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Forget โ€˜Showroomingโ€™: 77% of Mobile Retail Shoppers Buy In-Store
May 23, 2013

Don't look now, but the smartphone might end up being more friend than foe to the retail industry. According to a new study from xAd and Telmetrics, mobile now accounts for one-third of all retail activity online with 98 million shoppers using a smartphone as  their retail experience. And the vast majority of those mobile shoppers end up making

Ralph Laurenโ€™s Q4 profit jumps 35%
May 23, 2013

New York โ€“ Ralph Lauren Corp. reported a 35% jump in fourth-quarter profit as the retailer benefited from lower cotton prices. The company reported net income of $127.2 million for the three...

Can Retailers Use Twitter to Connect With Teens?
May 23, 2013

It's reverse logic time. Follow this: While virtually every teen (94 percent) in the land belongs to Facebook, most are not all that passionate about the social media site these days. On the other...

How Will Cloud Computing Change Retail?
May 22, 2013

Along with in-memory data analytics and mobile applications, cloud computing was one of the key tech trends discussed at SAPPHIRE 2013, SAP's international customer conference, held in Orlando last week. Before the reader gets bleary-eyed, this has the potential to be very important stuff that may very well shape the way retail and CPG professionals at every level make business decisions in the future.