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May 7, 2013
Glimcher Gets Some Fresh Air

The Glimcher Realty Trust pipeline is filled with open-air centers. "We're seeing a lot of opportunity in the market and even our own portfolio with open-air right now," said Michael P. Glimcher, chairman and CEO, Columbus, Ohio-based Glimcher.

Over the last three years, Glimcher has acquired five properties. Four were open-air. Today, open-air centers account for about 20% of the company's 29 properties.

Recently, Glimcher shared his insights about open-air and enclosed centers with Chain Store Age contributing writer Michael Fickes.

May 7, 2013
Tips for Managing In-store Mobile Devices

Here are some recommendations from Alan Dabbiere, chairman of AirWatch, for in-store mobility management:

• For corporate-shared devices, retailers should take into consideration how to reconfigure devices when they transfer from one employee to another.

April 1, 2013
Google launches Shopping Express pilot

Google made a quiet announcement that it is officially launching the pilot of its Google Shopping Express program, which features online delivery initially in the San Francisco Bay area.

March 15, 2013
Focus on: Landlord-Tenant Social Networking

Manners mistress Emily Post wouldn’t recognize today’s social skills.

Communication styles have changed, with the once-mandatory handwritten thank-you note supplanted by a tweet or a family email blast. These days, good table manners are far less important than proper posting protocol.

March 14, 2013
Google tops list of 10 most influential brands

Google came out on top, followed by Amazon and Apple, in a new survey by market research company Ipsos called “The Most Influential Brands in the United States 2013.”

January 18, 2013
Study: Brands and retailers have most followed pages on social media

Brands and retailers have the most followed or “Liked” pages on social media, according to WSL/Strategic Retail.

January 17, 2013
OfficeMax forms partnership with Go Daddy

OfficeMax is joining forces with Go Daddy, a leading Web hosting and domain name provider.

December 7, 2012
Webinar: Keeping Up With the Consumer —2012 Black Friday Recap

Chain Store Age will hold a webinar on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT) that will examine email marketing trends for Black Friday 2012 and how marketers used email to promote store shopping and events during the holiday weekend.

December 4, 2012
Mrs. Fields to debut new store at Arista Place

Mrs. Fields Cookies said it will open a new location at Arista Place, located in Broomfield, Colo.

October 24, 2012
Survey: 90% of retailers to offer some form of free shipping for holiday

Free shipping offers will abound this holiday season, according to Shop.org’s eHoliday survey conducted by BIGinsight.

October 2, 2012
Google: Mobile-friendly sites sought out by consumers

Smartphone and Internet users actively seek out and prefer to engage with mobile-friendly sites, but such sites must meet certain expectations in order to convert users from visitors to consumers, according to a Google study conducted by independent market research firms Sterling Research and SmithGeiger.

August 30, 2012
Walmart.com using new search engine with semantic search technology; seeing 10% to 15% increase in completed purchases

Walmart announced a new search engine for Walmart.com. The new engine, named Polaris, was developed by a small team within @Wamart Labs, the research and technology hub for innovation at Walmart.

December 16, 2011
Online retail sites: Prepare for a surge in China e-commerce

By Jeff Kim, CDNetworks

June 24, 2011
Is Your Site Fast Enough to Be Noticed?

By Margaret Kuchler, senior industry marketing manager, Akamai Technologies

April 4, 2011
Walgreens and Kroger report email database breach

Walgreens said a marketing and communications vendor that it uses, Epsilon, has informed the company about unauthorized access to its customers' email addresses, the Associated Press reported.

November 2, 2010
Bridging the online/offline divide: Five ways to bring online presence into your store

If you are like most retail brands, you put a significant amount of ongoing effort into managing your online presence.

September 8, 2010
Survey: Consumers will abandon slow websites

A survey released late Wednesday by Gomez, the web performance division of Compuware Corp., found...

July 21, 2010
Retailers: Get your e-mails past the judge and the jury

Retail marketers have long feared their e-mail messages being considered as spam. But who decides...

June 13, 2010
Best Buy takes step back from Internet phone business

Best Buy Co. has agreed to combine its Internet phone business Speakeasy with two California-based...

May 10, 2010
Container Store taps Trusonic for in-store music

Fluid Music Canada's Trusonic, a provider of Internet-delivered music and messaging services for retail stores,...

October 4, 2009
Best Buy Mobile introduces new mIQ mobile-Web service

Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co., announced on Monday...

October 31, 2008
Let the Self-Healing Begin

Christmas may not be 1-800-Flowers.com’s top-selling season, but the gifting retailer still needs to...

September 30, 2008
AManaged Improvement

Anna’s Linens originally transitioned to a private wide-area network (WAN) to secure its credit-card...

August 31, 2008
Sweet E-mail Dreams

As of Labor Day, retailers industry-wide began filling stores with holiday merchandise in hopes...

April 30, 2008
ANew Mix of Services

As shoppers get more comfortable shopping online, they are choosing electronic communications over the...

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