For Retailers, the Smartphone is Future of Store Experience
Retailers now consider the smartphone their friend. They're giving shoppers more control over the experience with app features that let customers do scan and pay, as well as download digital maps — and replicate the online experience. read more >
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Walmart Makes Another Play for Babies R Us Shoppers
Walmart is making another play for former Babies R Us shoppers looking for cribs, diaper-changing tables and other baby goods. read more >
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Walmart’s Online Same-Day Grocery Ready for Prime-Time
Walmart is expanding its same-day online grocery delivery service to more than 40 percent of U.S. households, or 100 metro areas, by year-end as it tries to keep pace with online leader Amazon.com. read more >
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Update: Walmart Raises Wages, Closes 63 Sam’s Clubs
Walmart confirmed that it is closing dozens of Sam's Club warehouse stores across the country — a move that seems sure to cost jobs — on the same day it announced that it was boosting its starting salary for U.S. workers and handing out one-time bonuses to others. read more >
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Target Sees Highly Competitive Holiday on the Way
A cautious outlook on the crucial holiday season overshadowed progress Target made in bringing more customers to its stores, pulling its shares down sharply. The shares of other retailers fell as well, even though overall economic figures show people still spending. read more >
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Target to Up Hourly Base Pay to $15 by End of 2020
Target Corp. is raising its minimum hourly wage for its workers to $11 starting next month and then to $15 by the end of 2020 in a move it says will help it better recruit and retain top-quality staff and provide a better shopping experience for its customers. read more >
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Big Box Stores Pushing Hard on Alcohol Sales Nationwide
The successful push by big grocers like Wal-Mart and Kroger to expand the selection of wine they sell in Arkansas wasn’t the first such effort and it won’t be the last. read more >
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Target Locked in Game of Shipping Tag with Wal-Mart, Amazon
Target, Wal-Mart and Amazon are engaged in a game of shipping tag, each trying to adjust their free threshold and other shipping strategies to a level that can lure shoppers away from one of the other. read more >
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Wal-Mart, Other Retailers Bet on Congress to Thwart Trump Border Tax
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers are shelving considerations to move supply bases closer to the United States in the face of a possible border tax, banking instead on killing support for the tax idea in Congress. read more >
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Cameron Smith & Associates Expanding
Cameron Smith, founder of the executive recruitment firm Cameron Smith & Associates in Rogers, says business has been good, so good that the firm has opened an office in San Antonio and is looking at offices in Chicago and Nashville, Tennessee, as well. read more >
Wal-Mart Pushes Customer Service for Holiday; Target Stresses Value
Wal-Mart, long known for emphasizing low prices, wants to be known this holiday season for superior customer service. That comes after its main rival Target, which has a better image in that regard, stressed a focus on offering deals. read more >
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Target to Hire More Than 70,000 for Holiday Season
Target says it will hire more than 70,000 seasonal store workers during the busy holiday shopping season, about the same as it hired last year. read more >
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Little Rock Law Firm Carney Bates Going Into the Breach Against Google
Carney Bates & Pulliam PLLC, the Little Rock law firm representing Matt Campbell in his lawsuit against Facebook, also is handling a potential class-action privacy lawsuit against Google and is involved in several other high-profile data breach cases. read more >
Wal-Mart-Backed MCX Postpones Rollout, Cuts 30 Jobs
Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a developer of mobile payment technology whose strategy has been thrown into question by big retailers developing their own mobile wallets, is postponing the nationwide rollout of its service and cut 30 jobs. read more >
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Wal-Mart’s Chief Marketing Officer to Retire
The world's largest retailer confirmed Thursday that its chief marketing officer Stephen Quinn is retiring, and it's tapping into the talent of former Target executive Michael Francis as a consultant. read more >
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Wal-Mart Expands Protein Bars to Main Grocery Aisles
The world's largest retailer plans to expand its offering of bars like Special K and Clif to the more visible main grocery aisles of some of its stores, starting in January. read more >
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Wal-Mart to Buy 13 Target Stores in Canada
Wal-Mart, already Canada's biggest retailer, wasted little time in cementing that title after its rival, Target, retreated back to the U.S. read more >
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Wal-Mart Sets Off Minimum Wage Race
Wal-Mart Store Inc.’s announcement in February that it would start paying employees $9 an hour this year and $10 in 2016 touched off a minimum wage arms race. read more >
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Judge OKs $10M Settlement in Target Data Breach
A Minnesota judge has approved a settlement in which Target Corp. will pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a massive data breach in 2013. read more >
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Target to Close 133 Canada Stores to Stem Massive Losses
Target is closing shop in Canada. More than 17,600 employees will eventually lose their jobs when the U.S. discount retailer closes its 133 Canadian stores after only about two years to end financial losses that went as high as a billion dollars a year. read more >
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