Friday, May 03, 2013

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Turns Out Amazon Isn't Killing Retail After All
Wall Street Journal (blog)
In a positive set of job numbers released this morning, one sector showed a particularly strong surge: retailers added 29,000 new jobs in April, after losing 4,000 in March. Month-by-month numbers can be jumpy like this, and Jack Kleinhenz, the chief ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Spotlight on retail after 500 perish in Bangladesh factory
MSNBC
Home to five factories that supplied clothing to retailers in Europe and the United States, the shoddily constructed building's collapse has put a focus on the high human price paid when Bangladeshi government ineptitude, Western consumer apathy and ...
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Ikea's R10,500 crore single-brand FDI proposal gets Cabinet nod
Indian Express
Swedish furniture retailer Ikea's proposal to set up shop in India was cleared by the government on Thursday. This is the first major retail foreign direct investment project the government has seen through since it opened up the sector to larger ...
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Friday Retail Wrap
Houston Chronicle (blog)
The retailer will also carry a full line of skateboards, longboards and skate accessories. Renovation of the 17,000-square-foot building is scheduled to begin in May and open late summer. The Woodlands Mall is at Interstate 45 North at Lake Woodlands ...
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Retailers didn't do Windows 8 any favors
Computerworld
The bold direction of Windows 8, with its emphasis on touch as a selling point, presented retailers with problems they'd never encountered -- detachable displays for example -- a core feature of the so-called "convertible" devices that morph from a ...
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Automated Retail Kiosk Features Touch Screen Browsing and LCD Advertising ...
Digital Signage Connection
"If traditional retailers are going to compete with on-line retailers, they have to rethink their business model," said Shamira Jaffer, CEO of Signifi Solutions, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. "Key strategies must include decreasing costs, empowering ...
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Digital Signage Connection
Bangladesh tragedy forces retail rethink - MWC News
MWC News
Western retailers have rushed to rethink brand strategies and address public concerns in the wake of the Bangladesh building collapse tragedy. Bodies were still being pulled on Thursday from the wreckage of last week's collapse, taking the number of ...
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Professional services, retail boost April hiring
San Jose Mercury News
The leisure and hospitality industry, which includes hotels and restaurants, added 43,000 jobs after creating 38,000 in March. And retailers bounced back, adding 29,300 jobs. That followed a disappointing March when they cut nearly 4,000 positions ...
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Police: 22 additional people arrested in retail theft ring
York Daily Record
Since March, 22 additional people have been arrested in a giant retail theft ring run out of a West York business, according to West York Borough Police. A total of 133 people have been charged in the ring, which police said was run by James Lee ...
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Eating and shopping lead job rebound
CNNMoney
There's some concern that retail and restaurant jobs tend to be part time or low wage positions. Indeed, the number of Americans saying they worked part time when they really wanted full time jobs rose by 278,000 in April. But economists said that, on ...
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Retail money leaking out of in Southern Illinois
Harrisburg Daily Register
While the meeting began on a cheerful note, the tone changed as University of Illinois Extension Educator Susan Odum summarized a recent retail MarketPlace Profile report she and Senior Account Manager of the Office of Regional Economic Development ...
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Analysis: ScS - Retail Week Knowledge Bank company profile
Retail Week
The retailer, which originally sold fabric and leather sofas, has changed its name since carpets were introduced across the store network in April 2012, taking advantage of a lucky coincidence - the initials ScS now stand for Sofa and Carpet Specialists.
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Retail Week
Police: Organized retail theft on the rise in Durham
Durham Herald Sun
Organized retail theft in on the rise in Durham, hurting the city's economy and driving up the price of goods for everyone, a police investigator told a crime-prevention group Thursday. Speaking at Northgate Mall to members of Durham Businesses Against ...
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The Global Retail Marketing Association Hosts Nation's Premiere Executive ...
IT Business Net
The Global Retail Marketing Association, GRMA, is holding its 8th annual Executive Leadership Forum on May 2-4 2013, an invitation only event in St. Pete Beach, Florida at the Don CeSar Hotel which combines the retail industrys top CEOs and senior ...
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Retail booze in Nunavut? Proceed with caution
Nunatsiaq News
Despite its sometimes questionable recommendations, last fall's report of the Nunavut Liquor Act Review Task Force got at least one thing right: that Nunavut's destructive relationship with alcohol is rooted in culture, specifically "drinking culture ...
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This Morning: DDD Goes Retail, AMD Rising, BBRY Q10 Momentum
Barron's (blog)
Shares of 3-D printer maker 3D Systems (DDD) are up $1.01, or 2.6%, at $40.51, and were actually up as much as 4%, pre-market, after Staples (SPLS) this morning announced it will be the "first major U.S. retailer" to carry 3D printers, offering 3D ...
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Motherhood and retail therapy
Khaleej Times
And this has resulted in a windfall for a number of baby clothes and nursery retailers in upmarket areas such as South Kensington where the city's rich and well-heeled ship discretely and splurge thousands of pounds on their babies. Middleton is ...
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Khaleej Times


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