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RadioShack’s same-store sales and gross margin fell markedly in the first quarter, as the retailer put CFO Dorvin Lively in charge of its growing but currently unprofitable store-within-a-store relationship with Target.

In traditionally product-centric organizations, merchandising and marketing typically have the same goals, but different processes, applications and databases. This makes it nearly impossible for retailers to create and execute the kinds of multitouch campaigns needed to reach and influence consumers today.

A Gamefly executive at the Mobile Shopping Spring Summit said the company has passed the tipping point with mobile email opens.

/PRNewswire/ -- DITTO, an eCommerce site for designer eyewear that uses patent-pending 3D virtual fitting technology, today announced that it has closed $3 million in financing led by August Capital. Angel investors, friends and family also participated in the round. DITTO.com is a website that allows consumers to record a short video with their webcam to create a 3D virtual self, or "DITTO." Users can virtually try-on eyewear in 180-degree views to see how a particular style looks and fits their face before they make a purchase. DITTO.com also integrates social media features, allowing the user to post side-by-side

South Florida Business Journal A congressional investigation into Wal-Mart Stores’s alleged bribery of Mexican officials broadened to include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S. Chamber of Commerce Latest from The Business Journals Follow this company and the Retail Industry Leaders Association Retail Industry Leaders Association Latest from The Business Journals Follow this company , the Washington Post reported. At issue is work done by the groups and giant retailer to lobby for amending the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bans

Times have evolved from analog to digital for everyone except my mom. Even my grandmother is more technologically-savvy than my mother. Sorry mom. A string of usually charming emoticons and abbreviations simply won’t do the trick when speaking to my mom. HSIK what 2 get mom 4 Mother’s Day? WWMD?! How can I begin to thank her for everything she’s done, in a language we both understand?

Aaron’s Inc. (NYSE: AAN) The Atlanta-based electronics, furniture and appliances rentals retailer reported its first-quarter profit jumped 60 percent following a $35.5 million reversal of accrued lawsuit expense. During the first quarter of 2012, the company settled a lawsuit with a former Aaron’s associate who claimed she was sexually harassed by a former co-worker in 2006. It took a $36.5 million charge in the second quarter of 2011 as an accrual for the judgment and associated legal fees...

Sears Holdings Corp. will add 52 Scrubology stores -- a "store-within-a-store" that sells apparel and footwear for health professionals inside Kmart and Sears locations  -- by the end of this month.

On Monday, Amazon, the Seattle-based online retailer launched AmazonSupply.com, a site that sells such products as radiation detectors for environmental testing, industrial cutting tools, janitorial and sanitation materials and office supplies.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. stepped up damage control on Tuesday as its shares sank for a second day and the reverberations continued from the retailer's admission that it was investigating allegations of bribery by its operations in Mexico.