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Do it Best Corp. Launches New Website

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Do it Best Corp. has launched a new website designed to improve online shopping for customers and help grow sales and store traffic for the co-op’s member-owners. The new doitbest.com provides new features and tools for consumers and members, including faster and …

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Sears Canada Suggests Target Workers Apply for Jobs

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After Target announced it is leaving the Canada market and closing all of its Canadian stores, another retailer offered to help the 17,600 employees who are losing their jobs. Sears Canada will be hosting job fairs and is recommending that Target employees …

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NRHA Acquisition to Enhance Retailer Benefits

As part of its ongoing mission to help independent home improvement retailers become better and more profitable merchants, the North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) is pleased to announce that it will be offering an entirely new suite of benefits to …

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Home Depot CEO Taking Over as Chairman

Home Depot president and CEO Craig Menear will become company board chairman in February. The current chairman and former Home Depot CEO Frank Blake plans to retire from the board role. Blake stepped down as CEO in November after seven years in …

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Lowe’s Managers Focus on Spanish Immersion

Imagine going to summer camp but not being allowed to speak your primary language. That experience offers the perfect setting to learn a different language, according to Lowe’s. For the past five years, employees from Lowe’s distribution centers in the U.S. have gained unique, one-week training through an immersion program. …

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Holiday Sales Totals Highest Since 2011

The National Retail Federation’s look back on the 2014 holidays shows that combined sales from November and December beat 2013’s total by 4 percent. Holiday retail sales were $616.1 billion during the 2014 holiday season, nearly reaching predicted growth of 4.1 …

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Target Closing All Canada Stores

Target is getting out of the Canada market, closing its 133 stores in the country because the Canadian division was unprofitable. Corporate leadership couldn’t develop a feasible plan to get Target Canada profitable until 2021 at the soonest, according to CEO and …

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Ex-Lowe’s Employee Files Discrimination Lawsuit

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A former Lowe’s employee has sued the home improvement company, saying he suffered sexual discrimination. Adam Haimowitz of Tallman, New York, says his frequent complaints about the discrimination weren’t taken seriously by Lowe’s human resources employees, according to an article from …

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