May20
| Also posted in Retail Careers |
“You are going to make our future,” NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay told the Wittenberg University graduating class last week – and he couldn’t have been more right. Of the 1.7 million college students graduating this year with a bachelor’s degree, the retail industry might find the next Mark Zuckerberg, or Terry Lundgren, or [...]
Also posted in: Retail Careers Tagged Matthew Shay |
May13
Not long ago, retail loss prevention was focused on catching shoplifters. But over the course of the last couple decades, the profession has evolved along with the entire industry. Effectively countering cyber crime, organized retail crime, workplace violence and other increasingly complex threats means loss prevention executives are more than a physical presence in a [...]
May01
When it comes to searching for retail industry data, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the multitude of sources, reports and websites that exist. Do you go to the Census Bureau website for sales data? Or should you visit the Department of Commerce? What if you want to know how many employees worked in department [...]
Apr29
Earlier this month, we introduced our series on the evolving careers of retail loss prevention leaders, asking Dan Faketty of Winn-Dixie to share his career story. To get another perspective for our second installment, we asked the same of another stand-out leader from our LP Advisory Council, Keith White. White is the senior vice president of loss [...]
Apr24
The retail industry is always changing, always evolving. That’s what we love about it, right? But the always-changing technology and the need to quickly adapt new customer engagement techniques means employee training is of greater importance – particularly at the store level. STORES focused on this very topic a few weeks back. They hosted a [...]
Apr18
As we’ve been talking about all week here on the blog, the retail industry offers some unique and fascinating careers. With our Loss Prevention Conference and EXPO coming up in June, we decided to talk to some of our Loss Prevention Advisory Council leaders for a three-part blog series on the evolving careers of LP leaders. We’ll cover three [...]
Apr17
| Also posted in Retail Careers |
The rumors are true – many young people just don’t see retail as a viable career. Four out of five young adults aren’t considering or pursuing careers in the retail industry, and this rate is even lower among those holding a college degree. Why is this a problem? As NRF president and CEO, Matthew Shay, [...]
Apr10
The US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey – you’ve heard of it of course, but what the heck is it, and how can it help your company? While it’s not meant to be a secret, the study has done quite a good job at staying under the radar as the “secret weapon” for more than [...]
Also posted in: Research | Retail Careers Tagged Mercer |
Mar26
Steve Jobs was quoted in a Forbes article a few years ago giving an executive at Disney a piece of advice: “Dream bigger.” Here at NRF, we’re always encouraged to “think big,” and we always try to deliver big. Another record-setting year at Retail’s BIG Show can attest to that. At the NRF Foundation, NRF’s [...]
Mar07
If you could ask a retail CEO one question about your career, what would it be? That’s the framework for which our team approached the CEO panel at our inaugural student program at Retail’s BIG Show and – happily – that strategy did not disappoint. When we started planning the event several months ago, our [...]