| January 20, 2012 | News for the retail industry |  |  | |
- Lucky Brand remodels with an eye for the details
Every little design and display detail of Lucky Brand's year-long store revamp has been carefully planned, down to which bracelets to show with which outfits, says CEO David DeMattei. Shoppers aren't expected to notice the careful planning, though. "We don't want it to look like a science. We just want it to look relaxed." The Wall Street Journal (1/19)      | Industry Watch |  |  | | - Gap brings back former executive as creative adviser
Gap has hired former executive Tracy Gardner as an adviser to help develop women's merchandise lines at its creative center in New York. Gardner left Gap for J. Crew in 2004. "She was widely regarded as having a hand in the past success of both Gap and J. Crew," said Caris & Co. analyst Dorothy Lakner. Bloomberg Businessweek (1/19) - H-E-B takes aim at Texas weight gain
H.E. Butt Grocery said it will invest $20 million to lower prices for healthful food and provide health screenings, cooking demonstrations and other activities aimed at helping people in Texas lose weight and get fit. "We want to dispel the myths that healthy food costs more, it's hard to prepare and it doesn't taste as good," said Corporate Health & Wellness Coach Suzanne Parker. American City Business Journals/San Antonio (1/18)  | The Business Platinum Card® from American Express OPEN
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  - Apparel prices saw slight December decline
Retail prices on men's and women's apparel fell slightly in December from the previous month, as merchants used deep discounts to court cash-strapped consumers, but year-over-year comparisons reveal higher prices in both categories, according to the Labor Department. Apparel prices rose 4.6% in the month compared to December 2010. Women's Wear Daily (subscription required) (1/19)  | Consumer Insights Your Brand Needs to Know: Latest Trends in Behavioral Advertising
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 | Retail Technology | | | | - 3 new technologies that could change shopping habits
A slew of new technology tools were on display at Retail's BIG Show and the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month, and some have the power to change the way consumers shop, writes Devora Rogers, global business development director at Shopper Sciences. Among them: virtual dressing rooms, mobile wayfinding tools and microelectro-mechanical systems that make product packaging smarter. Advertising Age (tiered subscription model) (1/19) - Card.io launches new mobile payment app
Card.io has created a consumer-facing app that operates in a similar fashion to Square but doesn't require users to attach anything to their smartphones. Card.io lets users register their credit card information by scanning the cards with their smartphone cameras. TechCrunch (1/19) - 4 ways to mitigate the impact of Postal Service cutbacks
Cutbacks at the U.S. Postal Service could be troubling for small-business owners, but it is possible to overcome the difficulty, Stephanie Faris writes. The Postal Service's website can serve a variety of functions that once required a trip to the Post Office, including calculating shipping costs, she notes. Allowing your customers to pay you online can also decrease your reliance on the Post Office. SmallBizTechnology.com (1/19)  | How to Get the Package You Need—Without Breaking the Bank
A robust benefits package can be the difference between someone choosing to work with you versus a more established competitor. But with the cost of benefits rising each year, providing a benefits package that helps you attract, retain and motivate talented people gets harder all the time. Download, 5 Ways To Manage The Rising Costs of Benefits. |
| NRF News | | | | - Clinton to retailers: "I could have been one of you"
Former President Bill Clinton, in fact, is among the millions of Americans who found their first jobs in retail. As he opened a Monday Super Session at Retail's BIG Show, Clinton quipped, "I could have been one of you," explaining that his first job was at age 13 working in an Arkansas grocery store. The teen-aged Clinton also launched his first business venture as a micro-retailer, convincing the grocer to let him sell comic books on the side -- feeling "like a millionaire" after grossing about $100 on a collection of vintage issues but realizing now that they could have sold for thousands. Read more. Retail's BIG Blog (1/20) - Proof tablets are here to stay
As quickly as retailers were asking themselves how to optimize for those tiny little smartphone screens, along came tablet devices with -- comparatively speaking -- oceans of space to fill. It turns out, consumers use their tablet and smartphone devices for different purposes and in different ways. Little surprise, then, that designing for tablet devices is a distinct discipline, as mobile veteran Stephen Burke of Resource Interactive explained in the Shop.org First Look Track "Designing with the Tablet Consumer in Mind" session. Read the recap. Shop.org Blog (1/20)
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