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Supply Chain & Merchandising

  • Retailers rank supply chain challenges

    One key area of the supply chain is an area of concern for almost three-quarters of North American retailers.
     

  • Wayfair partners with home services start-up Porch to compete with Amazon

    Online home furnishings retailer Wayfair Inc. is partnering with Seattle-based home services platform Porch.com to offer home installation and assembly services to its customers.

  • Another retailer joins in-store pickup club

  • Supervalu names innovation head as part of executive shuffle

    Supervalu is adding a veteran wholesale executive to a new C-level position and also enacting several other changes to its senior leadership team.

    James Weidenheimer, 57, has been named to the newly-created position of executive VP, corporate development and chief innovation officer, reporting to Supervalu president and CEO Mark Gross. Weidenheimer joins the company after having spent the last 16 years in senior leadership positions with C&S Wholesale Grocers. He is expected to start in his new role by April 25, 2016.

  • Nordstrom to eliminate 300 to 400 jobs

    Nordstrom announced it will phase out 350 to 400 jobs, primarily in its corporate center and regional support teams, through the end of the second quarter.

    The retailer described the reductions as changes in its operating model in order to “continually evolve with the expectations of its customers, ensure it is best positioned to respond to the current business environment, and meet long-term growth plans.”

    The changes are estimated to generate savings of approximately $60 million in fiscal 2016.

  • eBay Enterprise merges to become Radial; DSW among first clients

    eBay Enterprise has completed its merger with Innotrac Corp., creating a new, private company called Radial that provides technology and related services for online retailers, including payments, fulfillment, logistics and customer service.

    Sterling Partners, the Innovac parent company which purchased eBay Enterprise in November 2015, had previously announced the two companies would be combined.

    Footwear retailer DSW is one of the first retailers to deploy technology from the new provider, using it to support all facets of its omnichannel commerce effort.

  • Stop & Shop to convert inedible food into energy

    Energy that comes from an unlikely source will help power a distributed center operated by Stop & Shop Supermarket Company.

    The retailer has opened a “Green Energy Facility,” in Freetown, Massachusetts, that will convert inedible food from Stop & Shop’s 212 New England stores into energy that will help power the company's distribution center in Freetown.

  • CVS to offer curbside pick-up service at stores

    CVS Health is teaming up with a Bay Area startup to offer consumers in-store pick-up at their neighborhood CVS for digital purchases.

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