Jan16
“This guidance is as clear as mud,” said Thomas L. McCally, Esq., equity member of the Washington, D.C. law firm Carr Maloney P.C. discussing the implications of the April 2012 guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on employers’ use of criminal background checks. The Retail’s BIG Show session, “The EEOC Crackdown on Criminal [...]
Jan15
During a members-only luncheon on Tuesday at Retail’s BIG Show, the National Retail Federation took time to honor John C. Mahaney Jr., president and CEO of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, for leadership to the retail industry spanning more than 60 years. Mahaney was awarded NRF’s J. Thomas Weyant Lifetime Achievement Award for his commitment to the industry [...]
Jan13
According to today’s panelists at the standing-room only session, “The Ultimate Retail Supply Chain Machine: Connecting the Consumer to the Factory,” the modern supply chain needs a “radical streamlining” that fully integrates production with purchases in an effort to help retailers and manufacturers operate their physical and information supply chains as one. The panel, which [...]
Dec27
As the nation’s shipping community, from auto manufacturers and farmers to retailers and truckers, prepares for the highly anticipated supply chain disruption this coming Sunday, December 29, there is an 11th hour move – orchestrated by Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service – designed to bring the union and management together one last time to avert [...]
Dec19
At 12:01 AM on Sunday, December 30, 2012, 15 container ports along the East and Gulf Coast– stretching from Maine to Texas – will immediately shut down if an agreement isn’t made between the International Longshoremen’s Association, who represent the dockworkers, and the United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd., who represent the terminal managers. The two [...]
Oct31
The National Retail Federation has a first-class government relations department dedicated to defending and pursuing the retail industry’s public policy priorities and interests. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Recently, two of NRF’s government relations staff were named tops in their industry. For the second consecutive year, The Hill newspaper named [...]
Oct10
National Retail Federation President and CEO Matthew Shay joined U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, Business Roundtable President John Engler and National Association of Manufacturers President Jay Timmons for a Leading Authorities’ “Conversations with Power” panel discussion on the 2012 elections, the economy and the looming “fiscal cliff.” The executive-level conversation centered on the [...]
Sep12
Just as the Shop.org Annual Summit has grown in strength and popularity over the past ten years – increasing ten-fold from just 400 attendees in 2002 to over 4,000 in 2012 – the online retail industry has boomed as well. E-commerce has grown from a $40 billion dollar industry in 2002 to an anticipated $225 [...]
Sep12
At long last…the two political conventions are over. While the two party conventions were vastly different in style, substance, tone and rhetoric – the one, unifying voice heard in the halls at both conventions – was the voice of retail. At the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina, Costco Wholesale Corp. co-founder and former CEO [...]
Aug02
Small business owner David Broyles owns and operates two jewelry stores in his native state of West Virginia. Broyles also serves as chairman of the West Virginia Retailers Association. So he knows the industry, and he knows it well. In a letter to the Senate Commerce Committee Chairman and West Virginia Senator John D. Rockefeller [...]
