McDonald’s: Ever Changing

After a period of lackluster performance, McDonald’s is once again a retailing powerhouse. Part of McDonald’s current strategy involves an initiative known as “Changing. Together.” One of the menu items that McDonald’s has changed is the Happy Meal, which is now healthier.
To learn more about “Changing.Together.”, click on the McDonald’s logo.

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Macy’s to Ship Online Orders from Stores

According to the Wall Street Journal, Macy’s intends to utilize more than one-third of its stores as online-sales fulfillment centers. By shipping from sales locations, Macy’s hopes to better balance its warehouse inventory with sales-floor inventory and take on challenges posed by online retailers such as Amazon.com.
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A Technological In-Store Extravaganza for Tropicana

As reported by Shareen Pathak in Advertising Age: “+Castro, the creative hot shop, led by innovation director Nico Pimentel, created a brilliant point-of-sale installation that combined water and augmented reality to launch the Tropicana Twister in Argentina. Here’s how it works: Customers in grocery stores see an installation, where they place a fruit. The installation then tells them how much water is in the fruit in one of two ways: a ‘Rain 2.0’ cascading-water display that spells out the percentage or a charming augmented-reality display where Mother Nature provides the water content. The project plays off of the drink’s central idea: Mother Nature’s wisdom has put different amounts of water in every fruit. Each Twister, depending on its flavor, has a different mix of water and juice.”
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