We are very excited to have such a great diversity of retail CEOs present at our Annual Summit.  We will be featuring Terry Lundgren Chairman, President and CEO of Macys Inc (a leading cross-channel retailer),  Dawn Lepore, CEO and Chairman of the Board at Drugstore.com (a leading pure-play retailer) and John Donahoe, President and CEO of eBay [...]

Whether in a recession, an economic boom, and everything in between, SEO has always been an area where our members are thirsty for more information on how to improve their current efforts.  For many retailers SEO can be one of the most efficient and productive sales and cost acquisition channels, and the slightest tweak to [...]

Two key themes emerged from this month’s Shop.org seminar, Going Global: Merchandising for an Overseas Customer: 1) make sure that differences in international consumer behavior drive international merchandising strategies and 2) ensure that a well- defined, yet flexible org structure facilitates the division of labor between corporate and local countries/market teams.

Shop.org Board, Miki Berardelli, Pinny Gniwisch, Brett Hurt, Richard Last, John Lazarchic, Kelly Mooney, M.J. Murphy, Bob Myers

Following up on the Back-to-School shopping update posted recently, this blog post explores how college students are progressing in the annual back to college shopping ritual. Earlier this week, the National Retail Federation released findings from its latest survey with BIGresearch on consumers’ progress when it comes to back-to-school and back-to-college shopping. (Please see also [...]