Sales

A look at the art and science of selling yourself -- something author Daniel Pink says we all do in one way or another.

A year ago, retailer J.C. Penney announced a new strategy to cut so-called "everyday" prices by about 40 percent, while reducing the number of sales a month. The company has had to walk back those plans as shoppers remained addicted to sales.

Furniture sales last month were 8.3 percent higher than a year earlier, and that could mean good news for the overall economy.

Some post-holiday shoppers today will take advantage of a little-known policy at several stores that offers money back on items purchased before Christmas that have since been discounted

This final note today. A lesson in how going green can come with some corporate pitfalls. Frito Lay announced today it's getting rid of the plant...