Through decades of effort by labor unions and activists, retail workers in France earned the right to a day of …
Avoiding Labor Laws by Using Technology to Replace Human Cashiers
10 Tuesday Mar 2020
Tag Archives: Human Resource Management
Retailers Revamp Staffing as Fewer Shoppers Visit Stores
27 Thursday Feb 2020
To serve online or mobile shoppers, some retailers build bigger distribution centers or add more regional hubs. Others beef up …
Race and Security Meet in Lawsuit Brought Against Walmart
08 Thursday Mar 2018
There is no question that retail theft is a problem. Shoplifting, not to mention organized crime efforts to steal products …
Walmart Rolls Out Robots to Help Increase Customer Satisfaction
20 Wednesday Dec 2017
Walmart is going high-tech in an effort to automate and better serve its customers. After a successful test, the superstore …
Will Centralized Buying Make Whole Foods a More Formidable Competitor?
25 Wednesday Oct 2017
When Amazon purchased Whole Foods, everyone knew that changes were coming. A recent shift in strategy involves the way Whole …
How Can the Retail Job Market Survive the AI Revolution?
07 Tuesday Mar 2017
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. Usually in these abstracts, we focus on the benefits of these advanced technologies for retailing …
Retail Tidbit: Want to Stop Retail Showrooming? Start Training Your Staff
09 Wednesday Dec 2015
Posted in Retail Tidbits
Retail showrooming—when a customer visits a brick-and-mortar store to gather information, then purchases through another, possibly less expensive channel—is a …
Retail Tidbit: Bath & Body Works to End On-Call Scheduling
26 Thursday Nov 2015
Posted in Retail Tidbits
The saga of on-call scheduling just keeps going. Last month, we reported that, in response to pressures from the New …
Abercrombie to End Controversial On-Call Scheduling
10 Tuesday Nov 2015
Posted in Retail Tidbits
In a previous tidbit, we told you about accusations by the New York Attorney General’s office that about a dozen …
Retail Tidbit: Starbucks Leads Multi-Company Initiative to Hire 100,000 Young, Minority Workers
27 Tuesday Oct 2015
Posted in Retail Tidbits
Noting that under- and unemployment by low-income and minority workers often reflects a lack of opportunity, a broad range of …
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