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73% Of North American Retailers Worry About New Product Forecast Accuracy

The constant shifting of both old and new products throughout the supply chain can make planning and execution quite unpredictable for retailers. Case in point: as many as 73% of…

News May 31

Shopkick Adds Video And Data-Gathering Tools To In-Store App

The location-based shopping app shopkick has added new mobile features to help enhance the in-store shopping experience, including a new video product and a receipt scanning feature.

News May 27

Canada Goose Migrates To Its Own Brick-And-Mortar Spaces

Luxury winter clothing maker Canada Goose is looking to expand its business with physical retail locations in Toronto and New York City. Last year, the Toronto-based company expanded its production…

News May 27

#RIC16: Mizzen+Main Relies On Personal Touch To Develop Nationwide Presence

Building a retail company carrying exclusively American-made products can be a gamble due to the time and costs required to make it work, especially when the brand is literally starting…

Features May 27

How Image Recognition Is Changing The Social Marketing Game

By Ben Plomion, GumGum By now users of apps and devices like Siri, Cortana and Amazon Echo are accustomed to the idea that machines have gotten really good at understanding…

Executive Viewpoints May 27

Rover Raises $1.1 Million To Propel Location-Based Mobile Marketing

Rover, a Toronto-based provider of location-based mobile marketing platform has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The company will use the new capital to enhance its technology as well as…

News May 26

American Apparel Deploys Performance-Based Scheduling Chainwide

American Apparel is rolling out the StoreForce performance based scheduling platform in all of its 202 stores. The StoreForce platform is designed to enable retail managers to schedule associates based…

News May 26

Amazon Wins Big As Salesforce Inks $400 Million Deal To Expand Use Of Web Services

Salesforce.com is expanding its usage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its public cloud infrastructure solution, in a deal that will cost Salesforce as much as $400 million over a…

News May 26

Mobivity Partners With Ad Agency To Enhance Data-Driven Marketing

Mobivity, which provides technology to capture customer data at the point of purchase, has partnered with the retail agency Zimmerman Advertising. With access to real-time customer purchase data, as well…

News May 25
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