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“Target Purchases 9 acres @ 6 million for its First Custom Canadian Store” by Barrie Advance at Simcoe County. “Target has purchased just over nine acres for $6 million at Park Place for its first custom Canadian store. The deal closed July 12, and construction will begin in September…”This is the first piece of […]
“The Wal-Mart Slayer: How Publix’s People-First Culture Is Winning The Grocer War” by Brian Solomon at Forbes. “Family-run Publix is both the largest employee-owned company and the most profitable grocer in America. Those two facts are linked, and they might be the formula for fending off Bentonville’s retail behemoth.” Read more “Target’s Online […]
“Wal-Mart plans to be an online juggernaut” by Brian O’Keefe at Fortune. “To align the interests of its retail foot soldiers with Neil Ashe (CEO Global Ecommerce) and his crew, the company has created a system in which managers at all 4,000 Wal-Mart stores in the U.S. get credit for all sales in their […]
“Walmart Opens 4th College Campus Store at Univ. of Missouri” by Joe Clougher at The Maneater. “Since 2011, Walmart on Campus has expanded to Georgia Tech and Arizona State from its origins at the University of Arkansas, just 20 miles from the retail giant’s corporate headquarters…“Really, this is a convenience for the students,” she […]
“Amazon Beats Pinterest In Fight Over .Pin Domain” by Matt McGee at Marketing Land. “Amazon has beaten Pinterest in a battle over .pin, one of the many new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that are in the process of joining existing domains like .com, .net and .org. In a decision issued this week, a World […]
“Target & Its 15,000 Vine Followers” For those who haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, the idea behind Vine is simple: You create and share six-second videos that play on a continuous loop. “It offers a constraint that other platforms don’t have,” says Travis. “It’s only six seconds. You can’t shoot something and upload […]
“No More Waiting In Line: Lowe’s & Other Leading Retailers Scheduling In-Store Appointments” by Andria Cheng at Market Watch. “Besides enticing them to come to stores, retailers also survey these customers and then proactively aim more relevant marketing campaigns at them, he said. The number of shoppers using those tools is expected to double […]
“Costco Secrets – Summer 2013” by Len Rapoport. “At the new store we noticed Poland Spring Sport Cap water was a dollar less then it is in our Hazlet store. It was $4.59 a case vs. $5.49, we thought it might have been a mistake and later found out it was not. Different Costco […]