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Dollar General promotes 18 executives

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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. In this role, she will continue to support DG’s store operations team, which now encompasses more than 20,000 retail stores including pOpshelf and Mexico.

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The Home Depot Promotes Insider to President and COO

Retail TouchPoints

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. The home improvement retailer also announced additional senior leadership promotions.

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Retail, POS Finance and the Quest for ESG

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In addition to the products and services they offer, retailers are reconsidering the environmental and social impacts of their supply chains, employee activity and even which partners they choose to work with in an effort to fulfill a moral obligation to their consumers — especially the younger generation.

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It’s Not Business as Usual: Achieving Retail Success in an Inflationary Environment

Retail TouchPoints

It begins at the enterprise level by making the commitment to tackle these cost increases from suppliers and make some significant changes to the way merchants approach supplier negotiations and how they make their assortment decisions. Next, retailers need to standardize the intake process. How can retailers tackle these challenges?

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Google, Accenture Deepen Relationship to Help Retailers Harness and Optimize Their Data

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Google Cloud and Accenture are expanding their strategic partnership with a series of new initiatives to help retailers modernize their businesses and transform store operations. Use cases for the initiative could include everything from product discovery to brand loyalty to regulatory compliance.

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Consumers Turn to BNPL, BOPIS to Cope with Rising Prices and Supply Chain Uncertainty

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toy industry sales increased 11% in Q3 2021 from 2020, according to the NPD Group , driven by price increases, a continuation of pandemic lifestyles and fewer promotions. Even outside of the holiday season, uptake in buy now, pay later (BNPL) services is exploding in the U.S., Stressed Consumers Spread Out Spending with BNPL.

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Retail Sales Grew 3% Over Extended Holiday Purchase Period — And the Season Isn’t Over Yet

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Contactless Services Can Soothe the Bite of Remote Returns. A poll by Inmar Intelligence found that 67% of shoppers will prefer to ship their holiday returns this year rather than bring them to a store, which will have a noticeable impact on retailers’ processing costs. So what do you do?