Big box

Best Buy avoided the fate of other big box electronics retailers like Circuit City, but the company is still threatened.

Walmart is reportedly considering using customers at its brick-and-mortar stores to deliver packages to online customers.

While many market analysts have been touting the recent spate of mergers and acquisitions as a sign of business confidence, the trend might be more out of necessity.

Conventional wisdom says that big-box stores and supermarket chains offer cheaper alcohol than independent shops. But private liquor stores offer something big retailers can't.

As more shoppers move online, the chain has been caught with too many stores and not enough customers. So, Best Buy will close a slew of its big box stores and open many smaller ones.

I did a story about Costco's decision to lease out space at a couple malls around the country. (Listen here.) It got me wondering about other, l...