Sears’ new “In-Vehicle Pickup” feature allows its mobile app users to pick up their online purchases at their local Sears store within five minutes of arrival, without leaving the car. Related Sears Sears Shutting Flagship ...
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John Lewis publishes its five-week trading update, revealing that the retailer saw both bricks and clicks break records. For the five weeks to 28 December 2013, total sales were £734m, 7.2 per cent up compared with last year, 6.9 ...
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Bob Baddeley and Brad Zdroik have invented and are marketing BlueTipz, a wireless transmitter that sends an alert to your smartphone when you have a fish on your ice fishing tip-up. A tip-up is a piece of equipment that's placed across an ...
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Brick-and-mortar retail sales declined 3.1 percent last week as pre-winter storms put the kibosh on late Christmas shopping, according to market research firm ShopperTrak. The bad weather, combined with a deluge of last-minute online ...
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Flat Creek Farm & Dairy of Swainsboro, GA, has recalled 200 pounds of Heavenly Blue cheese because of potential Salmonella enteritidis contamination. As of 11 a.m., Nov. 27, 2013, all purchasers had been notified and more than 90 percent of ...
Retailers are extending store hours in the final days before Christmas to capture holiday holdouts. Related sales September Retail Sales Reports Vary sales Holiday Sales To Grow 3.9%: NRF sales Holiday Sales To Grow 4-4.5%: Deloitte sales ...
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US retailer Macy's is to invest US$170m in a new direct-to-consumer distribution centre in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, to support omni-channel growth. The company, which operates around 840 department stores across 45 states, said the ...
When you test the softness of a cashmere Brunello Cucinelli pullover or try on a pair of knee high boots from Manolo Blahnik, it's easy to forget that luxury retailers face the same distribution issues as mass merchandise merchants. They ...
Walmart announced two new centers dedicated to filling online orders, including one in Texas and one in Pennsylvania that will be its largest ever. These two new online fulfillment centers are just part of a next-generation fulfillment ...
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Ecommerce technology giant, LAN Services LLC, is driving the retail industry with the integration and launch of 24Seven Cart with Visual Retail Plus point of sale (POS). Product lines become unmanageable if it contains a large variety of ...
Macy’s, Inc. and LIDS Sports Group, a subsidiary of Genesco Inc., announced that they have signed an agreement to open licensed team merchandise departments in Macy’s stores nationwide and online under the name of Locker Room by ...
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BlackBerry Messenger, a free messaging and social networking application for BlackBerry devices, will be coming to iOS and Android app stores at some point, but not June 27 as tweeted by T-Mobile UK early Thursday. T-Mobile did send out a ...
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When C&H Distributors opened its doors 75 years ago, there were no computers, let alone an Internet. The company, a leading provider of materials handling and storage solutions for businesses across the U.S., based its marketing efforts on ...
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Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, announced it has entered into the Magento Hosting Partner program as a platinum level partner. Rackspace and Magento, a division of X.commerce, an eBay Inc. company, will work collaboratively to ...
AT&T on Monday confirmed that it will begin selling the BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen smartphone on March 22 for $199.99 with a two-year contract. Users will be able to start placing online orders on AT&T's website on Tuesday. The Z10 will ...
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