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Free Shipping Is Reason to Buy
Free Shipping Is Reason to Buy: 88% of respondents said they seek out online retailers who offer free…
Tech Talk: Disney’s Loss, NRF’s Gain …Transfer of Power … Hotka Hire …
DISNEY’S LOSS, NRF’S GAIN: Joseph LaRocca, who most recently served as loss prevention director for The…
The CIO Hot Seat
In 2005, retail chief information officers will spend their days irked and amused, inspired and confused…
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CRM: HOT
Retail has not cooled on customer relationship management technology despite the failed and costly…
Top of Mind
What’s next? What’s new? What technology trends are taking shape in your world that others may not yet have…
RFID Not (Yet)
Managing the hype surrounding the next big thing in technology is no small feat.
“This is probably a bigger…
Demanding Action
Store optimization efforts are making headlines and providing some quick in-store paybacks for retailers. The…
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Built-in Fan Base
Wei-Chieh Tu, an industrial design graduate student at Pratt, was inspired to create a shoe…
Regal Ways: $25 per Diem
J.E. Henry, senior vice president and chief information officer of Regal Entertainment Group, knows one…
Theater as Retail
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Retailers aren’t the only ones lambasted for lack of merchandising prowess and creativity…
Banking on Optimization
Retailers avoided a disaster this past holiday season. Despite generally weak sales in most sectors…
Wal-Mart’s Mandate: The retailer’s RFID initiative generates mixed signals.
Wal-Mart is pushing ahead with its program to roll out radio frequency identification chips throughout its…
Stars of the Web: Most-searched apparel brand names on the Internet in November.
The standouts of the holiday season were clearly the Internet and gift cards, with online merchants exceeding…
Contemporary Art Rises in Japan
TOKYO — When French fashion designer Lucien Pellat-Finet visits Tokyo, his first impulse is not to hit the…
Reebok’s New Game
Reebok has signed a sponsorship deal with entertainment software firm Electronic Arts to feature gear in…