Paint, plywood, drill bits and duct tape are stylish to wear this year, if you hadn’t heard. Los Angeles clothing designer Scott Sternberg looked to hardware stores for inspiration for a 2015 men’s clothing collection, according to an article from Women’s …
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Here’s a suggestion for getting shoppers who check out products in your store to buy from you instead of online: use Snapchat. “A consumer walks into a store, falls in love with a product, whips out her phone, finds a lower price online, and …
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Do it Best Corp. has launched a new website designed to improve online shopping for customers and help grow sales and store traffic for the co-op’s member-owners. The new doitbest.com provides new features and tools for consumers and members, including faster and …
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After Target announced it is leaving the Canada market and closing all of its Canadian stores, another retailer offered to help the 17,600 employees who are losing their jobs. Sears Canada will be hosting job fairs and is recommending that Target employees …
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As part of its ongoing mission to help independent home improvement retailers become better and more profitable merchants, the North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) is pleased to announce that it will be offering an entirely new suite of benefits to …
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Home Depot president and CEO Craig Menear will become company board chairman in February. The current chairman and former Home Depot CEO Frank Blake plans to retire from the board role. Blake stepped down as CEO in November after seven years in …
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Imagine going to summer camp but not being allowed to speak your primary language. That experience offers the perfect setting to learn a different language, according to Lowe’s. For the past five years, employees from Lowe’s distribution centers in the U.S. have gained unique, one-week training through an immersion program. …
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The National Retail Federation’s look back on the 2014 holidays shows that combined sales from November and December beat 2013’s total by 4 percent. Holiday retail sales were $616.1 billion during the 2014 holiday season, nearly reaching predicted growth of 4.1 …
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