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  • Happily Eva after for New York & Co.

    Customers have responded so well to New York & Company’s collaboration with Eva Mendes that the retailer has extended its deal with the Cuban-American actress.

    Launches in 2013, the Eva Mendes Collection features five seasonal assortments and 11 unique deliveries a year, which feature apparel and accessories.

  • Ex-Walmart exec is new co-owner of N.Y. retailer

    A former Walmart executive has joined with a real estate executive to expand New York City-based luxury home décor retailer Gracious Home.

  • Ace colors summer with new paint palette

    Ace Hardware wants shoppers to think summer paint projects by introducing a new curated color palette for the warmest season of the year.

    Ace's Design Experts have curated a paaint color palette for summer 2015 using colors from the Clark+Kensington paint+primer in one collection.

    Featuring hues reminiscent of long summer days and seaside vacations, the colors range from vibrant and bold to grounding neutrals.

  • Alibaba's next bet is robots

    Alibaba wants to put a robot, specifically one named Pepper, in your home — or store.

  • CVS Health opens tech hub in Boston

    CVS Health is aiming to develop cutting-edge digital services and personalized capabilities that will revolutionize health care, and it's all starting with its new lab in Boston.

    The CVS Health Digital Innovation Lab, which is now open, will serve as a vital hub for the rapidly growing digital team at CVS Health, which will remain headquartered in Woonsocket, R.I.

  • Walgreens to offer free HIV tests

    DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens is participating in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pilot with Greater Than AIDS and other organizations and local officials to expand HIV testing services and connect more people with the virus to treatment and care.

  • Report: Walmart holds $76 billion in tax havens

    Walmart has created 78 subsidiaries and branches in 15 offshore tax havens in a bid to cut the corporate giant's taxes on its foreign operations, according to Bloomberg.

    The company holds at least $76 billion in assets through shell companies based in the low-tax havens of Luxembourg and the Netherlands, said Bloomberg, who quoted a report by Americans for Tax Fairness, an organization backed by national, state and local labor and community groups.

  • Report: Target cuts nearly 200 positions

    The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is reporting that Target laid off 140 staffers and eliminated 50 open positions at its headquarters on Wednesday.

    According to the newspaper, the eliminated positions were in places “we identified redundancies or opportunities for greater efficiencies,” Molly Snyder, a Target spokeswoman, wrote in an e-mail. 

    Read more by clicking here.

  • GMA in Vermont GMO battle

    Usually it’s California causing regulatory headaches for retailers and suppliers, but now tiny Vermont is getting in on the action with onerous labeling requirements and hefty fines that are expected to be a compliance nightmare.

  • Guess who topped the Fortune 500, again

    No great surprise that Walmart sits atop the Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest companies with its annual revenues of $485.6 billion.

    Naturally, that raises familiar questions about future growth which were addressed by president and CEO Doug McMillon.

    According to Fortune, Walmart is a crossroads as it transitions from the big-box era that propelled it to the world's largest company, to one in which customers are fussier about what they eat and can easily comparison shop thanks to the internet.

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