Merchandising
August 12, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Aldo Product Services, a division of Montreal-based Aldo Group, has signed on to create a new men’s and women’s shoe and handbag collection for Target. The brand, called A+, is inspired by the core Aldo merchandise and will launch this month in all Target stores throughout the U.S. “Style is an increasingly important area of…
August 6, 2015 at 3:40 pm
Whole Foods was just kidding with that $6 Asparagus Water. After the bottles — literally three stalks of asparagus in each bottle of water — were spotted on the shelf of a Whole Foods in California earlier this week, a photo of the asparagus water posted by a customer to Instagram started trending on social…
August 5, 2015 at 5:24 pm
There’s a growing trend today in big data and merchandising based on big data-driven “nudges,” which are critical for driving and improving merchandise decisions for retailers. These machine-learned nudges alert sellers about opportunities to avoid going out of stock, add a product that’s selling and sharpen their prices to be more competitive. Nudges have also…
August 3, 2015 at 2:22 pm
Is Cosmopolitan so racy it needs to be covered up? Rite Aid and Food Lion think so. The two retailers will soon place issues of Cosmopolitan magazine behind “blinders” to shield minors from the magazine’s sexual content, they confirmed separately on Friday.
July 27, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Apple is preparing to expand the sales effort behind the Apple Watch after it was announced that Best Buy will begin selling it in its U.S. stores beginning on Aug. 7, making it the first independent retailer to stock the wearable device.
July 24, 2015 at 4:15 pm
Levi’s is overhauling its namesake brand’s entire women’s line. The company, founded in 1853, has survived the Civil War, the Great Depression, and other epochal threats, but in the last two years it’s been tormented by an enemy none of its executives saw coming: yoga pants. Comfortable and flattering at the same time, athletic pants…
July 21, 2015 at 1:56 pm
Just six months after Kate Spade shuttered its standalone contemporary line, Kate Spade Saturday, and closed down all of its Jack Spade stores, the company is ready to expand again in a huge way. WWD reports that Kate Spade has a slew of new projects in development, possibly to unhook the brand from heavy dependence…
July 20, 2015 at 3:11 pm
Gap is hooking up with some odd bedfellows these days. The struggling apparel chain is piloting co-branded makeup counters with online beauty subscription service Birchbox, and testing a free delivery service with Virgin Hotels Chicago so that guests can have Gap fashions delivered straight to their hotel room. The Gap’s new flirtation with the high-margin…
July 16, 2015 at 3:03 pm
Tory Burch has been awarded $41.2 million after winning a trademark infringement lawsuit against Lin & J International Inc., who the designer successfully proved had copied her trademarks and designs. The judgement, which was made by the US District Court on Friday, draws a line under a battle between the two brands that started in 2013…
July 14, 2015 at 2:26 pm
When a consumer searches for a product a retailer doesn’t carry, how should the retailer respond? A recent federal appellate court opinion suggested that Amazon.com gave the wrong answers to consumers searching for a watch brand that it didn’t carry. Multi Time Machine makes high-end military-style watches under brand names including “MTM Special Ops.” MTM…
