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New York -- Digital sizing station company Me-Ality said Monday that Bloomingdale’s has partnered with Me-Ality to provide enhanced denim services by installing digital sizing stations in five Bloomingdale’s stores. Designed to match shoppers with their...

Using a single channel-agnostic inventory to support store-based fulfillment, Urban Outfitters is also making its overall inventory more productive.

The March jobs report is out and it's ugly. By far the ugliest component of the report was retail trade jobs, which plunged by 24,000. "The industry had added an average of 32,000 jobs per month over the prior 6 months," wrote the Bureau of Labor...

The March jobs report is out and it's ugly. By far the ugliest component of the report was retail trade jobs, which plunged by 24,000. "The industry had added an average of 32,000 jobs per month over the prior six months," wrote the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its report. "In March, job declines occurred in clothing and clothing accessories stores (-15,000), building material and garden supply stores (-10,000), and electronics and appliance stores (-6,000)."

Women favor shopping online, and have a big influence over what men buy. The second annual SheSpeaks/Lippe Taylor Women's Buying Behavior Index surveyed 2,152 women over the past two months to get a pulse on buying habits and forecast purchasing trends of American women.

Shoppers at a Target store in Brooklyn say a label that listed the color of a plus-size dress as "manatee gray" was insulting. The label for the same dress in smaller sizes described it as "dark heather gray." Target apologized for the label. Michelle Ho, shopping at the store at Atlantic Terminal Mall, told the New York Post that Target was "putting down one set of people over another" with the different labels.

Former MillerCoors marketing executive Rick Gomez recently was picked to head up Target’s owned brands and packaging teams, the retailer said.

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Someone's head was inevitably going to roll after lululemon's see-though pant scandal last month, and it looks like the company has found its fall guy: Chief Product Officer Sheree Waterson will depart on April 15 after nearly five years with the retailer, WWD reports, even though it sounds like technically she was doing her job. lululemon admits that the fabric in its signature Luon pants passed testing standards, but says a combination of factors led to the sheerness. 

The Wet Seal Inc. announced on April 1 promotions for two of its divisional merchandising managers. Kim Bajrech, was promoted to senior vice president, general merchandising manager of apparel. Since 2009, she served as vice president, divisional...