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Innovative Ideas and Creative Execution

Fast Company recently released its list of The World’s Most Innovative Companies.  These companies were identified as illustrative of “the power and potential of innovative ideas and creative execution.”  The list of 50 companies included 7 retailers. 
 
 
The Fast Company 50: Retail
#4 Apple
#9 Amazon
#20 Zappos
#27 Nike
#33 Walmart
#41 Lego
#44 Etsy

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Retail Sales Rebound; Economists Puzzled

Today the Commerce Department reported that retail sales in January rose 1%.  This is the first increase in seven months and the biggest since November 2007.  This sounds like great news after weekly reports of retailers cutting thousands of jobs amid dismal sales.  Before the report was released at 8:30 am in Washington, economists predicted [...]

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Shoppers Are Not on a Need-to-Know Basis

It seems the Internet makes it possible to know everything you ever wanted to know and harder for companies to hide things they don’t want you to know. So with that in mind, isn’t it time to just let it all hang out?
Trendwatching.com just released, “Half a Dozen Consumer Trends for 2009.” Number 3 on the list [...]

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