Wednesday Tipsheet: Target: Inside Account of Response | Obama Loves Safeway | Wgreen CEO #19

  “The Inside Account of How Target Executives Responded to Cybertheft” by Monica Langley at WSJ.  “How Target executives responded to one of the biggest challenges in the company’s history is based on interviews with Mr. Steinhafel, Mr. Jones, Chief Financial Officer John Mulligan and other top executives…Mr. Steinhafel’s days have been especially hectic since […]

Tuesday Tipsheet: Wmart CEO Challenges Suppliers | Wegman’s #1 in Gluten-Free | Walgreen #1 in Radio

  “Happened Yesterday:  Walmart CEO Doug McMillon Challenges Suppliers on Sustainability” by Kim Souza at The City Wire.  “In the past decade Wal-Mart has made big steps in the direction toward sustainability, but McMillon said the next leap will likely come from innovations that are aided by total-system thinking. He challenged suppliers and employees to […]

Monday Tipsheet: Dems push Wmart | Target blogger threatened by criminals

  “Cybercriminals don’t like Blogger who exposed Target data breach;  Have sent heroin, fecal matter and SWAT team to his home”   by Nicole Perlroth at NY Times via Star-Tribune.  “In the last year, Eastern European cybercriminals have stolen Brian Krebs’ identity a half-dozen times, brought down his website, included his name and some unpleasant […]

Friday Tipsheet: Bees Buzz at H.Depot | Cabela’s Comps -10.1% | F. Dollar 2.7% Less than Wmart

  “Dressing Up Like a Bee and Standing in Front of Home Depot & Lowe’s to Protest Pesticides” by Rebecca Harrington at Star-Tribune.  “Rupp…was one of about 30 adults and children handing out cookies and handmade valentines Wednesday to protest Home Depot’s sale of neonicotinoids, a group of pesticides…Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes said in a […]

Thursday Tipsheet: Wmart’s Twitter Strategy | Lowe’s website “soft” | Bacon, Barbie & Spring

  “Case Study: Walmart’s PR Team and How They Use Twitter; Interview with Walmart’s Sr. Director of Digital” by Arik Hanson at Business-2-Community.  “We manage approximately 60,000 mentions a day (these aren’t the mundane like “I’m at Walmart but are more specific to our reputation and major initiatives we have underway). That takes a lot […]

Wednesday Tipsheet: Consumer Reports Slams Target | Whole Foods Likes Square | Kroger Buys You

  “Consumer Reports Slams Target:  Says Hacking Fix is “Second-Rate” “ by Martha White at Time.  “The publication looked at the offering and says Target “fumbled” when it offered what the publication calls “second-rate credit-monitoring services.”…Consumer Reports can recommend this deal in its present form only as being better than nothing, and only for consumers […]