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Retailers Experimenting with Mobile Devices and the Job Search

Many retailers have been using some form of computerized job search tools for a quite. Now — slowly — retailers have begun incorporating mobile media in the process. As reported by Lauren Weber for the Wall Street Journal: “‘With the … Continue reading

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Multi-Channel Trends

As we have frequently blogged (see this post, for example), multi-channel retailing is the wave of today and tomorrow. The retailers that succeed in the long run will be those that do the best job in this area. Recently, Platt … Continue reading

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Business Intelligence Comes to the Fore at Loehmann’s

Business intelligence is important for retailers of all sizes and types. This point is driven home by the example of Loehmann’s, a discount apparel chain that was founded in 1921! As Matt Pillar reports for Integrated Solutions for Retail: “It’s been a … Continue reading

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