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College Kids Need Food Education
Catching young people as they start their university lives gives retailers three opportunities to influence the way people eat. The students are starting to shop and feed themselves for the…
Executives School Next Generation of Retailers
A select group of Britain’s top retailers are taking training into their own hands. A new Fashion Retail Academy was recently opened in London with the purpose of training top…
Employees Ready to Walk During Holidays
Most retail workers can handle the customer side of things. What gets them angry enough to quit is the perceived treatment they receive at the hands of their supervisors and…
Chinese Factories Flout Workplace Rules
While inexpensive goods from China are taken for granted by many in the U.S., the basic American sense of fair play has led many to question whether there was an…
Same Talk, Similar Results for Sears Holdings
In a press release to announce its third quarter financial results, Sears Holdings quoted CEO and president Aylwin Lewis as saying: “We continue to manage our costs effectively…We are excited…
The Strong Survive, Then Thrive in Department Store Biz
The long rumored demise of the department store channel appears to have been overblown. There have been casualties along the way, no doubt, but today the channel is not only…
Family Caregivers: Huge potential, tough to reach
With more than one in five households actively engaged in care for a loved one at home, this is a market segment worth paying attention to. Simply put, caregivers provide…
Store Brands Continue Rise in the U.S.
At its annual trade show in Chicago this week, the Private Label Manufacturers Association released a survey revealing that store brands are becoming increasingly popular to American consumers. What…
Supervalu to Spend $1 Billion to Surprise and Delight
At least part of the question as to what Jeff Noddle, chairman and CEO of Supervalu, would do with the stores acquired from Albertsons has now been answered. Yesterday, Supervalu…
Advertising Rules Change
Today, marketers are looking for the right message and medium to get consumers to buy their products and shop at their stores. A new study conducted for the Retail Advertising…
Everybody Works Holidays at Best Buy
Best Buy has found a way to make sure it has experienced and knowledgeable temporary help for the holiday selling season. It is taking employees out of headquarters and moving…
Kids’ Food Ads to Change
Leading food and beverage manufacturers and providers have decided it’s time to change the way they advertise to kids. And after yesterday’s announcement that the group had created new guidelines…
Marketers Failing to Communicate with Latinos
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach…” The men (and women) in this case that can’t be reached are Latinos and the reason…
ESOPs Produce Big Results
Today, according to The ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) Association, there are 11,000 companies owned in part or fully by employees. Of this group, 3,500 companies are majority-owned by employees…
Nordstrom Sings a New Tune
Music at Nordstrom will no longer be confined to a pianist playing in the store. No, the department store chain is looking to broaden its musical horizons and add to…
LeakedDeals.com
You’re a retailer and you’re set to get a fast start out of the gates following Thanksgiving with advertised specials that make consumers sit up and take notice. The only…
BrainTrust Query: Are Perfect Orders the Holy Grail or a Dead End Trail?
The perfect order…sounds so simple. However, perfect orders are quite elusive for many companies. And when used as a metric, high perfect order scores require the kind of effective coordination…
Layaway is the Only Way for Some
The gap between the haves and have-nots in America has continued to widen and there’s no doubt that large numbers of people are having a very difficult time making ends…
Pepsi to Fuelosophize in Whole Foods
There are certain things that simply do not seem right together…like a match such as Pepsi and Whole Foods. But PepsiCo has been testing a line of healthy organic…
Brands Going Hollywood
Brand marketers want your attention and a small but growing number are looking to do that by producing television shows, movies and online content that both entertain and influence purchasing…
Lampert Looking to Buy Another Retailer
Okay, Sears Holdings is cash rich and Edward Lampert, the company’s chairman, is looking for something to buy. Now, speculation on the investment web site Briefing.com has raised the…
