The winding down of the holiday season is no excuse to be slack in security, as recent news shows that hackers certainly aren’t taking a vacation. The latest Retail Security Tracker shares what retailers need to be looking out for as we head into the...
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A la Biff of “Back to the Future” fame, the only sure-fire way to predict the future of retail is to skip ahead a few years and take a peek at a record of stock numbers. Failing that, proactive strategies that seek the initiative through cutting-edge...
In the fight between in-store retailers and their digital counterparts for customers’ wallets, it’s more often than not the former that sets the pace with pricing and discounts. However, Staples is taking pains to make sure that it can compete — and then some —...
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Shakespeare famously wrote that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” but that poetic sentiment doesn’t quite translate when it comes to dissimilar prices on similar products. For the most part, customers don’t want to feel like superficial differences to a product,...
A vision of employees just sitting and thinking is not a mental image that fits in well with the rest of the modern workplace, which almost prides itself on being hyper kinetic. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
New Zealand is often grouped with Australia, but the nation has an impressively rising market for FinTech. Earlier this month, for instance, the nation got its fourth alternative lender: Lending Crowd. The company provides SMEs with loans of up to NZ$200,000 (about $137,000) and has...
Under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is required to enforce rules written into the law that require lenders to collect data on their small business lending processes. But the CFPB has yet to actually do so, meaning data that analysts saw...
