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Addressing A Minimum Wage Increase Without Losing Your Staff

Money talks, but a minimum wage increase will interrupt the conversation. A legislative wage increase might throw your retail business into panic, that is if you don’t already have a...

Creating The Ultimate Digital Customer Experience

Consumers today believe they deserve a unique, invested experience, right now. And if you can’t provide it or align with their core values, they will quickly find it somewhere else. Driven...

Ad Fraud, Audience Insights And Refined Targeting: 3 Insights For Today’s Retail Marketer

With an ever-changing digital marketing environment, it can be hard for retailers and brands to decide which advertising method is best for their business. Programmatic advertising has surged onto the...

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#RIC18: How To Successfully Disrupt A Traditional Product Category

Skava Promotes Product And Technology VP To CTO

Global e-Commerce technology provider Skava has promoted Khurram Khan to the role of Chief Technology Officer. Khan, who will report to CEO Arish Ali out of the company’s San Francisco...

Advance Auto Parts Appoints Permanent CFO, New Supply Chain EVP

Advance Auto Parts has named Jeffrey W. Shepherd as EVP and CFO and Reuben E. Slone as EVP of Supply Chain. Additionally, the company appointed Dunkin Brands Executive Chairman Nigel...

Monetate Names New CEO

Personalization software provider Monetate has appointed Stephen Collins to the post of CEO. He will be responsible for leading the drive in Monetate’s next phase of growth and helping expand...

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Best Buy Acquires GreatCall For $800 Million, Expands Eldercare Services

Best Buy has acquired GreatCall, a provider of connected health and personal emergency response services to more than 900,000 subscribers, for $800 million in cash. The electronics retailer has sought new...

Sears CEO Eddie Lampert Bids $400 Million For Kenmore Brand

Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert is offering to buy the retailer’s Kenmore brand for $400 million through his hedge fund, ESL Investments. The bid comes four months after Lampert wrote...

VF Corp. Plans To Spin Off Jeans Business Into Separate Company

VF Corporation, the parent company of apparel and footwear brands such as Vans, The North Face, Dickies, Reef and Timberland, is spinning off its Wrangler and Lee brands into a separate...

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Backbone PLM Raises $8 Million In Series A Funding

Backbone PLM, a cloud-based collaborative product development platform provider, has closed an $8 million funding round that includes $6.7 million in Series A funding. Signal Peak Ventures led the round,...

Clobotics Raises $11 Million To Accelerate North American Expansion, Product Development

Clobotics, a computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions startup, has raised an additional $11 million as a continuation of its Series A financing, bringing the total raised to $21...

Macy’s Raises Full-Year Outlook After Beating Earnings Forecast

Despite a slight drop in overall sales, Macy’s has continued to strengthen its business as it bolsters the store experience, revamps its rewards program and forges new partnerships. In Q2...

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