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  • Starbucks names Adobe tech head as its first CTO

    Starbucks Corp. is looking to someone with detailed knowledge of developing technology solutions as its new chief technology officer.

    The coffee giant has named Gerri Martin-Flickinger, who previously served as senior VP and CIO of Adobe, as CTO effective Nov. 2.

    In her new role, Martin-Flickinger will lead the global IT function and play a key role in shaping the technology agenda across the Starbucks business. Interestingly, in her previous life she played a key role in enabling Adobe’s transformation to a cloud-based business.

  • Moving Customer Engagement Forward

    Chain Store Age recently spoke with Jason Miller, chief commerce strategist of Akamai Technologies, about how mobile technology can serve as a key component of omnichannel customer engagement strategies.

  • Walmart, Starbucks join global initiative for renewable energy

    Nine large U.S. companies on Wednesday committed themselves to achieving a major sustainability goal — and three of them are retailers.

    Walmart, Starbucks and Nike are among the firms joining RE100, a global initiative led by The Climate Group to engage, support and showcase influential businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity. Other firms joining the campaign include Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Salesforce, Steelcase, Voya Financial.

  • Starbucks mobilizes customers nationwide

  • Walgreens provides on-demand delivery service through Postmates

    Walgreens and its Duane Reade subsidiary on Tuesday inked a deal with Postmates that will provide urbanites across 30 markets on-demand delivery service fulfilling all their health, beauty and wellness needs, Postmates announced.

    This marks a same-day delivery first for a cutting-edge retailer like Walgreens, though Postmates has been delivering goods from the likes of Starbucks, Chipotle, McDonald’s, Apple, Etsy and 7-Eleven for some time now. Customers utilizing the service will be charged a flat introductory delivery fee of $4.99 for a limited time.

  • Multimedia: Rebecca Minkoff, Los Angeles; Starbucks, Panama City, Panama

    On-trend apparel brand Rebecca Minkoff has opened a 4,600-sq.-ft. tech-savvy flagship — its largest space to date — on Melrose Avenue.

    Starbucks Coffee Company's first store in Panama is located in Panama City, in the Street Mall shopping center.

    Click here     to see slideshows of Rebecca Minkoff's "store of the future" concept in Los Angeles and Starbucks' new Panama City location.

  • Starbucks, Panama City, Panama

    Starbucks Coffee Company's first store in Panama is located in Panama City, in the Street Mall shopping center. With a 28-ft. high ceiling, the focal point of the 3,304-sq.-ft. store is a one-of-a-kind custom made hanging mobile, designed to represent the Geisha coffee plant, which signifies the birth of the coffee industry in Panama.

  • Report: Target – where everybody knows your name?

    Minneapolis – Target Corp. reportedly wants to become a place where consumers can go and everybody knows your name.

    According to USA Today, Target plans to serve liquor in a store slated to open in Chicago in October 2015.

    While a number of Target stores sell packaged alcohol products, this marks the first time Target would also serve liquor for customers to consume inside the store. Target has applied for permits to both sell alcohol for take-home purchase and for in-store consumption for the Chicago store.

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