The president of Mervyn's, under pressure from disability rights advocates, testified Thursday that systematically widening pathways in the chain's 125 stores in California to accommodate disabled ...

Last year, Mervyn's had $3.6 billion in sales, generating $160 million in pretax earnings, Target said. That was a tiny portion of the Minneapolis company's total $48 billion in sales during 2003.

All Mervyn”s department stores, including the one on Vallejo”s Sereno Drive, are closing for good, the retail chain announced Friday. The struggling chain, in business nearly 50 years, becomes ...

Mervyn’s is now in talks to obtain outside financing, including a debtor-in-possession loan to restart the flow of goods to its stores following a prospective Chapter 11 filing, sources said.

Mervyn’s lost $64 million on sales of $2.5 billion for its most recent fiscal year, which ended Feb. 2, according to bankruptcy court records.

“Mervyn’s is Public Enemy No. 1 for people who use wheelchairs,” says Sid Wolinsky, litigation director for Disability Rights Advocates, an Oakland law group that sued Mervyn’s over the issue.

Mervyn’s said in a statement Friday that it plans to hold going-out-of-business sales at its remaining 149 stores. Those 149 stores include at least nine locations in Orange County.

In December, Kohl’s and Forever 21 jointly acquired the leases of 46 Mervyn’s in California for a total of $6.25 million. That deal gave 31 stores to Kohl’s and 15 to Forever 21, including ...

Mervyn’s, which is pulling out of Washington state, plans to close its Everett store sometime in January. Construction crews will then go to work reconfiguring the space, with Steve &Barry’s ...

Mervyn's, which operates 177 stores, mostly in California, has been struggling in the face of sharp sales declines this year in California and Arizona, where the real-estate markets have collapsed ...

Charlene Glafke began her career 35 years ago in the toy section of a Mervyn's department store in Daly City, Calif. From that $2.50-an-hour job, she rose to an $80,000-a-year marketing post at ...

Mervyn’s has been a retail staple in Orange County for decades. Now, the mid-tier department store has sought bankruptcy court permission to close four of its local stores in Huntington Beach ...