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  • Target looks to disrupt food category

    Target Corp.’s partnership with MIT Media Lab and global design firm IDEO is bearing fruit — literally.

    In January, Target announced the launch of the Food + Future coLab, a multi-year collaboration with MIT and IDEO to explore the future of food. Although it’s only been a couple of months, Target is already testing two ideas from the coli.

  • Target tests recipe for food growth

    Target Corp.’s partnership with MIT Media Lab and global design firm IDEO is bearing fruit — literally.

  • Mattress Firm names company veteran CEO

    The integration of a major acquisition and the accelerated closure of non-performing stores top the list of priorities awaiting Ken Murphy as he assumes leadership of the nation’s largest bedding retailer.

  • Survey: Retail CFOs upping investment in store remodeling/redesign

    Retail CFOs are bullish on online sales growth, but they are focusing fewer dollars on building out their online presence in 2016 as they look instead to enhance the in-store experience in response to omnichannel expectations.

  • Urban Outfitters goes geek to stay cool

    Urban Outfitters Inc. offers what can appear to be a random and eclectic variety of products on its shelves, but careful planning goes into the specialty chain’s store assortment.

  • Millennials to require omnichannel store reconfiguration

    Brick-and-mortar retailers are on notice – shifting customer demographics will require far-reaching redesign of the physical store by 2025.

    According to a new study from technology market intelligence firm ABI Research, millennials are driving a revolution in how stores use technology to provide a shopping experience.

  • Exclusive Preview: Cheesecake Factory adds mobile payment to menu

    The Cheesecake Factory is known for offering a wide variety of food items, and now is also expanding its range of payment options.

    Starting in April, The Cheesecake Factory will roll out a new mobile payment app called CakePay. To use CakePay, guests will check in and receive a four-digit code they give to the server at the time their order is taken. The server will then enter the order and the code into the POS system.

  • Wayfair pins hopes on social offering

    Online home furnishings retailer Wayfair Inc. is having success with a proprietary feature that may have been inspired by one of the hottest emerging social platforms.

    According to Wayfair, its Idea Boards feature is growing rapidly in popularity, especially among users of the retailer’s mobile app. Idea Boards is an online tool that enables customers to save and organize their favorite Wayfair products in one location.

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