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  • CFO Survey: Technology capital spending to drive 2016 financial plans

    Data security, systems upgrades and healthcare reform rank among the top concerns for corporate financial decision makers.

    That’s among the key findings of a survey by TD Bank, which also reveals that CFOs plan to significantly increase their company's capital spending in 2016. Respondents cited three main keys areas of capital spending for 2016: technology (58%), existing facilities (44%) and data security (41%.

  • Ahold/Delhaize firm up exec team

    Their merger isn’t expect to close until-mid 2016, but Ahold and Delhaize Group have named more senior executives to interesting new roles to lead the combined company.

    Ahold and Delhaize Group announced more members of the proposed executive committee of the combined company to be known as Ahold Delhaize. As previously announced in June, the proposed Ahold Delhaize management board consists of CEO Dick Boer, Deputy CEO and Chief Integration Officer Frans Muller, CFO Jeff Carr, COO Europe Pierre Bouchut, COO USA Kevin Holt, and COO USA James McCann.

  • Retail CMOs forecast 2015 Black Friday sales up 2.4%

  • How Target is going 'click-and-mortar' this holiday

    Target is embarking on its most omnichannel holiday season ever with more services designed to add convenience and value for shoppers.

    In a new blog post and infographic posted on Target.com, the retailer details how the intersection between stores and mobile play a big role in the Target shopping experience: Nearly 25 percent of Target.com sales will be fulfilled by a store, either through Order Pickup or shipping from a store.

    Target recently introduced two new "click-and-mortar" features designed to improve the shopping experience.

  • Toys ‘R’ Us gets even more social for Black Friday

    Black Friday at Toys“R”Us this year will be all about loyalty and social media.

  • Urban Outfitters in very surprising acquisition move

    In a new expansion of food and retail, Urban Outfitters Inc. is acquiring a Philadelphia-based restaurant chain. The move comes as many retailers are working to make their stores more experiential by adding various services, including food and beverages, to the mix.

  • Dillard's hit by department store doldrums

    Dillard’s joined Macy's and Nordstrom Monday in struggling against weaker than expected traffic and sales in the third quarter.

  • Urban Outfitters goes from skinny jeans to pizza

    In a new expansion of food and retail, Urban Outfitters Inc. is acquiring a Philadelphia-based restaruant chain.

  • Tech Bytes: Three Ways SAP Makes Commerce a Community Event

    Seamless commerce is constantly evolving, and SAP is attempting to stay at the front of the curve with its new SAP Jam Communities with Commerce solution. The cloud-based customer engagement tool is natively built on the SAP Jam enterprise social collaboration platform, and also integrates with the SAP hybris commerce management platform.

    At a recent event in Boston, SAP explained how the new solution enables retailers to build community pages that support and drive seamless commerce. Here are three of the most innovative community page features.

  • Survey: Retailers lag in social outreach to consumers

    Consumers find it easy to use social media for brand engagement, but that doesn’t mean they are using it.

    According to the new “Global Brand Simplicity Index” from New York-based branding firm Siegel+Gale, 65% of consumers say social media is a simple platform for learning about brands, products and services via social media. Yet only 32% use social media for this purpose.

    Similarly, 45% of consumers find social media simple for engaging customer service, but only 11% use social media for customer service engagement.

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