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  • Kroger extends its winning comp streak

    The nation’s largest supermarket operator reported profit that surpassed Wall Street expectations and raised its annual forecast.

  • This mall retailer is still on a roll

    Express continues to make all the right moves, reporting better than expected results for its third quarter and raising its 2015 outlook.

  • A strong quarter and new CFO for Dollar General

    Dollar General Corp. missed Wall Street projections for sales in its third quarter, but the chain came out on top again in its earnings. It also named a permanent CFO.

  • Canadian menswear chain takes enterprising omnichannel approach

    Harry Rosen, Inc., a 17-store, Toronto-based luxury menswear retailer, is making the back-end effort to offer a front-end omnichannel experience.

    Harry Rosen has chosen the Jesta I.S. Omnichannel Retail Suite, including merchandising, planning, distribution, POS and mobile POS, financials and business intelligence. The retailer expects to centralize its operations on the Jesta I.S. Vision Suite, bringing the entire company onto a single, integrated retail platform.

  • Study: Revenue from mobile devices jumps nearly 10% year-over-year

    Shoppers are purchasing more on mobile than ever before — and they are also making larger purchases.

    That’s according to a new report from Yesmail, the email service provider within Yes Lifecycle Marketing, which found that overall revenue coming from mobile devices is up 9.9% year-over-year, according to Yesmail.

  • Cyber Monday looks strong out of the gate

    Early indicators point to retailers having an historically strong Cyber Monday.

    According to the Adobe Digital Index, as of 10 a.m. ET on Monday, Nov. 30, Cyber Monday online sales had already reached $490 million. Considering Cyber Monday online sales in 2014 reached a total of around $2 billion, and early Cyber Monday sales were tracking ahead of the prior year by 14%, this is a very possible start to a record-breaking day.

  • Study: Younger consumers phone it in

    The stereotype of younger consumers spending all their time glued to smartphones may have some validity, at least when it comes to shopping.

  • Cyber Monday looks promising

    Early indicators point to retailers having an historically strong Cyber Monday.

    According to the Adobe Digital Index, as of 10 a.m. ET on Monday, Nov. 30, Cyber Monday online sales had already reached $490 million. Considering Cyber Monday online sales in 2014 reached a total of around $2 billion, and early Cyber Monday sales were tracking ahead of the prior year by 14%, this is a very possible start to a record-breaking day.

  • Somebody is getting new shoes this Christmas

    In addition to the requisite comment about expecting the holidays to be highly promotional, Famous Footwear also expects the momentum it saw during back-to-school season to carry over to the fourth quarter.

    Famous Footwear’s third quarter same store sales increased 4.4% and total sales increased 4.8% to $456 million, excluding the performance of the divested Shoes.com business, to represent 63% of parent company Caleres total sales of $728.6 million. Caleres is the company formerly known as Brown Shoe Company that changed its name earlier this year.

  • Strong dollar crushes Tiffany

    Millions of people worldwide will be surprised and delighted to receive a little blue box this holiday season, but a strong U.S.

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