Today’s Tipsheet: Target’s Tyler Gets $3 Mil on Exit | Ford/Amazon Partnership | LaBelle Launches Two More

 

Target Fires Stores Chief in Latest C-Suite Shake-up by Phil Wahba at Fortune. “Tina Tyler will be replaced by Janna Potts, a longtime Target employee who most recently worked in human resources but who previously was a senior vice president for store operations for a decade.” Read more

 

…Tyler will be paid $3 million if she agrees not to work for a Target competitor for the next three years by Kavita Kumar at Star Tribune. Read more

 

Ford Partners With Amazon to Make Cars That Talk to Everything by Mark Bergen & Kara Swisher at Recode. “Some scenarios he raised include starting your car or checking your gas level from the Echo system, or accessing the home-security system from your car.” Read more

 

Forbes: Meet the retail and e-commerce 30 Under 30 class of 2016 by Clare O’Connor. Read more / See the list

 

Trader Joe’s 7th Annual Customer Choice Awards “Favorite Overall: Speculoos Cookie Butter, Mandarin Orange Chicken, The Trader Joe’s Crew, Joe’s Diner Mac ‘n Cheese, Unexpected Cheddar Cheese…Favorite Produce: Bananas, Avocados, Honey Crisp Apples, Brussels Sprouts, Haricots Verts…” See the 12 categories

 

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Patti LaBelle Launches Two New Cakes At Walmart by Venessa Wong at BuzzFeed. “LaBelle and Walmart are together again to launch two new products in January: a vanilla pound cake and a caramel cake…” Read more

 

Walgreens, CVS Want Doctors’ Medicare Pay To Vaccinate by Bruce Japsen at Forbes. “Under legislation that is gaining rare bipartisan support and momentum in the U.S. House and Senate, particularly for a Congressional health bill, pharmacists would be paid to administer vaccines under Medicare part B” Read more

 

Target has right to sell Rosa Parks biographies, commemorative plaque by Eugene Volokh at Washington Post. “In the process, the court announced yet another test for right-of-publicity cases, alongside the many others adopted by other courts — one might call it the “public interest” test.” Read more

 

…LITIGIOUS HEIRS – The most famous case was against the hip-hop group Outkast, who in their song, intoned, “Ah-ha, hush that fuss. Everybody move to the back of the bus. by Eriq Gardner at The Hollywood Reporter. Read more

 

CVS Health To Present At J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Jan. 12th Read the release

 

Feds blow past deadline for dietary guidelines by Lydia Wheeler at The Hill. Read more

 

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Lowe’s Announces Professional Monitoring for Iris Smart Home Solution “For the first time, Iris customers, who are either homeowners or renters, will have the ability for emergency responders to be dispatched to their homes in the event of an intrusion, smoke, carbon monoxide or panic alarms…” Read the release

 

CES kicks off with prediction that global tech sales will fall 2% this year by Andrea Chang at LA Times. Read more

 

Wegmans Ditches HBW Products With Polyethylene Microbeads at Progressive Grocer. “The manufacturers of these items are already reformulating ingredients to exclude microbeads, according to the grocer, with many expected to be completed quickly although some skin care products could take as much as a year…” Read more

 

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Today’s Tipsheet: Ex-REI Chairman Killed in Avalanche | Amazon Launches Buy Now/Pay Later | CES Shifts Focus | Cool Spring Adds to Woes

 

Former REI Chairman of the Board Killed in Avalanche by Becky Monk at Puget Sound Business Journal. “The REI co-op community is devastated to learn of Doug Walker’s death on Granite Mountain. The REI board of directors, management and the entire organization send their heartfelt condolences to Doug’s family,” REI said in a statement. “With any spare time he had, Doug would head to the mountains.” Read more

 

LA TIMES: CES shifts its focus to innovations changing the tech industry by Andrea Chang. “CES ballooned into an overwhelming crush of products, press events and panels in recent years…Bejeweled smartphone cases shared space with vibrating forks, Wi-Fi-connected washing machines were displayed alongside the latest pair of celebrity-backed headphones…There will be less emphasis on the typical CES electronics like televisions, tablets and smartphones, and more attention paid to industry-changing innovations such as connected, electric and driverless cars; the Internet of Things; drones; virtual reality and gaming; and entertainment tech.” Read more

 

NY TIMES: Girl Scout Cookie Sales Go Digital, With Help From Visa and Dell by Elizabeth Olson. “This is Visa’s initial collaboration with the Girl Scouts, and its Visa Checkout payments system can be used for processing online cookie sales…By 2018, Dell hopes to supply nearly 4,000 girls from underprivileged communities with laptops and tablets.” Read more

 

UK: Amazon to launch buy now, pay later service for customers at The Sun. “Anyone spending £400 in one go — on multiple items or just one — can apply to pay over four years without laying down a deposit. Amazon Pay Monthly, which launches later this month, will charge 16.9 per cent interest.” Read more

 

COOL SPRING FORECAST ADDS TO RETAILERS’ WOES – A $500M hit and a bleak forecast for retail by Krystina Gustafson at CNBC. “Further adding to retailers’ woes are predictions that spring will get off to an unusually cool start across much of the country, which could cause an even bigger blow to apparel sales than the warm December.” Read more

 

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Target’s turnaround plan works to get shoppers back into stores by Anne D’Innocenzio at AP via Star Tribune. “Take Annabel Bernardo, who once bought trendy clothes at Target but cut back after she felt it lost its fashion edge. Now, Bernardo, who lives in Rockville, Maryland, is back: “The store is looking much better. It’s looking more upscale.” Read more

 

Whirlpool’s new smart appliances have Amazon Dash built in by Rich McCormick at The Verge. “The app, which runs on iOS and Android, will let you buy regularly used items with one click directly from your mobile device.” Read more

 

MAN WANTS OWN WIKIPEDIA PAGE SAYING HE’S THE ONE WHO GOT RID OF THE DRYER – This Apple Alum Wants to Kill the Clothes Dryer by Keith Barry at Reviewed.com. “Since it’s expected to retail for just $1,199—roughly the cost of a high-end washing machine alone—Reid says many customers could buy two. “If you were planning to buy a washer and dryer pair, you could get the same laundry throughput with a quarter of the trips to the laundry room.” Read more

 

AMAZON READIES FIRST CINCINNATI STORE – Amazon store on Univ. of Cincinnati campus primed for grand opening by Bowdeya Tweh. “The company and university officials are holding a ceremony Thursday at 11 a.m. to mark the location’s opening.” Read more

 

From Digital Disappointment ToThe End Of The App Era, Here Are Eight Trends For 2016 by Tom Goodwin at TechCrunch. “Horizontalization And Platforms – A whole new world of businesses are built on the idea of owning the customer interface. We’ve Airbnb, Seamless, Facebook, Alibaba, Uber…Large CPG brands could aim to supply direct to the customer using their brand as that interface.” Read more

 

Walmart Adds MasterPass to Online and Mobile Checkout “MasterPass by MasterCard is a digital payments platform that enhances the online and mobile checkout process.” Read the release

 

DAILY MAIL ON JEFF BEZOS – The tax-avoiding ‘Bond villain’ who’s trying to take over the world by Tom Leonard. Read more

 

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HBR: Diversity Policies Don’t Help Women or Minorities, and They Make White Men Feel Threatened

Google’s Schmidt says this nation leads e-commerce

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