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Mar09

Greentailing: Retail’s must-have this Spring

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

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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Feb22

Fast Company names retail’s most innovative companies

By Kathy Grannis, NRF spokesperson | Published: February 22, 2010
Posted in Retail Companies

When it comes to staying on top of the competition, retailers know all too well how important it is to have that something special that makes their customers come back again, and again. That special something can come in the form of new technology or even testing its own food products before it hits the shelves [...]

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Feb05

Retailers think outside the “box” for Super Bowl promos

By Kathy Grannis, NRF spokesperson | Published: February 5, 2010
Posted in Marketing | Research

Planning on watching the Super Bowl this Sunday but haven’t done your shopping yet? According to RAMA’s Super Bowl survey, 168 million people will watch the game, spending about 50 bucks each. Expect to be in good company at the supermarket this weekend.
Whether people are looking for bigger tables to hold traditional game fare (chips, [...]

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Feb04

Advertising gets Racie as retail finalists announced

By Ellen Davis, VP and NRF spokesperson | Published: February 4, 2010
Posted in @NRF | Marketing | Retail Companies

Who will take home the coveted Best of the Best award at the 8th annual Racie Awards Gala on March 3 in San Francisco? While that specific task will be left up to the audience at the Racies, we do know the best ad will come from one of these companies.
With more than 550 entries [...]

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Feb01

What’s hot in retail – Jan. ‘10

By Ellen Davis, VP and NRF spokesperson | Published: February 1, 2010
Posted in @NRF | Retail Companies | Retail Trends

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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Jan25

Mobile 101: A retailer’s guide

By Ellen Davis, VP and NRF spokesperson | Published: January 25, 2010
Posted in Education | Events | Marketing | Retail Companies | Retail Trends | Technology | eCommerce

I tried to count the number of times I heard retailers talking about iPhone apps, mobile reviews and m-commerce at NRF’s Annual Convention earlier this month, but I lost track once I ran out of fingers. Needless to say, mobile is a huge conversation starter in retail right now with many companies looking at ways [...]

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Jan04

What’s hot in retail – Dec. ‘09

By Ellen Davis, VP and NRF spokesperson | Published: January 4, 2010
Posted in @NRF | Events | Finance | Holiday | Marketing | Research | Retail Companies | eCommerce

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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Nov02

What’s hot in retail – Oct. ‘09

By Ellen Davis, VP and NRF spokesperson | Published: November 2, 2009
Posted in @NRF | Research

When we decided to aggregate and share the hottest items from our website, blog posts and NRF SmartBrief articles from the previous month, we learned something: we’re not the only ones who love knowing what’s popular. In fact, the September “What’s Hot” was so well-received among retailers that it was one of the most popular [...]

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Oct02

What’s hot in retail – Sept. ‘09

By Ellen Davis, VP and NRF spokesperson | Published: October 2, 2009
Posted in @NRF | Research

What Do Retailers Want? It’s a question we ask ourselves frequently. Several months ago, our rock-star Internet Strategies team (along with a little help from Google Analytics, of course), began to compile information on the most popular pages and resources on our site to get a sense of what retailers find most valuable. We [...]

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Sep14

The heat is on organized retail crime rings

By Joe LaRocca, Senior Asset Protection Advisor | Published: September 14, 2009
Posted in Loss Prevention | Public Policy

The blistering heatwave in August wasn’t the only hot item featured in news reports over the past 30 days. Across the country, we’ve seen organized retail crime rings dismantled due to the fine work of retail Loss Prevention and law enforcement professionals.
Last Friday, a couple who appeared on the Dr. Phil show were arrested by [...]

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