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Healthcare Reform: Threat and Opportunity for Retail

No matter where you stand on health-care reform, everyone agrees this examination of the system and some version of reform is necessary.  For retailers, health-care, how to provide it and manage costs, has long been an important consideration. Shandra Martinez wrote a significant piece for The Grand Rapids Press, detailing the health-care conundrum for retail [...]

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NRF and RILA Decide Against Merger

A couple of months ago The National Retail Federation and the Retail Industry Leaders Association came together to announce plans to merge. Today, however, they announced that talks are off and the merger is canceled.
The National Retail Federation is a 2,500 member organization of national chains, restaurants and retailers that works to “advance and protect the interests of [...]

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MZ Consumer Survey Results, NRF DESiGN STUDiO

In 2008 the American economy was buffeted by economic headwinds the likes of which have not been experience since the 1930’s,” reads the opening line of Miller Zell’s 2009 Shopper Behavior Survey. Miller Zell surveyed 801 shoppers just before the Christmas holiday to determine if the economy was impacting male and female shoppers differently. The results of the study [...]

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