Target Corp. announced plans Thursday to sell its Mervyn’s stores to an investment group for $1.65 billion, shedding its second department store chain this year to focus on its namesake business. The ...

Did Mervyn’s die, or was it murdered? In 1949 Mervin Morris opened a department store in the unglamorous California town of San Lorenzo. He built Mervyn’s into a West Coast institution, where ...

10/18/2008 Visalia, CA, USA Shoppers we spoke to in Visalia said when Mervyn's closes they probably won't even visit the mall where it used to be. The deals at Mervyn's are great, 50% to 70% off. But ...

HAYWARD, Calif. — When Mervyns changed hands in September 2004, one of the first things the new owners did was remove the apostrophe from the store’s corporate name. That was just the tip of the ...

Kohl?s Department Stores has acquired 31 leases of bankrupt Mervyns stores, including locations in Ukiah, Napa, San Rafael and Eureka, it said Friday. The fate of Mervyns locations in Santa Rosa and ...

The former Mervyns store at the Grand Canyon Shopping Center, near the intersection of the 215 Beltway and Flamingo Road, might become a Kohl's department store. After 60 years of business, Mervyns ...

Liquidation sales start Friday at Mervyns, the 59-year-old department store chain based in Hayward that announced this month it will go out of business. In a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware on ...

One-hundred and forty nine stores around the nation will close -- 37 of them are in the Bay Area, and that means thousands of layoffs. Mervyns appears to be another victim of the credit crunch. There ...

The Mall has been working to renovate through its expansion and adding new stores. "This closing just gives us more opportunity to do so," said Wendy Ellis, director of marketing at The Woodlands Mall ...

Mervyns LLC, the low-end department store chain that has been languishing for several years, could be the latest casualty of the fiercely competitive retail climate. The privately held company, with ...

NEW YORK — While Target Corp. continues to stand behind its Mervyn’s moderate department store division, Wall Street has questioned the wisdom of retaining a business whose deteriorating operating ...