Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/22/13: Amazon’s Russian Offensive | Kids Increasingly Make Buying Decisions

  “The Store Is Media And Media Is The Store” by Doug Stephen at Retail Prophet.  “You see, what’s actually evolving is a new and far more complex role for the store, and online brands like Google, Bonobos and Warby Parker are affirming it, as they each embark on creating their own, branded, physical stores. […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/19/13: Food Lion Takes Price Battle to Walmart | New Geotargeted Promoted Tweets

  “Twitter Lets Advertisers Target Keywords In Tweets – But It’s Still No Google” by Robert Hof at Forbes.   Here’s how Twitter describes the way it will work: For example: let’s say a user tweets about enjoying the latest album from their favorite band, and it so happens that band is due to play […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/18/13: Orch. Supply loses fight vs. H. Depot; IRI’s top CPG brands

  “Orchard Supply Loses Fight Against Home Depot” at Courthouse News Service.  “A California hardware chain cannot pursue claims that Home Depot’s exclusive supplier deals with power-tool manufacturers illegally restrained trade, a federal judge ruled…Orchard sought to hold Home Depot, Milwaukee Electric Tool and Makita liable for tortious interference as well as violations of the […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/17/13: 94% stick with Private Label; Lowe’s new ‘DIY College’

  “Americans sticking with cheaper store brands, Deloitte survey finds” at Life Inc.  “Deloitte’s annual American Pantry Study out Tuesday shows nearly nine in 10 consumers are substituting private-label, or store, brands for national brands they’ve regularly bought in the past.  The survey, which was conducted in January, also finds 94 percent of Americans indicate […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/15/13: Lowe’s must “Man Up”; Google: Entire World Online by 2020

“Game on: Why Walmart is ranking suppliers on sustainability” by Mark Gunther at Green Biz.  “So Walmart is asking lots of questions of its suppliers. Among them: How can wheat be grown with less water and fertilizer? How can chemicals of concern be removed from toys? What mining practices were used to extract copper, gold and […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/15/13: Sam’s CEO on CBS; New Lowe’s DC in GA

  “Wal-Mart offering classes – for college credit”  by Christopher Connell at CNN Money.  “Arianna Suarez’s first job after emigrating from Cuba as a teenager was as a cashier at a Walmart in Hialeah, Fla. Thanks in part to college-level classes that Walmart offers online, she has risen through the ranks to store manager and […]