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eBay launched a new celebrity landing page that aggregates celebrity content, charity auctions, and the breadth and selection of related products unique to eBay.

Paul Fredrick announced the launch of a smartphone-optimized website that creates a rich and unique mobile shopping experience for consumers whether at home or on the go.

Target is out with a beast of a holiday toy catalog that weigha in at 52 glossy pages that employs a variety of incentives to promote sales in advance of Thanksgiving weekend. Nothing unusual about that or the fact that the publication features all sorts of cool products and high quality photography that is sure to have kids drooling if parents make the mistake of leaving the thing lying around. Of course that might be preferable to buying the wrong toy and risking disappointment so Target has employed some interesting wrinkles to simplify holiday gift giving. For example, the

With most holiday season merchandise already on its way to store shelves, import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports has started to decline for the fall, and November is forecast at 1.9 percent below the same month last year.

Italy-based fashion brand Bottega Veneta opened a women’s-only store in New York on Nov. 5, according to www.wwd.com. Situated at 849 Madison Ave., the 2,000-sq.-ft. store represents a new retail concept that segregates the sexes. Standout design features include walls covered in suede, door handles sheathed in leather and a pair of leather sofas that were designed in collaboration with high-end furniture company Poltrona Frau. The store also includes glass shelves atop ready-to-wear fixtures dramatically suspended from the ceiling that hold a single pair of shoes. SAVE | EMAIL | PRINT | MOST POPULAR | RSS DDI's RetailDesignDiva

IBM’s Coremetrics Benchmark report says that mobile retail traffic will more than double this holiday season. During this year’s November holiday season, an unprecedented 15 percent of people in the U.S. logging onto a retailer’s website are expected to do so through a mobile device, says IBM.

Social media isn't just about connecting people with people. It's also about selling people stuff. The launch of Google+ Pages is an attempt to make that social network more useful for businesses, allowing businesses and plus users to connect via Google Hangouts and to +1 businesses and so forth.

Urban Outfitters announced a series of management changes across all its brands, including naming David W. McCreight to the new position of CEO, Anthropologie Group, effective Nov. 15.

David Friedman, president of marketing for Sears Holdings Corp., will leave the company in January to “pursue other opportunities,” according to a Reuters story. Friedman has held the post slightly more than a year. David Friedman, president of marketing, Sears Holdings Corp., chairman Edward Lampert, Monica Woo, FreshDirect, vice president and chief marketing officer, Mark Snyder, chief marketing officer, Kmart, Terry Brophey, vice president of integrated marketing communications, Imran Jooma, financial services, pricing, Sears online, corporate marketing

Footwear retailer Foot Locker worked with Lumacoustics to develop interactive software that allows customers to design and customize their own New Era hats on 32-inch touchscreen monitors in-store. The screens, which are situated in the New Era display area in the Foot Locker store, offer a blank hat template for users to “paint” on designs and pictures using a wide variety of different colors and stencils. Foot Locker visitors can also browse through New Era’s history and other information. The screens are currently being trialed in Milan, Paris and London stores, where initial consumer feedback is showing the system