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• Despite the rise of e-commerce, the venerable print catalog continues to thrive (CNBC)
• With Shopkick, Target Takes On Showrooming (Portfolio.com)
• Insights into the Digital Lives of America’s Black Consumers (NielsenWire)
• Is Mass Customization (Finally) the Future of Products? (AdAge)
• Urban Outfitters sees progress in turnaround efforts (Forbes)
• Gen Y and Self-Service: A Love Story (Retail Customer Experience)
• No Deal More Fashionable Than Guess As Cash Lures LBO (Bloomberg)
• How Gatorade Redefined Its Audience And A Flagging Brand (Fast Company)
• The U.S. Demographic Shift: A ‘Tipping Point’ for Marketers (Knowledge@Wharton)
• Best Buy’s Interim CEO Says Company Must Acknowledge The Truth (Business Insider)
• Shopping In Malls With Friends Goes Digital (Mashable)
• IKEA constructs loyalty program with mobile in the forefront (Mobile Commerce Daily)
• Retailers Leveraging Tablets To Boost Sales & Elevate Brand (NRF)
• As U.S. retailers retreat, Uniqlo starts aggressive growth plan at shopping malls (NY Times)
• The Huge Power Shift In The Retail Supply Chain (Retailomania)
• Best brands in luxury jewelry according to ultra-wealthy U.S. shoppers (Luxury Institute)

sourc: NielsenWire

• Proof That Pinterest Drives Sales, And Its Fans Spend Big (Fast Company)
• Can Department Stores Win Back Shoppers? (SmartMoney)
• Asking rents on NYC’s prime shopping streets seeing significant increases (REBNY)
• Store Brands Muscle In on National Brands’ Comfort Zone (Ipsos)
• The Man Who Took on Amazon and Saved a Bookstore (Forbes)
• A wealth of wallets: The fierce battle for control of mobile payments (Economist)
• Barney’s New York redesigns website for ‘shopping with a story’ (RetailDigital)
• Inside Apple’s secret plan to kill the cash register (ComputerWorld)
• The cost of losing a customer’s trust (GigaOM)
• Retailers rethinking the role of bick-and-mortar stores (Chicago Tribune)
• Just 1.5% of Shoppers Decide Success of New CPG Products (Catalina)
• Liz Claiborne officially transforms itself into Fifth & Pacific (Crain’s NY)
• Are Consumers Ready for Mobile Grocery Shopping? (AdAge)
• Social Media & Digital Marketing Engagement Gap (Business 2 Community)

source: Fast Company

• Coupon offers lead to highest engagement on Facebook (Mashable)
• Why Everyday Low Pricing Might Not Fit J.C. Penney (Businessweek) and Why JCPenney’s ‘No More Coupons’ Experiment Is Failing (Time)
• American Consumers Reducing Discretionary Spending on Most Categories (Empathica)
• Canadian retailers brace for more cross-border shopping pain (Globe and Mail)
• Starbucks brews loyalty with mobile payments (MSN Money)
• Consumers delaying shopping until Memorial Day Weekend at all-time high (Chain Store Age)
• Convenience & Mobile Ads Rank as Top Drivers of Mobile Phone Shopping Activities (IAB)
• Lifestyle Retail Centers Launching a Comeback (Retail Traffic)
• Apple Store’s Secret Sauce: 5 Steps of Service (Forbes)
• U.S. e-commerce sales increased 15.4% to $53.2 billion in Q1 (US Dept of Commerce)
• Millennials: Young, Broke, and Spending on Luxury (The Fiscal Times)
• American brands exporting luxury wares to Brazil (Bloomberg)
• Will mild winter mean summertime blues for retailers? (Reuters)
• Wal-Mart’s Slow Expansion of Small-Format Stores Gives Rivals Running Room (WSJ)
• Why Mobile Shopping Is Not Mobile Buying (MobileInsider)
• Brand Fail: Marketers struggle to break through the wall of consumer criticism (Adweek)
• Consumer preference for rebates vs instant discounts is growing (Parago)
• The End Of The Retail World As We Know It (Retailomania)
• How big-box retailers are localizing stores with Facebook (AdAge)

• Francesca’s CFO tweets himself out of a job (Houston Chronicle)
• Malls Turn to Play Areas to Get Moms to Shop (WSJ)
• Teens & Tweens More Engaged When Purchasing Beauty Products (NPD Group)
• Study Shows Thin Models Don’t Make Most Women Want To Shop (NY Mag)
• JC Penney Plans Ads to Better Explain New Pricing Strategy (AdAge)
• Mobile Phone Shoppers Show Growing Preference for Text Marketing (eMarketer)
• 1962: The Year That Forever Changed Retail (Bloomberg)
• The future of customer support: Outsourcing is so last year (Economist)
• Research Shows Consumers Choose Brands the Same Way They Choose People (RCG)
• Plus-size line meets a passion for fashion at The Limited (STORES)
• Study Reveals Tablets are Emerging as the Consumer Device of Choice (Adobe)
• Social Shopping Platform Is Like Twitter For Fashion Advice (PSFK)
• There’s Retail Magic in Silicon Dust: America’s Most Connected Retailers (US News & World Report)
• With Redesign, Social Shopping Becomes Fab.com’s Main Focus (TechCrunch)
• Google’s Tim Reis Reveals ‘Mobile Playbook’ for Marketers (OnlineMediaDaily)
• State of the Appnation: A Year of Change & Growth in U.S. Smartphones (NielsenWire)
• Etsy Seeks Scale without Losing Its ‘Street Fair’ Aesthetic (Knowledge@Wharton)

source: Adobe

• Mobile Devices Transforming Women’s Shopping Experiences (Total Beauty Media Group)
• Walmart Shoppers Indicate ‘Everyday Low Prices’ Extremely Important, but Cross-shopping Still Prevalent (ClickIQ)
• Why Most Successful Branding Still Happens Offline (WSJ)
• Nordstrom in Fashion with Social Media & Mobile Tech (US News & World Report)
• Emerging International Markets Pique Interest for Retail Expansion (Retail Traffic)
• American Express Leverages Spending Data For Mobile Deals You Actually Care About (Fast Company)
• Changing Behaviors of Today’s Cost-Conscious Grocery Shoppers (MaxPoint Interactive)
• Fashion Executives on Fast Company’s ‘Most Creative People In Business’ List (Racked)
• Where Dollar Stores Are Still Not Welcome (Time)
• Target’s Little Shop-in-Shop Of Surprises (MarketingDaily)
• Location, location, location: Where to put digital signage in retail (Retail Customer Experience)
• 12 Ways Businesses Can Prepare for Mobile Commerce (Mashable)
• The New Weapon in Online Sales: Traditional Stores (WSJ)
• For U.S. Consumers, Different Stores Mean Different Smartphone Shopping Behavior (NielsenWire)

source: NielsenWire