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Dozens of the nation’s largest retailers including Macy’s, Amazon.com and Home Depot have quickly moved to disassociate themselves from new discount retail website Jet.com. The retailers complained to Jet after discovering it had placed links to their sites without permission, promising its own members cash back for making purchases after clicking the links. A comparison of Jet’s…

J.C. Penney has hired two executives with online and supply chain experience from Home Depot and Target. Michael Amend becomes executive vice president of omnichannel beginning Tuesday. Amend comes to Penney from Home Depot, where he was vice president of online, mobile and omnichannel and worked with Ellison. Mike Robbins, formerly the senior vice president of global…

Home Depot said Wednesday that it agreed to acquire Jacksonville, Fla.-based Interline Brands Inc., a national distributor and direct marketer of broad-line maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products, for $1.625 billion in cash, subject to customary adjustments. The acquisition has been approved by the shareholders of Interline. It is expected to be completed during The…

eBay appointed an executive from The Home Depot to lead its North American marketplace. Harry "Hal" Lawton was most recently Senior Vice President of Merchandising for the retailer.

The question isn't if your company will be the victim of a data breach, but when. Those were the sobering words of Martin Einstein, senior partner at Brann & Issacson, a law firm that represents online and multichannel companies, at the American Catalog Mailers Association's (ACMA) Forum last week in Washington, D.C. Einstein addressed the crowd of direct marketers on what they can do to mitigate their risk and exposure to a data breach, as well as how best to respond in the unfortunate event that a breach does occur. 

Security isn't always about investing in the most expensive solutions. Rather, it's about adopting strong security policies and integrating them into day-to-day activities. Consider Target's case. It had a proper compliance validation assessment with PCI Security and spent $1.6 million on a malware detection system, yet overlooked warnings about intrusion. This shows that investing a fortune on sophisticated IT security systems and obtaining compliance certificates doesn't guarantee that all data is heavily protected by default. With the amount of information obtained by organizations constantly changing and growing, a single malicious, unnoticed modification may lead to a data leak. So what can retailers do to prevent data breaches?

Offer great customer service, make sure your messaging is personalized, and have a single view of the customer are some of the best ways to create brand loyalists. These were a few of the key takeaways from a panel discussion on customer retention that took place at the eTail West conference last week in Palm Desert, Calif.

Home Depot said Tuesday it's looking to fill nationwide more than 80,000 positions for spring. Spring is the busiest season for the Atlanta-based home improvement giant as consumers focus on sprucing up their homes and lawns as temperatures turn warm. Available positions range from sales and cashiers to operations and online order fulfillment, the company said. Jobs include both permanent part-time and seasonal positions. 

Home Depot's efforts to advance tech innovation in retail will be getting a big boost from the company's latest initiative. The retailer has partnered with Georgia Tech University to create a cutting-edge research center, focused on advancing tech innovations, education and giving young talent an opportunity to grow. The new Home Depot Technology Center will allow the company to work with more than 40 startup companies housed at Georgia Tech.

Target and Home Depot's recent data breach crises have left Americans questioning the overall safety of point-of-sale (POS) transactions. They're fearful of continued credit card fraud, and with almost 100 million total people affected by the two megastores’ hacks alone, who can blame them? Many, however, view Apple's not-so-creatively-titled Apple Pay as the solution to a more secure checkout process.