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Black Friday Turns Servers Dark at Wal-Mart, Macy’s
Two key e-commerce leaders—Wal-Mart and Macy’s—found themselves shut out of the online portion of the holiday sales rush for much of Friday, as their sites…
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Consumers Punishing Physical Stores for Sins of Online Counterparts
Retailers for years have argued that their online and offline operations should be seen as one. A recent survey suggests customers are viewing them as…
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Reports Differ on Self-Checkout Value
A report due out Oct. 17 from the IHL Consulting Group sees grocers aggressively moving to upgrade to self-checkout systems, even before they replace or…
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Circuit City Parts Ways with Its CIO
One of retail’s most important IT executives—Circuit City CIO Mike Jones—has left the $11.6 billion chain, with the chief IT job going to his VP…
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Bin Laden Webmaster Arrested
Early Tuesday morning, reports started circulating that German police had arrested a man they had accused of being Osama bin Laden’s webmaster. It was at…
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Boeing Makes Item-Level RFID Fly
As retailers and consumer goods manufacturers struggle with achieving the supply-chain nirvana of complete item-level tagging, $60 billion aerospace giant Boeing has gotten item-level RFID…
