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April 16, 2013

Industry News: Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores – April 2013

Personnel Updates: American Eagle Outfitters has named Kitty Yung to the position of Exec VP, President of Asia Pacific. The...

By Natasha Perry

April 15, 2013

Industry Updates: Discount and Specialty Stores – April 2013

Personnel Updates: Advance Auto has named George Sherman President of the company as part of its effort to simplify company...

By Arthur Rosenberg

April 15, 2013

Industry Updates: Grocery, Supermarket, and Convenience Stores – April 2013

Personnel Updates: Ahold USA has named Paul Scorza, a 30-year veteran of IBM, as its CIO. Associated Wholesale Grocers announced...

By Brian List

April 12, 2013

Walgreens Locations in Colorado Obtaining Solar Power

Walgreens has announced plans to expand its renewable energy initiative to Colorado. SolarCity, a provider of clean energy solutions, will...

By Brian List

April 11, 2013

Menards Growing Through An Interstate Bigger Box

For years the top three retailers listed in Chain Store Guide’s database of Home Center Operators and Hardware Chains have...

By Arthur Rosenberg

April 11, 2013

Eighty Years Later and Still Goin’ Strong…

In 1933, Irving Slobod published The List of Restaurant Chains, a compilation of a few hundred restaurant operators across the...

By Linda Helman

April 10, 2013

Insight Special: JC Penney – Ron Johnson’s Gone, So It’s Back to The Future?

An Insight posted here last week noted the rather drastic, 97% pay-cut imposed on Ron Johnson by JC Penney’s board...

By Arthur Rosenberg

April 10, 2013

Company Snapshot: Lilly Pulitzer Inc.

Lilly Pulitzer, named after the founder and designer herself, started in 1959 in West Palm Beach, FL. The company’s bright...

By Natasha Perry

April 9, 2013

Point of Sale Snapshot for Retail and Foodservice

Chain Store Guide’s Databases of Retail and Foodservice Technology are designed to help users identify the technologies currently implemented in...

By Matt Werhner

April 8, 2013

Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Experiment Flops Big Time in the U.S.

Some are calling it one of the largest failures in modern supermarket retailing, if not the largest ever. Tesco came...

By superadmin

April 8, 2013

Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Experiment Flops Big Time in the U.S.

Some are calling it one of the largest failures in modern supermarket retailing, if not the largest ever. Tesco came...

By Brian List

April 4, 2013

A Letter of Admission and An Act Of Admonition From JC Penney

Worse, quarterly financials consistently reflected the sharp negative reactions to the new policies at JCP.

By Arthur Rosenberg

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