So, the Charlotte-based retail company announced yesterday that its earnings were down 90 percent. 90 percent! Their net income for the first fiscal quarter for $500,000. In the same period last year, Belk had scraped in $5.1 million. Yeah … I’d say that’s a pretty significant difference …

Read the full story from the Charlotte Business Journal.

Kimberly Lawson served as the editor of Creative Loafing from 2013 to 2015.

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