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Newegg steps up its game for holidays
Newegg is looking to be the destination this holiday season for gamers with a new promotion designed to appeal to tech enthusiasts.
Aldi puts even more pressure on grocery chains
Low-price grocery chain Aldi is making some changes to the ingredients of its food products just days after Target announced it was banning various chemicals from the products it sells.

Aldi announced it has removed certified synthetic colors, partially hydrogenated oils and MSG from all of its exclusive brand food products.

The move by Aldi (and Target) comes as traditional and even upscale grocers are struggling to increase sales as shoppers increasingly turn to more discounters.

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Study: Are retailers ready for IoT?

Retailers know the Internet of Things (IoT) is coming and will bring significant changes. But their preparedness for it is less certain.
Tech Guest Viewpoint: Closing the ‘Intimacy Gap’

Most of us don’t know our customers. Picture the shopper who walks into a store. They’re blank canvases with no visible history, and that means there’s no easy way for sales associates to shape what happens in the next 10, 20 or 30 minutes, before they walk back out the door.
Kohl's targets millennials with Madden Girl

Kohl’s is giving its millennial customers some exciting new cold weather merchandise to think about as the fall season gets well under way.

The retailer is debuting the Madden Girl collection, featuring fashion, cold weather boots, accessories and outerwear. The collection will be available Oct. 15 in Kohl’s stores and on Kohls.com. The assortment will include the brand’s cold weather boots as well as exclusive designs for the fall season.
The hottest trend in food retailing is getting hotter

What growth there is in the food channel these days is being driven by specialty products and the trend shows no sign of abating.
Study shows online holiday sales leaving desktop channel

It’s no secret that e-commerce is continuing to grow as a portion of holiday shopping volume. But a newer trend shows that holiday e-commerce growth is shifting away from the desktop channel. According to a new survey from digital promotion platform RetailMeNot Inc., mobile app visits and transactions closed on desktop visits and transactions during the 2014 holiday season. If the trend keeps pace in 2015, mobile visits and transactions will surpass desktop visits and transactions as a holiday e-commerce channel.
EMV is here, sort of

The highly anticipated EMV deadline of October 1 has come and gone, leaving many retailers and payment solutions providers to ponder what’s next?

As of Oct. 1, 2015, any U.S. retailer that does not have the necessary POS hardware, software, and operational and network protocols in place to process an EMV-compliant chip card transaction faces a shift in fraud liability.
Kroger launches appeal to the ‘epicurious’

Kroger has a history of successful private brand launches and it is putting that track record to the test with a new globally inspired line called HemisFares.