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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia filed a notice of appeal in a lawsuit by Macy's in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Bloomberg reported. Macy’s sued Martha Stewart Living in January to stop the company from executing a sales agreement that it announced in December with J.C. Penney. Macy’s said it had the exclusive right to sell Martha Stewart-branded products in certain categories. Last month, a judge in Manhattan granted Macy’s a preliminary injunction blocking Martha Stewart Living from taking any further steps under its deal with J.C. Penney. 

It's safe to say that retailer Club Monaco was slow in getting into the social media space. Although the company had both a presence on Twitter and Facebook in 2010, it hadn't yet developed an actual social strategy. Posts on Facebook weren't in sync with its posts on Twitter to tell the brand's story. Last year, it aimed to change that, implementing a strategy to develop a global community of brand ambassadors on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and Pinterest. The goal: to skew a bit younger and encourage fans to not just engage with the brand, but also promote it to their friends.

The New York Times recently ran an article detailing how F-commerce is doing. For anyone in need of a refresher, F-commerce was one of those ideas everyone was really excited about when it first popped up back in 2009, but it never really took off. Gap, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom and ASOS all shuttered their Facebook boutiques shortly after launching them. (We did an informal reader survey on the topic back in February: the majority of the 100-plus responders had never heard of F-commerce.) The Times is now reporting that although larger brands have bombed, small businesses are benefitting.

BURLINGTON, ON — Ikea Canada has given its 2013 catalog an interactive makeover. When holding a smartphone or tablet over a page, users are able to access films about Ikea products, experience 3D models, look behind closed doors with an x-ray function or...

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 6.3% in August compared with the same month last year, and 2012 should show an increase of 4.8% over last year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report...

Almost half of smartphone owners use shopping apps on their mobile devices, and eBay and Amazon are among the most popular, according to research conducted by Nielsen. The 45 million American smartphone owners who used shopping apps in June 2012...

Specialty retailer Express expects to have its first stores in Latin America open by year end. The operator of 600 U.S. stores catering to customers in their 20s and 30s has identified international expansion as a key growth driver. The company, through one of its subsidiaries, entered into a franchise agreement with Fastco Commercial S.A. to open more than 30 stores during the next five years in markets that include Panama, Peru, Costa Rica, Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

New York -- Macy’s Inc. is rolling out a new order fulfillment system that lays the groundwork for same-day delivery services by leveraging the proximity of its physical store locations to its customers, according to a report on the Huffington Post. To date, 280 stores have been outfitted to provide shipping services. Online retail giants Amazon and eBay are moving in the same direction, the report said.

The National Retail Federation (NRF), in partnership with its member companies, has launched the Integrated Mobile Initiative (IMI), a first-of-its-kind program that will serve as the single source for information about the challenges and opportunities that exist within mobile retailing. The initiative is being led by the NRF’s Senior Vice President of Communities and Executive Director of Shop.org Vicki Cantrell, with cooperative support and involvement from an external task force of retail companies and solution providers. The IMI aims to further strengthen the NRF’s message that policies which hinder innovation will inhibit retailers from catering to consumers across the world.

Hoffman Estates, Ill. -- Sears Holdings said Friday it has again been selected to participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. For the third consecutive year, Sears will participate in the competition, this year entering 56 facilities that will compete against thousands of other teams representing buildings across the country. All efforts will be focused on eliminating waste through improvements in energy efficiency with help from EPA's Energy Star program. "This year, we are dramatically increasing the number of facilities which we have entered into the competition and are looking