Friday Retail & Consumer Reading List

Walgreens outlines 5 key strategies to change pharmacy retail industry (Drug Store News)
What Online Returns Reveal About Our Need to Touch What We Buy (Time)
Kimco’s Making Community Shopping Centers The Place To Be (Forbes)
Best Buy still hasn’t solved customer service problems exposed during holidays (USA Today)
Apple, Amazon Dominate Mobile Commerce Satisfaction (ForeSee)
Aggressive Salesclerks irk some shoppers, sending them online (NY Times)
80% Say Social Networks Had No Influence On Holiday Shopping Decisions (TechCrunch)
Ascena Retail Group CEO prepares for the next generation of brick-and-mortar (Retail’s Big Blog)
Holiday Shopping Experience Improves but Retailers Have Long Road Ahead with Mobile & Social (Baynote)
Liz Claiborne Says Path is Much Clearer to Revitalization (WSJ)
US Videogame Industry Retail Sales Fell 21% In Dec (Nasdaq)
CIT Group halts factor financing to Sears suppliers (Bloomberg)
December retail sales post weakest reading in 7 months (Reuters) and Consumer sentiment rose to highest level in eight months in January (FT)
Dish Network To Close More Blockbuster Stores Than Planned (Huffington Post)