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The iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and plenty of other Apple products are no doubt great devices, but the greatest invention of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs may well have been the Apple retail store. The way they're designed, organized and run has played a part in elevating the status of gadgets themselves.

/PRNewswire/ -- Under Armour, Inc. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110127/NE37387LOGO ) First quarter apparel net revenues increased 23% to $283 million compared with $230 million in the same period of the prior year, driven by balanced...

DDI has been heralding the latest retail store design ideas since 1988 and has become a trusted source for all things retail. When DDI first appeared 20 years ago, the market was right for a magazine that focused on the retail environment. DDI has grown to become the retail design resource for store design concepts and a trusted guide to retail design ideas. DDI carefully chronicles the changes and focuses on the things that generate a buzz the world over in the retail industry.

Apparel retailer Maurices has debuted a new mobile application designed to enhance its customers’ in-store shopping experience. The app, introduced by AT&T and developed using Digby’s Localpoint mobile platform, allows the retailer to set virtual perimeters around its stores. Once a shopper has the app on their smartphone, and accepts the use of location information, Maurices can send them timely messages and offers via a push notification, alerting the user to noteworthy news about the specific store location as soon as they enter. 

Best Buy Co. has announced the members of its CEO search committee. The company said the committee will oversee a global search process to identify internal and external candidates, including current interim CEO Mike Mikan.

Toronto -- Sears Canada, Inc., an arm of Sears Holdings Corp., said Friday it has completed the transaction with landlord The Cadillac Fairview Corp. to return three stores for $170 million. The stores – located in Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa – are slated to be exited by Sears as of Oct 31, 2012. The agreement between Sears and the landlord was first announced in March.

The media and advertising giant WPP is taking a big step into e-commerce and how it can use it to leverage its other digital investments. WPP announced that it's investing $7 million into the grocery comparison shopping site mySupermarket, part of a $10 million round that also includes participation from existing investors Greylock and Pitango.

New Mexico Business Weekly Related: Retailing & Restaurants Ryan Sharrow | Staff One of Urban Outfitters' T-shirts, the Philadelphia Inquirer notes, "bears a symbol that critics said resembles a Star of David patch that Jews in Nazi Europe were forced to wear during the Holocaust." The company is drawing heat over the apparel. In recent months, clothing sold by Urban Outfitters has offended the Navajo Nation and Irish-Americans. Now one of the company's T-shirts, the Philadelphia Inquirer notes, "bears a symbol that critics said resembles a Star of David patch that Jews in Nazi Europe were forced to wear

Wal-Mart announced this week the nomination of Google executive Marissa Mayer to its board of directors. Mayer, 36, joined Google in 1999 as its first female engineer and 20th employee and quickly ascended the executive ranks, first as vice president of search and now as vice president of local and maps. She also sits on Google’s operating committee, an elite group of executives that oversees every critical product launch and decision. It’s not difficult to see why Wal-Mart would want Mayer. She's a minor celebrity as a young, self-described “geek” succeeding in a male-dominated field.

Los Altos, Calif. -- Survey results released Thursday by catalog shopping app Catalog Spree showed that 89.8% of American shoppers would prefer to receive their catalogs digitally and would opt out of the paper versions if they could receive a digital copy instead. The survey also revealed that more than half (55.1%) of respondents would prefer all of their catalogs in digital form. Today, some 19 billion catalogs are mailed in the United States each year. “The annual costs of producing print catalogs are astronomical on many levels,” said Joaquin Ruiz, CEO of Catalog Spree. “Catalogs often represent the