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L’Oreal, Office Depot Tune Up Machine Learning Capabilities
Retailers such as L’Oreal, Office Depot, Runtastic, Shiseido and The Body Shop have entrusted their machine learning, data science and personalization capabilities to cloud marketing solution provider Emarsys. In adding…
News February 5Are You Keeping The New Customers You Acquired During The Holidays?
By Pini Yakuel, Optimove If your business is like the majority of online retailers, most of your sales this past holiday season came from new customers, as opposed to your…
Executive Viewpoints February 5Gift Card Specialist Brings Storefront To EBay
It’s no secret: consumers love their gift cards. The more places they can get them, the better. To cater to this consumer desire, Cardency, a seller of physical gift cards,…
Features February 5SuperValu Names Outsider As New President And CEO
SuperValu has appointed Mark Gross as its new President and CEO, effective Feb. 5, 2016. Gross will succeed outgoing CEO Sam Duncan, who previously announced his retirement from the company…
News February 4Lowe’s To Acquire Canadian Doppelgänger RONA
Lowe’s will acquire home improvement retailer RONA, also known as “the Canadian Lowe’s,” for C$3.2 billion (US$2.3 billion). Sylvain Prud’homme, President of Lowe’s Canada, will lead all Canadian operations. Because…
News February 4Target And CVS Vs. Walgreens And Rite Aid: Drugstore Wars Heat Up
Target has begun converting its in-store pharmacies and health clinics to CVS/pharmacy centers and MinuteClinics, furthering the pharmacy’s footprint expansion, which will total approximately 20% more store locations. The first…
News February 4Pay With Amazon: Another Way To Threaten Traditional Retail
It would be an understatement to say that Amazon is the talk of the retail industry at this point, with the retailer now signing up more than 50 million Americans…
News February 4Embracing Social Selling And Biometrics In 2016
With: Carin van Vuuren, Usablenet Three emerging trends stand out as actionable for retailers: social selling; biometrics – voice, in particular; and the overall in-store experience. When it comes to…
News February 4Tailored Brands or Men’s Wearhouse: Benefits And Pitfalls Of New Brand Names
Changing your brand name can be a risky move. Customers don’t always react well to the change, resulting in more harm than good. There are factors such as mergers, repositioning…
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