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Before Macy’s CMO Peter Sachse spoke at our Retail Innovation & Marketing Conference about creating a consistent, creative customer experience, I was prepared to hear many of the same great stories and examples that have been told like folklore in countless meetings and conferences I’ve attended for the last year. Company Chairman and CEO Terry [...]

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Macy’s Chairman, President and CEO Terry Lundgren, who also serves as NRF’s Chairman, spoke on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning about Macy’s January sales numbers, the high-end luxury market, and what it will take to get the consumer buying again. (The short answer? Jobs.)
Watch the interview below.

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With 2010 in full gear, my January highlight was watching about 18,000 of the most influential people in retail descend on the Javits Center for Retail’s BIG Show. Not surprisingly, much of January’s most popular news revolved around those four days the retail community spent together in New York (but that wasn’t everything, so read [...]

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NRF President and CEO Tracy Mullin addressed thousands of attendees this morning before a session on the retail economy – and the recovery. Below is a transcript of her remarks:

I love retailing!
I can’t think of another business that is so exciting, so rewarding, or so ripe with opportunities.
I also can’t think of another business that [...]

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For the third year in a row, the NRF Foundation and American Express hosted the aspire2retail intercollegiate challenge for budding industry executives. Here’s how it works: students from six of the top university retail programs are divided into cross-college teams, provided discipline mentors from some of the largest US retailers (think Best Buy, Macy’s, Toys [...]

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As was the case in November, many of December’s most popular pages on NRF’s website were holiday-related, but a big wave of people also headed to NRF’s Annual Convention website, whose pages garnered thousands of hits from people planning their trip to the BIG show in the Big Apple.
In the event that you managed to [...]

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Whenever the calendar turns to November, it means holiday decorations in stores, catalogs in my mailbox, and ads. Lots and lots of ads.
Because this holiday season will be extremely focused on price, it would make sense that most ads would focus on bargains, discounts and everyday low prices. But it seems that many retailers’ holiday [...]

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Nowhere is Halloween more revered than at Spirit Halloween, the largest seasonal Halloween retailer in the country. Each year around Labor Day, these stores pop up in shopping centers and malls to help trick-or-treaters with their costumed revelry and provide home décor to trick out Halloween houses. For the sake of one special day, Spirit [...]

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In a media and analyst briefing earlier today, BIGresearch’s Phil Rist and I shared ten insights of what to expect this holiday season based largely on findings from NRF’s first holiday survey. Listen in on the complete briefing, or view the top 10 below:
#1: Americans aren’t ready to declare an end to the recession. According [...]

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