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Local governments try to hide the scale of the economic problem in Northern Ireland.
What Keeps Your (Retail) Lights On?
Every store has that something. Or at least ever store should. Not sure what that “something” is? It’s what consistently draws customers to your store. It’s what nearly always pays the majority of your bills. It’s what keeps your store lights on. Often, retailers search endlessly to find stand-out products that keep customers intrigued and [...]
Our 5 Favorite Digital Things This Week
1. Rag & Bone launched the latest iteration of their D.I.Y. Project, which features models sans makeup, hairstyling, lighting, etc. Just a girl and the brand’s clothes. The newest model to star in the campaign is Bridget Hall, shot in New York and East Hampton.
Music City Mall; Odessa, Texas
Music City Mall opened in 1980 as Permian Mall, located on the northeast side of town along Highway 191 and kitty-corner to the University of Texas - Permian Basin. Permian Mall wasn't Odessa's first enclosed mall, either. The much smaller Winwood Mall, located a few hundred feet to the west, predated it by several years. Show More Summary
Midland Park Mall; Midland, Texas
Midland Park Mall opened in 1980, on the northwest side of Midland, located at Loop 250 and Midkiff Road. Slightly smaller than Odessa's Music City Mall, Midland Park Mall has around 650,000 square feet and a more linear layout pattern, with a slight bend in the mall in the Sears wing. Show More Summary
Live Your Best Lean Fashion Life Through Cuyana
With summer comes the sense that it’s time to pair down, so as we cast about for cover-ups and warm weather hats, Cuyana caught our eye. The online start-up with a quality-over-quantity approach to fashion offers the chance to clean out your closet with every purchase you make. Just add it to the list of new, improved ways to buy fashion fairly.
Etsy CEO: 3D Printers Are The New Sewing Machines
The online DIY retail giant is moving to new avenues of growth with its Etsy Wholesale strategy.
The best tool for combatting ORC: partnerships
In NRF’s ninth annual Organized Retail Crime (ORC) survey, eight in 10 respondents said ORC has increased in the past three years, and 90 percent said they have been victims of it. And with ORC on the rise, more retailers and law enforcement joining forces to fight it. Across the country, organized retail crime associations [...]
Retailers are retailers, ‘not patent experts’
When the White House decided to crack down on patent trolls this week, Administration officials didn’t waste time identifying the industry that has quickly become one of trolls’ biggest targets – retail. “Patent trolls are increasingly targeting Main Street retailers,” the White House said, specifically citing infringement claims over retail point of sale software and [...]
Core Values
As part of Winning@Business™ we emphasize the need for every retailer to have a documented set of their core values. We use those to train employees and screen new hires. We publish it to vendors and customers. We live by it. I always love examples that demonstrate the power of living by core values. Here [...]
New York State Proposes First Real Underage Model Laws
The fashion industry makes a lot of noise about improving working conditions for underage models while the de facto situation stays more or less about the same, i.e., totally unregulated. Even designers who openly champion hiring only...Show More Summary
eBay Launching 24-Hour Interactive Storefronts In Manhattan
The “shoppable windows” will enable people to buy products and have them delivered within an hour.
Amazon Launches Online Grocery Delivery On The West Coast
The e-commerce giant tackles a difficult new market but might just be able to make it successful.
Organized retail crime: Current challenges and future solutions
The variety of issues that retail loss prevention professionals face range from shoplifting to return fraud, but no issue has grown as significantly in the past few years as organized retail crime. This is shown in the results of NRF’s ninth annual ORC survey, which found for the third consecutive year that 90 percent of [...]
Fashion E-Store Helps People Spend Their Bitcoins At Zara
New web platform gives Bitcoin users a way to get their hands on the latest fashion
Kate Spade Saturday and eBay Partner on Shoppable Windows
From June 8 to July 7, New Yorkers will be able to window shop for new looks from Kate Spade Saturday, in the most literal sense of the term. The label is partnering with eBay on “shoppable windows,” to be installed and displayed in the actual windows of closed stores around downtown Manhattan.
Avoiding self-sabotage
Last year the Harvard Business Review shared advice on how not to sabotage yourself and your projects. The suggestions are: 1. Watch for the warning signs. These include holding back, generating lists of excuses, or excessively focusing on potential obstacles....
Retailers answer call for jobs across the nation
As the nation’s largest private sector employer, no one knows “jobs” better than the retail industry. And with the current state of our economy, retailers have taken that jobs call to heart. Through NRF’s This is Retail campaign, we’ve focused on telling the story of not only retail jobs, but retail careers. We have some [...]
Retail Minded Introduces MINI MOO.COM SHOP
Retail Minded Launches MINI MOO SHOP on RetailMinded.com: Supporting Indie Retail Print Needs Geneva, IL (June 2, 2013) – Retail Minded is excited to introduce a new way for retailers and wholesalers to shop for all their print needs! Together with MOO.COM – an online, premier destination for luxury print goods – Retail Minded has [...]
Q&A: Shapeways, 3D Printing, and the Future of Fashion
With the introduction of its custom ring-creation app, leading 3D printer Shapeways looks poised to push 3D fashion production into the mainstream. The company already had a number of apps making 3D modeling accessible and easy, but...Show More Summary
