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Home Depot Enhances Loyalty Program for High-Value Professional Customers

Retail TouchPoints

New perks include an Elite Support Line for prioritized exclusive assistance for business needs and account management services with personalized purchase support from Home Depot experts. We’re focused on serving the Pro no matter where, when and how they choose to shop with The Home Depot.”.

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Angry Birds retail cafe launches in the US 

Inside Retail

“Launching iSwii by Angry Birds is a perfect way to bring locals and Angry Birds fans back to fun in-person experiences,” said the executive director of Asset Management of SCG America, Robert Leck. In 2012, Rovio Entertainment opened an Angry Birds brand store in Shanghai, the first one outside its home base in Finland.

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How to Make the Most of Free Google Shopping Listings

Retail TouchPoints

Fortunately, not long into the crisis, search behemoth Google paid attention to these companies’ needs, announcing in April that merchants would be able to list products on its Google Shopping platform for free. And while companies would ordinarily have to pay to list their products, for the first time since 2012, they can now do so for free.

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Reinventing the phone shop: Dialling up the experience

Retail Gazette

Just a decade ago, high streets and malls were awash with mobile phone shops with a seemingly endless number of places to peruse the latest Blackberry or Samsung Galaxy. That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. As telco retailers look to become more experience-led, is this the end of the phone shop as we know it?

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How Aussie menswear brand Peter Jackson is suiting up for e-commerce expansion

Inside Retail

With one in seven Australians shopping online every day, Peter Jackson saw the need to improve its digital offering. Data will shape how we fill out the shops moving forward. It was initially a barber shop on Little Bourke Street in Melbourne and naturally evolved into menswear in the 50s and 60s. “It

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Smart Glasses – The Future of Shopping?

365 Retail

Brief history of smart glasses While the concept of augmented reality (AR) combined with eyewear has been in ideation for the past decades, it was only in 2012 that Google Glass attempted to integrate these two technologies into one. Most smart glasses are not readily available in optical shops and are more often used experimentally.

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How H&M took workforce planning to the next level

Inside Retail

The creation of H&M’s workforce planning system began back in 2012 when the company deployed Board to track the performance of individual stores. This capability was extended in 2014 to allow for basic function planning and then again in 2016 to provide dashboard capabilities for management teams. “We

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