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Guest Viewpoint

Making sense of mobile and marketers tendencies

By Kate Berg

Because social media began as the purview of college kids and hipsters, it’s taken some time to register in the business community as a serious path to connection with customers. At the same time, the tools themselves have grown up and are now bringing real value to consumers and to the brands they love. We’re at an exciting moment of inflection, and one that smart companies are seizing with gusto. But

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Market Track

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Target News Now

Target saves Q4 with January comps increase

Target appears to have salvaged its fourth-quarter sales results with a 4.3% same-store sales increase in January to offset a disappointing 1.6% increase in December and a 1.8% increase in November ...

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Target had to know this was coming

Entry into Canada promises to be an uphill battle for Target as an announcement by Walmart Tuesday morning reaffirmed ...

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Walmart News Now

January retail roundup and the read through to Walmart
January may be the least important month of the year, as retail experts like to point out, but a sale is a sale and judging from monthly results from the dwindling number of companies who still report them, it was a pretty good month . . .
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Running as fast as they can
Walmart has made great strides with its online business and don’t think Amazon hasn’t noticed judging from the online leader’s fourth-quarter results, which reflect substantial investments in staffing and distribution capacity . . .
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