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  • Men’s Wearhouse to open 300 tuxedo shops in Macy’s

    Fremont, Calif. — Men's Wearhouse on Thursday announced it had signed a 10-year agreement with Macy's to operate men's tuxedo rental shops inside 300 Macy’s locations. The shops are expected to be located in or near the men’s department.

    Men's Wearhouse will begin operating 17 pilot tuxedo shops in fall 2015,  and expects the remaining shops to be open by fall 2016. Macy's and Men's Wearhouse will also collaborate to develop a digital tuxedo rental shop on macys.com.

  • Shoe Carnival to expand with new, smaller-store concept

    EVANSVILLE, Indiana — Shoe Carnival plans to launch a complementary, small-market store concept. The new format will be approximately 5,000 sq.ft. or half the size of a current Shoe Carnival store.  

  • Name of new Whole Foods chain is a real mouthful

    The name for Whole Foods Market's new "streamlined and value-focused brand" is not exactly streamlined.

    Slated to begin opening in 2016, the new stores, called "365 by Whole Foods Market," will offer "convenience and everyday low prices on natural and organic products that meet the company's industry-leading quality standards," the company announced Thursday.

  • Aldi opening 45 California stores by 2016

    Low-price grocery chain Aldi is coming to Southern California, as the retailer hastens plans to open at least 45 stores in that state by the end of 2016.

    The retailer says it plans to hire more than 1,100 people to work in its Southern California stores, as well as at the company's regional headquarters and warehouse in Moreno Valley, Calif. 

  • Report: New POS malware feared

    Washington, D.C. – At least two new strains of POS malware are reportedly threatening retailers. According to Bank Info Security, the FBI has released a warning about a new form of memory-scraping POS malware called Punkey.   Punkey can infect any Windows-based POS network and encrypts the data it steals, making detection difficult. Punkey may have been used in a recent breach at an unidentified U.S. restaurant chain.  

  • Survey: E-commerce growth is accelerating

    E-commerce traffic increased 18% in the first quarter, according to the latest Shopping Index from Demandware.

    The report measures digital commerce growth and identifies the trends driving that growth based on analysis of same site activity over time. The latest Demandware Shopping Index reveals that shopper attraction, which measures the number of shoppers, was up 18% in the first quarter of 2015 over the first quarter last year and drove 83% of the digital commerce growth.

  • Kohl's names CMO, makes other exec moves

    Kohl’s Corp. has appointed an ex-Starbucks executive as its next chief merchandising and customer officer.

    The retailer announced that Michelle Gass has been appointed to the newly created principal officer position of CMCO. In this new capacity, Gass has assumed oversight of all of Kohl's merchandising, planning and allocation, and product development functions. She will continue to report to Kevin Mansell, Kohl’s chairman, chief executive officer and president.

  • Study: Retailers plan personalized, real-time in-store experience

    Boston – The in-store customer experience is going to get a lot more personalized and timely. According to a new special report by Boston Retail Partners (BRP), “Real-time Retail – The New Retail Imperative,” by 2020 nearly two-thirds of retailers will identify a customer when they walk in the store via their smartphone.  In addition, 76% of retailers plan to provide suggested selling based on a customer’s previous purchases within three years.

    Other key findings gathered from recent BRP surveys include:

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