House-Hasson Hardware is moving to stop issuing checks, invoices, and statements to its vendors and dealers. Not in the mail, anyway. “We’re phasing in a program we call ‘go green’ through the balance of 2015 to make all payments electronically …
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Walmart has introduced its own mobile payment platform, Walmart Pay, which allows shoppers to use QR codes to check out at cash registers and make digital payments. Walmart Pay is the newest feature incorporated into the retailer’s app, which has 22 …
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This week, The Home Depot described progress toward strategic goals and outlined long-term financial targets for the company. The retailer’s key strategic initiatives continue to be centered on customer experience, product authority and productivity, as well as new goals, according to the company. In December …
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Three home improvement retailers ranked in the top 10 of “Happiest Retail Employers,” a list generated based on employee reviews of the companies. Ace Hardware is No. 2 on the list from CareerBliss, which is a website focused on helping employees find greater satisfaction …
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The annual Cost of Doing Business Study from the North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) is the industry’s only inclusive benchmarking study and has been conducted annually for almost 100 years. The study provides detailed financial information from hardware stores, home centers …
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This year has been big for House-Hasson Hardware, which completed more new stores and remodels for dealers in 2015 than in any other year in the company’s history. House-Hasson reached store-set records for itself in 2013 and 2014, but this past …
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Orgill, Inc. has been one of the industry’s fastest-growing distributors over the last several decades. During this time, the Memphis-based company began looking at ways it could help solve some of the challenges that it felt retailers were facing when …
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True Value Company announced its third-quarter results this week, reporting revenue and same-store sales growth. The co-op’s revenue was $365.5 million for the quarter, an increase of 4.2 percent from the same period in 2014. Destination True Value comparable store sales …
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