You know those big name brands that seem like industry giants? Well, most of them started on Main Street. From Sears to J.C. Penney to Best Buy and Walmart, each of these brands’ beginnings stem from entrepreneurs with small beginnings, big dreams and great business plans. During the Main Street Retailing Forum held as part [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Green is the new black in retail. And it has been for years. More than ever these days, shoppers are paying attention to businesses that choose to make sustainable choices when it comes to product development, community initiatives, business practices and even retail models. According to Edelman’s Good Purpose survey, “at least monthly” purchases of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just over two years ago, NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay announced his strategic plan for NRF. In that plan was a creation of an executive staff that would enhance the organization’s visibility among policymakers in Washington and retail executives around the world. Among those named to that executive team was Vicki Cantrell, chosen to [...]
Though the threat of a major port strike was recently averted, retail executives continue to face mounting challenges in managing increasingly complex global supply chains. To explore what’s next for the retail supply chain executive after a tense few months of port strike talk, we consulted with Larry Bergman, senior vice president of supply chain [...]
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 [...]