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  • Discount retailer in expansion mode

    Meijer is on the move again.   The company on Tuesday opened a 192,000-sq-.ft. supercenters in Flossmoor and Round Lake Beach, Illinois.      The two new stores are part of an investment of more than $400 million in new and remodeled stores that Meijer is making this year, which is creating 3,000 new jobs across the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer's six-state foot print.    

  • How a Boston start-up is transforming alcohol sales for the digital age

    Launched in 2013, Drizly facilitates the sale and delivery of alcoholic beverages online. Chain Store Age recently visited the company’s Boston-based headquarters and spoke with Nick Rellas, co-founder and CEO, about Drizly’s business model and the evolution of e-commerce.   What made you decide to enable the online sale and delivery of liquor?

  • Study: Millennial shoppers can be selfish, too

    Despite their reputation as a generation dedicated to the greater good, millennial consumers are in some ways more narrowly focused than their Gen X elders.   According to a new study of more than 7,000 global consumers conducted online in April age 18-55 conducted by sales and marketing firm Daymon Worldwide, 35% of both millennial and Gen X consumers prefer buying sustainable products.  

  • Lands’ End names new marketing chief in leadership shakeup

    Specialty apparel retailer Lands' End is making a number of new executive appointments in the marketing and merchandising areas of the company.

  • Study points up importance of the human touch in shopping journey

    A traditional, low-tech customer service feature can help prompt shoppers to follow the path to purchase.   According to a new study from technology services company Mindtree, “Mindtree Shopper Survey 2016,” good old-fashioned human sales associates have a big impact on consumers moving from thinking about a purchase to actually making one.  

  • Nordstrom makes big e-commerce decision

    Nordstrom Inc. has re-evaluated its near-term needs for e-commerce infrastructure.   The luxury retailer has decided to postpone the planned opening of a West Coast fulfillment center dedicated to fulfilling digital orders until 2020 or later.  

  • New PREIT loyalty program rewards retailers with shopper data

    PREIT, whose portfolio includes the Plymouth Meeting Mall in Pennsylvania, the Mall at Prince Georges in Maryland, and the Springfield Town Center in Virginia, has introduced a digital shopper loyalty program that rewards participating retailers with customer behavioral data.  

  • BevMo grabs two more Albertsons execs

    Specialty alcoholic beverage retailer BevMo is shuffling its leadership team as part of an organizational transformation initiative.  
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