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Your Biggest Business Challenges and Opportunities

challenges and opportunities

The North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) is collecting data on retailers’ business challenges and opportunities, 2016 performance and where they plan to invest next. Please complete the survey to share your insights. When you complete the survey, you’ll be …

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Walmart Adding Aisle-Scanning Robots to 50 Stores

robots

Robots are part of Walmart’s strategy for improving its inventory management, as the retailer announces plans to add technologically advanced assistants in 50 U.S. stores, Business Insider reports. The big-box retailer tested the robots at a small number of stores in Arkansas and California earlier …

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Westlake Ace to Acquire 7-Store Operation in Chicago

Westlake

Westlake Ace Hardware announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire Buikema’s Ace Hardware, an independently owned business that operates seven stores in the Chicago area. The acquisition will be finalized on Jan. 2, 2018. According to Westlake, Buikema’s …

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Home Depot Ditches Chemicals, Focuses on Green Goods

Home Depot

Home Depot is following in the footsteps of its big-box competitors like Walmart and Target to “disclose the chemicals in the products they sell and remove them whenever possible,” according to an article by Bloomberg. This news comes out of the company’s …

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Ace-Sponsored TV Show ‘Make48’ Goes National

Make48

A TV show that Westlake Ace Hardware has sponsored in the past now has a sponsorship from Ace Hardware Corp. and debuted nationally this fall. “Make48” features several teams of inventors competing against each other to create new consumer products …

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Highlights From 2017 Employee Compensation Report

Employee Compensation

Click the image above to see how data from the 2017 Employee Compensation Report appeared in Hardware Retailing‘s November issue. NRHA Presents Insights From New Report Retailers’ payroll expenses can be a critical part of their operations’ profitability. The North American Retail Hardware …

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