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  • Amazon’s healthy Q2 sales can’t offset big earnings drop

    Amazon’s Prime Day may have boosted the company’s second quarter sales, but the event wasn’t enough to keep its earnings on track.   The online giant’s net income for the second quarter, ended June 30, was $197 million, or $0.40 per diluted share, compared with net income of $857 million, or $1.78 per diluted share, in second quarter 2016. Earnings also drastically missed analyst expectations of $1.42 per share, according to consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters.  

  • Carter’s sales soar in Q2

    Carter’s credits its U.S. retail and international segments, and its new acquisition for a jump in its second quarter sales.   Net income for the quarter ended July 1, increased $1.7 million, or 4.8%, to $37.9 million, compared to $36.2 million, in the second quarter of fiscal 2016. Earnings per diluted share was or $0.78, which beat analyst expectations of $0.71 per share, according to Zacks Investment Research.  

  • Smarter Data Management Helps Retailers Compete

    Chain Store Age recently spoke with Hiro Yoshikawa, CEO and co-founder of Treasure Data. He discussed how a new level of customer data analysis can improve the customer experience.

    How has unified commerce and digitally influenced retail stepped up the game on data management?

  • Four Steps to Prep for ‘Mobile 2.0’

    Just when the industry is getting its arms around mobility, an evolution is underway. It’s being referred to as Mobile 2.0, and it’s all about moving away from static — even batched — information, and about retailers getting more interactive with mobile users. With shoppers wanting to be able to quickly browse merchandise availability, check their loyalty status and redeem rewards on their smartphones, mobile apps need to be as interactive as possible.

  • GNC’s profits fall in Q2

    Despite online and in-store transaction growth, GNC’s income and revenue declined in the second quarter.   

  • Coffee giant posts mixed earnings, plans to shutter tea division

    Brands just can’t escape a challenging retail environment — a main reason Starbucks is pulling the plug on its Teavana operation.   Just hours after the coffee giant announced it would buy out the remaining 50% share of its East China business from its joint venture partners for about $1.3 billion — its biggest acquisition, ever — Starbucks is cutting loose its Teavana division.  

  • Coffee giant makes a blockbuster deal in China

    Starbucks Coffee Company has closed the biggest transaction in its history.    The coffee giant is buying the remaining 50% share of its East China business from long-term joint venture partners, Uni-President Enterprises Corporation and President Chain Store Corporation. The deal is worth approximately $1.3 billion (USD) — the largest single acquisition in the company’s history, according to Starbucks.  

  • TreeHouse Branches Out

    Home improvement start-up is dedicated to healthy, sustainable homes

    A start-up home improvement retailer with a green conscience has expanded out of its Austin, Texas, home with a first-of-its-kind store that’s generating lots of buzz.

    TreeHouse has opened the nation’s first home improvement “energy positive” (meaning it will generate more energy than it uses) store, at The Hill, a shopping center in Dallas. It’s the start-up retailer’s second location — but not for long. An additional store, planned for the Plano, Texas, area, is due to open this fall.

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