Thursday Tipsheet: Target: Cuts 475; 12 Bad Photos | Costco Stares Down Dotcom | ‘Tsunami’ of Store Closings

  “Besieged Target Lays Off 475 and Won’t Fill 700 Jobs” by Adam Belz at Star-Tribune.  “A woman who was laid off from Target’s finance department said half of her 12-person team was fired immediately during a meeting Wednesday morning, while the other half will be laid off next month. The layoffs have been in […]

Wednesday Tipsheet: Hardware dotcom Scales Up | Sam’s CEO Interview | Whole Foods TV Show

  “Target Shut Down Internal Sites Including Info Retriever” by Paul Ziobro at WSJ.  “One system is a human resources website for employees called eHR. The other is a database called Info Retriever that suppliers use to access sales data for their products in Target. Info Retriever came back online for external users last week, […]

Tuesday Tipsheet: Target: 2 Arrested at Border | Kroger Kills Furniture Test | NYC Lux RX

  “Two Arrested at Mexico-U.S. Border in Connection with Target Hack; Canadian Customers Warned” by Christopher Sherman at AP via Star-Tribune.  “Account information stolen during the Target security breach is now being divided up and sold off regionally, a South Texas police chief said Monday after the arrest of two Mexican citizens who authorities say […]

Monday Tipsheet: Target: 17-Yr-Old Behind Breach | Costco Beats Tiffany | H.Depot’s Cat

  “Claim:  17-Year-Old Russian Behind Malware Used to Hack Target” by Beth Stebner at NY Daily News.  “A 17-year-old Russian national from St. Petersburg was responsible for the malicious programing that allowed for data from Target and Neiman Marcus to be compromised, according to a California-based security firm.  IntelCrawler said in a blog post Friday […]

Friday Tipsheet: 1st TargetExpress | Senator Rips Wmart | BJ’s HQ Sold

   “Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2014; Wegmans #12, Whole Foods #44”  See the Top 100 Rankings   “Heads up Walmart Express, Here Comes TargetExpress; Target to Test Smallest Store Yet @ 20,000-square-feet” by Elizabeth Harris at NY Times.  “The first TargetExpress will be in the most urban of spaces, at the […]

Thursday Tipsheet: Costco’s Taiwan Troubles | NLRB vs. Wmart Overblown? | Best Buy Slips .9%

  “Costco Taiwan:  Pending Legislation Could Force Kirkland to List Product Manufacturer on Label (and Coke to Reveal its Secret Recipe)” by Lauly Li at China Post.  “The newly amended food safety regulations stipulate that food companies must label all food additives on their products…(today) Costco’s Kirkland does not have to reveal the manufacturers of […]