Friday Tipsheet: Sam’s #1 in Cust. Service | Target Teaches Nordstrom | Meijer Likes WI

  “Target Canada to open downtown anchor store in 2016” by Francine Kopun at Toronto Star.  “Unlike urban City Target stores in the U.S., it will not be a smaller store with fewer items, but a large location providing discount department store shopping to the tens of thousands of waterfront residents whose closest option today […]

Thursday Tipsheet: Wmart: Yes on Tobacco, No on Cannabis | H.Depot’s Blake at ISI

  “Walmart Testing New Ad Match Program Called ‘Savings Catcher’ ” from ISI Retail Summit.  How it works:  Consumer buys products, enters receipt code online, Walmart looks at ad prices in the area, if there is a lower price Walmart gives a credit to consumer on a Walmart gift card.  Currently being tested in seven […]

Wednesday Tipsheet: Next Walmart to Go in Orlando? | H.Depot: More 1 Customer Stores? | D.Gen Loves Cigs!

  “Rumor Has It…Second Walmart to Go Store Being Prepped in Orlando, FL” by Kim Souza at City Wire. “The new Walmart to Go convenience store opened recently in Bentonville is not the retailer’s first experiment with the small-store format. Wal-Mart historians and former corporate officers told The City Wire that the first convenience store […]

Tuesday Tipsheet: Wmart: Trade Vgames for Socks | DEA visits Costco | Amazon’s Black Eye

  “Walmart: Trade-In Your Videogame, Get a Pair of Socks” by Ian Sherr & Shelly Banjo at WSJ.  “Wal-Mart itself ran a smaller trade-in program in 2009 where it allowed customers to sell used games through kiosks in certain stores, but the retailer failed to make it work. This time, Wal-Mart has teamed up with […]

Monday Tipsheet: 1st ‘Walmart to Go’ Opens | H.Depot’s 1st ‘Movie Store’

  “Wal-Mart opens first Walmart to Go convenience store” by Kim Souza at The City Wire.  “It’s been more than a year of planning, but the Walmart to Go convenience-store format quietly opened in Bentonville on Saturday (March 15), with the grand opening set for March 19.”  See eight pictures / Read more   “Home […]

Friday Tipsheet: Target’s ‘Hindsight’ | Wmart’s ‘Open Call’ 7/18 | Ditching Prime

  Target’s Thursday Statement:  “With the benefit of hindsight, we are investigating whether, if different judgments had been made the outcome may have been different” by Jennifer Bjorhus at Star-Tribune.  “Target confirmed Thursday that the company had detected “a small amount of … activity” by the cyberthieves before the full scale of the breach was […]