Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/6/13: Home Depot adds 80,000 workers; Target REDcard now in Canada

  “Home Depot Plans 14% Increase in Seasonal Hiring” by Chris Burritt at Bloomberg.  “Home Depot Inc. plans to add more than 80,000 temporary workers ahead of its busiest season, about 14 percent more than a year ago, as a housing rebound spurs spending on remodeling and landscaping.  The largest U.S. home-improvement retailer is hiring […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/5/13: “Underwater Bowling” at Bass Pro; Dollar Stores “Dime a Dozen”

  “Dime a Dozen: Dollar Stores Pinched by Rapid Expansion” by Ann Zimmerman at WSJ.  “While dollar stores were Wall Street darlings during the recession, some retail experts say their proliferation could now become a problem.  Dollar General said last week it will open 635 new stores this year, including its 11,000th location. Another chain, […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/4/13: Super Bowl Ads – Bud wins Ad Meter; Ram Trucks wins Hulu

  “Budweiser’s Clydesdale wins Ad Meter by a nose” by Bruce Horovitz at USA Today.  “Anheuser-Busch climbed back into the saddle with the Super Bowl’s top commercial — a heart-tugging tale of the bond between a trainer and the Budweiser Clydesdale he raised.But it was a horse race.  This was the Super Bowl when ads […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/1/13: Union backs off Wmart protests; Costco loves Pepsi and GM

  “Lowe’s exec: Mobile represents 20% of Web traffic” by Lauren Johnson at Mobile  Commerce Daily.  “A Lowe’s executive at the 2013 Mobile Marketing Association Forum San Francisco said that mobile represents 20 percent of the company’s Web traffic, showing how the medium is increasingly becoming a bigger priority.  During the “Mobile and retail: How […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 1/31/13: Amazon’s growth looks like Walmart’s; Costco in Australia

  “Tupperware CEO: Our Products Are Just Too Classy For America’s “Walmart Market”” by Mary Beth Quirk at The Consumerist.  “You think you’re doing Tupperware a favor by sloshing your leftover peasant fare into its plastic receptacles? Ha! Far from it. The company’s CEO says the plastic containers are just too classy to really hit […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 1/30/13: Apple trademarks its stores; Amazon sales jump

  “Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 22% to $21.27 Billion”  “Net sales increased 22% to $21.27 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $17.43 billion in fourth quarter 2011. Excluding the $178 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales grew 23% compared with fourth quarter 2011. […]