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The Home Depot Promotes Insider to President and COO

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A 20-year veteran of the company, Decker has served as EVP of Merchandising since 2014. As the company’s chief merchant, he has been responsible for all store and online merchandising departments, merchandising strategy, services and vendor management, marketing and in-store environment.

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Dollar General promotes 18 executives

Mass Relators

Dollar General has promoted 18 executives to new roles at the company. Leslie Allen Leslie Allen has been promoted to senior vice president, human resources. Christine Connolly Christine Connolly has been promoted to senior vice president, corporate secretary and assistant general counsel, securities and governance.

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“We are expanding rapidly”: ShopBack Malaysia GM Eddy Han

Inside Retail

In February, ShopBack, a shopping, rewards and payments platform, partnered with Sunway Pyramid, a mall in Malaysia, on the ShopFiesta event to reward shoppers with promotions and giveaways. Shoppers were able to make purchases at a discount and split their payments into three instalments.

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Combat Inflation’s Impact by Streamlining Conversational Commerce Channels

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for Q1 2023 — the first period with no online sales growth since the Index debuted in 2014. And how are you giving them a value-added product or service for being loyal to you? Another opportunity is for field service technicians and reps that now have upsell opportunities that they [can complete] with customers in person.

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

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And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process. For example, a customer can scan a 2D barcode on a package of pasta sauce and instantly view ingredients, allergens, recipes and promotions. alongside a large QR code.

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Listen Up: Copper Compression’s Voice Commerce Play is (Almost) All About Brand Recognition

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The company launched on Amazon in 2014 and now has distribution in Walmart , Target and Costco , as well as its own DTC site. The company is having fun with the process — brand sponsor, pro quarterback Drew Brees, serves as the voice of the skill, “so when you log into the skill is says ‘Hi, welcome to Copper Compression.

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Don’t be Fooled, Meta isn’t Abandoning Social Commerce — and Here’s Why

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For its part, Meta closed out 2022 with its first-ever year-over-year decline in ad revenue, and together Meta and Google (“The Duopoly” as they’re known in the ad industry) made up less than 50% of all digital ad spend last year, something that hasn’t happened since 2014. YouTube also reported an ad revenue miss in Q4 2022, with its $7.96