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Spend your Christmas time well with this game-changing e-commerce platform

Inside Retail

It gives small and medium businesses easy access to an all-in-one e-commerce platform that seamlessly connects their business with shoppers, providing an enjoyable customer experience that keeps them coming back. StoreConnect e-commerce was designed to deal with this sort of challenge.

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Meet the rising star of the week, Jade Cameron, LSKD

Inside Retail

This is where I started to develop my passion for being customer-focused. But also something not many people know is from this job, I had a sneaky passion and love for merchandising stores! I try to bring this to life as much as I can to have the biggest impact on our customer experience. She is customer-obsessed.

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Dollar General Hit with $1M More in OSHA Fines, Bringing Total Since 2017 to $15M

Retail TouchPoints

The location also had boxes and merchandise stored in an unsafe manner, exposing workers to struck-by hazards. OSHA’s investigation in Columbus, Ga. found Dollar General’s Victory Drive location also exposed workers to fire and entrapment hazards by locking an emergency exit door.

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

Retail TouchPoints

Goldsby: Well, the best return is the one that doesn’t happen, but you can’t stiff-arm customers — providing a bad customer experience is not a good idea. On the other hand, ultra-liberal return policies are fine for the customer experience, but they’re really expensive.

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IRDC 2021 Kicks Off with Keys to Surviving “Digital Darwinism”

VMS

DENVER — The 21st annual International Retail Design Conference presented by VMSD magazine kicked off on Tuesday, welcoming a throng of visual merchandisers, store designers and retail executives to the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel for the two-day conference.

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NRF: Retail Sales Rose 17.7% YoY in March as Recovery Accelerated

Retail TouchPoints

Results in other categories included: Sporting goods stores: Up 23.5% YoY; Furniture and home furnishings stores: Up 5.9% YoY; Building materials and garden supply stores: Up 12.1% YoY; Online and other non-store sales: Up 6% month-over-month, up 30.7% YoY; Electronics and appliance stores: Up 10.5%

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NRF, Census Bureau Report Continued Retail Recovery In August

Retail TouchPoints

Individual sales results from the retail sectors NRF examined for August include: Clothing and clothing accessory stores: Up 2.9% unadjusted year-over-year; Furniture and home furnishings stores : Up 2.1% unadjusted year-over-year; Building materials and garden supply stores: Up 2% month-over-month seasonally adjusted and up 11.9%.