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Target earnings reveal sales spike as shoppers are buying more each trip
May 21, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic brought challenges for Target but the retailer's first quarter earnings reflect it also brought spikes in sales.
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Albertsons partners with Nuance Communications on engagement effort
May 11, 2020
Albertsons Companies, Inc., a U.S. food and drug retailer, is teaming up with Nuance Communications, Inc., to boost digital support to online grocery customers.
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Gap opening 800 stores by month's end
May 7, 2020
Gap Inc. is sharing its strategic plan to re-open 800 stores by the end of May starting with a small numberr of Texas locations this week.
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Navigating COVID-19: Retailers protecting employees, shoppers
In this week's HP-sponsored podcast on how COVID-19 is impacting the retail segment Retail Customer Experience contributing podcast host Bradley Cooper shares…
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At-risk shoppers are priority at Whole Foods Market
April 30, 2020
Whole Foods Market, a supermarket chain owned by Amazon, is putting the elderly, disabled and high-risk consumers to the front of the line as COVID-19, the…
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Digital shopping spurs sales for Target
April 28, 2020
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic Target is seeing healthy same-store sales with April's figures climbing 5% compared to a year ago despite a double digit…
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Target extends worker pay enhancements, benefits in response to COVID-19
April 24, 2020
Target is extending its temporary $2 an hour wage increase through May 30, as well as free back-up care and a 30-day paid leave for those 65 and older…
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Amazon hiring on once again to handle pandemic's online shopping surge
April 14, 2020
The online shopping surge due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is driving Amazon to hire on another 75,000 employees less than a month after it announced it…
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Amazon sellers get green light to send any kind of item to Amazon warehouses
April 14, 2020
One month after banning what its sellers could send to its warehouses Amazon has reversed course.
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Amazon suspends shipping non-Amazon goods
April 10, 2020
The continuing coronavirus pandemic, which has disrupted supply chains around the world, is prompting Amazon to temporarily suspend shipping of non-Amazon…
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Wayfair enjoys stock boost as COVID-19 pandemic rages on
April 7, 2020
Not every retailer's bottom line is hurting due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Target workers get masks, gloves and customers get more space
April 7, 2020
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has shuttered all non-essential retail, Target is open and operating, given its supermarket division, and is…
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Amazon deploying masks, taking workers temperature
April 6, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the U.S. and abroad Amazon is beefing up protection for its workers.
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Publix rolls out contactless pay to all stores
April 6, 2020
Publix, a Lakeland, Florida-based grocery chain, is rolling out contactless payment to all stores, including its organic GreenWise Market, as part of a…
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Ex J.C. Penney chief: Retail will have a hard time surviving COVID-19
April 3, 2020
Ron Johnson, former J.C. Penney CEO and the design leader behind Apple's retail locations, isn't at all optimistic about what's ahead for retail department…
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J.C. Penney furloughing most hourly workers starting today
April 2, 2020
Retailer J.C. Penney Co. Inc will furlough most of its hourly staff as of today, April 2, the same date it hoped to reopen stores it temporarily closed in…
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Kohl's extends temporary closure timeframe in light of COVID-19
April 1, 2020
Calling it "unprecedented times," Kohl's is extending the timeframe of its temporary store closures given the ongoing and expanding COVID-19 outbreak in the…
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Amazon Prime delivery experiencing big delays due to COVID-19
March 31, 2020
What once was overnight or even a one-day delivery wait for Amazon Prime members is now weeks to a month due to the impact of COVID-19.
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Kroger launches senior shopping hours in Georgia
March 31, 2020
Supermarket grocery chain Kroger is deeming one hour every morning as senior shopping time.
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Dillard's stores open for shoppers despite COVID-19
March 27, 2020
More retailers than not are closed temporarily given the ongoing coronavirus outbreak but one major retail brand's brick-and-mortar stores are still open to…
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