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Kroger announces leadership changes

Mass Relators

He went on to serve in several leadership roles in the years that followed, including store manager, district manager and bakery director. He was then promoted to group vice president of retail operations before being named senior vice president of sales and merchandising in 2009.

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Inside the Online Bookstore Building a ‘Model for Small Businesses to Compete with Amazon’

Retail TouchPoints

Customers across the country are making a concerted effort to effort to return to their local bookstores , but when they can’t, they shop on Bookshop.org. But then, “from the years of like 2009 to 2018, I just watched Amazon start eating everybody’s lunch,” he said. We’re leveraging all these small communities.

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Retail technology for building recession resilience

I Vend

McKinsey’s research into the way that retailers managed cost reductions in the Great Recession of 2007-2009 found that ‘resilient retailers’ reduced their costs by two percentage points, while their ‘non-resilient’ counterparts increased theirs by the same amount.

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Four things you should know about the Cisco STEM Shadow Program

Cisco Retail

In return, students must commit to a regular work schedule and attend all days of the program. The shadow program started at Cisco in 2009. Employees at Cisco’s Richardson, Texas campus started the shadow program in 2009 as an inclusion and diversity initiative. The shadow program is a win-win initiative.

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Exclusive CEO Q&A: How Hand & Stone Massage Kept Growth Going Even During Shutdowns

Retail TouchPoints

Todd Leff: It was an interesting time, right at the height of the financial crisis in 2009. What are some other key management principles that have helped? RTP: Do you anticipate Hand & Stone will be able to return to a growth mode as we move past COVID-19? What attracted you to the company?

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Vestiaire Collective’s fast-fashion ban: clever or counterproductive?

Inside Retail

The number of promotions and the average discount applied during the year, which she considers as incentives to overconsume. If the company is promoting more than 100,000 SKUs at any one point in time, which she considers to be overproduction. The renewal rate of fashion collections and their average time online.

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Who is Peter Ruis, the man tasked with reviving John Lewis?

Retail Gazette

Ruis rejoins John Lewis after a 10-year absence this week and replaces Naomi Simcock, who has been leading the business on an interim basis over the past year and has now been promoted to operations director. He returned the business to profit, weaning the chain off discounting, reinvigorating its product and restoring its brand power.