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  • Exclusive: eBay Enterprise: Retailers enter new fulfillment era

    Chain Store Age recently spoke with Stefan Weitz, head of product and strategy at eBay Enterprise, about the changing nature of omnichannel retail and what it means for fulfillment strategies.

    How important is it for today’s retailers to have omnichannel fulfillment capability?

  • In a hurry? Amazon wants to help

    Amazon Prime members looking to quickly reorder goods have an expanded assortment at their fingertips.

  • Bedding retailer names new execs to revive growth

    Select Comfort, operator of 490 Sleep Number stores, named several executives to key new roles following a supply chain disruption that cause fourth same-store sales to plummet 30%.

    Select Comfort named Suresh Krishna to the role of senior VP and chief operations, supply chain and lean officer, effective April 11. He will report directly to CEO Shelly Ibach and assumes responsibilities previously held by Kathy Roedel. She served as executive VP and chief services and fulfillment officer and will retire effective April 7.

  • Walmart introduces hybrid loyalty program

    Walmart and its financial services partners have added a loyalty component to credit, debit and prepaid card offerings that provide an extra incentive to make online purchase.

  • ComScore: This channel drives digital commerce growth

    Consumers are shopping online more than ever before, and are especially fond of one particular platform to support the activity.

    According to the comScore “2016 U.S. Cross-Platform Future in Focus” report from comScore, desktop and mobile digital commerce accounted for 15% of U.S. consumer spending in the fourth quarter of 2015. This was up from 12.5% the same quarter a year earlier and also represented an all-time high percentage.

  • Mid-America Real Estate promotes Alan Young to principal

    Minneapolis -- Mid-America Real Estate – Minnesota named Alan Young as principal of the company.

  • Lululemon strikes familiar growth pose

    To drive growth in 2016 Lululemon will again rely on a rapid pace of store expansion and an e-commerce fueled same-store sales increase after that combination enabled the company to achieve record results and surpass annual sales of $2 billion in 2015.

    Lululemon dramatically increased its selling space last year, adding 57 new stores to a base of 316 stores to end the year with 363 units. The surge in new store construction is understandable given that Lululemon’s sales per square foot of roughly $1,500 is among the highest in retail.

  • Sales at Claire's fall in Q4

    Claire's Stores blamed currency exchange rates and store cloures for its decrease in revenue in the fourth quarter.

    The specialty retailer said that for the period ended Jan. 30, net sales were $402.6 million, a decrease of $9.8 million, or 2.4% compared to the fiscal 2014 fourth quarter. The company said the decrease was attributable to an unfavorable foreign currency translation effect of non-U.S. net sales, the effect of store closures, decreased shipments to franchisees and a 0.2% decrease in same-store sales.

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