Canadian Tire tries selling groceries

While I have not personally been in a Canadian Tire store, by naming convention alone, I am assuming they sell primarily tires and automotive supplies.

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Dell Starts Offering Exclusive Discounts Through Twitter

We have talked a lot about being creative and thinking outside of the box. So one of my favorite articles this week, was on Dell's Twitter initiatives. Dell has produced over $1 million in sales through Twitter sales alerts.

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Retailers overhaul business as consumers pull back

Change Has Come to America are the words scrolling on the much enhanced Whitehouse.gov website launched as President Barack Obama took his oath.

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Big News from NRF's Big Show: 10 Things You Need to Know

Time to decompress from this year's annual NRF Show in New York City. I'm pleased to announce that the show was relatively well attended. While traffic was down (although not nearly as bad as predicted), the quality was definitely up.

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Shop.org's Digital Footprint at the NRF Big Show

Did you know the average Facebook user spends around 300 minutes per month on the site? Blogs are fast becoming one of the top rated tools for product purchasing information. And the CEO of Zappos has more than 2900 followers and 3200 friends on Twitter.

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More retailers offer Dec. 23 free-shipping for Christmas delivery

This goes well with the article seeded earlier on online shopping and what retailers are doing to enhance the online customer experience - in other words, drive more sales before Christmas.

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Making Sense of the 2008 Online Holiday Season

NRF just released today that 40.2% of people with last minute shopping will hit the web in the last few days before xmas and with more and more retailers offering Dec.

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CRM - The Key to New Cross-Channel Strategies

The trend toward CRM - or knowing your customer - will only get stronger as the Gen Xers enter their peak years of product and service consumption.

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Green Plans in Blueprints of Retailers

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Office Depot stakes its claim in an increasingly green world

Checking out at a favorite shoe store, I am told by the associate that they are "Going Green" -- just the fancy word for we no longer have bags. She then proceeds to punch a couple holes out of the shoe box, slaps a handle on it and sends me on my way.

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