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Through decades of effort by labor unions and activists, retail workers in France earned the right to a day of …
Avoiding Labor Laws by Using Technology to Replace Human Cashiers
10 Tuesday Mar 2020
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Retailers Revamp Staffing as Fewer Shoppers Visit Stores
27 Thursday Feb 2020
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To serve online or mobile shoppers, some retailers build bigger distribution centers or add more regional hubs. Others beef up …
Race and Security Meet in Lawsuit Brought Against Walmart
08 Thursday Mar 2018
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There is no question that retail theft is a problem. Shoplifting, not to mention organized crime efforts to steal products …
Walmart Rolls Out Robots to Help Increase Customer Satisfaction
20 Wednesday Dec 2017
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Walmart is going high-tech in an effort to automate and better serve its customers. After a successful test, the superstore …
Will Centralized Buying Make Whole Foods a More Formidable Competitor?
25 Wednesday Oct 2017
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When Amazon purchased Whole Foods, everyone knew that changes were coming. A recent shift in strategy involves the way Whole …
How Can the Retail Job Market Survive the AI Revolution?
07 Tuesday Mar 2017
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. Usually in these abstracts, we focus on the benefits of these advanced technologies for retailing …
Retail Tidbit: Want to Stop Retail Showrooming? Start Training Your Staff
09 Wednesday Dec 2015
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Retail showrooming—when a customer visits a brick-and-mortar store to gather information, then purchases through another, possibly less expensive channel—is a …
Retail Tidbit: Bath & Body Works to End On-Call Scheduling
26 Thursday Nov 2015
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The saga of on-call scheduling just keeps going. Last month, we reported that, in response to pressures from the New …
Abercrombie to End Controversial On-Call Scheduling
10 Tuesday Nov 2015
Posted in Retail Tidbits
In a previous tidbit, we told you about accusations by the New York Attorney General’s office that about a dozen …
Retail Tidbit: Starbucks Leads Multi-Company Initiative to Hire 100,000 Young, Minority Workers
27 Tuesday Oct 2015
Posted in Retail Tidbits
Noting that under- and unemployment by low-income and minority workers often reflects a lack of opportunity, a broad range of …
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