Sunday, November 18, 2012

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Black Thursday: Retailers push holiday deals into Thanksgiving night
Daily Camera
The flocks of early bird shoppers trying to land "door-busting deals" at dawn once typified the retail activity on the day after Thanksgiving. Last year, hordes of bleary-eyed night owls swarmed malls at midnight. Later this week, some consumers may ...
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Why Walmart and Big Retailers Should Pay Their Workers More
Huffington Post
Nearly a century later, in the midst of a weak economy and rising poverty, my colleagues at Demos, a New York-based think tank, have made a compelling case that Ford's revolutionary approach to industrial wages should now be applied to America's retail ...
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Deutsche Bank sees retail growth in emerging markets
Reuters India
DE) wants to grow pretax profit from foreign retail branches to almost 1 billion euros by 2015, looking to emerging markets growth to offset mature markets nearer home. "A stagnating (European) population threatens growth opportunities in the long run.
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Big retailers taking French sign battle to Quebec court
CBC.ca
Several major retailers are taking the Quebec government to court over the provincial language watchdog's insistence they modify their commercial brand names to include some French. YOUR VOTE: Should major retailers be forced to include French in their ...
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Empty shops at record levels in UK town centres - BRC
Reuters UK
LONDON (Reuters) - The proportion of empty shops in British town centres hit a record in October in the face of stagnating sales and rising costs, according to a survey from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) published on Monday. 2012 has seen several ...
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Piggybacking on Black Friday
New York Times
Published: November 18, 2012. Each year, the day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, looms larger on the retail calendar as a starting point for the Christmas shopping season. This year, marketers outside the realm of retailing hope to get into ...
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New York Times
Four secrets from retail's billionaire royal family
SmartCompany.com.au
feature-nordstrom-200 It's the retail miracle before Christmas. While Gerry Harvey and Myer's Bernie Brookes are bracing for another tough holiday trading period – and watching their share prices bounce along near record lows – on the other side of the ...
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Influx of international retailers makes Pitt Street fifth priciest global ...
SmartCompany.com.au
Sydney's Pitt Street retail district has been named as the fifth most expensive shopping destination in the world for retailers, according to a new survey conducted by Cushman and Wakefield. Retailers are paying nearly $10,000 per square metre of ...
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Big retailers becoming more like Big Brother?
Palm Beach Post
It depends on when and how retailers reveal what they know about you. Expect to have some ah-ha moments during your holiday shopping this year, said Kurt Kendall, retail specialist with Kurt Salmon consultants. But it's nothing like you'll experience ...
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Retailers Expecting Increase in Holiday Shopping
Foxyoungstown
The National Retail Federation is predicting a 4.1 percent increase in holiday shopping sales compared to last year, expecting shoppers to spend more than $585 billion. Many local retailers are also optimistic about holiday sales this year. Managers at ...
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Cotton On adds 500 jobs: Five reasons behind the retailer's success
SmartCompany.com.au
Cotton On announced last week it will add 500 jobs to its international headquarters in Geelong, Victoria, in a move that no doubt has retailers scratching their heads as the rest of the industry gets knocked about by poor consumer confidence ...
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Black Friday: Retailers, Shoppers Preparing for Big Day
ABC News (blog)
Retailers are preparing for a stampede of shoppers on Black Friday, some of whom have already begun camping outside of stores, eager to get the best deals first. Nearly one in four Americans, 86 million total, hit the stores on Black Friday last year ...
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Southwest Michigan retailers expecting a big increase in holiday season sales
MLive.com
A survey by the Michigan Retailers Association, working with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, indicates that 43 percent of the state's retailers expect their holiday sales to rise by more than 5 percent over last year, 32 percent expect increases ...
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