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Amazon Appoints Insider as CEO of Worldwide Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon has named 17-year company veteran Doug Herrington to the renamed role of CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, filling the position left vacant by former CEO of the Worldwide Consumer Dave Clark. Since 2015, Herrington has served as Amazon’s SVP of the North America Consumer.

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How Natori Used AI to Sharpen Retargeting and Achieve a 943% ROAS

Retail TouchPoints

He compared the level of interest of a consumer who had simply seen a Natori ad on social media to one who had “gone to the website, added something to their bag and abandoned the cart. That’s much more useful [data] than the first consumer. We aren’t blindly retargeting every user,” said Natori.

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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

Doug Herrington has been named CEO of Amazon’s new Worldwide Amazon Stores business, which was formerly known as Consumer, and John Felton has been named the leader of the Operations business. He launched AmazonFresh in 2007 and has served on the e-commerce company’s senior leadership team since 2011. “I

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As-a-service may be more than you think

Cisco Retail

They certainly aren’t a new way to consume technology. Cisco jumped all in on SaaS ourselves, acquiring WebEx back in 2007. And now this past decade is filled with all kinds of vendors moving full throttle to bring their solutions to market as-a-service. The difference between Network as a Service (NaaS) and a managed service.

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BJ’s Wholesale Club taps Bob Eddy as CEO

Mass Relators

He will oversee merchandising, membership, marketing and analytics. Bill Werner, currently senior vice president, strategic planning and investor relations, has been named executive vice president for strategy and development and will lead the company’s market expansion and key strategic initiatives. Eddy joined BJ’s in 2007.

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Dollar General promotes 18 executives

Mass Relators

She has held roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as vice president, human resources for DG’s retail organization since 2021 and was named to the Mass Market Retailers Most Influential Women list in 2023. She was named to the Mass Market Retailers Most Influential Women lists in 2022 and 2024.

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The Downfall of Sears, 5 Reasons Why it’s Struggling to Survive

Indigo 9 Digital

He foresaw that America’s growing railway infrastructure could be used as a way to send goods to consumers in rural communities that lived far away from stores. Consumers were finally given a way to access merchandise at much lower prices than what was available from nearby merchants. Richard Sears was a visionary. Retail stores.