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In 2009, the Indian retail industry topped the barometer of ‘Global Retail Theft’ making shoplifting and employee theft as biggest causes of retail shrinkage. In 2010, more than Rs 9,295.9 crore were lost to shoplifting and theft by Indian retail...

When two of the world’s top retailers make signifi cant changes in their operations to combat out-of-stocks (OOS), you know it’s a big problem. Both Walmart and Target have made recent news headlines because they’re cutting down on product...

According to Credit Suisse analysts led by Eugene Klerk, with a current market cap of $390 billion, Amazon is now worth more than the top eight traditional brick-and-mortar retailers combined. The note by the analysts' goes on to say that the Seattle-based retail...

US online sales surged on Black Friday, with Amazon.com Inc offering the steepest discounts among e-commerce sites as it set the agenda for what has traditionally been the biggest shopping day of the year for brick-and-mortar retailers. Though in-store customer...

Target Corp announced on Monday that it had named Shekar Natarajan for the newly created role of senior vice president, network planning and operational design. Natarajan will oversee design of the company's direct-to-store and direct-to-customer supply chain systems and report...

Imagine walking into a store and being greeted by a robot who will not just welcome you with a polite smile but will also fetch items from your shopping list for you, advise you on fashion choices or simply meander through aisles, taking inventory. Sounds like a...

This holiday shopping season, department store operator Kohl's is planning to hire more than 69,000 seasonal workers in the United States. Kohl's hired almost equal number of employees last year as well. It has been supporting Target's decision to keep...

Recently online marketplace Snapdeal unveiled its new logo and tagline, Unbox Zindagi (or Unbox Life), with an aim to position itself differently in the hyper-competitive e-commerce business. The new branding is well-supported by a campaign that will appear in the form...

There are many things that make a brand valuable to consumers in this day and age. Apart from significant revenue generation, price, reputation, availability, core company values and engaging brand marketing can make all the difference in propelling a brand...

The world's biggest and most successful retailers have converted challenge into opportunity in astonishing numbers and Indian brick-and-mortar retailers - feeling the heat from e-tailers - are taking notes on how their American counterparts have converted first-mover retailing insights into a robust Omnichannel strategies. Indiaretailing Bureau presents some...