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Nordstrom Promotes 3 Long-Time Executives to New Merchandising, Stores Roles

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Nordstrom has held leadership positions across several areas of the business, including merchandising, store operations, Nordstrom.com and NordstromRack.com. She has an extensive track record of driving value to our business and putting our customer at the center of everything we do.” in a statement.

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How Localization is Helping CVS Position Itself as the Modern General Store

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If you want tennis balls, you can wait for them to be delivered or you can go to a big-box sporting goods store, but if you’re on the way to the courts shouldn’t you be able to go somewhere really convenient along the way? As Balbale noted, thats an insane number. said Balbale.

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Amazon’s Just Walk Out has Left the Building

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The retailer will instead rely more heavily on its smart Amazon Dash Carts , which have been deployed at Fresh stores since 2020 as well as at Amazon subsidiary Whole Foods. The company already had moved the JWO unit out of its retail group and into its AWS cloud computing division.

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The Waste Management Challenge of the Holiday Season

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At Clean Earth specifically, we have 19 Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs) and a robust footprint that makes up a nationwide transportation network that allows us to handle these complex requests. Make sure to prioritize vendors that put sustainability at the forefront.

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Sensing, Not Seeing, with Vision AI as Retail’s Crystal Ball for the Future

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While 7-Eleven is at the forefront of inventive uses for vision AI in the convenience retail market, we are also observing interest and adoption of vision AI for supermarket retailers for resource reallocation, to mirror each store’s unique ebb and flow of operations and foot traffic throughout the day.

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NRF 2024 Preview: Hear From Top Execs at Levi’s, Ulta Beauty, FedEx — and Magic Johnson

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Spotlights on Supply Chain, Sustainability and RMNs New at the 2024 event is the retailer-only Supply Chain 360 Summit being held on Sunday, Jan. 13, What’s in Store for Retail Media Networks. For those who want to check out actual stores in the retail mecca that is New York City, guided retail store tours begin at 10 a.m.

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NRF: Retail Sales Rose 17.7% YoY in March as Recovery Accelerated

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Results in other categories included: Sporting goods stores: Up 23.5% YoY; Furniture and home furnishings stores: Up 5.9% YoY; Building materials and garden supply stores: Up 12.1% YoY; Online and other non-store sales: Up 6% month-over-month, up 30.7% YoY; Electronics and appliance stores: Up 10.5%