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How Amazon’s ‘Trench Warfare’ Against Unions Could Damage its Consumer Confidence

Editor’s note: This article has been updated with additional information about Amazon. An Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala. has become the first battle site in a war to unionize…

Features April 1

STORIS Improves Retail Insights With Growing Library of Reports and Analytical Tools

STORIS has introduced a Strategic Business Intelligence (BI) suite to help support retailers with their analytical initiatives. The platform includes the STORIS BI and Data Warehouse technologies as well as…

News April 1

Kantar Introduces Tool to Help Retailers Optimize Their Ecommerce Assortments

Kantar has launched RichMix eAssort, an assortment optimization tool designed to use transferable demand curves to measure the incremental impact of changing the items and facings in a retailer’s mix…

News April 1

GameStop Hires Amazon Veteran as Chief Growth Officer

GameStop has named Elliott Wilke to the role of Chief Growth Officer, effective April 5, 2021. He joins the retailer from Amazon, where he spent the past seven years holding…

News March 31
Sally Pofcher Hanna Andersson

Former Paper Source CEO Appointed to Lead Hanna Andersson

Premium childrenswear brand Hanna Andersson has named Sally Pofcher as its new CEO, making her the first mother to lead the company since the brand’s founder Gun Denhart. Pofcher joins…

News March 31
David Gerbitz Qurate Retail Group

Qurate Hires Former Pandora Exec to Lead Human Resources

Qurate Retail Group — parent company of HSN, QVC and Zulily — has appointed David Gerbitz as Chief People Officer to oversee talent acquisition, learning and development, organizational effectiveness, team…

News March 31
Counterfeit goods legislation

eBay, Etsy, Poshmark Marketplace Coalition Calls Anti-Counterfeiting Bill a Threat to Sellers’ Privacy

A group of online marketplaces including eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Mercari and OfferUp have banded together to highlight what they feel are oversights in the proposed INFORM Consumers Act — which…

News March 31

Walmart Launches Eighth Annual Open Call to Add New U.S. Brands to its Assortment

Walmart has opened the application process for its eighth annual Open Call, inviting entrepreneurs to submit their products for a chance to appear on Walmart’s store shelves and website. Open…

News March 31

Fred Meyer Redesigns In-Store Electronics Department in 12 Stores

Fred Meyer is rolling out a new design for its home electronics department following a successful pilot at its “Store of the Future” concept in Happy Valley, Ore. The retailer…

News March 31
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