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- Smartphones: The Ultimate Shopping Companion (NielsenWire)
- Online retailers evolving to serve the confident, connected consumer (Internet Retailer)
- Retailers find bigger returns in smaller spaces (Kansas City Star)
- Fashion Brands Would Rather Make Their Own Magazines Than Buy Ads (NY Times)
- Record-Breaking Retail Lease Deal Rumored on 5th Ave in NYC (Retail Traffic)
- Can You Grow by Shrinking? How ‘Endless Aisle’ is Changing Retail (RISnews)
- Small retailers need to “re-envision” the future to survive against big-box & online chains (USA Today)
- How To Predict What Consumers Want Before They Even Know It (FastCo)
- The Redboxification of the American Shopping Experience (Time)
- Though Not Yet Profitable, Amazon’s Prime Key to Company’s Future Growth (Fortune)
- U.S. department stores surging back to life or headed for dustbin of retail history? (SCT)
- Sam’s Club, Amazon Deliver Best Customer Experience in Retail (Temkin Group)
- People Who Buy, Use Then Return Stuff Costing Retailers $16 Billion A Year (Business Insider)
- The Future is Temporary: Retailing in a Pop-Up World (Retail Prophet)
- U.S. Retail Outlook: 9 trends to watch in 2012 (Colliers International)
- The Brands American Men And Women Desire Most (Forbes)
- Once-highflying premium denim brand Rock & Republic returns exclusively at Kohl’s (Kansas City Star)
- Interbrand Rankings Show Amazon Gained Brand Value at Best Buy’s Expense (Bloomberg)
- Retailers betting on technology in race to lure shoppers & run stores more effectively (Globe and Mail)
- Retail consumer satisfaction up in 2011, but still below pre-recession levels (Boston Globe)
- Warm Weather Puts Chill on Brands’ Winters (AdAge)
- Mobile Audience Insights Report Finds Key Trends in Location and Mobile (JiWire)
- Following retailers’ lead, marketers will soon realize they’d better start utilizing Pinterest (Adweek)
- Nordstrom’s Savvy Sales Strategies For Stellar Growth (Forbes)
- Pop-Up Shopping Wall Lets You Buy Beauty Products With Your Phone (PSFK)
- After Slow Recession Sales, Men Buying Fashion Accessories Again (NY Times)
- Valentine’s M-Commerce Proves Christmas Was No Mobile Fluke (MediaPost)
- McDonald’s Losing That Lovin’ Feeling? Brand Perception Not Keeping Pace With Sales Growth (AdAge)
- Five Cents of Every Retail Dollar Now Spent Online (WSJ)
- American Apparel Loses Hipster Fans as it Cracks Down on Shoplifting (Huffington Post)
- Gen Y shoppers increasingly mixing luxury & value (USA Today)
- How going private helped BJ’s Wholesale change its game (Boston Globe)
- Brands have failed on Facebook BUT F-Commerce NOT a failure (ZDNet)
- Coinstar looks to reinvent vending machines, expand self-service retailing beyond Redbox (NY Times)
- The Case for a CVS-Walgreen Combination (Morningstar)
- Target Still Sees Opportunity for Growth in U.S. (Star Tribune)
- Smartphones & tablets influence consumer purchasing decisions on mobile, online and in store (Google)
- Memo to Retailers: Social Media Should Focus on Engagement, Not About # of Fans (Knowledge@Wharton)
- Mobile & Tablet Commerce – Is Anyone Really Ready? (Zmags)
- Customers Love a Company That Keeps Its Promises (1to1media)
- 5 Paradoxes Shaping the Future of Mobile Commerce (Mashable)
- Toymakers Hope Parents Are Ready to Splurge on Their Kids This Year (CNBC)
- Why Consumer Goods Brands Must Think More Like Retailers (brandchannel)
- A Six-Pack of Insights: Where Consumers Buy Their Beverages (CSP)
- Pampers or Huggies? How Diapers.com Profiles Customers From First Click (Forbes)
- New Rich Fuel Luxury Boom Even as Low-End Suffers (WSJ)
- F-Commerce Trips as Gap to Penney Shut Facebook Stores (Businessweek)
- Why Mobile Shoppers Want Brick-and-Mortar Stores (Bloomberg)
- Urban Outfitters is bringing its fledgling bridal concept to Chicago (Chicago Tribune)
- Location-based technology will redefine behavioral targeting, maybe sooner than you think (Adweek)
- E-Commerce Sales Increased 16.1% in 2011 to nearly $195 billion (US Dept of Commerce)
- Is Brick-and-Mortar Shopping the Next Big Thing in Digital? (Huffington Post)
- Retail Container Traffic To Show Increases In First Half Of 2012 (NRF)
- Big Bet On Bricks and Mortar as Westfield Backs Regional Shopping Malls (CoStar Group)
- How Companies Learn Your Secrets: Inside Target’s Guest Marketing Analytics Department (NY Times)
- Hong Kong Rent Topping Manhattan Doesn’t Faze Retailers in China (Bloomberg)
- Zale’s best hope might be combination with Signet Jewelers (Reuters)
- Designer John Varvatos on Fashion, How Jessica Simpson Became $1 Billion Brand (Yahoo! Finance)
- Retail hiring managers concerned about top-worker turnover (Chain Store Age)
- Foxwoods Resort Casino plans luxury retail outlet center (Boston Herald)
- High-end designers create uniforms for the masses (CNN)
- Sears and Ulta: Two Chicago retailers, two divergent paths (Crain’s Chicago)
- Data Analysis + Customer Focused Marketing Strategy = Personalized Brand Experience (Business 2 Community)
- Facebook Tests Concept Enabling Merchants to Offer Discount Codes for Sharing (Portfolio)
- Walmart restoring image as go-to retailer for budget-conscious Americans with back-to-basics approach (Reuters)
- Amazon’s Approach to Advertising Might Work, But It’s Not for Every Retailer (AdAge)
- NBC’s “Fashion Star” hopes authenticity & fashion purity drive shoppers to the stores (Star Tribune)
- U.S. Retail Beer Sales Grew 2% to $98 Billion in 2011 (NACS)
- eBay is repositioning itself as a technology partner, not competitor, for retailers (ZDNet)
- Walmart and Target Retail Stores Give Amazon a Brick & Mortar Footprint (ClickIQ)
- How flash sales sites influence high-end fashion purchases (RetailWire)
- Abercrombie sees margins rising, identifies additional 180 stores for closure (Reuters)
- What dot-com companies’ move to bricks-and-mortar stores could mean for retailers (Mobile Commerce Daily)
- The Only Lasting Competitive Advantage Is Extreme Trust (Fast Company)
- The Unique Ways Retailers are Using Pinterest to Showcase Their Brands (Shop.org)
- Gap recruits fashion bloggers to style new digital catalog (ClickZ)
- Shopping secrets of the top customer service associates (WSJ)
- Downward shift in luxury consumer attitudes signals shift toward ‘inconspicuous’ consumption (Unity Marketing)
- For Retailers, 2012 All About Customer Interaction And Experience (NRF)
- Sam’s Club, Publix & Starbucks Top Customer Experience Rankings (Temkin Group)
- The spring to deploy tablets is rolling out faster than any other retail technology (RISnews)
- Simplicity Is The Key To J. C. Penney’s Reinvention (Forbes)
- Supermarkets Come Into Bloom In Floral Business (Pocono Record)
- Social commerce expected to grow to $30 billion in 5 years, but consumers still wary (Digitas)
- Fashion Week designers tweak collections to appeal to Gen Y fashionistas (San Jose Mercury News)
- Adidas Targets Teen Girl Fashion Market for $1.3 Billion in Sales (Bloomberg)
- More men becoming the primary shopper in their household (KDSK)
- The Effect of Smartphones on Online and Offline Shopping (EcommerceBytes)
- Growing menswear markets stakes larger claim on Fashion Week’s center stage (Reuters)
- U.S. Retail sales rose by the most in 4 months in January (MarketWatch)
- Coupons, Exclusive Offers Appeal More to Female Luxury Buyers (eMarketer)
- Luxury & Outlet Malls Thriving While the Middle Gets Squeezed (Huffington Post)
- Online retailers start to solve the puzzle of measuring social marketing success (Internet Retailer)
- Halfway through NY Fashion Week: fiercer, fitted looks for fall (Chicago Tribune)
- Why marketing chiefs must learn to love data (AdAge)
- Gartner’s 2012 Predictions For Mobile, Social & Multichannel Strategies (Retail TouchPoints)
- Filling empty big-box space means becoming creative (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
- Another Year of Strong Retail Results Forecast for 2012 (Chain Store Age)
- LivingSocial looks beyond daily deals with experimental retail ‘experience’ space (Washington Post)
- Luxury Retailers Set to Cash In as US Changes Visa Rules for Tourists (Minyanville)
- U.S. Consumer Electronics Sales Fell 0.5% to $144 Billion in 2011 (NPD Group)
- Even in uncertain economy, Americans continue spending billions on their pets (MSNBC)
- Consumer Spending Index Falls in January on Sharp Declines in the Housing Market (Deloitte)
- Sales at Louis Vuitton shop in South Korea’s Incheon Airport average incredible $300k per day (The Travel Retail Business)
- In the future, everything will be a coffee shop (Boston Globe)
- Full-Price Online Luxury Fashion Spending Sizzling as New York Fashion Week Heats Up (American Express)
- Under the Radar, Microsoft Copy’s Apple’s Blueprint for Retail Stores (NY Times)
- PayPal Makes Big Push For In-Store Presence (Reuters)
- Retail Real Estate Sector Defies Expectations, Still Has Strong Potential for Upside Surprise (GlobeSt)
- Whither the Big Box Retailers as the Revolution Continues (Forbes)
- Consumer Sentiment Dipped in Early February on Worries About Falling Income (Reuters)
- Nearly three-quarters of nation’s major metropolitan areas added retail jobs last year (The Business Journals)
- Retail-as-a-Story: A NYC Boutique Redefines The Shopping Experience (Forbes)
- After years of skimping, men splurging on clothing again (Chicago Tribune)
- The Rapid Ascension of Pinterest and Social Shopping Sites (PC Mag)
- 2012 U.S. Digital Future in Focus: key trends in social, digital, mobile and e-commerce (comScore)
- Crossover Shoppers Increasingly Mix Luxury Spending with Discount Buying (Robin Report)
- 2012 Retail Real Estate Outlook: Cautious Optimism as Tipping Point In Shopping Center Rents Expected (CoStar Group)
- Study Shows Boomers Still More Likely Than Gen Y to Purchase CPG Products Online (The Integer Group)
- Luxury Marketing Outlook for 2012 (Luxury Daily)
- Consumer Comfort Index Hits Highest Level in a Year (Bloomberg)
- Urban Outfitters Q4 Sales Miss Estimates, but Inventories Clean (Reuters)
- Not Much in Store for Lower-Quality Malls (Barron’s)
- Google May Follow Amazon, Open Retail Store at European Headquarters (Businessweek)
- Retailers employ geo-targeting to craft offers tied to weather, holidays and local prices (Internet Retailer)
- Survey: Shoppers Plan to Double Eco-Apparel Purchases in 2012 (Apparel Magazine)
- Barneys New York Struggles with Debt as Competition Heats Up (WSJ)
- Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power Initiatives (HBR Blogs)
- U.S. Spending Monitor Consumer Confidence Jumps in January (Discover Financial)
- RadioShack bonds sending out distress signal on worries mobile devices will fail to revive its fortunes (Bloomberg)
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