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Stage Stores, winner in Gordmans bankruptcy auction, will operate 50 locations by Russell Hubbard at Omaha World-Herald. “Substantially all of the remaining assets at Gordmans’ remaining 48 stores and other facilities are expected to be liquidated by Tiger Capital Group and Great American Group…” Read more | Press release

 

Walmart U.S. e-commerce execs explain to suppliers the retailer’s new strategy by Kim Souza at Talk Business. “Lore previously mentioned the new “It’s” protocol, but Breen and HIlton gave suppliers more details around the new strategy they say will make a difference for shoppers online and in store. The “It” strategy has five components. 1. Have it, 2. Find it, 3. Display it, 4. Price it, 5. Deliver it…” Read more

 

Walgreen sets deadline for $9.7B merger with Rite Aid by Josh Kosman at NY Post. “As such, Walgreen’s move is likely a bet that the regulatory environment will get better in three months. Specifically, Walgreen appears to be wagering that President Trump will install a deal-friendly commissioner to review the deal, insiders said.” Read more

 

Amazon and Walmart are in an all-out price war that is terrifying America’s biggest brands by Jason Del Rey at Recode. “Last month, Walmart gathered some of America’s biggest household brands near its Arkansas headquarters for a tough talk…Walmart wants to have the lowest price on 80 percent of its sales, according to a presentation the company made at the summit, which Recode reviewed. To accomplish that, the brands that sell their goods through Walmart would have to cut their wholesale prices or make other cost adjustments to shave at least 15 percent off.” Read more

 

Retailers could use ISP data for dynamic pricing or marketing by Zak Stambor at Internet Retailer. “They will be offering services that are, in many ways, the same as other companies that collect, analyze and sell consumers’ data,” she says. But ISPs differ from those other services because they see “every move someone makes online.” Read more

 

Kroger spends millions on early retirement plan by Steve Watkins at Cincinnati Business Courier. “Kroger recognized a pretax charge totaling about $180 million in the first quarter to cover costs of the voluntary retirement deal…Employees had until early March to decide whether to accept the deal. About 1,300 employees accepted the offer, Kroger said.” Read more

 

Gander Mountain discloses “stalking horse” bid by Dan DeBaun at Minneapolis/St.Paul Business Journal. “Two companies have filed a joint bid for Gander Mountain, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, for nearly all of its assets to position the company for a sale. Gander Mountain announced Thursday that it filed a “stalking horse” bid in bankruptcy court by a joint venture made up of Gordon Brothers and Hilco Merchant Resources to purchase substantially all of its assets.” Read more | Press release

 

Former Walmart CIO Karenann Terrell to Speak at Leadership Summit Press release

 

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Top 10 fastest desktop sites Feb. 27 – March 12 (Walgreens #1, Kohl’s #7, H.Depot #9) by April Berthene at Internet Retailer. Top 10 list/Read more

 

Bezos family makes record-breaking $35M donation to Fred Hutch to fund cancer research by Clare McGrane at GeekWire. “Philanthropists Jackie and Mike Bezos, parents of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, have been quiet supporters of the Fred Hutch for years, previously donating about $30 million to the center.” Read more

 

BIG FISH – Huge crappie caught in IL headed for a Bass Pro fish tank and expected to break state record by Walker Smith at Scout. See the fish/Read more

 

Blink Health Faces Setback as Walgreens Pulls Out by Yuliya Chernova at Wall Street Journal. “Consumers can shop on Blink Health’s website or app for a drug. If they like the price they find, they pay and take the receipt to a participating pharmacy to fill the prescription at no additional charge.” Read more (subscription)

 

Jet.com shuts down its Jet Anywhere rewards program by Matt Lindner at Internet Retailer. “Jet Anywhere was an affiliate marketing-style offering wherein Jet linked to other retailers on its website and offered shoppers who clicked through and subsequently bought something a percentage of their purchase price in JetCash.” Read more

 

How Vans Skated Past a Big Retail Milestone by Phil Wahba at Fortune. “Vans, the highly popular, eternally youthful skater footwear brand, hit a major milestone last year: It eclipsed The North Face juggernaut as apparel giant VF’s top-selling brand. The 51-year-old Vans saw sales hit $2.3 billion in 2016.” Read more

 

Starbucks will put its first high-end Reserve store inside its headquarters by Coral Garnick at Puget Sound Business Journal. Read more

 

Angry Kentucky fans take out their frustrations on the referee’s small business by Gene Marks at Washington Post. “You are a crooked ref and if your work as a contractor is anything like your work as a ref I wouldn’t trust you to put a plastic roof on my niece’s doll house,” one angry fan wrote. “If his integrity refereeing is anything like his integrity of his roofing then expect a flood,” another chimed in.” Read more

 

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Tipsheet: Amazon’s Bypass Mass Summit | Wmart #7 Valuable | Wegmans #6 Care | B.Pro/Cabela’s White Knight

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Amazon Wants Cheerios, Oreos and Other Brands to Bypass Wal-Mart by Spencer Soper & Craig Giammona at Bloomberg. “Amazon has invited some of the world’s biggest brands to its Seattle headquarters in an audacious bid to persuade them that it’s time to start shipping products directly to online shoppers and bypass chains like Wal-Mart, Target and Costco. Executives from General Mills, Mondelez and other packaged goods makers will attend the three-day gathering in May, Bloomberg has learned. Attendees will tour an Amazon fulfillment center and hear a presentation from Worldwide Consumer chief Jeff Wilke.” Read more

 

Nordstrom taps former Wal-Mart e-commerce exec for supply chain by Coral Garnick at Puget Sound Business Journal. “Brent Beabout will be Nordstrom’s new executive vice president of supply chain. He was most recently senior vice president of e-commerce supply chain for Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club e-commerce operations.” Read more

 

Trump administration may seek only minor adjustments to Nafta by Bob Davis & William Mauldin at Wall Street Journal. “According to an administration draft proposal being circulated in Congress by the U.S. trade representative’s office, the U.S. would keep some of Nafta’s most controversial provisions, including an arbitration panel that lets investors in the three nations circumvent local courts.” Read more @ MarketWatch | WSJ article (subs.)

 

People’s 50 Companies That Care 2017 (Wegmans #6, Publix #9) Top 10 press release | Top 50 slideshow

 

Brand Finance: 2017 Most Valuable U.S. Brands: Walmart #7, Home Depot #19 (down two), Target #37, Costco #49 (down two) Top 500 list

 

Bass Pro Shops’ $4.5 billion Cabela’s Deal Gets White Knight via Fox Business. “Cabela’s is now in talks to sell (the banking operation) business to Synovus Financial Corp., a Georgia-based bank with about $30 billion in assets and 250 branches across the south, the people said.​Under the plan being discussed, Synovus would resell the credit-card portfolio to Capital One and keep the roughly $1 billion in deposits held by the Cabela’s bank, the people said.” Read more

 

Sneak Peek at Store #2 for Hulk Hogan’s Beach Shop by Jim Carchidi at Orlando Business Journal.  22 pics/Video

 

Billionaire Richard Branson on how he met Jeff Bezos by Alan Boyle at GeekWire. “The last time I met Jeff was about 30 years ago in Seattle at Bill Gates’ home…“I nervously got up to talk, and before I left my chair, he said, ‘I’m a great believer that we should all be tested in life, so I’m going to hand out a bit of paper to the other 19 of you, and if you could, mark Richard nought-to-10 for what he has to say to you all.’ “I was like, ‘Ah, f—. I left school at 15.’…So I turned to Jeff Bezos and said, ‘Look, I’ll give you 10 if you give me 10.’ “That was 30 years ago. I haven’t spoken to him since.” Read Q&A

 

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Dollarama profit surges 17% as customers spend more money in the discount chain’s stores by Hollie Shaw at Financial Post. “Performance has been so strong, the country’s largest dollar store chain sees room for more stores in Canada than it had previously envisioned, pushing up its long-term growth target to 1,700 stores from an earlier estimate of 1,400.” Read more

 

Jeff Bezos provides a sneak peek at Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship (and suits) by Alan Boyle at GeekWire. Pics/Read more

 

Walmart invests billions to buy from women-owned businesses by Amy Westervelt at The Guardian. “Walmart announced Wednesday it has achieved its goal to buy $20bn worth of goods and services from women-owned businesses in the US over five years. The company also conceded that it’s failed to reach another goal set around the same time: to double the amount of products and services sourced from women-owned companies outside of the country.” Read more

 

Lululemon Says Lack of Bold Colors to Blame for Poor Start to 2017 by John Kell at Fortune. “Wall Street investors punished Lululemon’s stock, dropping over 18% in after-hours trading…Lululemon’s dour forecast targets indicates the once-hot “athleisure” trend is losing luster.” Read more

 

Jeff Bezos Displaces Warren Buffett as the World’s Second Richest Person by Joseph Hincks at Fortune. Read more

 

Gap’s CEO Responded to a 5-Year-Old’s Request to Make Girls’ Clothing Gender Neutral by Jennifer Calfas at Fortune. “I think we can do a better job offering even more choices that appeal to everyone,” Kirwan wrote in an email to Alice, as reported by the Post. “I’ve talked with our designers and we’re going to work on even more fun stuff that I think you’ll like.” Read more

 

Colleen Wegman named president, CEO of Wegmans by Todd Clausen at Democrat & Chronicle. “Her father, 70-year-old Danny Wegman, will remain chairman of the grocery store chain.” Read more

 

Target Exec on how Retail Drives Business and Social Impact at NRF. “As the executive vice president and chief external engagement officer at Target, Laysha Ward leads the company in its commitment to external relationships that drive business and positively impact the communities they serve. We spoke with Ward about her career journey…” Q&A

 

J.Jill Q4 Comp Sales +10.8% Press release

 

Amazon is shutting down Diapers.com — whose founder is now at war with Amazon by Jason Del Rey at Recode. “The shutdown will result in layoffs of 263 people, according to a New Jersey state filing. But Bloomberg, which first reported the news, said some of these employees would be able to apply for new positions at Amazon.” Read more

 

L.L. Bean Brings on the Via Agency as Agency of Record by Lindsay Stein at AdAge. Read more

 

Apple, Wal-Mart Stick With Climate Pledges Despite Trump’s Pivot by Christopher Flavelle at Bloomberg. Read more

 

Walmart okay with selling only Made-in-India products: India CEO at Economic Times. Read more

 

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Tipsheet: B.Buy Titan Dies | RH -18% | Amazon Exec Secret | H.Dep #28 Reputation

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NO SECRETS – Amazon exec shares secrets of company’s culture, tries unsuccessfully to keep his talk secret by Taylor Soper at GeekWire. “Amazon offered a rare glimpse inside its culture on Tuesday at an entrepreneurship conference in Seattle — but also asked more than 600 attendees to keep the information shared by high-ranking executive Steve Kessel to themselves. As you can see from the tweets, there’s no such thing as secrecy in the age of smartphones and social media, especially when someone is talking to a crowd.” Read more

 

Restoration Hardware’s Q4 Comp Brand Revenue -18% Press release

 

Macy’s CEO talks to Cincy media by Andy Brownfield at Cincinnati Business Courier. “Obviously with the internet, you need fewer stores, and when you look at how much square footage is available in American retail, you can see Macy’s is one of the leaders in saying, ‘You know what, let’s size this down.'” Gennette said.” Read more

 

Reputation Institute: Top 100 Reputations in the U.S. (Amazon #2, H.Depot #28, Kroger #54, Costco #96) Top 10 list/Download top 100 list

 

OLD NEWS – Amazon finally unveils grocery pickup service by Todd Bishop & Nat Levy at GeekWire. “Amazon this morning confirmed what we’ve been reporting since last year: The technology giant is opening grocery pickup locations starting at two Seattle sites…For now…it’s available only to Amazon employees as part of an internal beta. Once it launches publicly, however, Amazon says the service will be available to Amazon Prime members at no extra charge.” Read more

 

Former Best Buy Music Titan Gary Arnold Dies by Alan Wolf at Twice. “Joe Satriani wrote: “We lost our good friend Gary Arnold today. He signed Chickenfoot to Best Buy and became an honorary member of The Foot because he was such a wonderful force of nature and an amazing person. Cancer finally took him down, all 6’ 8” of him. We lovingly called him Darth Vader, and The Big Man. We will miss him.” Read more

 

Instagram Killed the Retail Store by Ian Frisch at Bloomberg. “Urban Outfitters Inc. made an offer: It wanted almost 10,000 hats—more than 10 times the volume Millinsky was dealing with at the time. He brushed off the company. “It would have killed the underground aspect of the brand,” he says. In September, Urban repeated its offer. Was he interested? “I told them my definitive answer,” he says. “It was simple: No.” Read more

 

MILK WAR – Gallon of milk down to $1.09 in Toledo by Jon Chavez at Toledo Blaze. Read more

 

For Bass Pro’s WOW aquarium, another opening date comes and goes by Wes Johnson at Springfield News-Leader. “We would have the museum open by now but have been busy with the sinkhole.” Morris said. He was referring to the massive excavation of the sinkhole that opened up on the golf course two years ago. Morris is hoping to find a passageway between the bottom of the sinkhole and a large cave on his property nearby.” Read more

 

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Kroger Launches New Kroger Stories Website @ www.krogerstories.com Press release

 

Australia: Woolworths warns prices will rise on surging electricity costs by Madeleine Heffernan at Sydney Morning Herald. Read more

 

Brazilian mayor takes issue with Amazon.com in graffiti debate by Brad Haynes at Reuters. “I watched Amazon’s commercial using the image of Sao Paulo to sell its products,” Doria wrote in a response on Facebook, challenging the online retailer to donate books to city schools. “There are many ways for Amazon to act as a true citizen rather than an opportunist.” Read more

 

Worst May Be Over in Brazil Meat Scandal as Trade Curbs Lifted at Bloomberg. “Having been shut out of some of its most important markets, Brazilian meat companies have regained access to most of them in recent days. Hong Kong, the largest destination for Brazilian beef, was the latest to ease restrictions.” Read more

 

At Home Debuts First Ever National TV Advertising Campaign Read the release

 

Macy’s Chairman once brought Anna Wintour to Queens by Tashara Jones at NY Post. “Terry Lundgren recounted the time he persuaded Vogue editor Anna Wintour to come to Queens…I looked at Anna and I said, ‘I bet this is the first time that you have been in Queens,’ and Anna said, ‘I have been to Queens before,’ and I said, ‘Not this part of Queens.’” Read more

 

Woman posing as Target worker casually makes off with $40,000 worth of iPhones at Daily Mail. Video/Pics/Read more

 

“THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE” – Apple Retail Architect Reveals What It Was Like Working with Steve Jobs at Fortune. 3:30 video

 

Barbecue dry rub school project turns into fully functioning business for 14-year-old by Joe Rubino at Denver Post. “Emily Rudnick remembers vividly the first time she and her dad mixed up a batch of the sneakily hot spice that bears her family name…“We took them home and we mixed them up in our Kitchenaid and it did not go well,” the 14-year-old said. “We had to leave the house for the day and leave all the doors open.” Read more

 

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Jewelry restorer ‘proves’ that Tiffany, etc. overcharge by 330% for ‘identical’ stones sold in Costco

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Tipsheet: Lowe’s Layoffs Backfire? | Nordstrom Cuts 106 | Ace/BJ’s/QVC #1 | Target CIO “Skeptical”

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Nordstrom cutting 106 jobs by Janet I. Tu at Seattle Times. “The 106 positions being cut are all customer-care specialists, who answer customer questions via phone, online chat or email. In addition to the 30 people being laid off in Seattle, 18 people in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are affected, as are 58 people who work from homes across the country, according to a Nordstrom spokeswoman.” Read more

 

Wal-Mart Reorganizes Tech Group to Strengthen Mobile by Kim S. Nash at Wall Street Journal. “Jaya Kolhatkar, who joined Wal-Mart in 2013 through its acquisition of predictive analytics firm Inkiru Inc. in 2013, is now senior vice president of global data and analytics platform…Jae Evans was promoted to vice president of global technical engineering and operations.” Read more (subscription)

 

Lowe’s Efforts to Retool Its Stores May Backfire, Say Employees by Michelle Lewis at Fast Company. “Our department manager has now been put in charge of five departments; middle management is gone. Customers are saying to me, ‘I’m going to Home Depot because you don’t have the staff.” Read more

 

Ace Hardware, BJ’s Wholesale Club, and QVC Earn Top Customer Experience Ratings for Retailers “Five other retailers received scores that put them in the top 10% of companies for the entire Ratings: Sam’s Club, O’Reilly Auto Parts, True Value, Amazon.com, and Dollar Tree.” Ratings of all retailers | Temkin study link

 

Tesco Agrees to Pay $162 Million Fine Over Accounting Scandal via Fortune. Read more

 

Getting a deal on shoes at Gordmans fire sale may be slim: DSW wants its merchandise back by Russell Hubbard at Omaha World-Herald. “The shoe departments in the bankrupt Omaha-based retailer’s 100 or so stores are operated by an outside company — DSW…“Quite simply, the DSW merchandise and fixtures are not property of the bankruptcy estate,” the company wrote in court documents filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court.” Read more

 

The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders (Epstein #1 (?!), Bezos #5) by Geoff Colvin at Fortune. Full list

 

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Study: 45% of American women need to see a markdown of 41% or more to even enter a store at Quartz. “Ultimately, brands and retailers need to get out of this discounting spiral,” Shea said. “I think that it’s a sort of drug that the consumers are becoming somewhat numb to, and the retailers are going to have to find other ways to get people to buy.” Read more

 

TOLD YA SO – Target’s Chief Information Officer Skeptical of Amazon Go by Jason Del Rey at Recode. “When I asked Target’s chief information and digital officer about Amazon’s new store of the future in January, he smiled. “I’m kind of skeptical,” the executive, Mike McNamara, said…But McNamara, who spent 17 years at the British grocer Tesco prior to Target, said the concept had been around for more than a decade. “It’s 14 years later,” he said, “and we’re still probably 14 years away.” Read more

 

Amazon confirms acquisition of Souq, marking its move into the Middle East by Ingred Lunden at TechCrunch. Read more

 

Orchard Supply Hardware sets sights on Tampa by Ashley Gurbal Kritzer at Tampa Bay Business Journal. “It is planning nine stores in Florida this year, reports the Orlando Business Journal, a sister news organization. Its search in the Tampa area has generated buzz in commercial real estate circles in recent weeks.” Read more

 

Macy’s and G-III Sign Exclusive Agreement for DKNY Women’s Apparel and Accessories Press release

 

Amazon keeps adding pop-up stores in malls across U.S. as it expands physical presence by Taylor Soper at GeekWire. “The tech giant now has 29 “pop-up” kiosks in 15 states, which is up from 21 stores in September. The kiosks have a full complement of Amazon devices from the Alexa-powered Echo speaker, to Dash buttons, to various Kindle models.” Read more

 

Costco co-founder Sinegal still holds around $120 million in stock options after recent sale Read more

 

US Supreme Court rejects bid to revive $7.25 billion credit card settlement via CNBC. Read more | NRF response

 

Publix Names Vice President of Real Estate Strategy Press release

 

90% are willing to wait longer for delivery of an online order in exchange for free shipping at Internet Retailer. Acceptable wait time by category chart

 

Ikea is getting into home automation with a new smart hub by Chaim Hartenberg at The Verge. Read more

 

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Tipsheet: Wmart CEO’s Digital “Regrets” | Amazon Home Store? | Target “Spooks” | Boxed CEO @ CNBC

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Amazon Delays Convenience Store Opening to Work Out Kinks by Laura Stevens at Wall Street Journal. “Amazon Go was due to launch to the public by the end of the month, after launching in beta mode to employees in December, according to people familiar with the matter. It is unclear when it will now open, as it works out kinks in the technology to automatically charge customers when they leave, instead of needing to have cash registers, checkouts and lines.” Read more

 

Walmart CEO regrets that the retail giant took too long to get aggressive in digital. “We hired talent, invested, and just kind of meandered along” by Adi Ignatius at Harvard Business Review. “In some ways we experienced what Clay Christensen calls the “innovator’s dilemma…” Read the Q&A

 

Amazon’s Ambitions Unboxed: Stores for Furniture, Appliances and More by Nick Wingfield at New York Times via CNBC. “The company is exploring the idea of creating stores to sell furniture and home appliances, like refrigerators…Amazon is also kicking around an electronics-store concept similar to Apple’s retail emporiums.” Read more

 

Whole Foods Has Lost Around 14 Million Customers by Brian Sozzi at The Street. “Short believes Kroger has been one of the prime beneficiaries…” Read more

 

The High-Speed Trading Behind Your Amazon Purchase by Christopher Mims at Wall Street Journal. “The vendor of the marshmallows I wanted told me his high price was an attempt to bait competitors into raising their own asking prices for the item. This works because sellers of commodity items on Amazon are constantly monitoring and updating their prices, sometimes hundreds of thousands of times a day across thousands of items, says Mr. Kaziukėnas.” Read more (subscription)

 

Washington Post: New Cabela’s megastore in Gainesville, Va., is a monument to gun rights by Abha Bhattarai at Washington Post. Read more

 

Target Spooks Long-Term Believers by Shelly Banjo at Bloomberg. “What is he bragging about?” one attendee remarked. “That’s the same amount of annual sales at Wayfair.” Read more

 

Citi Research:Wal-Mart is ‘best positioned’ in online grocery battle against Amazon by Jeff Daniels at CNBC. “Kroger also scored high among the pure-play grocers in terms of its online grocery positioning compared with e-commerce giant Amazon, particularly as it related to pricing. But at the bottom of the list was Whole Foods Market.” Read more

 

This is the No. 1 Thing that CEOs from Wegmans, Publix & REI Look For in Job Candidates by Laura Entis at Fortune. Read more

 

Amazon reviews by buyers worth billions, experts say by Elizabeth Weise at USA Today via Toronto Star. “Going from zero review to one increases the rate at which online window-shoppers actually click the “buy” button by 65 per cent, says ratings and review software executive.” Read more

 

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Salaries in Ecommerce by Allison Enright at Internet Retailer. “Ranking fourth in Mondo’s top 10 is vice president of e-commerce, with a salary range of $125,000 to $180,000…2015 Total Comp: Amazon CFO $7.78M, Etsy CEO $2.69M, Wayfair CTO $13.8M.” Read more

 

Boxed CEO shares the 3 things making his ‘Costco for millennials’ soar by Elizabeth Gurdus at CNBC. “All these retailers these days are under pressure. Why? It’s because … for the last 30 years, value equaled price. But now, value equals price, convenience, and a little bit of brand. And so that’s what we bring to the equation,” Huang told “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer on Friday.” Video/Read more

 

Aldi gives its logo a refresh via MSN. See it here

 

Florida Senate gives reluctant nod to selling booze with groceries by Janelle Irwin at Tampa Bay Business Journal. “A House version of the bill cleared its final committee stop Wednesday and heads to the floor for a full chamber vote.” Read more

 

Watch Amazon’s Prime Air make its first public U.S. drone delivery by April Glaser at Recode. Video/Read more

 

Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Durant help retail tech startup raise $30M by Cromwell Schubarth at Silicon Valley Business Journal. “Zenreach helps small bricks-and-mortar merchants provide free Wi-Fi to customers who are willing to register with their name and address or Facebook account. This information can then be used for targeted promotions and other analytics.” Read more

 

Kroger pioneer dishes career advice by Jon Springer at Supermarket News. “Be ambitious, but be patient. Seek experiences, not promotions. Get support in the workplace, but also at home. And never wear “old lady” shoes. Jayne Homco, a 42-year veteran of the Kroger Co., imparted these bits of wisdom and more during the closing session at Western Michigan University’s 52nd annual Food Marketing Conference in Grand Rapids, Mich.” Read more

 

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Tipsheet: Sportsman’s Whse Poaches Wmart VP | REI’s New HQ | GameStop to Shutter 150 | F.Line -4.5%

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Sportsman’s Warehouse Names Ex-Walmart VP as President/COO “At Walmart, Jon Barker served in dual roles including President and CEO of Hayneedle.com as well as group leader for Home and Outdoor furnishings categories for U.S. ecommerce across Walmart.com, Jet.com and Hayneedle.com.” Press release

 

…Sportsman’s Warehouse Q4 Comp Sales -5.2% Press Release | Earnings Call Transcript

 

GameStop to shut at least 150 stores, shares sink by Maria Armental at MarketWatch. “The retailer didn’t immediately offer details on which stores would close, only adding that it planned to shave off 2% to 3% of the total.” Read more

 

Amazon Sellers Can Get Insured by Lloyd’s for Getting Kicked Off by Spencer Soper at Bloomberg. “Now the insurance industry has found a niche, thanks to an enterprising Amazon merchant from Kentucky who sells custom bedding. Her name is Lori Jurans, and she got the idea two years ago at an annual conference in Kentucky, where sellers like her share tips and secrets about selling goods on Amazon. During the gathering, Jurans heard one tale after another from merchants who’d been suspended…” Read more

 

Finish Line Q4 Comp Sales -4.5% Press release

 

…Fox Business: Finish Line’s Stock Plunges After Profit Falls Well Short Of Expectations “…we made the decision to get more aggressive on pricing to be competitive and clear slow moving product” said Chief Executive Sam Sato.” Read more

 

Amazon wins $1.5 billion tax battle with IRS by Angel Gonzalez at Seattle Times. “Judge Albert Lauber of the U.S. Tax Court ruled that the IRS’ determination of those assets’ worth was “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable.” He also broadly sided with Amazon on the way the U.S. company calculates how it shares costs with its European subsidiary.” Read more

 

REI offers a first look at its future HQ campus in Bellevue by Marc Stiles at Puget Sound Business Journal. “Starting in 2020, some 1,400 REI employees will work at the new headquarters in the emerging Spring District near the southeast corner of the intersection of Interstate 405 and Highway 520.” Read more

 

Modcloth’s co-founders send email to a small group of people who hold employee stock entitled “The death of ModCloth’s common stock by Sarah Nassauer at Wall Street Journal. “Employees and the co-founders won’t make any money from the sale, Mr. Kroger wrote in the email, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “It just is what it f—ing is.” Read more (subscription)

 

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Shoe Carnival Q4 Comp Sales -1.2% Press release

 

Facebook’s new shopping ads aim to let retailers tell ‘visual product stories’ by Zak Stambor at Internet Retailer. “The ad format, which Facebook calls Collections, lets retailers combine a video or image that, when clicked, presents mobile users with a full-screen display featuring up to 50 products.” Read more

 

PMA adds Wal-Mart exec to board by Ashley Nickle at The Packer. “Produce Marketing Association has named Shawn Baldwin, senior vice president of produce and global food sourcing for Wal-Mart, to its board of directors.” Read more

 

Philly soda tax brings in $6.4M in February, meeting city’s target by Julia Terruso at Philly Inquirer. Read more

 

Lowe’s Introduces In-Store Navigation Using Augmented Reality “Beginning in April, customers visiting stores in Sunnyvale, California and Lynwood, Washington can use Tango-enabled smartphones to easily search for products, add them to a shopping list and locate the product within the store using augmented reality.” Press release

 

Instacart will pay $4.6 million to settle a class action lawsuit with its workers by Jason Del Rey at Recode. Read more

 

Amazon’s Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers by Sonya Mann at Inc. “One person reported buying iPad Minis to use as contest giveaways only to receive plastic dummies designed to look like iPads. “We can no longer trust [F]ulfilled by Amazon which greatly reduces the value of their Prime membership and ‘free’ shipping,” the user wrote.” Read more

 

Ellen DeGeneres Launches Animated Show About Her Pets to Pitch Her Line of PetSmart Products by Todd Spangler at Variety. Read more

 

Office Depot Gets in on Slime Making Craze with In-Store Demonstrations Press release

 

Amazon Lending doubles small business loans to $661 million by Casey Coombs at Puget Sound Business Journal. “Amazon Lending’s outstanding loans nearly doubled to $661 million last year from $337 million in 2015, the company reported in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.” Read more

 

NRF Says Later Easter Expected to Bring Record Spending “Spending for Easter is expected to reach $18.4 billion, up 6 percent over last year’s record $17.3 billion and a new all-time high in the survey’s 14-year history.” Press release

 

What’s to Come for CST Under Couche-Tard Ownership? by Tammy Mastroberte at Convenience Store News. “We sold them a chain in Texas and some stayed and some were converted. There may be markets they convert to Circle K and some where they keep the Corner Store name, but generally they convert stores to their brand,” said Ruben.” Read more

 

Amazon and others bid to stream the NFL’s Thursday night games by Kurt Wagner at Recode. Read more

 

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Walmart announces plan to invest $800 million in Chile and open 55-60 new supermarkets via Reuters. “As part of the plan, the retail and supermarket chain will also remodel over 50 stores, add more than 5,000 jobs, and further develop a large distribution center near the capital city of Santiago.” Read more

 

Five Below Q4 Comp Sales +1.0% Press release

 

eBay Asks Users to Downgrade Security at Krebs on Security. “I found it remarkable that eBay, which at one time was well ahead of most e-commerce companies in providing more robust online authentication options, is now essentially trying to downgrade my login experience to a less-secure option.” Read more

 

Shoppers Drug Mart says computer outage affecting 1,300 locations has been resolved by Linda Nguyen at Canadian Press via Toronto Star. “Some stores were unable to fill drug prescriptions because they couldn’t electronically access patient files. But others were able to fill the orders manually, said Smitham.” Read more

 

Art supply sales surged in January, thanks to protest signs (poster boards +33%, foam boards +42%) by Christopher Mele at NY Times. Read more

 

When Americans emotionally spend, they buy toilet paper and bleach by Quentin Fottrell at MarketWatch. “Consumers who experience a loss of control are more likely to buy products that are more functional in nature, such as screwdrivers and dish detergent, because these are typically associated with problem solving, which may enhance people’s sense of control” the authors write.” Read more

 

Walmart Just Revealed a Clever New Way to Make 8,000 DVDs Instantly Stream on Apple iPhones by Lindsay Rittenhouse at The Street. “On Thursday, owners of nearly 8,000 DVD and Blu-ray movies from Lions Gate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony, Twenty-First Century Fox, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. can convert them digitally to their Apple iPhone or Alphabet’s Google Android smartphone through Walmart’s subscription-free, on-demand streaming service Vudu.” Read more

 

Amazon delays its entry into Southeast Asia by Jon Russel at TechCrunch. “In an interesting recent twist, it looks like Amazon is gearing up to launch in Australia first. ABC News reported that Amazon has hired a team of over 100 in Sydney to kick things off in the country.” Read more

 

Fed Rate Increase Makes 0% Financing Deals More Pricey for Retailers by Serena Ng & Vipal Monga at Wall Street Journal. “Of roughly 1.1 billion direct-mail offers for credit cards received by U.S. consumers in the fourth quarter of 2016, some 63% promoted a 0% introductory rate for balance transfers, according to data from Mintel Comperemedia. In the same period two years ago, 73% of the offers had a 0% introductory rate.” Read more (subscription)

 

Confessions of a paid Amazon review writer by Yuyu Chen at Digiday. “Here is an example that I received recently. The seller is telling me to buy the product on Amazon, and it will reimburse me through PayPal, “so it will be a verified purchase review…I think that Amazon needs to come up with a way to reward their top reviewers if they want them to keep writing useful reviews out of their own pocket.” Read more

 

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Take a look inside one of Wawa’s first South Florida stores by Brian Bandell at South Florida Business Journal. 27 pics/Read more

 

The original plan for the Mall of America was bananas by Tracy Mumford at MPR News. “Can you imagine, in January, you walk out of your house and you come and do surfing? This is what we’re proposing for you today,” Ghermezian said in 1985.” Read more

 

Amazon and DHL reportedly team up for Prime Air and Amazon Fresh deliveries by Alan Boyle at GeekWire. “The Lane Report says Amazon will begin processing shipments at DHL’s facility at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport in May. The arrangement would give Amazon a head start on its $1.5 billion plan to use the airport as a major shipping hub for its Prime Air fleet.” Read more

 

Starbucks Pledges to Hire More U.S. Military Veterans by John Kell at Fortune. “Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz just made a new vow for hiring veterans and military spouses: 25,000 by 2025.” Read more

 

AutoZone’s new $50M Pacific Northwest DC opens in July by Meagan Nichols at Memphis Business Journal. Read more

 

Starbucks teams up with Ford and Amazon to allow in-car orders via Alexa by Taylor Soper at GeekWire. “Starbucks chief technology officer Gerri Martin-Flickinger announced the new feature on stage and showed a video of her testing the integration. “It only takes a little imagination to think about where conversation ordering will show up next,” she said. Read more

 

Why ‘Car Guys’ Are 4 Times More Valuable to Marketers Than Average Consumers by Christine Birkner at Adweek. “Adventure sports/outdoor enthusiasts and home tech enthusiasts are five and three times more valuable, respectively, to marketers in their respective categories.” Read more

 

Roger Goodell says changes coming to quicken NFL games in 2017 by Tom Pelissero at USA Today. “Every NFL fan has seen an exciting game disrupted in a familiar way: a commercial break, then a kickoff, then … another commercial break. Commissioner Roger Goodell doesn’t like it, either. “It drives me crazy”…“We call those ‘double-ups.’ They actually occurred 27% of the time (on kickoffs last season). And that’s still too high for us.” Read more

 

Tesco pulls Heineken products after pricing dispute at The Guardian. Read more

 

Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri battling to be digital assistant in Marriott hotel rooms by Nat Levy at GeekWire. “Alexa has already gained a foothold with Marriott. Bloomberg reports that a 1,002-room JW Marriott in San Antonio has installed Alexa-powered devices in 10 of its most popular rooms, with plans to add them in 100 more rooms. Alexa is also in the company’s Four Seasons hotel in Washington D.C.” Read more

 

A-Rod gets back in the gym as owner of UFC-branded gyms in Miami by Chabeli Herrera at Miami Herald. Read more

 

BROTHERLY LOVE – 10-Year-Old Sells Drawings To Buy Toys For His Ill Younger Brother by Vanessa Leon at Charlotte Spectrum News. “He passed out flyers, he set up a table, went outside to draw, within an hour, he had made $23,” said his mother…So what would Haden do if he had all the money in the world? “We’d honestly probably go to WalMart and buy a thousand dollar toy,” Haden said while laughing.” Video/Read more

 

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Payless Is Said to Be Filing for Bankruptcy as Soon as Next Week by Lauren Coleman-Lochner & Jodi Xu Klein at Bloomberg. “The company is initially planning to close 400 to 500 stores as it reorganizes operations, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations aren’t public. Payless had originally looked to shutter as many as 1,000 locations, and the number may still be in flux, according to one of the people.” Read more

 

Costco expands test of home grocery delivery through new third-party service by Jeff Daniels at CNBC. “Shipt said Tuesday that it was adding Costco to its delivery service in the Tampa metro area…Costco already has home grocery deliver service available in the San Francisco market through Instacart.” Read more

 

Duluth Trading Co. 4Q sales jump 24%; retail expansion to accelerate by David Schuyler at Milwaukee Business Journal. “Retail sales grew 76 percent year-over-year, and they now account for 18 percent of total net sales.” Read more | Press release

 

CRASH – Reports point to caution signals for Amazon Go checkout-free store by Alan Boyle at GeekWire. “Amazon has issued no updates since December, and this week, Bloomberg News reported that Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” just isn’t ready for prime time yet: “The technology has been crashing in tests when the store gets too crowded and requires human quality control, people watching video images to make sure customers are charged for the right things, according to a person familiar with the plan.” Read more

 

…Inside Amazon’s Battle to Break Into the $800 Billion Grocery Market by Spencer Soper & Olivia Zaleski at Bloomberg. “The various initiatives have been a source of increasing internal tension as employees on different projects compete to sell the same things, according to a person familiar with the matter. One problem saddling Amazon Fresh is the high cost of losses caused by food going bad, an issue it’s never faced with books and toys.” Read more

 

TOO SMALL – Meijer to close two Chicago-area stores because of lagging sales by Greg Trotter at Chicago Tribune. “The Berwyn and Melrose Park stores, both about 90,000 square feet, are considered smaller-format stores for Meijer, which has been more successful in the Chicago suburbs with its “supercenters” that are typically closer to 200,000 square feet, Guglielmi said.” Read more

 

Bebe Plans to Shut Its Stores and Focus on Web Sales by Lauren Coleman-Lochner at Bloomberg. “The company is trying to close the locations without filing for bankruptcy, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the efforts aren’t public. However, Chapter 11 may be required if enough landlords aren’t willing to negotiate, they said. The company…has been operating about 170 boutique and outlet stores.” Read more

 

“STILL OPEN” – Dick’s Pushes Digital This Spring But Expect to see More Private Label Marketing by Adrianne Pasquarelli at Ad Age. “The new campaign is meant to highlight Dick’s digital prowess and ecommerce capabilities…Yet the marketing tagline could also be “Still Open,” as Dick’s, unlike the majority of its competitors who have shuttered, declared bankruptcy and disappeared, remains one of the last men standing in the sporting goods retail arena.” Read more

 

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J.Crew’s sales continue to slide into 2017 by Lisa Fickenscher at NY Post. “Same-store sales — including those at its Madewell and factory store operations — were down 11 percent in the first seven weeks of its fiscal year. At just the J.Crew nameplate, they dropped 14 percent in the period.” Read more

 

Sears Warns of ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Company’s Future at Bloomberg. Read more

 

Amazon to expand counterfeit removal program in overture to sellers at Reuters. “As early as next month, any brand can register its logo and intellectual property with Amazon so the e-commerce company can take down listings and potentially seller accounts when counterfeits are flagged, Peter Faricy, vice president of Amazon Marketplace, said in an interview on Monday.” Read more

 

FedEx Braced for a Holiday Crush That Didn’t Come by Paul Ziobro at Wall Street Journal. “FedEx Corp. said some of its largest retail customers shipped fewer packages during the holiday season than forecast…“We provided capacity that went unused,” FedEx Chief Financial Officer Alan Graf said on a conference call Tuesday.” Read more (subscription)

 

REI Taps AWS, Azure for Cloud Services by Steven Norton at Wall Street Journal. “For us going into the cloud is a speed play,” said CIO Julie Averill, who oversees a team of about 400. “It helps us build new capabilities faster.” Read more (subscription)

 

Kohl’s takes a different approach to whittling down its square footage by Krystina Gustafson at CNBC. “Instead of turning to closures as a means to boost sales productivity, CEO Kevin Mansell is looking for opportunities to trade in Kohl’s big-box locations for smaller shops….consumers still crave a physical place where they can interact with the brand…Kohl’s got a taste of that phenomenon after closing 19 stores last year. Not only did those closures eat into the company’s physical revenues, they also weighed on its digital results.” Read more/CEO video

 

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Instagram launches Instagram Shopping by Zak Stambor at Internet Retailer. “The feature enables a select group of retailers to share more detailed posts that make it easier for Instagram users to review, learn about and consider items that interest them. In the coming weeks the feature, which Instagram calls Instagram Shopping, will be available to “thousands of businesses” that sell apparel, jewelry or beauty products.” Read more

 

Philly: Coke, Pepsi fight soda tax with smaller bottles at The Inquirer. Read more

 

Hy-Vee is adding clothing boutiques to select stores in Omaha and Lincoln by Barbara Soderlin at Omaha World-Herald. “F&F stores are already open in several Hy-Vee stores in Iowa and Minnesota. The low-priced fast-fashion label includes looks for women, men and children similar to what you’d see at retailers Forever 21 or H&M, Deering-Hansen said.” Read more

 

Nearly half of online purchases in Canada made at foreign retail sites by Hollie Shaw at Financial Post. Read more

 

More retail to join Target’s new prototype store in Houston by Olivia Pulsinelli at Houston Business Journal. “A new retail center is planned next to the Grand Parkway in Aliana, a master-planned community about 30 miles southwest of Houston. Market Center at Aliana will be anchored by the 102,000-square-foot H-E-B that opened in November and a 124,000-square-foot Target that will open in October.” Read more

 

Avon Freshens Up in a Bid to Win Back Middle America by Sharon Terlep at Wall Street Journal. Read more (subscription)

 

Google, at Shoptalk, says it’s leveraging artificial intelligence to make it easier for Google Home users to find and buy what they want—online or offline by Zak Stambor at Internet Retailer. Read more

 

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