This week, PRO Group, Inc. announced that Lancaster will join PRO Group as its newest distributor member effective Jan. 1. PRO Group and Lancaster are excited about the opportunities this relationship will bring to both organizations. Over the coming months, PRO Group will be …
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Service Directs Amazon Shoppers to Local Stores
Brick-and-mortar retailers have the opportunity to snag online shoppers in a new way—with a service called PriceLocal. PriceLocal is a web browser extension that works with Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers to search local stores for products sold on Amazon. The company launched nationally last …
Read More »Bernzomatic Offering Scholarships for NRHA Training Program
Worthington Cylinders, parent company of Bernzomatic, recently launched a campaign to sponsor four scholarships for NRHA’s Retail Management Certification Program (RMCP) in 2016. The Bernzomatic Find Your Fire Retail Management Certification Program Scholarship campaign was launched earlier this month to …
Read More »Orgill Shares Insights Into Tyndale Advisors, CNRG
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 …
Read More »Lowe’s Uses Vine to Share How-to Tips
Many retailers are looking for new, creative ways to engage today’s millennial customers online. Moving beyond basic Facebook and Twitter use, companies are finding platforms that consumers may already use to attract a new audience for their products and services. Lowe’s has taken …
Read More »Are Robots Taking Over Retail?
Robots are trending as retail employees, and a new model can be programmed to rapidly check an entire store’s inventory. This new robot on the scene is called Tally, and is the creation of Simbe, a San Francisco startup company, according …
Read More »New Lumber Liquidators CEO Tapped for Turnaround
After about nine months of public scrutiny and a leadership overhaul, Lumber Liquidators has named a new CEO to lead a company turnaround. The new CEO, John Presley, was chairman of the lumber discounter’s board of directors and will remain a …
Read More »Orgill to Relocate World Headquarters
Orgill, Inc. has announced it will be relocating its headquarters to Collierville, Tennessee, which is a suburb of Memphis. The company will construct a new 100,000-square-foot office building to house its worldwide headquarters. Construction is expected to begin in 2016. The company …
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