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Walmart Adds Two Global Governance Leaders To Support Financial Services

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Emma Waddell will join the company as vice president of financial services compliance, while Joe Rodriguez will serve as lead counsel of financial services, per news from the retailer. “As Waddell will provide support and guidance to financial services compliance leaders across all of the company’s operating markets, including Walmart U.S.,

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Retailers Look To Digital Technologies After Beating The Street

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Retailers and retail landlords are reporting strong first-quarter earnings results, beating analysts’ expectations in many cases. But mall owners and operators are occupied with a different focus: what to do with closing anchor tenants that once filled valuable space in their malls. billion, according to news from Retail Dive.

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Party City Buys Franchise Locations For $31 Million

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Building up a retail brand can be a tough task to take on. The franchising industry allows any person who is approved by the main retail company to license out the use of its name and products. The franchising industry allows any person who is approved by the main retail company to license out the use of its name and products.

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How Clandestina (Literally) Snuck Into The US Market

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There are many, many retailers and brands trying to outfit the world, and standing out in the crowd is difficult. The brand became the first to launch a website for U.S. And so, Clandestina exports its ideas — T-shirt designs — to a contract T-shirt printing operation in South Carolina called Frenzy.

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Nordstrom Tempts Millennials With Snapchat Presence

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“Improving engagement” has become just another platitude in retailers’ back pockets as they figure out which channel of the increasingly fragmented online world they should focus on, but Nordstrom may have struck gold with a new Snapchat-centered production. The final video was seen 6.7

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Can Sam’s Club Use Mobile Payments To Get Rid Of The Checkout Line?

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The wholesale retailer’s new Scan & Go Feature may be aiming to make standing in line a thing of the past. Now operational in a new Sam’s location in Columbia, South Carolina, the new mobile payment option allow a Sam’s customer to scan UPC codes on items directly into their phone’s Scan & Go app.

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US Liquor Sales Rise, But Not Enough To Offset COVID-Related Global Revenue Decline

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Diageo isn’t the only alcohol brand facing tough times in the pandemic. billion write-down related to its African operations, and Heineken took a 550 million ($654.3 He said small labels would also suffer as retailers picked larger brands to stock their shelves because those are easier to get. million) euro write-down.