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  • Peapod delivers more personalized mobile experience

    Chicago – As grocery shoppers’ lives keep getting busier, Ahold’s online grocery delivery service Peapod keeps trying to make shopping easier.

    Peapod has completely redesigned its mobile and tablet app, with larger, high-resolution photos and a host of new features designed to streamline and simplify online shopping.

  • Walmart does things differently, see how

    It was a busy few days in Bentonville earlier this week when Walmart held its “Made In USA” Open Call event combined with a U.S. Manufacturing Summit.

  • Survey: Lowe’s tops in appliance retailing

    Westlake Village, Calif. - Lowe's ranks highest in customer satisfaction with appliance retailers.According to the J.D. Power 2015 Appliance Retailer Satisfaction Study, Lowe's achieves high satisfaction across the customer experience.

  • Saks Fifth Avenue has an A-list ambassador

    Saks Fifth Avenue is teaming up with Stand Up To Cancer to bring awareness to cancer research and attract shoppers will to support it.

    The retailer has enlisted the help of Julianne Moore to increase cancer awareness and build broad public support for the effort to combat all types of cancers.

  • Phillips Edison buys trio of grocery-anchored centers

    Photo: Central Valley Marketplace, Ceres, California

  • Boy Scouts prepare for better store experience

    Irving, Texas - Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has always lived by the motto “Be Prepared,” and that spirit extends to its in-store retail activities.

    The youth organization has selected Raymark's store management software suite for deployment in its 182 Scout Shops, 220 independent Council Shops, High Adventure Trading Posts and temporary Scout sales locations.

  • It’s money that matters for back-to-school shoppers

    Framingham, Mass. – There are a lot of things parents look for when doing back-to-school shopping, but as Randy Newman once sang, it’s money that matters.

    A new online survey of parents of children ages 8-18, commissioned by Staples and conducted by Harris Poll, finds that price is the top consideration for 86% of these parents when buying school supplies.   

    Highlights of Staples 2015’ Back-to-School Parents Survey include:

  • Don’t tell the kids: Mom and Dad are getting ready for school

    Los Angeles - Although summer vacations have just begun for many schoolchildren, parents already have back-to-school shopping on their minds.

    According to the new Consumer Pulse survey of parents with kids in grades K-12 and college from Rubicon Project, 56% of respondents said they plan to spend more money per child than they did last year to prepare the students for the upcoming school year.

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