Consumer Packaged Goods

Apple Wants Its Stores to Become 'Town Squares.' Skeptics Call It a 'Branding Fantasy.'

September 20, 2017

The Washington Post

Goodbye, Apple store. From now on, the company says, its stores are "town squares."

Target Is Hiring 40-Percent More Holiday-Season Workers Than Last Year

September 20, 2017

Los Angeles Times

Target plans to hire 100,000 people to work during the hectic holiday shopping season, up 40 percent from last year.

Opinion: Why Do Big Hacks Happen? Blame Big Data

September 19, 2017

Jathan Sadowski, technology ethics lecturer, The Guardian contributor

Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies, revealed this month that it was hacked back in May, exposing the personal data of up to 143 million people. The data accessed by hackers contains extremely sensitive information like social security numbers, birth data, consumer's names, driver's license numbers and credit card numbers.

Nordstrom Is Opening a Store That Will Serve Beer But Won't Stock Clothes

September 19, 2017

Fortune

Nordstrom is trying a smaller store on for size.

U.K. Firms Have Slavery 'Blind Spot,' Research Shows

September 19, 2017

Supply Management

U.K. firms are focusing anti-slavery efforts on foreign supply chains and overlooking forced labour at home, according to research.

Getting to S&OP Success

September 18, 2017

Logility

Home-Improvement Retailers Scrambled to Restock in Florida

September 18, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Home Depot Inc., Lowe's Co. and other home-improvement retailers are rushing supplies into Florida in Irma's wake, an effort critical to rebuilding efforts as well as their quarterly sales.

Tougher Sanctions Enacted Against North Korea

September 15, 2017

Maritime Executive

The United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed to impose tighter sanctions on North Korea this week, imposing limits on oil exports, banning the country's textile imports and access to gas liquids, and more closely inspecting cargo ships going in and out of its ports.

A Guide to Selecting a WMS Vendor

September 13, 2017

Commonwealth Supply Chain Advisors

Hospital Tracks Equipment With RFID-Enabled Shelving

September 13, 2017

RFID Journal

Tokyo's St. Luke's International Hospital has completed a pilot of RFID technology to track the movement of equipment. The facility found that the technology identified stock levels at each of its wards in real time, and reduced the number of staff visits to the central clinical engineering room by approximately 55 percent.

Consumer Packaged Goods

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