LAS VEGAS, NV, 2016-Jul-07 — /EPR Retail News/ — IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced it has installed three Blink® electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at its Las Vegas, Nevada store as part of a partnership with Car Charging Group, Inc. (OTCQB: CCGI), the owner of the Blink Network and Blink EV charging…
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Paderborn, Germany, 2016-Jul-07 — /EPR Retail News/ — The technology company ameria GmbH, which focuses on software and technology development, has commissioned Wincor Nixdorf to take over the services for Virtual Promoter, a digital shop window solution for brick-and-mortar retail businesses. Wincor Nixdorf will be responsible for setup, startup and maintenance of the systems that are…
Paderborn, Germany, 2016-Jul-07 — /EPR Retail News/ — Asia Green Development Bank Ltd. now accepts EMV-based VISA and MasterCard chipcard transactions in all its ATMs, becoming the first bank in Myanmar to offer the service, Wincor Nixdorf announced today.
EMV, or Europay MasterCard Visa, is a technical specification that facilitates interoperability between chip-based credit and debit cards…
WASHINGTON, 2016-Jul-07 — /EPR Retail News/ — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that its popular FoodKeeper application has been updated to include food storage information in both Spanish and Portuguese. Now Spanish and Portuguese speakers can use the app to better understand storage recommendations for 400+ items covered by the tool, including…
San Jose, California, 2016-Jul-06 — /EPR Retail News/ — eBay has joined forces with the International Trade Centre (ITC) – a joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations -- to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries to take advantage of the opportunities offered by global digital commerce.
eBay’s Vice President for Greater Europe, Eben Sermon,…
ALTOONA, Pa., 2016-Jul-06 — /EPR Retail News/ — For the past 24 years Sheetz For The Kidz has set out to provide support, hope, joy and happiness to children within the communities in which Sheetz operates. Sheetz For The Kidz is an employee run 501 (c)(3) charitable organization that raises funds to support the Sheetz For…
London, 2016-Jul-06 — /EPR Retail News/ — From Tuesday 5 July Waitrose is to become the first supermarket to sell own label products through British Corner Shop, the online store that delivers British food to customers worldwide.
It will enable Waitrose to enter entirely new territories from the 138 countries British Corner Shop regularly ships to, including…
CHICAGO , 2016-Jul-04 — /EPR Retail News/ — Potbelly Sandwich Shop will open its doors at 1240 Carl D. Silver Parkway, Fredericksburg, Tuesday, July 8. This will give area residents the chance to experience the lively, neighborhood hangout that makes Potbelly Sandwich Shop “The Best Place for Lunch.”
Desirae Mills is the general manager and has been…
Baskin-Robbins also launches delicious new USO Patriot Pop® flavor, new July Flavor of the Month, OREO® Birthday Cake, and offers free Waffle Cone upgrade with the purchase of a double scoop throughout the month
CANTON, Mass., 2016-Jul-04 — /EPR Retail News/ — July is National Ice Cream Month and Baskin-Robbins is celebrating all month with the…
Partnership with industry’s premier adventure bike manufacturer broadens co-op’s line of adventure touring, backcountry, and fatbikes
SEATTLE, 2016-Jul-04 — /EPR Retail News/ — REI, a national specialty outdoor retailer and the nation’s largest consumer co-op, and Salsa Cycles, bikepacking innovator and bicycle manufacturer, plan to make Salsa-brand bikes available to REI members and customers at select REI…
SEATTLE , 2016-Jul-04 — /EPR Retail News/ — To celebrate the 100th birthday of the National Park Service (NPS), REI is offering its members and customers a collection of limited-edition NPS-branded gear from a variety of outdoor brands. Commemorative products include packs, tents, trekking poles, hammocks, patches and T-shirt from REI, Osprey, CamelBak, ENO, Pendleton,…
CINCINNATI, 2016-Jul-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — To show support for our heroes – service members, their families and veterans – The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) family of stores today released a thank you video as part of its summer-long Honoring Our Heroes campaign, which continues in stores through July 19th.
Customers can show their support and…
London, 2016-Jul-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — Waitrose's Italian continental meat supplier has been awarded the prestigious Good Pig Award 2016 by Compassion in World Farming, in recognition of its work to raise farm animal welfare standards.
Traditionally, animal welfare standards for continental meat have lagged behind those of British meats. However, a long term partnership between…
Amsterdam 2016-Jul-02 — /EPR Retail News/ — Eperium has been appointed Intershop Platinum Partner at the annual Partner Executive Event. Eperium was founded sixteen years ago and took the strategic choice to work with Intershop back in 1999. This made Eperium the first Intershop Business Partner in the Netherlands. Since then, Eperium has progressed to supplying…
Mississauga, ON, 2016-Jul-02 — /EPR Retail News/ — Walmart Canada today announced the appointment of Lee Tappenden, Chief Operations Officer, Walmart Canada to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, Walmart Canada, effective August 15. Tappenden joined Walmart in 1996 and has held a number of global leadership roles with the company, including Chief Merchandising…
AUSTIN, Texas, 2016-Jun-29 — /EPR Retail News/ — Whole Foods Market customers, team members, supplier sponsors and online donors raised a combined $3.26 million to alleviate global poverty during the company’s 2016 Prosperity Campaign for Whole Planet Foundation this spring.
Every dollar raised will go to support the foundation’s work to fund micro credit for poverty relief…
New York, NY, 2016-Jun-29 — /EPR Retail News/ — Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the nation’s largest retail bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that Get Pop-Cultured with Barnes & Noble (www.bn.com/getpop-cultured), a month-long celebration of pop culture with special events customers won’t want to miss, is…
Mississauga, ON, 2016-Jun-29 — /EPR Retail News/ — Walmart Canada today announced the appointment of Lee Tappenden, Chief Operations Officer, Walmart Canada to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, Walmart Canada, effective August 15. Tappenden joined Walmart in 1996 and has held a number of global leadership roles with the company, including Chief Merchandising…
SEATTLE, 2016-Jun-28 — /EPR Retail News/ — Nordstrom, Inc. announced the launch of a Tesla Gallery at its store at The Grove in Los Angeles, Calif.
The Tesla Gallery, featuring the revolutionary Tesla Model X, opened to the public on Saturday, June 18 and is scheduled to run through the remainder of 2016.
Located in the Men's Department on…
LONDON, 2016-Jun-28 — /EPR Retail News/ — The John Lewis Partnership has today relaunched the John Lewis and Waitrose Business Account Card to offer customers an enhanced and more convenient service as part of a renewed focus on its B2B operations. This follows the relaunch of John Lewis for Business, the retailer's B2B arm, last year…
Marietta, Norcross and Riverdale high inventory Super Hubs support increased delivery to more than 134 regional locations
ROANOKE, Va., 2016-Jun-28 — /EPR Retail News/ — Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP), a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider in North America, announced the opening of three Super Hub stores serving the Atlanta Metro. They are located in Marietta, Riverdale…
Retailer grows Meijer Curbside service in Southeastern Michigan to 14 stores; will offer 33 locations in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois by end of year
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, 2016-Jun-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — With another four Detroit area stores unveiling Meijer Curbside in the past few weeks, Meijer is continuing a big push this summer to…
HAMBURG, 2016-Jun-26 — /EPR Retail News/ — Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into an agreement to acquire dgroup, a German-based consultancy that delivers end-to-end management consulting services to help companies achieve digital transformation. The acquisition will increase Accenture’s digital consulting capabilities in the German market and strengthen the broad range of services Accenture provides to support digital transformation,…
Announces Store Expansion Plans for Remainder of the Year
Phoenix , 2016-Jun-26 — /EPR Retail News/ — PetSmart Inc. today announced that it has opened 12 net new stores in the U.S. and Canada for the quarter ending May 1, 2016. PetSmart’s continued expansion of its store footprint in key markets in the U.S. and Canada is…
From today, the brand has a special Maternity collection
Barcelona, 2016-Jun-25 — /EPR Retail News/ — MANGO, which aims to dress women for every moment of the day, launches a new collection for expecting mothers under the name of Maternity Collection. Available from today, this new collection will go on sale in 158 selected stores distributed across…
EROSKI es el único distribuidor de alimentación que ofrece el servicio de compra online en el conjunto de las Islas Baleares tras extender este servicio a Formentera
El servicio de súper online de EROSKI está disponible ya también en la Comunidad Valenciana, donde cubre por completo el área metropolitana de la capital del Turia
El…
Seattle-based Wild Ginger Kitchen selected as new store’s ‘Friend of 365’
AUSTIN, Texas, 2016-Jun-24 — /EPR Retail News/ — 365 by Whole Foods Market™, the new evolution of grocery stores from Whole Foods Market, announced today that its third location will open Sept. 14, in Bellevue, Washington. The new store will be located in Bellevue Square (300…
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Jena, Germany, 2016-Jun-23 — /EPR Retail News/ — Hippo is pleased to announce the signing of a solution partner agreement with Intershop, a leading independent provider of enterprise solutions for omni-channel commerce. Intershop, headquartered in Jena, Germany serves more than 300 companies around the world with its solutions for modeling sales processes.
Partnering with…
Hangzhou, China, 2016-Jun-22 — /EPR Retail News/ — Kaola, the e-commerce and cross-border platform of Chinese Internet services leader NetEase, Inc., and Rakuten, Inc., operator of Japan’s largest Internet shopping mall Rakuten Ichiba, today announced the signing of an agreement to partner on a strategic collaboration to bring the best of branded Japanese goods to Chinese…
Croix Cedex, France, 2016-Jun-20 — /EPR Retail News/ — Building on the annual flow of 420 million physical clients and 170 million connected customers, Auchan Retail France and Immochan create IMEDIA CENTER: an innovative multi-media advertising agency that offers a new way of thinking and organizing advertising campaigns in the world of retail.
Officially presented on 9 June 2016, IMEDIA CENTER…