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Shoppers prefer the STORE

Walmart is testing a grocery delivery service.  Shoppers can purchase a limited assortment of grocery products online and have them delivered to their door for a small fee.  Walmart is not the first player in the grocery delivery business but they definitely plan to follow their formula and become the biggest.
According to The New York [...]

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People Hate Buying Cell Phones

Brian Dunn, cheif executive at Best Buy, admits that their cell phone department is, “not the top-performing area in our stores for customer experience.”  So what are they going to do? Open up to 1,000 stores dedicated to that category.
The plan is to make a move on the mobile phone market in contest with Walmart and [...]

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Green is a Missed Opportunity

Marketing Daily’s Sarah Mahoney reported on Miller Zell’s most recent shopper behavior report, The Green Scene. 
 
 

 Study: Stores Not Doing Enough to Sell Green
Sarah Mahoney, Jul 20, 2009 02:05 PM
Looks like Walmart Stores’ recent plan to develop a sustainbility index that clikcs with consumers will arrive in the nick of time: A new study finds that when it [...]

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Empty Retail a Major Eyesore

All over the country retailers have been making tough decisions — to stay or not to stay. For some the answer is obvious and bankruptcy is unavoidable. For others closing some locations and downsizing retail operations is a strategy to stay the economy. No matter the decision-making process for the retailer, the result for many [...]

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Retail Experts Weigh In on May

BusinessWeek tracked down some of Wall Street’s best retail analysts to get their opinions on the May chain store sales index released by the International Council of Shopping Centers. Walmart recently stopped releasing monthly sales data, so May was the first month that the report did not include the retail giant. The remaining retailers had [...]

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