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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.    

  • 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.  

  • Costco flips the credit card switch

    The American Express card is now history at Costco Wholesale Club.    As of June 20, Costco is accepting only Visa-branded credit cards chain wide.   The retailer made headlines last year when it announced that, after 16 years, it was dropping American Express as its exclusive credit card provider and switching to Visa.   

  • 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.  

  • Grocery giant invests in exit signs that put high-tech spin on glow in the dark

    The Kroger Co. is installing cutting-edge exit signs as part of a $4 billion store- investment program.   The chain is deploying photoluminescent exit signs developed by Cincinnati start-up MN8 at all new and renovated stores nationwide. The LumAware signs differ from standard glow-in-the-dark products in that they also emanate light. The signs, which consumer no energy, eliminate the need for batteries, light bulbs, electricity or maintenance.  

  • Amazon to open another bookstore

    Amazon is expanding its fledgling bricks-and-mortar bookstore format.   The Internet giant plans to open a third Amazon Books this fall, at Washington Square Mall, in Tigard, Oregon, just outside of Portland, The Oregonian reported.   

  • Home Depot files anti-trust suit against Visa, MasterCard

    In a new federal lawsuit, The Home Depot Inc. is accusing Visa and MasterCard of not doing enough to ensure EMV-compliant, chip-based payment cards truly prevent fraud.  

  • TechBytes: Not Your Father’s POS

    The POS has never been the most flashy or talked-about solution in the retail IT environment.   From manual cash registers up to client/server-based terminals, the basic idea of the POS as a fixed box that takes payment in and spits receipts out stayed pretty much the same.  
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