Top of The News
by Thom Forbes
The Children's Place will pay $76 million for rights to the Gymboree, Crazy 8 brands; Gap Inc. shelling out $35 million for company's Janie and Jack line. Read the whole story
RETAIL
by Sarah Mahoney
With fewer people shopping, same-store sales dropped 1.6% at Nordstrom's full-price stores in its fiscal fourth quarter. Read the whole story
ECOMMERCE
by P.J. Bednarski
Amazon is discontinuing its Dash buttons, the tap-to-reorder device that consumers could use to replenish household staples. Read the whole story
AUTOMOTIVE
by Tanya Gazdik
More than half (53%) of respondents said it's very important or important to have their smartphone with them while shopping for a car. Read the whole story
FOOD
by Karlene Lukovitz
Montages featuring happy couples in playful, fanciful scenarios build on themes of Tic Tac mints campaign launched last fall. Read the whole story
FINANCIAL SERVICES
by Tanya Gazdik
The campaign shows what can happen when you choose a plumber, tattoo artist or others with less-than-stellar reviews. Read the whole story
by Laurie Sullivan
The move online aims to help the company lower all vehicle prices by about 6% on average, Tesla wrote in a blog post. Read the whole story
by Chuck Martin
The layoffs were detailed in a letter to the California Employment Development Department, as reported in the "San Francisco Chronicle." Read the whole story
by Ray Schultz
Fewer than a third of all small businesses are now using voice technology, Uberall reports. Read the whole story
COMMENTARY
by Ray Schultz, Columnist
Email marketers are tripping over themselves trying to reach millennials and Gen-Zers -- who should be targeted by life events, not by age. Read the whole story
COMMENTARY
by John Barker, Op-Ed Contributor
It's Employee Appreciation Day. Forty percent of my team is comprised of millennials and this Gen Xer is learning from them. And I'm grateful. Read the whole story