Industry Headlines – August 29, 2013
- For Stores, Email Still Beats Pants Off Social: Shoppers adamantly prefer email marketing. (MediaPost)
- Shopify, PayPal courting real-world shoppers in effort to boost retail sales: With more and more e-tailers going brick and mortar, these changes just make sense. (Financial Post)
- Retail loyalty programs add tiers to reward big spenders: Upper-tier loyalty programs give shoppers a tangible reason to stay loyal. (CNBC)
- Guildford Town Centre’s $280-million renovation driven by bid for young shoppers: The expansion gives shoppers a reason to stay local. (Vancouver Sun)
- High-end retailers stung by sluggish sales: Retail is recovering, but luxury lags. (The Globe and Mail)
- Campaign aims to make retail careers trendy: How This is Retail promotes retail as a career and not a stepping stone. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- Target’s Tech Innovation Center Begins Delivering Results: The retailer’s tech experiments may lead to more flexible retail. (Retail Info Systems News)
- Brand owners tie up with malls to escape high rentals in Mumbai, New Delhi: Landlords are running franchisee stores. Win-win? (India Times)
- May the best woman win: Two-month job interview for shopping centre boss: A look at the life of the interim director of the centre: MK (Milton Keynes Citizen)
- Target has a twin in Australia, but they’re not related: Ever notice that Target in the US and Target in Australia have nothing to do with one another? Here’s why. (Star Tribune)
- London’s first outlet village to kick off new era for retail: The city may be overpopulated when it comes to shopping centers, but outlets may have a shot. (Telegraph)
- Ala Moana Center owner General Growth names Hurwitz, Kingston to board: They replace John Schreiber and Cyrus Madon. (Pacific Business News)
- Pinterest poised to pin down retail revenue: Why retailers love the scrapbooking site. (USA Today)
- Holiday harbingers: Layaway at Wal-Mart, price-match at Toys R Us: Time to get out the Christmas lights? Retailers are starting their holiday preparations. (Los Angeles Times)
