Category Archives: Sustainability

Mar09

Greentailing: Retail’s must-have this Spring

By Kathy Grannis, NRF spokesperson | Published: March 9, 2010
Also posted in Education, Retail Companies, Retail Trends |

After a very white winter and with spring around the corner, it naturally makes sense that I would notice all the “green” happening around me. Everywhere I turn there’s another sustainable project in the works or an eco-friendly fashion line being launched. Greentailing is officially “in”.
In addition to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, reducing energy levels in [...]

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Jan13

How sustainable is your company?

By Jennifer McNally | Published: January 13, 2010
Also posted in Education, Events |

James Dion presented the brand-new Sustainable Retailing Scorecard this morning in his session, Measuring Sustainability: Presenting the Sustainable Retailing Consortium Scorecard.
You can find the scorecard and many more resources at www.nrf.com/sustainability.
The scorecard, which Dion acknowledged is a work in progress, allows companies to determine how they’re doing with regard to sustainable practices, and then come [...]

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Jan12

What is the consumer attitude toward sustainability?

By Jennifer McNally | Published: January 12, 2010
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Consumer buying trends are shifting toward sustainability and green products and labels, according to the results of a study cited by Will Ander and Laura Ann Brown of McMillan Doolittle in the session “The Consumer Response to Sustainability.” Kevin Hagen of REI also illustrated examples of sustainability at work within REI.
Consumer perceptions and consumer behavior [...]

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Jan11

Wal-Mart exec discusses the first step toward sustainability

By Megan Conniff | Published: January 11, 2010
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What’s the first step for retailers who want to get started with environmental sustainability? What kinds of approaches are necessary? Whose buy-in do you need? Wal-Mart’s senior vice president of sustainability, Matt Kistler, addressed all of these questions and more at Monday’s super session entitled “Sustainability in Retail — Increasing Profitability and Impacting the World.”
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Jan11

Reinventing retail design with the environment in mind

By Megan Conniff | Published: January 11, 2010
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Over at the DESiGN STUDiO, high above the rest of the conference, attendees gathered to listen to Deloitte’s Scott Bearse and JCPenney’s Jim Thomas discuss green remodeling. Bearse offered a general overview of sustainable retailing and its benefits, including reducing operating costs, improving the customer’s shopping environment, engaging and retaining talent, increasing customer loyalty, tax [...]

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Jan10

What’s the ROI on sustainability?

By Jennifer McNally | Published: January 10, 2010
Also posted in Events |

That’s the question Rajiv Malik, VP Old Navy Global Production & Old Navy Outlet, and Ken Bonning, EVP, Logistics, Kohl’s Department Stores, tried to answer in their session, “Green” Your Supply Chain and See Earnings Go from Red to Black.
Sustainability is an integral part of both their companies’ strategies, and Malik and Bonning advocated the [...]

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Jan10

What’s happening today? Check out the Show Daily

By Ellen Davis, VP and NRF spokesperson | Published: January 10, 2010
Also posted in Education, Events, Retail Companies, STORES magazine |

For the first time this year, STORES’ Show Daily has gone digital.
Today’s edition, which is being passed out on shuttle buses from hotels and distributed onsite, features an article on retail sustainability, an outline of new products being released at the Show, guidance from a new white paper on security issues retailers should take into [...]

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Jan07

Ten things you (probably) don’t know about Retail’s BIG Show this year

By Ellen Davis, VP and NRF spokesperson | Published: January 7, 2010
Also posted in @NRF, Education, Events, NRF Foundation, Retail Companies, STORES magazine |

Thousands of people come to Retail’s BIG Show year after year, but this year there are changes even the die-hards haven’t heard about. After the pre-Convention meeting for NRF’s staff, held earlier this week, I made a few notes on things that even the tried-and-true attendees might not know yet. Read on:
#1: What recession? This [...]

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Dec01

What’s hot in retail – Nov. ‘09

By Ellen Davis, VP and NRF spokesperson | Published: December 1, 2009
Also posted in @NRF, Holiday, Loss Prevention, NRF Foundation, Public Policy, Research, Retail Companies, Retail Trends |

For many of us at NRF, these past few weeks have been all holiday, all the time. (Remember back to September and October, when that wasn’t entirely the case?) From the looks of the items that were most popular on NRF’s website in the month of November, I’d wager that thousands of people at retail [...]

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Nov04

Sustainability expert Wendy Evans discusses “Greening Retail”

By Sarah Rand, Director, NRF | Published: November 4, 2009
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Next time you go shopping, take a minute to see how many different and unique reusable bags other customers are toting around.  These days, it’s not just grocery retailers offering an assortment of reusable bags.  And they all make it interesting.  Half Price Books has a “Bag Refusal Program.”  Kroger held a contest for a [...]

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