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Square Adds Shift Scheduling to its Team Management Suite

POS solution provider Square has launched Shift Scheduling, a scheduling tool designed to work seamlessly with Square’s Team Management and Payroll offerings. The feature aims to create a consolidated labor…

News December 17

WAIR Taps Personalized Clothing Fit Data to Enhance the Design-to-Sale Pipeline

WAIR, an AI-powered personalized fit solution, is designed to help retailers offer more accurate sizing for ecommerce orders. The technology also aims to utilize the benefits of improved fit across…

News December 17

How to Stop Fraud in the New Normal

We’re past the crisis stage this year. Or at least we’re past the point of still thinking about the situation as a crisis. It’s now the new normal. Dealing with…

Executive Viewpoints December 17

design:retail Announces ‘Winning Windows’ 2020 Award Recipients

design:retail has named Bloomingdale’s as the Platinum Award winner in the annual Winning Windows of New York holiday retail window competition. Macy’s Herald Square took home the second-place Gold Award,…

News December 17

NRF, Amazon Call on CDC to Include Retail Workers Among Early Vaccination Recipients

The National Retail Federation (NRF) is advocating for retail workers to be included among the early recipient groups for the COVID-19 vaccine. Amazon has made a similar request, though the…

News December 16

Commerce Department Report: Retail Sales Decline 1.1% in November

U.S. retail sales fell 1.1% month-over-month to $546.5 billion in November 2020, according to data from the Commerce Department. The decline marks the first monthly drop in spending at stores,…

News December 16

Walgreens Plans to Launch Network-as-a-Service Solution at More Than 9,000 Stores

Walgreens Boots Alliance and Verizon have entered a multi-year strategic partnership with Verizon deploying its Network as a Service (NaaS) solution at more than 9,000 Walgreens and Duane Reade locations…

News December 16

Webinar: Kearney Supply Chain Expert Identifies 5 Key Resiliency Challenges

The COVID pandemic caused significant disruption to 80% of supply chains around the world, with the result that nearly half (47%) of supply chain operations will be overhauled, according to…

Features December 16

Amazon’s Move Into the Malls

With the ongoing retail apocalypse, we all knew this day was coming and it has happened much earlier than expected due to the pandemic. As more retail chains file for…

Executive Viewpoints December 16
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