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  • Shopko focuses on assortment and store space

    Shopko Stores is looking more closely at how it uses store space and how customers fill their baskets.

    The retailer has renewed its license of APT’s Test & Learn and Market Basket Analyzer software and APT’s Space Planning Optimizer software. 

  • Industry vet joins Gensler

    San Francisco -- Gensler announced that Jim Crawford has joined its lifestyle team as director of strategy and experience design. Crawford most recently served as chief experience officer at Chute Gerdeman, where he was responsible for integrating technology into award-winning store and experience design projects.

    At Gensler, Crawford will utilize skills to enhance the firm’s practice and work with clients in multiple industries connecting digital and physical design with business and consumer objectives.
     

  • Meijer keeps shaking up retail market in Wisconsin

    After 20 years of focusing on just five states in the Midwest, Meijer is continuing an estimated $750 million investment in its sixth state -- Wisconsin -- with the opening of two more stores in Wauwatosa and Oak Creek.

  • Is this the next retailer headed for an IPO?

    New York -- Petco Animal Supplies may be headed for an initial public offering or sale.

    The retailer has selected Goldman Sachs Group to help with an IPO or sale that could value the pet supplies retailer between $4 billion and $5 billion, including debt, Reuters reported.

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  • Walgreens appoints Amex executive as accounting head

    Deerfield, Ill. - Walgreens Boots Alliance has named Kimberly R. Scardino as its new senior VP, global controller and chief accounting officer. Scardino joins Walgreens Boots Alliance from American Express Co., where she was senior VP, business advisory controller.

  • Instacart, Deliv turn up the heat in delivery wars

    The options for consumers who dread the store checkout lane are exploding now that fast growing Instacart is on a hiring spree and competitor Deliv says it will be expanding into more than 100 cities.

  • Target to rebrand its newer format stores

    Minneapolis -- Target wants to keep things simple.

    The retailer, which has been moving to simplify its operations, is now taking a similar approach to its store identity. Starting in October, Target will begin the process of rebranding all of its CityTarget and TargetExpress stores as “Target.”

  • Shopko looks into store space, market baskets

    Green Bay, Wis. – Shopko Stores is looking more closely into how it uses store space. It’s also looking more deeply into customer’s market baskets.

    The retailer has renewed its license of APT’s Test & Learn and Market Basket Analyzer software for another three years.

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