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The Secret Behind Quick-Turn Merch: A Strong Partner

From Barbie to the Super Mario Brothers movie and even the debut of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s electrifying relationship, the last few months have been filled with pop culture moments that have captivated almost the entire world. Everywhere you look, someone is talking about these moments. To take the obsession even further, it seems […]
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Grocerant Niche Holiday Meal Deals Check them Out

  Regular readers of this blog know that Winsight grocery magazine is being rolled into Supermarket News.  Last week Russell Redman wrote another very good article for about grocery stores that are offering mix and match bundled grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat meal deals that save the consumer both time and money.  According to Steven […]
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Dollar General Plans 800 New Stores, 1,500 Remodels in FY 2024

Dollar General is planning approximately 2,385 real estate projects for fiscal year 2024, including about 800 new store openings (including approximately 30 pOpshelf openings and 15 new stores in Mexico), along with 1,500 store renovations and 85 store relocations. While this would be an ambitious growth plan for any retailer, it actually represents a “modest […]
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Check out this insightful article on running a hospital in 2023

If you are in charge of a hospital, you are probably already well aware that it is the kind of experience that can be very difficult to get right. There are so many challenges involved in running a hospital, and it’s likely that you will face a lot of them all together much of the […]
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Michelle Gass to Take the Reins at Levi’s when CEO Chip Bergh Retires in 2024

Current Levi Strauss & Co. President Michelle Gass will succeed CEO Chip Bergh when he retires next year, the company’s board of directors has announced. Gass will formally take the reins on Jan. 29, 2024, a few months prior to Bergh’s departure, which is scheduled for April 26, 2024. Bergh has been elected as Executive […]
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The Weekly Closeout: Claire’s expands into Mexico and Squishmallows collabs with H&M

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week, and what we’re still thinking about. From Rent the Runway’s decision to restructure […]
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Coldwater Creek Acquires Soft Surroundings, Adopts New Returns Solution

Coldwater Creek has completed its purchase of Soft Surroundings, a women’s clothing and accessories retailer that filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2023. The newly combined retailer has selected the Chief Returns Officer solution from Newmine, which has a predictive analytics functionality that will help the retailer quickly analyze and take corrective actions on why […]
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Growth Makes Happy Joe’s Happy

  Customer frequency matters. When you are a restaurant, looking at your concept, trying to drive top-line sales and bottom-line profits, start with the menu. That according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. That said, leveraging the menu to increase customer frequency without operational disruption is an art and Happy […]
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Lego Debuts Fortnite Survival Crafting Game

The Lego Group and Epic Games will introduce Lego Fortnite, a new survival crafting game, on Dec. 7, 2023. Designed for people of all ages, the game is designed to encourage creativity, experimentation and collaboration through play. This is the first play experience introduced since Lego and Epic Games announced their partnership in 2023, with […]
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Comment: Here’s why you shouldn’t overlook the role of collaborative autonomous mobile robots

Over the past three years, automation has gone from the background to the forefront of everyday business across industries, observes Gavin Donley, Head of Marketing at Brain Corp. Automation consists of many separate but related trends and sub-trends, but the burgeoning presence of collaborative autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, stands as a defining force reshaping […]
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How retail businesses can stay protected against natural disasters

While many businesses are always out there trying to reduce costs so they can perfectly retain their business how it is, there’s one thing that can swiftly damage a business to the point of no recovery, and that’s a natural disaster. Now, dealing with a natural disaster is honestly everyone’s worst nightmare. They can take […]
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Samsung, Acer, Hisense onboard as Currys Connected Media unveiled by UK technology retailer

Currys has unveiled the first suite of products available via its retail media network, Currys Connected Media. This allows partnered brands to understand, reach and engage millions of customers online and in-store. Brands such as Samsung, Acer and Hisense are harnessing the offering, which is built on solutions from partners including Circana, Epsilon and Criteo. […]
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How Mideast Conflict Is Playing Out In One Workplace

The Washington Post reports that “on Friday, more than 1,700 Amazon employees presented CEO Andy Jassy with a petition calling for the company to ‘rescind all contracts with the Israeli military and call for an immediate, durable, and sustained cease-fire.’  While that’s a small fraction of Amazon’s total workforce of more than 1 million, employees […]
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Absenteeism at work: Why it’s not always just sickness…

Absenteeism in work can be hugely problematic for a business. It can cost money, see projects run behind schedule, and damage team morale. However, it’s also important to support the person who is off work. Businesses have a duty of care to an employee and in this day and age someone’s absenteeism could be for […]
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The Awards for People in Retail 2024

We’re thrilled to announce the return of the People in Retail Awards for it’s second year! Following a phenomenal inaugural year, we’ve taken onboard your feedback, and are back with a bang. Entries officially open today, Monday, November 20, 2023, boasting 14 categories ready to be adorned with your stellar submissions. Last year, we witnessed […]
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Top Companies for Employee Retention in the U.S. and UK

Top Companies for Employee Retention in the U.S. and UK Workers weigh various factors when deciding to stay with a company for an extended period. These include a positive work environment, fair compensation, job security, opportunities for professional growth, and resilience against disruptive changes in the economy or technology. So, which companies excel in employee […]
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Confer With announced as Overall Winner at 2023 RTIH retail technology innovation awards event

Confer With, a 1:2:1 video commerce platform built for retail and e-commerce firms seeking to scale personal shopping, emerged victorious this week as the Overall Winner at the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards. After a rigorous judging process and amidst strong competition across various categories, Confer With received praise not only for its individual contributions but […]
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Building Omnichannel Capabilities with Bayer’s Ajay Sharma

The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Ajay Sharma, North America VP of eCommerce & Omnichannel for Bayer Consumer Health, manufacturer of iconic brands like One-A-Day, Advil, Claritin, Alka-Seltzer, & Miralax. Follow Ajay Sharma on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay-sharma-26900360/Follow Bayer on Linkedin :  https://www.linkedin.com/company/bayer/Follow Bayer online at: https://www.bayer.com/ Ajay  answers these questions :  Take us […]
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Building Omnichannel Capabilities with Bayer’s Ajay Sharma

The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Ajay Sharma, North America VP of eCommerce & Omnichannel for Bayer Consumer Health, manufacturer of iconic brands like One-A-Day, Advil, Claritin, Alka-Seltzer, & Miralax. Follow Ajay Sharma on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay-sharma-26900360/Follow Bayer on Linkedin :  https://www.linkedin.com/company/bayer/Follow Bayer online at: https://www.bayer.com/ Ajay  answers these questions :  Take us […]
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Friday Eye-Opener:  Mercado Gonzales

by Kevin Coupe A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Northgate González Market has opened its new Mercado González in Costa Mesa, California, described as a 70,000 square foot “gastronomic adventure that takes foodies on a journey through the heart and soul of Mexican cuisine. With its unique concept and curated food offerings, design, […]
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Responding to Activist Investor Pressure, VF Lays Off Corporate Employees

VF Corp., the parent of brands such as Vans, The North Face and Timberland, has laid off approximately 500 corporate employees across the organization. The news comes about one month after the company unveiled its “Project Reinvent” transformation, which was designed to alleviate pressure from an activist investor. “As part of VF’s new Reinvent strategy, […]
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’Tis the season for shopping and romcoms: RTIH runs back the week’s coolest retail technology plays

RTIH Editor, Scott Thompson, brings you his top ‘future of retail’ systems launches and deployments from the past week, including Amazon, Pinterest, Aldi, Walmart, HMV, New Look, TrusTrace, One Water, Polytag, BERSHKA, and 3DLOOK. Amazon Amazon has opened a Second Chance Store in London, giving festive shoppers the chance to buy quality returned products in-person, […]
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Optimizing your shopper marketing strategy with consumer insights

The best marketing in the world won’t move the needle if potential customers shy away at the last moment. One way to avoid this is shopper marketing, a group of tried and true techniques designed to make the last mile of the purchase journey so effortless that potential customers become actual customers. In this blog […]
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Including HMV, Asda, and Ikea UK: RTIH presents the retail technology week in numbers

Do you like numbers? Do you like retail systems news? Then this is the article for you. Including TrusTrace, New Look, Square, Fossil Group, NewStore, InPost, and the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards. 5…This week, we announced the winning submissions for the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards, sponsored by PMC, FreedomPay, Worldpay from FIS, CADS, 3D Cloud […]
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Instacart and Wegmans to bring alcohol delivery to New Jersey, US

Instacart unlocks alcohol delivery in partnership with Wegmans. Credit: Instacart/PRNewswire. Grocery technology company Instacart has launched an alcohol delivery service for the first time in New Jersey, US. The service was launched in partnership with Wegmans Food Markets and all independently owned Wegmans wine, liquor and beer locations. Customers above the age of 21 can […]
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NRF Retracts Claim that Organized Retail Crime Accounted for ‘Nearly Half’ of Retail Shrink

The National Retail Federation (NRF) has updated a report that had attributed “nearly half” of 2021’s $94.5 billion in retail shrink to organized retail crime, saying the data point was part of two-year-old testimony to a U.S. Senate committee by Ben Dugan, former President of the Organized Retail Crime Resource Center. The NRF report was […]
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