Tag: e-commerce
Will The Evolution of Retailing Change the Way We Spend Our Holidays?
With another holiday season quickly approaching, this is a time of year in which retail management is gearing up for the fast-paced frenzy that...
Amazon, Other Major Players in Retail Industry to Hire Huge Numbers of Seasonal Associates
Amazon.com Inc. recently announced that they intend to hire 100,000 associates for the 2015 holiday season. This number is a 25% increase over last...
E-Commerce Channel Sales of Counterfeit Goods Increase Significantly
A recent report by London-based Internet brand protection specialist NetNames contends that counterfeiting is becoming a huge problem due to online commerce. In 2014,...
GameStop to Buck Retail Trend by Closing for Thanksgiving
Video game retailer GameStop recently announced that their doors would remain closed on Thanksgiving Day in 2015. The decision is an attempt to reverse...
Fast Fashion and Other Retail Industry Trends May Have Contributed to American Apparel Bankruptcy...
LA-based retailer American Apparel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 5, after recent struggles with lawsuits and escalating debt. Revenue has declined...
Retail Industry Trends: American Apparel Bankruptcy
LA-based retailer American Apparel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 5, after recent struggles with lawsuits and escalating debt. Revenue has declined...
EAS Solutions: Maximizing Your Technology Investment
Today’s loss prevention executives have access to a wider, more robust array of technologies. Along with the technology selection, the procurement process is changing...
Driving Third-Party Logistics Solutions
While often viewed as simply a project-specific and labor-intensive undertaking, the actual mission of the supply-chain network is vitally strategic and tactically calculated—coordinating the...
LPRC Members Converge on Seattle to Tour Amazon and Microsoft
A contingent of twenty-five members of the Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC), representing fifteen different retailers, spent two days in early August touring one...
Tripping Over Technology
A few months ago my wife and I were sitting at home in the early evening discussing some items we needed for our home....