…

More companies are offering supply-chain financing to their vendors, a tool that allows them to pay their bills later while also providing suppliers with faster access to cash.Supply-chain…

Companies that help businesses battle hackers and comply with privacy regulations now face a potentially more formidable adversary: market turmoil.About 1,400 workers have been laid off…

Applied Materials Inc. is temporarily missing out on quarterly revenue that it expects to recognize later in the year as the chip-equipment maker scrambles to…

HONG KONG—China’s car sales began to rebound in May as production gradually resumed in lockdown-hit Shanghai and government cash incentives stimulated purchases in the world’s biggest auto…

Some OPEC members are exploring the idea of suspending Russia’s participation in an oil-production deal as Western sanctions and a partial European ban begin to undercut Moscow’s ability to…

TOKYO— Apple Inc. AAPL 0.17% has told some of its contract manufacturers that it wants to boost production outside China, citing Beijing’s…

Old Navy set out to make clothes shopping more inclusive for women of all body types. It ended up with too many extra-small and extra-large items and too few of the rest, a mismatch that…