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Will The Logo Mean A Kinder, Cooler Wal-Mart? Can The Retail Giant Live Up to the Logo Change

  Retail monolith Wal-Mart has taken the plunge and changed its identity. While I’m referring specifically to the logo and all the design elements that support it, a new aesthetic…

News August 1

D’Agostino Offers Shoppers Automated Grocery Lists Via Ikan Scanning Technology

  In an age of increasingly time-poor and Internet-savvy consumers, the Ikan grocery scanner is designed to do for grocery shopping what Netflix did for DVD rentals. Manhattan retailer D’Agostino…

News July 24

Retailers Have Opportunity To Focus On Customer Engagement During Challenging Economic Times

  It is one of the oldest adages in the business world: “Find opportunity in adversity.” With the economy uncertain at best, and showing signs of adversity at worst, it’s…

News July 24

Envysion Attains PCI Compliance For Its Managed Video Service

  Because its Managed Video as a Service (MVaaS) system has direct access to its customers’ PCI compliant networks, Envysion announced this week that it has completed the Level 1…

News July 24

Grading The Current Back-to-School Campaigns & Promotional Strategies

  Entering the back half of July, many retailers have shifted their back-to-school strategies into high gear, hoping to drive young shoppers and their parents into stores. Consumers are expected…

News July 17

Clouds in the Coffee: What Retailers Learned From Starbucks Cool-Down

  Starbucks took about a double espresso-fueled heartbeat to go from innovative retail icon to just another chain struggling to keep up with growth expectations. But the reasons for its…

News July 17

7 Tactics for Driving Store Traffic with Email

  Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from MediaPost written by Chad White, the director of retail insights and editor-at-large for the Email Experience Council. White, who tracks…

News July 17

Experiential Retail Concepts Interactive Shopping Experiences Attract Consumers

Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from one of RetailWire’s recent online discussions. Each business morning on RetailWire.com, retail industry execs get plugged in to the latest news and…

News July 10

IBM and Epicor Collaborate To Centralize Store Systems For Specialty Retailers

IBM and Epicor Software are attempting to fill a niche in specialty and department store retail management with a new partnership announced on June 30, 2008. The two companies are…

News July 10
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