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Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal by , Web Producer Related: Retailing & Restaurants Select Comfort Corp. Shelly Ibach, CEO of Select Comfort Web Producer- Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal Email | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn Michael Bills, who has more than 20 years of experience developing integrated marketing strategies for global brands, has been named chief marketing officer at Select Comfort Corp. Select Comfort Corp. Latest from The Business Journals Maplewood Mall adds Teavana, Torrid, Cotton On and other tenantsPublic firms spending pent-up cashSelect Comfort CEO McLaughlin gets pay raise, as

Does eBay monopolize payments through its PayPal unit? Sellers filed a class action lawsuit claiming it does. Courthouse News reports that a judge rejected eBay's motion to dismiss the lawsuit in an unpublished order Tuesday. The report appears to be referring to the Smith v eBay lawsuit filed in April 2010 in which eBay seller Charlotte Smith sued eBay over its policy that forces sellers to use its PayPal online payment service.

Orlando Business Journal Family Dollar Stores Inc. has entered into a multi-year agreement to provide Redbox kiosks at its locations across the country, the Charlotte Business Journal reports. Details of the agreement with Bellevue, Wash.-based Coinstar Inc. Coinstar Inc. Latest from The Business Journals DBJ Weekend Tech Watch: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, AppleCoinstar among U.S. companies making big hiring push Follow this company (Nasdaq: CSTR) were not provided. Coinstar is the parent company of Redbox. Redbox offers games and video game rentals through the kiosks. Family Dollar (NYSE: FDO), which

Eddie Bauer announced that Michael R. Egeck has been named its President and Chief Executive Officer. Egeck was most recently CEO of Hurley International LLC, a leading marketer of action sports and youth lifestyle apparel, and a division of Nike, Inc. David Chamberlain, Executive Chairman of Eddie Bauer who has served as Interim CEO since February, will remain a member of the companys board of directors. 

The Boston-based private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Party City Holdings Inc., Rockaway, N.J., in a deal valued at $2.69 billion.

Dollar General Corp. on Monday reported a 36% jump in quarterly profit and raised its expectations for the year as its momentum continued. Dollar General earned $213.4 million in the fiscal first quarter ended on May 4, up from $157.0 million a year earlier. Sales rose 13% to $3.9 billion. Same-store sales increased 6.7%. Dollar General is starting off 2012 with strong performance in the first quarter due to excellent same-store sales growth of 6.7%, representing the fifth consecutive quarter of accelerating improvement,” said Rick Dreiling, chairman and CEO.

A magazine for teenage girls will try, joined by marketers and retailers, to add another “special” day to the American marketing calendar already crowded with celebrations both real (Christmas, Halloween) and fanciful (Black Friday, Cyber Monday).

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If you're hoping to get a customer service question answered via Twitter, there are two retailers among the top 25 that are 100 percent reliable, a STELLAService study found. STELLAService analysts tweet customer service questions to the top online retailers each day. Looking at those interactions, it's clear that most top online retailers have yet to commit to Twitter as a channel for addressing customers’ questions.