Today in Retail Business History Commercial Television Was Born - Today's Retail Technology Moving Quickly With or Without Retail Participation (BBY)
Monday April 30, 2012
Today is a significant date in both business and retail history because on April 30, 1939, U.S. commercial television debuted at the New York World's Fair, with the help of ... Read More
May Day Retail Industry Earnings Preview - News Affecting Expectations for Avon, Big 5, Nutrisystem, Office Depot, Papa John's, PF Chang's & True Religion (AVP, BGFV, NTRI, ODP, PZZA, PFCB, TRLG, AMZN)
Monday April 30, 2012
A busy month of May U.S. retail industry earnings reports begins on Tuesday, as seven retailers will be kicking off the earnings season with May Day earnings releases. Here ... Read More
Special Toyota Plant Tour Shows Quality Commitment to Analysts, Toyota Service Team Proves Service Commitment to Customer (TM)
Monday April 30, 2012
Reporters and auto industry analysts were given unprecedented access to the Toyota (TM) Motomachi auto manufacturing plant in Toyota City, Japan this past weekend so that Toyota could showcase new ... Read More
Pinterest Breaks Traffic Records and Whole Foods Leads the Way Into a Social Media Platform that the Retail Industry Can Be Happy About (WFMI)
Sunday April 29, 2012
Social media photo-sharing webiste Pinterest announced in its blog that it broke a company record on April 23rd and 24th when it experienced its highest traffic days ever. Pinterest leaders ... Read More
Retail Industry Workplace Diversity Not Recognized - Target and jcpenney Have More and Better Diversity than Wal-Mart and McDonald's? (TGT, JCP, WMT, MCD, DRI)
Sunday April 29, 2012
When the DiversityInc 2012 list of Top 50 Employers for Diversity ranking list was released recently, it was disappointing to see that there were very few companies with significant retailing ... Read More
Consumers Report Supermarket Service Failures That Led to Defections, Office Max Shreds Customer Relationship With Lack of Service Management (OMX
Tuesday April 24, 2012
Consumer Reports recently released the results of a survey which asked 24,203 of its readers to rate and give feedback about grocery stores and supermarkets. Based on the survey, ... Read More
Easter Morning Customer Service at Starbucks Is More Rare than Hunting Down Plastic Easter Eggs in a Starbucks Cup (SBUX)
Monday April 9, 2012
Stopping into a random Starbucks (SBUX) on Easter Sunday morning, I saw a handwritten sign that said "Find an Easter Egg and Get a Free Drink." When I asked ... Read More