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The Mariupol Computer Museum, which housed a collection of over 500 items related to retro gaming, is destroyed during Russian bombing in Ukraine.
Video games are still a relatively new form of media and have evolved so quickly that modern game consoles far outclass consoles released even just a decade ago. The rapidly evolving nature of games also means that once a console generation ends games typically stop releasing for that platform or to that device’s lower specifications. This means that the different eras of gaming are clearly separate and defined, making them perfect for a museum exhibit.
Gaming museums allow both novices and experts in the topic to walk through that subject’s history and see its evolution. With the subject’s history laid out clearly, visitors are able to notice the similarities and parallels across each newer piece of technology. In an age of digital media that can be removed or erased, such as the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U store closures, gaming’s history is difficult to maintain.
Unfortunately, collections that can take decades to build up can still be lost in an instant. This is what happened to the Mariupol Computer Museum, which was destroyed during Russia’s continued bombing of Ukraine. The owner of the museum, Dmitry Cherepanov, is currently safe but has lost not only his passion project of the past 15 years but also his home.
The museum collection held over 500 items from gaming and computer history, spanning back to the 1950s. Dmitry Cherepanov was not only the museum’s proprietor, but also restored many items in the collection himself. Clearly very passionate about maintaining gaming history, Cherepanov wrote in a post on the it8bit Club Facebook page “all that is left from my collection that I have been collecting for 15 years is just fragments of memories.” The war has affected many that work in the games industry because Ukraine is home to many development studios, and some of these game developers have had to flee from Ukraine.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been condemned by many companies in the gaming sphere, with some like CD Projekt Red donating to help Ukrainian humanitarian aid. Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the conflict and over three million have had to flee their homes and the country itself. The Mariupol Computer Museum’s destruction is just one in these millions of examples of people being forced to abandon their passions and their homes in order to remain safe.
Though a single gaming museum doesn’t compare to the other cause caused by an invasion of this scale, it is an example of the kind of loss that is often never heard of again once a war is over. Reparations are often paid at the end of a conflict, but a home and 15 years of work on a passion project are not something that can be compensated.
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By Mindy Ragan Wood, Staff Writer – Piedmont is gearing up for a day of food, fun, and shopping in honor of the town’s annual Founder’s Day celebrations.
A 5k race will kick off the day at 7:30 a.m. followed by the parade at 10 a.m. Ongoing events throughout the day will include live music, food trucks, games for children and inflatables and, of course, the Junklahoma flea market.
The Old Store has hosted an outdoor flea market for the last five years, and a national magazine, Flea Market Style, took note when readers voted it the best show in Oklahoma.
“We were the only outdoor show in Oklahoma to make the list so that was quite a privilege,” owner Joyce Leach said. “We are now one of the top markets not to miss this year.”
Preparation for Junklahoma begins in February.
“That’s when we start the application process. We have returning vendors who reapply. Then we open it up to new vendors on March 1. It was filled up in 15 days. We have limited space and I’m still turning people away this week that are wanting to apply,” Leach said.
The Old Store is part of the planning committee for the Founder’s Day, but Leach stays busy with her vendors. She provides water, snacks, picks up lunch orders, and ensures they have adequate chance.
Leech said the time that community members invest in the celebration is astounding.
“They’re handling the food, the trash, the porta potties. We are a small part of the big picture and that’s what makes it something that so many people come to, because it’s not just a junk show but a family event.”
Improvements to this year’s Founder’s Day include more outdoor toilets, extra parking, more handicapped parking spaces, and more trash cans to keep the town looking clean.
Junklahoma will be set up in front of the Old Store at 100 Monroe Avenue. Food trucks will be set up west of First street and along Monroe street with a few others scattered around the grounds. Games and inflatables will return this year in addition to fire department vehicles. There will be live performances by local students in the First Baptist Church gym.
Indoor vendors will also be set up inside the gym.


text: Destiny is approaching fast, and Microsoft is using the highly anticipated sci-fi shooter to highlight one of the new features for its newest console. Xbox One owners can preorder the digital version of Destiny on the Xbox Store starting today for $60. While that’s nice, Microsoft is using Bungie’s latest work to introduce “predownloading.” If you preorder the digital version of Destiny on Xbox One, you can also instantly install the game (but not play it) so that it is ready to go right as the game launches at midnight Sept. 9. Preloading is part of Microsoft’s effort to encourage people to buy more digital games. Those who want to take advantage of preloading on Xbox One can do so by heading to its online store and selecting the “prepurchase” option on Destiny. Unlike preordering a game at retailer GameStop, you have to plunk down the full amount. After payment goes through, the game will automatically start downloading. Microsoft confirmed that this will also work with certain other games in the future. Preloading isn’t a new concept. Valve introduced the concept to PC gamers through Steam several years ago. Sony has also used this feature on PS4 for certain games. Sony will also enable preloading of Destiny on its newest console starting Sept. 7. The capability to buy and download a game so that it is ready to go as soon as possible is one of the advantages of digital games. No driving to the store or waiting in midnight launch lines for something you desperately cannot wait to play. This is just the latest move Microsoft has made to bolster its digital-games service. Since introducing the Xbox One, the company has had day-and-date releases for digital versions of retail games, it has held regular sales for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, and it has even worked with publisher Electronic Arts to introduce a $5-per-month program that includes an instant digital library of that company’s games. And gamers are moving to digital. Electronic Arts confirmed earlier this year that as much as 15 percent of first week game sales are digital. Previously, that ratio rarely surpassed 10 percent.


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Restaurant Week will get participation from a record 571 eateries in all five boroughs of the Big Apple when it kicks off next week, according to the city’s tourism bureau.
It will be the first time the decades-old promotion will be a take-out only event — dubbed “Restaurant Week To Go” this year — due to the temporary ban on indoor dining in the city during the pandemic.
Many more restaurants signed on this year — the previous record was 391 in the summer of 2017 — as organizer NYC & Company waived fees to participate in the semi-annual program. Restaurants in Manhattan normally pay $2,800 while eateries in the outer boroughs typically pay $1,500, according to NYC & Company.
Last year, just 17 restaurants in the boroughs outside Manhattan participated in the program. That number has ballooned to 184 — including 78 in Brooklyn alone — for the upcoming promotion.
“Restaurants and restaurant workers need our support now more than ever,” said the agency’s chief executive, Fred Dixon in a statement. “It was important to us that all eateries across the five boroughs had the opportunity to participate.”
Participating restaurants including Babbo, Blue Smoke, Red Rooster, Pastis, Quality Eats, Mercer Kitchen and Bar Boulud are offering lunch or dinner with one side dish for $20.21.
The 29-year-old program is popular with diners who see it as an opportunity to try out restaurants that might ordinarily be out of their price range. In the past, reservations for some popular eateries could be hard to score during the promotion.
Pera SoHo, a Turkish eatery serving Mediterranean cuisine, has always participated in Restaurant Week and owner Burak Karacam says he is not stocking up differently for the delivery only promotion. “If and when we see an uptick in delivery orders we are positioning ourselves to scale up,” he told The Post. “The fee would have been very difficult to justify this year.”
RedFarm owner Ed Schoenfeld said his two Chinese eateries have already been doing a brisk delivery business. that could increase next week, he predicted. “I think Restaurant Week To Go will help everyone.”
RedFarm may serve up “a portion of fried rice and a couple of dumplings and and egg roll,” Schoenfeld said, “and for a week we can make an investment and include something sexy.”
This year the program is seen as more of an economic necessity than in years past because the low price point is generally not a profit booster for most restaurants.
MasterCard is sponsoring the event, offering pre-registered diners a $10 rebate for all orders over $20.21 while food ordering and delivery companies including GrubHub, BentoBox, Bbot and Tock are offering restaurants a discount on their fees during the promotion, NYC & Company said.


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News: 2K Games is hard at work on the next official Olympic game.
The official game of the 20th Winter Olympiad will be coming to you in video game form this January from 2K Sports.
Torino 2006 is in development for the PC, PS2 and Xbox at 2K Sports with an assist from International Sports Multimedia (ISM), "the exclusive licensee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for interactive entertainment software."
Fifteen events spread out over eight sports will be highlighted in Torino 2006. A multiplayer mode will be included for up to four players.
"We are extremely excited about Torino 2006 - the Official Video Game of the XX Olympic Winter Games. The partnership with ISM, who has many years of experience working on official games based on the Olympic Games, has uniquely provided the development team with insight to create a thrilling game," said Matthias Wehner, Marketing Director of 2K Sports International.
The XX Olympic Winter Games will take place in Torino, Italy from February 10-26, 2006.


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Last January, analysts predicted higher global food prices in 2013 because of the previous summer’s severe droughts in the United States and Russia. CIBC forecasted that food inflation in Canada would peak at around 4% in 2013. Thankfully, they were all proven wrong. Food prices have held steady as a rebound in food production helped balance supply and demand.
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Analysts expected global food prices to climb by as much as 15% in 2013, but prices have gone in the exact opposite direction. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global food prices declined 4% between December 2012 and October 2013. On a year-to-date basis, prices are down 1.2%. Most of this decrease is due to a drop in the cereal price index that includes maize, rice and wheat. Prices have also slipped for meat and vegetable oil.
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In Canada, food prices have been relatively tame in 2013. In the first nine months of the year, food inflation from grocery stores was a tepid 1.2%, down from 2.4% in 2012 and 4.2% in 2011. On a year-over-year basis, food inflation has moderated for beef, chicken, eggs and coffee. Bread prices continue to climb, but at a much slower pace. Fruit prices are up in 2013, as are fresh vegetable prices which actually declined in 2012.
BMO Capital Markets expects food inflation in Canada will remain modest over the next two years, climbing just 1.7% in 2014 and 2.0% in 2015. Hopefully, the analysts are right this time.
What's on the Menu?
For operators, this modest food inflation has kept menu prices in check. In CRFA’s Restaurant Outlook Survey for the third quarter of 2013, two-thirds of respondents said they would keep prices about the same over the next six months – the greatest share since CRFA began collecting data in Q2 of 2011. Despite improved economic growth, consumers are showing some resistance to higher menu prices.
A Steadier Ride Ahead?
With food prices forecast to post modest growth over the next two years, restaurateurs can plan for a more stable increase in their food costs. However, it’s important to remember that analysts don’t always get it right and predictions are just predictions. Still, an end to the volatility of the past few years is a prediction one can look forward to coming true.
By Chris Elliot, Restaurants Canada Senior Economist
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“It’s shocking to know that at any minute my voice is being heard in Shanghai [China], Manila [Philippines] or Santiago [Chile]. That’s what makes technology so fascinating,” Doering says. “I enjoy using new technology to reach out to students when they need it most.”
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Coffee Stain Publishing and Iron Gate Studio have revealed that their new game Valheim has surpassed one million units sold, seeing it take pole position on the Global Top Sellers list on Steam. The exploration co-op survival viking game launched on Steam Early Access on February 2nd, and alongside its commercial success, Valheim has so far acquired over 11,000 ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ user reviews.
On Tuesday February 9th, Valheim became the fourth most played game on Steam, hosting over 160,000 peak concurrent users, surpassing Grand Theft Auto V, Apex Legends and Rocket League, according to the platform. Alongside critical and player acclaim, Valheim has also proven popular with some of the world’s biggest content creators, seeing over 127,000 peak viewers on Twitch on the evening of February 8th.
Created by Iron Gate Studio, a new Swedish developer, Valheim began as a one man passion project from CEO Richard Svensson in 2018, and the team was expanded to five by 2020. Coffee Stain, also headquartered in Skövde, came on board as publisher in 2018. Valheim is one of a number of global success stories to come from the small town of Skövde, with a population of just over 50,000, including Coffee Stain’s own ludicrous sensation Goat Simulator, and survival game Raft from Redbeet Interactive and Axolot Games.
Valheim signals another success for Coffee Stain Publishing. Having launched in 2017, the team has worked with a select number of titles, including the critically acclaimed arcade shooter Huntdown, coming to Steam soon, and Deep Rock Galactic, which surpassed two million units sold earlier this year. Midnight Ghost Hunt, the spooky 4v4 prop hunt title, currently in development, went viral in 2018 and has a Valentines Day alpha this weekend that players can register for now. Satisfactory, the otherworldly factory builder, developed and published by Coffee Stain, currently in Early Access, will soon launch its highly anticipated Update 4.
Whilst Valheim has seen exceptional success so far, this is only the beginning, and Iron Gate Studio has already revealed a living Early Access roadmap, promising new biomes, new enemies, and improvements to combat, ships and more.
Richard Svensson, CEO, Iron Gate Studio, commented on the reasons behind Valheim’s success:
“Valheim is a cooperative game about exploring a huge rather colorful world with very few borders or limits, that’s been released during a global pandemic when a lot of people are locked inside their homes and unable to see their friends and family. Hopefully being clubbed by a troll together will make them feel better” said Richard Svensson, CEO, Iron Gate Studio. “Thanks to an awesome publisher that allowed us to follow our vision and for understanding that you can’t rush creativity.”
“When we signed Valheim and Iron Gate, which at the time was just Richard, we knew the game was awesome, but it has continued to surpass our expectations at every turn. When we’re scouting for games, solo developers and small teams stand out, because they come with a focused vision, and obvious talent, but with plenty of room for us to support,” said Sebastian Badylak, Executive Producer, Coffee Stain Publishing. “Valheim is a perfect example of what an agile, super talented team can achieve when you give them the room and tools to make what they want. This is just the beginning.”
Valheim is now available for $19.99 on Steam Early Access for PC and Linux.
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The new feature illustrates the growing tension between Amazon and the many big and small brands that have become reliant on the site because of its dominance in e-commerce. Amazon is becoming a direct competitor for more sellers, raising questions around how the company's use of its marketplace sales data could potentially give it an unfair advantage over other brands and merchants.
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My favorite way to make sense of what's great on Amazon is by getting recommendations from friends. As a result, I decided to ask my colleagues at Business Insider about the best things they bought on Amazon from under $25 — in the hopes of finding some new things to try without wasting time or money discovering them. Hopefully, they're as helpful to you as they were to me.
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Beginning with cinema’s most obvious dick joke and ending on the its two directors burning everything, including its anti-hero, to the ground, the sequel to Crank is as much of a mindfuck as its predecessor, but beholden to absolutely nothing but the unfiltered expunging of their most loathsome impulses on behalf of directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, two unrepentant dude-bros who, considering the movies they made together, seem to have parted ways, perhaps on bad terms or perhaps because the two grown men who made Gamer and Ghost Rider 2 just had nowhere left to go together. Like any good follow-up, Crank 2 is everything that Crank was, but launched irretrievably down a hellish K-hole, amping up all the public sex, murder, violence, gratuitous nudity, nihilism and genre-bending fuck-all spirit that made the first such a potential point of cult fascination. Here, Jason Statham’s Chev Chelios has transformed into full-on superhero—minus the “hero” connotation—an invulnerable, inhuman cyborg who must regularly pump enough electricity into his body to kill a herd of elephants just to keep his battery-powered heart beating as he chases after the Chinese mobsters who stole his original God-given ticker and (almost) the big ole monster between his legs. There is nothing subtle about Crank 2; there is only submission. —Dom Sinacola
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Sumary of Interparfums closes the first half with high sales of 19.7%:
- Eventually, we will reach 7000 points of sale. In addition, Interparfums and Repetto will terminate on September 28 the perfume license agreement that has joined them since December 2011.
- In the first six months of its 2022 financial year, Interparfums recorded a turnover of 318.7 million euros.
- In the Pochet group, three of the fifteen lines are not working because there are no workers, and the company is even considering recruiting abroad. The official points out that this situation generated a loss of turnover in the period in the order of 25 million of euros.
- Highlight for Coach, which may soon become the group’s first brand in the country.
- France, in turn, registered a growth of 16% to 19.3 million euros in the period thanks to Rochas and Boucheron perfumes.
- An increase of 25%, Montblanc remains the leading brand in the Interparfums portfolio and accounts for 27% of the group’s activity.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - We hear it all the time, especially in this age of security breaches at retail stores; check your credit report.
Jacob Foy of Kansas City, Kan., tried to do that, but could not.
Foy says he repeatedly tried to get a copy of his credit report from the so called big three bureaus: Experian, Equifax and TransUnion, but was denied.
Foy says he learned his credit report had an error on it. Instead of Foy, the bureaus knew him as Jacob O’Malley.
“After I filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General, that’s when I decided I better contact Call For Action too,” Foy said.
Foy believes the error kept him from buying a car, taking out credit, and even getting a job.
He said, “I’ve been denied by Discover; Got denied by Visa.”
He is not alone
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hears from consumers who have issues with their credit reports.
The federal agency was established in 2010 following the financial meltdown to “identify dangerous and unfair financial practices, educate consumers about these practices, and regulate the financial institutions that perpetuate them.”
MoPIRG Foundation, a consumer advocacy group, analyzed 10,000 consumer complaints the CFPB received since October, 2012, when the federal agency began collecting the complaints.
Here’s how some of the complaints breakdown:
65% - Consumers noted incorrect information on their credit report.
14.4% - Consumers complained about inadequate help over the phone, investigations that take too long, and problems with statements.
12% - Consumers were unable to get their free annual credit reports.
Jacob Foy says he fell into that group, saying, “Unfortunately, it’s lead me to near homelessness.”
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When Americans entered into lockdown in 2015 and also started dropping their customized garments for sweatpants and also tights, Target prepared. In January 2020, it had actually debuted its latest internal brand name, an activewear tag for ladies, guys, and also children called All in Motion. The items, the majority of economically valued at under $30 a product, were on-trend and also made from the most up to date technological textiles. Throughout the pandemic, sales of Done in Activity blew up. The brand name produced $1 billion in income for Target in its initial year—an amazing accomplishment taking into consideration that top-level activewear start-ups like Outside Voices and also Tracksmith have yet to see a portion of that success.
Done in Activity’s visual, nevertheless, wasn’t all that brand-new. The item variety and also shapes were most likely acquainted to committed Target consumers, that might have bought things from Champ’s C9 line, a cost effectively valued activewear brand name that had actually been marketed solely with Target for greater than 15 years till it was visited the merchant at the end of 2019. Both lines supplied a variation of children’ track trousers, as an example, with vivid panels along the joints; both supplied women’ tights in strong visuals patterns. As well as their rates were virtually the same. (Target claims that its layouts for Done in Activity are initial, which any type of resemblances mirror standard market patterns.)
Champ had actually made and also created its C9 sports wear for Target under an enduring licensing offer that, in 2018, brought in $380 million for Champ’s moms and dad firm, Hanesbrands. When Hanesbrands announced, in August 2018, that Target wouldn’t be restoring its C9 agreement when it ended at the end of 2019, experts made use of the following profits phone call to grill then-CEO Gerald W. Evans Jr. regarding what the firm would certainly do currently with C9 and also just how it might guarantee a “competitive moat” around the brand name, must Target determine to develop a comparable line. Hanesbrands, which decreased to comment for this tale, had little take advantage of and also a great deal at risk: In 2018, Target represented 11% of its $6.4 billion in sales throughout its numerous brand names, that include Hanes, WonderBra, and also Maidenform.
Target, for its component, appeared to see the C9 agreement’s expiry as a possibility to do what it significantly does ideal: create and also introduce an elegant brand name inside—and also maintain all the income for itself. Considering That Target Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell introduced a strategy to increase down on the firm’s profile of private-label brand names in 2017, the merchant has actually been regaining the style halo that it created back in the aughts with wise cooperations with the similarity Michael Graves and also Isaac Mizrahi. The internal brand name method, which has Target’s very own developers nurturing brand-new line of product from the firm’s style laboratory in its Minneapolis head office, has actually been a straight-out success. Though the firm decreases to share the amount of individuals get on its style group, their centers consist of a 3D laboratory for prototyping, a laboratory for drug stores and also products researchers to evaluate brand-new items in, a paint workshop where prints and also patterns are developed, and also a sensory-testing center to fit Target’s focus on comprehensive style.
Target currently has greater than 45 owned labels throughout style, house, appeal, and also a lot more. 10 of them produce upwards of $1 billion every year, and also 4 gain greater than $2 billion, consisting of children’ tag Feline & Jack and also home-decor brand name Limit. “We have been building our design, sourcing, and brand-management capability for years, and now I would describe it as industry leading,” claims Jill Sando, Target’s principal retailing police officer, that looked after the launch of Done in Activity. “It’s a critical piece of our strategy.”
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Exclusive tags aren’t the only element driving Target’s sales, which have actually skyrocketed by virtually 30% considering that 2017, getting to $94 billion in 2015. The retail titan likewise grows an ambience of exploration in its shops and also online by showcasing promising brand names, specifically from direct-to-consumer start-ups. The merchant has actually come to be something of the best companion for online-only brand names making their initial venture right into brick-and-mortar retail—from Casper cushions to Repartee tooth brushes. Considering that 2016, 22 direct-to-consumer brand names have actually selected Target as their launch pad. “It’s really about the mix,” Sando claims, “creating something distinct, only available at Target, that delivers on our guests’ needs and wants.” This technique maintains clients returning and also causes what’s called the “Target Effect,” the sensation wherein you enter a Target shop to get a couple of things however entrust a massive haul of items you never ever recognized you required. Various other mass sellers interest clients on rate alone; Target draws in consumers that value great style.
However as Champ popular, Target can be both companion and also prospective rival to outdoors brand names. “If Target wants to raise awareness about its prowess in a new category, partnering with an established brand like Champion, with a built-in audience, is a good way to do it,” claims Lauren Bitar, head of understandings at analytics solid RetailNext. “Once they train consumers to see Target as a resource for activewear, they can suddenly start selling their own products that look very similar.”
Target is much from alone in examining and also recreating market patterns. “Imitation has been happening for decades in the retail industry, sometimes by design, sometimes by accidental influence,” claims Marshal Cohen, primary market expert for retail at marketing research company NPD Team. “Private label was built on identifying what really works and figuring out how to make it for less.”
Many thanks to international supply chains that can rapidly creating brand-new items, fast-fashion brand names like H&M and also Zara have actually constructed their company on shamelessly replicating path developers. Big-box sellers, such as Walmart and also Wayfair, have actually spent greatly in private-label brand names that take their signs from various other developers. Amazon.com has actually come to be a duplicate leviathan, unabashedly extracting its information to recognize top-selling items and also replicating them with personal tags. And afterwards there are the numerous manner ins which smaller sized brand names rip off—or admire—each other, rallied by influencer society. Bear in mind when the smocked Snooze Gown was a Hillside Home unique, or when Outside Voices had a lock on color-blocked tights? Exactly how around when mid-century modern-day furnishings was being created by the similarity Ray and also Charles Eames instead of West Elm, Joybird, and also Post?
However in the hall of mirrors that is the modern-day retail landscape, Target might have carried out one of the most remarkable technique yet: boosting its private-label brand names to a profitable—if artful—art type. While various other personal tags simply recreate preferred items, Target recreates brand names, and also makes them so preferable that they take on several of the most effective on the marketplace.
If replica is the best type of flattery, Target shows up rapt with today’s millennial-oriented brand names. There’s a whole category of shoppable post committed to mentioning just how Target has actually ripped off yet an additional higher-end rival. “Universal Thread is basically Madewell on a budget,” The Everygirl stated in 2018 regarding Target’s jeans and also tees line. “Anthropologie dupes we’ve found in Target’s new Opalhouse line,” is just how Hunker defined 6 boho-chic houseware things, from a rattan chair to a macramé-influenced hammock. “Prologue is Target’s interpretation of an easy but professional wardrobe. (Think the chic but weekend-friendly pieces you’d find at Theory or COS),” Beauty observed in 2018. “Is Target’s new luggage brand Open Story an Away killer?” reviewed a 2020 heading on Traveling Influenced for a blog post regarding the merchant’s cost effective hardshell-suitcase collection. When Target released Wisely, a line of home and also personal-care fundamentals with stripped-down branding and also an ordinary rate of $2, in 2018, numerous electrical outlets kept in mind that it was taking the facility of Brandless, however damaging that firm’s popular $3 rate factor.
Target’s group of sellers, Sando describes, evaluate search information, research fad records, and also meticulously observe the marketplace to notice the following large fad. “They know what our consumer is looking for,” she claims. “They know what they are buying, but they also have the skill in predicting what is going to catch your attention and deliver on that discovery.” When it pertains to creating its very own brand names, Target likewise evaluates its clients for understandings that are turned over to the internal style group. This info, incorporated with Target’s style capacities, enables the merchant to introduce fashionable brand names that complete straight with others, however still really feel fresh. (In action to this tale, a Target agent stated the firm is “committed to respecting the intellectual property rights of others and has the same expectations for our vendor partners.”)
When producing items, Target stays clear of authentic violation. Defenses for style are restricted, claims Douglas Hand, a style legal representative that collaborated with developers, consisting of Michael Costello and also Phillip Lim, to bargain agreements for their pill collections with Target. “Copying trendy designs is Target’s business model—and it’s a viable business model,” claims Hand. “Unless they are copying a very limited scope of protectable intellectual property—like a registered design patent or copyright—what they are doing is perfectly legal.”
There have actually been minutes when Target has actually gone also much. Vans filed a claim against the merchant in 2018 for replicating its “Old Skool” skater footwear, and also Burberry submitted an $8 million hallmark violation legal action for a Target headscarf that included the brand name’s famous check pattern. (Burberry accepted go down the match in 2018, while the Vans situation was at some point disregarded.) Vans and also Burberry, naturally, have actually accumulated years of brand name acknowledgment and also equity around these layouts. It’s a lot more hard for smaller sized brand names to make an instance for hallmark violation.
Emily Golub, owner of a meal-kit firm called Garnish & Gather, submitted a legal action in 2019 versus Target, asserting that the name, logo design, and also grocery store fundamentals marketed in Target’s Good & Gather line were also comparable to business name she had actually trademarked in 2014. (She went down the match in March 2020.) However it’s exceptional just how couple of claims there have actually been—an indication, partially, of just how usual replica remains in retail.
This copycat economic climate, nevertheless, can be especially damaging to smaller sized brand names and also start-ups that are buying advancement. Direct-to-consumer brand names, for circumstances, sink cash right into item style, after that put much more right into advertising and marketing to develop a target market and also grow brand name commitment. When a huge merchant jumps in to duplicate their style, it can deteriorate market share virtually over night. Joey Zwillinger, cofounder and also co-CEO of the environmentally friendly apparel brand name Allbirds, recognizes this well. The brand name’s trademark, $95 all-wool footwear have actually not been replicated by Target, however lots of various other sellers have actually swindled the style considering that the firm released in 2016—most especially Amazon.com, which developed a $45 variation in 2019. According to 3rd party research study Zwillinger has actually assessed, Allbirds is shedding in between $10 million and also $15 million a month for sale to Amazon.com. “It’s very significant for us. There’s real damage when big retailers steal intellectual property from little brands, treating us like their R&D department,” he claims regarding Amazon.com’s relocation. “The biggest challenge for DTC brands is creating awareness. The arbitrage these big retailers see is they get an enormous amount of traffic, so they can rip off smaller brands and in doing so, squash them.”
Allbirds has actually sought lawsuit in the past versus imitators, such as Steve Madden, however Zwillinger claims that claims take a very long time to settle, and also already, the damages is done, which is why he determined not to take legal action against Amazon.com. Hand thinks that this is why most tiny gamers don’t bother pursuing large sellers. “The process of litigation is so achingly slow relative to the timing of the fashion cycle,” he claims. “Target and other retailers recognize that time is on their side. You will have gone 20 seasons before you get any clarity into the status of your case, and by then, the design you’re arguing about is so far in the rearview mirror that it may seem moot. Most brands don’t have the war chest.”
At the very same time, numerous direct-to-consumer brand names aspire to be marketed by big-box sellers and also capitalize on their large reach. As well as Target is frequently business owners’ front runner, many thanks to its curated, design-forward in-store experience. Creators whose product has actually landed a place on the merchant’s racks call it video game altering. Katherine Power—the serial business owner behind the That What Put on media website and also Chief Executive Officer of the unique objective purchase firm (SPAC) Powered Brands—has actually partnered with Target to cocreate the JoyLab athleisure line and also solely market the That What Put on style brand name. She likewise released her skin care line Versed at Target. “There is a reason [Target] does business with founders like me,” claims Power. “They trust our vision. I’ve never been strong-armed into doing something that is not right for me or my brand.” The guys’s brushing firm Harry’s was amongst the initial direct-to-consumer start-ups to show up in Target’s appeal aisle, in 2016. Michael Moore, Harry’s head of retail, claims that Target’s retailing group comprehended that as a startup cutting brand name in a globe of heritage gamers, Harry’s required to present itself to brand-new target markets. Target aided the firm craft an aisle end-cap that communicated the brand name’s worths. “It was a collaborative process,” he claims.
Target’s Sando claims that when it pertains to looking for brand-new brand names, her group is trying to find companions with proficiency that is missing out on from Target’s very own group. Over the previous 5 years, as an example, Target has actually made an initiative to prompt even more Black-owned business. Bevel, a cutting brand name especially made for Black guys, started by Tristan Pedestrian, debuted on Target racks in 2016. “I have to give Target a hell of a lot of credit,” Pedestrian claims. “Our whole premise when we started was to get out of the ethnic beauty and grooming aisles. Target made a bet on us, just as much as we made a bet on them.” By 2018, Procter & Wager had actually gotten Pedestrian’s firm.
However with its abundant chest of consumer information and also expanding internal style capacities, Target is significantly able to develop a struck variation of practically any type of brand name on the marketplace. Some business owners are planned for this. Stuart Landesberg, cofounder of the environmentally friendly cleansing brand name Grove Collaborative, released a special line of multiple-use spray containers and also cleansing items at Target in April. He claims he anticipates sellers and also various other business to duplicate Grove’s items, which is why his objective is to maintain introducing ones the marketplace has actually never ever seen prior to. “When anybody copies us, they’re copying what we created two years ago,” he claims.
“As a founder today, you have to go into business assuming you’re going to be copied,” he claims, describing the competitors around environmentally friendly advancement. “If people aren’t copying you, you need to ask whether what you’re doing is that compelling.”
After viewing his tennis shoes obtain continuously swindled, Allbirds’s Zwillinger has actually concerned a comparable verdict. “We know imitations are coming,” he claims. “But as a founding team, we decided that we’re not a shoe company, we’re a material innovations company. Copycats just won’t be able to keep up with us if we do a good job. I think that’s true for every business facing imitations and copiers: You need to innovate or you’re going to die.” He mentions Allbirds’s current growth of a waterproof woollen and also a sugarcane-based EVA-foam footwear sole. However how much time can any type of brand name maintain that rate of advancement?
Last March, after C9 by Champ vanished from Target’s internet site and also shops, it appeared once more on Amazon.com. Hanesbrands introduced it had actually authorized a multiyear contract with Amazon.com Style to make the line solely offered on the website. However thus far, Amazon.com has actually produced just a portion of what Target provided for C9: Sales dropped in 2020 by $361 million from the year prior to. What’s even more, by relocating onto Amazon.com, C9 might have leapt out of the fry pan and also right into the fire. Amazon.com’s personal tags expanded from 30 to 110 in between 2017 and also 2020—stimulating legislators to suggest regulations that would certainly make it unlawful for the technology titan to prioritize its very own items over those of sellers in searches.
Amazon.com deals with internal brand names as a scientific research, analyzing information regarding top-selling items to develop its very own variations. It hasn’t fairly understood the art of producing personal tags that are effective design-forward brand names in their very own right. Target still preponderates because sector—though it’s most likely just an issue of time prior to Amazon.com attempts to knock that off, also.
The globe of retail is significantly packed with sellers, brand names, and also developers replicating each other’s ideal concepts. Below’s a consider several of the pressures driving the fad.
The Furnishings Replica: Ikea proclaims its Scandinavian style origins and also often works together with leading companies, however it’s been recognized to “borrow” from them, such as its 2015 line of shaped chairs that leaned greatly on Eames.
Path to Truth: Zara is well-known for duplicating path things. In 2016, it was called out for dupes of shoes from Sibling Vellies and also Yeezy (by Teenager Style and also Quartz, specifically) and also an Acne layer.
Affecting the Influencer: As influencers introduce their very own style brand names, their copycat propensities are coming under attack: Both Arielle Charnas and also Danielle Bernstein have actually been called out by guard dog Diet plan Prada.
Haute Couture Break-in: Upstart style tags are straw for their even more popular equivalents: Louis Vuitton creative supervisor Virgil Abloh was implicated in 2015 of plagiarising Belgium’s Walter Van Beirendonck.
The Prime Recreation: Amazon.com’s expanding private-label profile has actually made the wrath of Allbirds, whose footwear it has actually ripped off, and also of legislators, that call its technique of prioritizing its very own brand names monopolistic.
The Lightning-Fast Duplicate: Style Nova has actually taken rapid style, to the following degree. Simply hrs after Kim Kardashian put on a black intermediary Thierry Mugler dress in 2018, a duplicate stood for sale on the website.
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Ford Motor Co. will book a $142 million expense for recall costs related to Transit vans, the latest in a series of quality-related expenses dinging the auto maker's bottom line.
The No. 2 U.S. car maker by sales said the costs, booked in the second quarter, will cover three new recalls in North America, including a campaign to fix roughly 400,000 model year 2015-2017 Transit vans. The defect can cause the driveshaft to separate, resulting in a loss of power or unintended vehicle movement.
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Ford disclosed the additional expense Wednesday in a regulatory filing. This is the second time this year a hefty recall charge has hurt Ford's earnings, illustrating the disproportionate effect quality problems can have on Ford's efforts to keep profits growing in a slowing U.S. car market.
In March, Ford said it would take a $295 million charge for recalls covering vehicles with fire risks and faulty door latches, forcing the auto maker to lower its first-quarter guidance.
The latest recall effort also affects a handful of 2017 Police Interceptors and 2016 Ford Escapes. Ford said it isn't aware of any accidents or injuries related to vehicles covered by the recalls.
The campaigns come even as Ford has improved its standing in the J.D. Power's influential Initial Quality Study, a report that ranks brands according to the frequency of problems occurring in their vehicles. In this year's report, Ford received its highest mark since the study started 31 years ago, slotting in as the No. 2 non-premium brand with the fewest problems.
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Apple on Thursday that it plans to charge customers a fee to download software that will enable the 802.11n capability in the Wi-Fi chips found in some MacBook and MacBook Pro systems. But it won't cost $5, as many reports indicated. It will cost $1.99, and will be available on Apple's Web site, said Lynn Fox, an Apple spokeswoman.
Every Mac with Intel's Core 2 Duo or Xeon processor has the 802.11n chip, except for the 17-inch iMac with the 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo chip, Apple announced.
Customers who purchase the new $179 Airport Extreme Base Station also unveiled at Macworld will get the software for free as part of that package when it ships in February. But those who don't want to buy that product will have to pay to download the software, which will appear on Apple's site when the base station starts shipping.
Apple said it is required under generally accepted accounting principles to charge customers for the software upgrade. "The nominal distribution fee for the 802.11n software is required in order for Apple to comply with generally accepted accounting principles for revenue recognition, which generally require that we charge for significant feature enhancements, such as 802.11n, when added to previously purchased products," Fox said in a statement.
Several companies have been releasingof the new wireless standard. The final standard is not expected to be ratified until later this year, but the Wi-Fi Alliance has said that it will begin certifying products based on a draft of that standard. The 802.11n standard offers significant improvements in bandwidth and range over the 802.11g Wi-Fi standard, and it's backward compatible with older Wi-Fi standards.


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Maclean’s: A New and Dangerous Type of Distracted Driving
Maclean’s has posted a new report on distracted driving, where they introduce a new (and dangerous) type of distracted driver.
Rogers Digital Media Launches New Maclean’s iOS App
Maclean's has launched a new iOS app as it has reached version 6.0.
Maclean’s Offers Free 60-Day Trial on iPad and iPhone For a Limited Time
For a limited time only, Maclean’s is offering its a 60-day free trial when you subscribe for one year.


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Starbucks Must Tell Customers Its Coffee Contains a Cancer-Causing Ingredient
Earlier today, a California Superior Court judge issued a ruling that’s bound to stress out lots of java drinkers—even if it probably shouldn’t. Companies like Starbucks will have to tell customers that their coffee can potentially cause cancer.
The case was first brought before the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2010 by the nonprofit Council for Education and Research on Toxics. The plaintiffs claimed that since the process of roasting coffee beans produces a chemical called acrylamide, which is suspected of being carcinogenic, 20 coffee-selling companies were obliged to affix a warning label to their cup of joe. As of late, the plaintiffs had reached settlements with several defendants like 7-Eleven to include warnings, but others like Starbucks chose to fight it out in court.
According to the AP, Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said in his decision he didn’t buy the defendants’ argument they were exempt from the law because the amounts of acrylamide in coffee are insignificant.
But while there’s evidence, mostly in animals, that acrylamide can be carcinogenic in high enough doses, that isn’t the case for coffee itself. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified acrylamide as a group 2A carcinogen in 2002, meaning they found it could probably cause cancer in people based on animal research. But 14 years later, they ruled that coffee and similar beverages weren’t cancer-causing. Elsewhere, other research has found coffee provides plenty of (relatively small) health benefits.
Still, it’s not the first time food companies have been forced to reckon with acrylamide in California. A decade ago, the state attorney general reached a settlement with several potato chip-selling companies like Lays and fast food chains like Wendy’s over allegations their products had high levels of the chemical. They agreed to pay fines and reduce the level of acrylamides in their products.
According to the AP, it’s unlikely the ruling will be overturned through an appeal.
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To honor local veterans, local businesses are offering discounts and deals Sunday, Nov. 11 and Monday, Nov. 12.
Here are only some of the deals going on in Plymouth:
• Applebee’s is offering a free meal, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. Last year, Applebee’s served more than 1 million free meals to military veterans and active servicemembers. Applebee’s is again offering a free meal to military veterans and active-duty service members on Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. There will be seven entrées to choose from, beverage and gratuity not included. Military ID or proof of service required.
• Chili’s is offering a free meal, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. Chili’s is offering all military veterans past and present their choice of one of seven meals. This offer is available from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on November 11, 2012, at participating Chili’s in the U.S. only. (Dine-in from limited menu only; beverages and gratuity not included. Veterans and active duty military simply show proof of military service.)
• Green Mill is offering 50 percent off any entree, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. The offer is for active-duty veterans. Proof of military service includes having a uniform, military identification, military earnings statement or a veterans organization member card. (Active duty military and veterans must show proof of service. Available for dine-in only during normal business hours on November 11, 2012 at participating Green Mill Restaurants only. Not valid with any other discount or offer. Beverages and gratuity not included.)
• Home Depot Military Discount: The Home Depot(R) is offering all active duty personnel, reservists, retired military, veterans and their families a 10 percent discount off their purchases in honor of Veterans Day. The offer is valid on purchases of up to $2,000 for a maximum of $200 and is available at The Home Depot stores, The Home Depot Design Center locations, Yardbirds and EXPO Design Center(R) locations. The 10% military discount is available everyday for active duty and retirees, but not all veterans. Home Depot makes this offer available to all veterans on most military holidays.
• Lowe’s Military Discount: Lowe’s Companies, Inc. will offer all active, reserve, honorably discharged, retired military personnel and their immediate family members a 10 percent discount on in-store U.S. purchases made during the Veterans Day holiday. The discount is available Nov. 7 – Nov. 11. The discount is available on in-stock and special order purchases up to $5,000. To qualify, individuals must present a valid military ID or other proof of service. Excluded from the discount are sales via Lowes.com, previous sales, and purchases of services or gift cards. Like Home Depot, Lowes offers this discount daily to active duty military members, but not to veterans. However, they extend the offer to military veterans on military holidays. You can also find exclusive discounts at Lowe’s.com.
• Red Roof Inn 15 percent off during the entire month of November. Veterans receive 15 percent off their stay.
• Free Oil Change: Oil changes are free to Veterans and active duty armed forces members at many participating local oil change centers including participating name brand oil service centers. Call stores in your local area to confirm. Many are offering the free oil change for several days around Veteran’s Day.
• Free Hair Cuts: Sport Clips will offer free haircuts to active-duty U.S. service members and veterans on Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11, 2012, with valid proof of service. (Please contact Sport Clips The Shops of Plymouth Town Center for more information.)
On Wednesdays at the Minnesota School of Business- Cosmetology in Plymouth if you bring in your military ID. This is a deal that goes outside of Veterans Day.
Things to Note:
Most companies require some form of military ID. These include: a Military ID Card (active/reserve/retired), Current Leave and Earnings Statement (LES), Drivers License with Veterans Designation, a photograph in uniform, you in uniform (if your service permits), Veterans Organization Card (e.g., American Legion and VFW), DD214, discharge paperwork, or other form of identification. Other restaurants and companies may go by the honor system.
Always call ahead to verify locations, times, and participation. Many of the listed companies are franchises and may have different policies.
Did we miss your great deal for Veterans Day? Let us know in the comments below and we'll add it to the list! Thank you for honoring veterans!
(Editor's Note: This is a list of only some local businesses with deals/discounts. This is NOT a list of businesses having Veterans Day sales.)


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To recognize team's success, VisitPITTSBURGH to change its name to VisitPENSBURGH
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania - VisitPITTSBURGH today announced that every Pittsburgh Penguins home game during the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs meant an estimated $4.3 million in total spending for Allegheny County, and that number could grow for third round home games. In addition, the national media exposure that comes with the Penguins playing in the Stanley Cup Playoffs provides a tremendous opportunity to showcase Pittsburgh.
"What a great time for such a high quality organization and its players and fans, and we all congratulate the Pittsburgh Penguins for their outstanding year," said Craig Davis, President and CEO of VisitPITTSBURGH. "While it has been exciting to watch the team during the playoffs, the Penguins have given our region more than just great hockey. They generate a significant impact for our local economy, and they will continue to do so during this fabulous playoff run."
To celebrate the Penguins success, the official tourism marketing and promotion agency of the Pittsburgh region will unofficially change its name to VisitPENSBURGH beginning today.
Davis said that in return for all that the Pittsburgh Penguins organization has done for the region, VisitPITTSBURGH wants to join other Pittsburghers in raising awareness for the Penguins success by changing its name to VisitPENSBURGH. The change will be visible on signage at the organization’s office and visitors centers and on its website, and staff will begin answering the phone "VisitPENSBURGH, formerly VisitPITTSBURGH."
"We just want to express our pride in our team and to thank the Penguins for helping us promote our city and region," said Davis. "We could not afford to pay for the advertising that equates to the television exposure for our city during the playoffs. In addition, while Pittsburgh has always been known as a legendary sports town, the success of the Penguins, Steelers and Pirates, along with our other professional and collegiate teams, helps us to promote Pittsburgh as a major sports destination for other sports events."
VisitPITTSBURGH is the official tourism marketing and promotion agency of the Pittsburgh region. It is dedicated to generating convention, trade show and leisure travel business for the Pittsburgh region.


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The trade war with China is impacting Alaska’s seafood industry.
The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s Jeremy Woodrow, citing a recent industry survey, told the House Fisheries Committee Wednesday that the industry blames Chinese tariffs.
“Of the members that responded back to us, 65 percent reported they had immediate lost sales from the increase of these tariffs, 50 percent reported delays in their sales and 36 percent reported that they lost customers in China just due to these tariffs” Woodrow explained. “Another 21 percent reported that they had unanticipated costs because of the trade conflict.”
Alaska sold nearly $989 million worth of seafood to China in 2017. Not all Alaska seafood is bound by the Chinese tariffs imposed in retaliation to the Trump administration’s own tariffs on Chinese goods. Flatfish like flounder are subject to tariffs, though Alaska pink salmon processed in China and re-exported are not.
But Woodrow said poor relations between the two countries makes some Chinese buyers reluctant to buy Alaska seafood anyway. China is Alaska’s largest foreign market, and Woodrow warned that finding new outlets will take time.
“I think everybody would love to be able to pivot and find new markets rather quickly, but the Chinese market is something that the Alaska seafood industry and ASMI has been actively engaging in for over two decades,” he said. “If we do get China back, that’s great. If not, we can expect it will take time to develop new markets.”
- Jeff Clements says 19 states and 800 American cities have already adopted resolutions supporting the amendment. Alaska isn't one of them.
- Anchorage Assembly members are considering whether to spend $100,000 to hire an independent analyst to monitor an ongoing modernization project at the Port of Alaska.
- The investigation was prompted by a hospital safety officer warning that API staff were excessively restraining and isolating patients, as well as using force in ways that violate the facility’s own guidelines.
- Sen. Lisa Murkowski is talking about global warming more than ever. While the Green New Deal is a lightning rod in Congress, Murkowski says she's reaching for what's politically possible.


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EVENTS TO WATCH
- WMT - Earnings Call: 4/15, 7:00am
- KSS - Earnings Call: 4/15, 8:30am
- JCP - Earnings Call: 4/15, 4:30pm
- JWN - Earnings Call: 4/15, 4:45pm
We'll have separate comments on Macy's and Kate Spade earnings.
KSS - Kohl's CEO Planning Management Shuffle
- "Mr. Mansell is planning a management shuffle, according to a person familiar with the matter. And he is also scouting for a new chief merchant who would be a candidate to ultimately succeed him, people familiar with the matter said."
- "The CEO is seeking to boost growth when the retail industry is struggling with budget-conscious shoppers who are increasingly turning to the Internet for everyday purchases."
- "Kohl's board is looking for Mr. Mansell, 61 years old, to demonstrate progress on those fronts at a board meeting Wednesday, the day before Kohl's reports first-quarter earnings. At that session, he is expected to describe plans for a broader management reorganization, said a person familiar with the situation."
- "In April, Kohl's lost its chief merchandising officer, Donald Brennan, who joined the company in 2001 and was promoted to chief merchant in 2010 but had received a weak performance grade, according to regulatory filings. Mr. Mansell has been personally sounding out candidates for the chief merchant's job with an eye to having them eventually succeed him as CEO, several people familiar with the situation said."
- "Mr. Mansell has reached out to Brendan Hoffman, who earlier this year said he plans to leave his post as CEO of Bon-Ton Stores Inc. when his contract expires in February, these people said. Mr. Hoffman is unlikely to take the job since it wouldn't immediately place him in a CEO role, one of the people said."
Takeaway: This tells us that there's now three potential top jobs open at mega-US retailers; Target, JC Penney, and Kohl's. The pool of candidates is not huge, but there are some heavyweights. There's Roger Farah, who has only two weeks left at Ralph Lauren. Bill McComb, who is currently on vacation after turning the dog that was Liz Claiborne into the hyper-growth Kate Spade. Vanessa Castagna, who was the underappreciated architect of the Eckerd-era turnaround at JCP over a decade ago. Let's also not forget Glenn Murphy from Gap. The fact of the matter is that he is a far better CEO than a company like Gap probably deserves. He's done a great job fixing the company, and at age 51 -- has a much bigger and better job left in him.
SHLD - Sears Holdings Provides Update On Its Interest In Sears Canada Inc.
- "Sears Holdings Corporation announced today that it is exploring strategic alternatives for its 51% interest in Sears Canada, including a potential sale of Sears Holdings' interest or Sears Canada as a whole. In connection with those efforts, Sears Holdings intends to engage an investment banking firm."
- "Sears Canada's board of directors has advised Sears Holdings that Sears Canada's board and management intend to cooperate fully with Sears Holdings in this process to achieve value for all shareholders."
Takeaway: And Target still thinks it can generate productivity in its Canada stores above what it sees in the US with Gross margins 500bp better than US levels. Seriously?
URBN - Urban Outfitters Getting Active
- "Since March, the apparel and accessories brand developed by Urban Outfitters to cross the fitness, cycle, trail and surf categories has taken over roughly 1,500 square feet inside the retailer’s high-profile stores in New York, Costa Mesa, Calif., Santa Monica, Calif., King of Prussia, Pa., Portland, Ore., San Francisco, Seattle and Hollywood, where Without Walls officially launched with a party in April."
- "In June, a Without Walls in-store shop will be added at the Urban Outfitters location in New York’s Herald Square before the concept will expand to another four to six doors in the fall and possibly three to six doors in 2015."
KER - Puma’s Power
- "Puma added some firepower to its endorsement lineup. The brand announced that No. 1 National Football League draft pick Jadeveon Clowney is joining its training team. The new Houston Texan will be included in Puma’s new 'Forever Faster' campaign, set to launch later this year."
- "It will be the first in his multiyear agreement. Clowney, who called his deal with the brand a 'dream come true' in a release, will join fellow NFL players Jamaal Charles and Cordarrelle Patterson on the Puma roster."
ANF - Michael Jeffries Pay Drops at Abercrombie
- "Abercrombie & Fitch Co. chief executive officer Michael Jeffries saw his total reported compensation decline by more than 70 percent last year to $2.2 million…"
- "The new pact, which can be terminated by Jeffries or the company with 12 months’ notice after its first anniversary next February, also removed provisions which could have added about $88 million to Jeffries’ severance in the event of a change of control."
CROX - Brand Management Veteran Andrew Rees Named President of Crocs Brand; CEO Search Continues
- "Crocs Inc. today announced consumer brand management expert Andrew Rees has been named President of the Crocs brand. Rees also will assume the role of principal executive officer until the company's search for a permanent chief executive officer is successfully concluded. Rees will report to the Crocs board of directors. He is expected to join the company officially on or about June 9th."
- "Rees joins Crocs from LEK Consulting, a global management consulting firm with offices across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. He founded and led LEK's retail and consumer products practice for 14 years, building the practice into one of LEK's major consulting areas."


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GreatMeals.com plans to re-launch Dec. 1 with a new fulfillment partner after terminating its relationship with Richmond Cold Storage, Richmond, VA, which had prepared and packed GreatMeals' orders.
“Our overhead costs were about three times the sales we were taking in,” said Steven Krane, president of GreatMeals, Washington. “We thought we could afford those expenses because we thought we were going to be huge overnight and that didn't happen.”
GreatMeals had been paying RCS $40,000 a month for fulfillment until temporarily halting business in July to restructure.
Krane would not disclose the new distribution provider, but said it was a charge-per-shipment deal that will allow GreatMeals a profit of $10 per purchase based on an average order size of $100.
While the prepared meals marketer plans to produce most of its revenue online when it reopens, it also intends to increase sales by launching 100 outlet stores inside supermarkets of an undisclosed chain along the East Coast.
The 200-square-foot stores will play a role similar to traditional grocery delis where patrons can order meals to go or sample food. The first store is scheduled to open during first quarter 2002 and will sell the Web site's top 50 dishes. GreatMeals would not divulge a location or a timetable for the rollout of other outlets. The company estimates that the outlets will cost $75,000 apiece to build and will generate minimum sales of $4,000 a week.
Krane said the stores will beat the 10 percent profit margin his company believes will be established by its relaunched Web site.
“We get to leverage the in-store foot traffic, which costs less customer acquisitionwise than prospecting in e-commerce or cataloging,” he said. “We believe people will be attracted to our stores because we all know what it's like to go to the grocery store, spend $100, go home and find out that we have nothing to eat.”
Krane said it is unlikely his firm will continue the catalog it launched in 2001, when it spent about $250,000 on four mailings to 400,000 households. Materials from past catalogs will be used as sales aids at the stores, as well as menus that customers can bring home with them for phone or online orders.
“We might send a catalog to existing customers, but we feel it is too expensive as a prospecting tool,” he said.
Krane co-founded the company and recently bought a majority share of it from Carlton Capital Group, Washington. GreatMeals' chief competitor is A La Zing, which is owned by entrenched direct marketing food company Omaha Steaks.


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The Rav4 is one of Toyota's best selling vehicles on the market and over the years it has been wondered as to when the Japanese firm would take their model to the next level by offering more in new technology. Well it appears that day has finally arrived as the company have revealed a new teaser image which confirms the arrival of the model in hybrid form. The company posted an image online which shows the back end of the car carrying a new Rav4 hybrid logo. The brand also confirmed with the image that the new car would go on display from the New York Motor Show next week. No more information was revealed by Toyota with just the image and debut date for April 2nd announced. We will know a lot more about the new vehicle and its components though in exactly one weeks time so as soon as we get more information on the new model, we will keep you updated.
A new pick up truck from Fiat spied testing
Fiat Chrysler have been spotted out and about in cold Winter conditions testing what appears to be a brand new pickup truck style model under some heavy disguise. It is expected that this new model will be going on sale around the world with the European market expected to receive it first at some point next year. The new model is still very much a mystery for this moment in time. The only feature that could be spotted underneath the disguise was that this new car is coming in the form of a four door setup. No confirmation of any kind has been revealed by the Italian firm as of yet but with a 2016 launch to be expected for a new pickup truck model we could see this new car revealed late this year or perhaps early next year.
Nissan boast how good their Leaf batteries are
We all know the Nissan Leaf for being an excellent selling electric vehicle and proving to be one of the very best EV models on the market. Nissan have of course also picked up on this fact and this week they have been boasting how good the battery pack inside of the car actually is. The brand revealed this week that with around 35,000 of these models being sold in Europe over the past four years, only three battery packs out of all have failed in a Leaf. This is indeed a very impressive statement that only adds to our positive opinion of the Leaf. This means that in total, the Leaf battery has a success rate of 99.99 percent which is a very telling figure. The Leaf remains one of the best selling EV models and just last year alone saw a 15,000 unit increase on sales compared to that of the previous year. This is around a thirty four percent increase in sales on the car. Nissan are looking to maintain these success rates with the car especially with rumours making the rounds that the firm are planning a second generation model also.


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The opening up of the UK retail gas and electricity market has seen utilities linking up with the likes of supermarkets and insurance companies to offer customers new services and savings across multiple retail sectors.
Now, what is perhaps the highest profile alliance has been announced between Virgin and London Electricity. Known as Virgin Energy, the Internet-based venture will be 75 per cent owned by Virgin and 25 per cent by London Electricity (LE).
Certainly anything Virgin does is high-profile and the company, run by self-styled entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, plans to make its mark in the energy market.
According to Branson, Virgin plans to become the consumers’ champion on the Internet. He also said that the deal completes a major part of its offerings.
Virgin Energy brings to the UK utility sector a level of marketing to which it is unaccustomed. The venture represents a à‚£15m ($22m) share capital investment for Virgin which rides on the back of a à‚£170m/year advertising spend by Virgin – much of which goes into Virgin.com
LE expects to benefit from the Virgin marketing machine by gaining visibility on what is one of the country’s leading websites. It also gives LE the opportunity to reach customers outside London which it may have had difficulty reaching before. And while the deal may see LE lose customers to Virgin Energy, Branson noted: “The stake it gets in Virgin may be worth a lot more than the customers it may lose to Virgin.”
A spokesperson for LE said: “Virgin has a very strong brand. When we heard Virgin was coming into the market, we approached them. They were coming to the market anyway and we thought it would be better to join forces as opposed to sitting back.”
Improving customer service
Jon Kinsey, Virgin Energy’s managing director explained that the company first began thinking about entering the market about nine months ago, believing it could provide a better service than is currently available from existing utilities.
“This industry is not known for great service. We will set new industry standards for customer care,” said Kinsey.
As such, a key part of Virgin’s decision to tie-up with London Electricity was to take advantage of its sophisticated IT system and infrastructure and the reputation of its call centre in Exeter. The call centre will be enhanced with the addition of an extra 70 people to handle the Virgin account.
LE will also provide the core expertise which Virgin does not have. Since Virgin does not have a license to supply energy, LE will take care of the energy purchasing on behalf of Virgin. It will also provide some of the core billing engines needed to run a utility business.
But even for a company with a brand as strong as Virgin, challenges lie ahead. Since opening of the retail market, the rate of customer switching has been slow. “There are still 15 million customers who have not moved. There is a real apathy in the market,” noted Kinsey.
Kinsey puts the unwillingness to switch down to the complexity of tariffs and customers not knowing if they are really getting the best deal possible. He therefore sees a real opportunity for a company which can make it simple for the consumer. Virgin Energy said it will be happy if it gets 200 000-300 000 customers in the first year.
A key part of its plans to promote customer switching is to make it as easy as possible. It claims that registering online will be hassle-free. Once a customer has signed up, Virgin Energy will begin the cancellation of all processes involved with previous energy suppliers, including existing contracts and direct debits.
Customers can apply now using an online application form which takes about ten minutes to complete. The applications will be processed when the services goes live next month (August). Once an application has been accepted the transfer from an existing supplier to Virgin Energy will take 26 days. The first customers will be able to receive gas and electricity from September.
Customers will have the ability to provide meter readings, view statements and household energy consumption and make direct debit payments online.
The success of any online venture depends on the uptake of the Internet. Virgin says that some 14 million homes are connected and this is growing at a rate of one million per month. While Virgin is starting with Internet-based products it also plans to provide for those who are not Internet-enabled by setting up shops known as V-stores to allow bills to be paid on the high street. It is also planning to allow bills to be paid at its Mega Stores and Our Price record stores.
Virgin Energy recognises that customer service is not everything and that price will be equally as important. In an industry where profit margins are already slim and gas prices are increasing, beating its competitors will not be easy. “Gas prices are high at the moment but we recognise that there will be times when we will have to reduce profit margins in order to maintain faith with the public,” said Branson.
Significantly, Virgin Energy is offering a price guarantee which is being claimed as an industry first. Virgin Energy guarantees that if after the first year customers have not saved money, it will refund the difference plus 20 per cent of that difference.
Consumers will be able to establish how much they can save compared to their current supplier using an online calculator. Virgin Energy predicts that the average four bedroom house in the UK will save about à‚£85 per year, a three-bedroom house more than à‚£60 and a one-bedroom apartment about à‚£48.
Virgin Energy is also claiming to be the first in the UK market to reward households for being energy efficient. If customers reduce their consumption year on year, they can claim à‚£1 for every one per cent saved. To make the claim, customers will need to give Virgin Energy a correct meter reading when they join and correct meter reading at the end of years one and two. Once Virgin Energy compares the second year with the first, customers can claim the difference using an online form. If they have saved money in the second year, they will receive a refund up to a maximum of à‚£20.
Although Virgin may have the best known branding as result of its other endeavours, it is by no means the only player in town. Servista.com also entered the market claiming to be the first new entrant to the market to offer a single bill for electricity, gas and telecomms.
Of the bigger players, PowerGen, ScottishPower, United Utilities and Centrica have all launched bundled household services over the Internet. Indeed, ScottishPower has long been at the forefront of utilizing the Internet to bring a new dimension to customer care while reducing costs.
In early 1998 it announced that it planned to become the first in the UK energy sector to offer customers the facility to pay their utility bills through the internet (see PEi April 1998, page 48).
At present, customers can sign up for ScottishPower services over the Internet but the aim is to make this online facility a fully end-to-end electronic service. Like Virgin Energy, this involves giving users the opportunity to enter their meter readings, view energy consumption and pay their bills online whenever they choose. The site enhancements are scheduled to go live by the end of the year. ScottishPower’s director for e-business says the enhancement will increase company efficiency while offering customers more choice and the ability to buy additional products and services.
The company has also just announced that its joint venture with The Royal Bank of Scotland has introduced Work24, a portal targetted at the UK’s 3.6 million small and medium sized businesses.
It will be interesting to see how moves by utilities and new entrants into the retail electricity market develop. Much will depend on the uptake of the Internet, and how comfortable people feel with using it to submit secure information. It may be that things will not really get into full swing until the digital TV revolution takes hold.


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Chuck E. Cheese Debuts Oculus Rift Birthday Parties
The party giant will pilot an AR program with the "Virtual Ticket Blaster Experience."
Chuck E. Cheese may bring up memories of pizza, skeeball, ticket hoarding and animatronic mice, but for the next generation of kids spending their birthdays there, memories may now revolve around virtual reality gaming. The kids enternainment company has paired with Reel FX, an Oculus Rift content creator, to trial a new Oculus Rift VR game in three markets.
Launching in Dallas on May 20, and spreading to San Diego and Orlando later this month, the Ticket Blaster game will be on offer for the birthday party package in a six week trial. The game involves the ‘Birthday Star’ going into a booth, equipped with an Oculus Rift headset. He or she will then be guided by Chuck E. into a virtual world where they must try and gather as many virtual tickets as possible.


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ADOTAS – Social media advertising company Compass Labs recently launched (without much fanfare, until right now) notable updates to its CLIQ platform, which targets ads to social media users based on behavior and social sharing, rather than through simple profile information and status updates. CLIQ launched relatively quietly back in September, 2011, and the new updates take advantage of the months spent analyzing the performance of campaigns that used CLIQ. During a conversation earlier today, Compass Labs CEO Dilip Venkatachari (pictured) explained the difference from the earlier release was “predominantly the insights.” While the first version was about advertising, “this version does the measurement of the advertising,” he said.
The updates allow brands to reach a target audience using a broader range of phrases, and they offer fan page analytics to better gauge sentiment toward and engagement with a brand, but Venkatachari and Compass Labs vice president of marketing Molly Glover Gallatin pointed out agencies really stand to benefit now from CLIQ’s insights. Via alerts and email notifications, agencies can set campaign rules, and they can create thousands of ads with different creative content, and designed with different audiences in mind, which CLIQ optimizes automatically. “We’ve done a lot with the [user interface] to make it more intuitive,” Gallatin said. “It’s Facebook — it’s 24-seven, right? If you’re an agency, you can’t go out for dinner” monitoring such a campaign. But with CLIQ’s automated functions, “it’s a huge stress reliever to know it’s not going to run out of control.” And, with CLIQ, Venkatachari points out, it’s possible to “do engagement measurement in real time. From a brand standpoint, that’s a key metric.”
According to Venkatachari, the thing that makes CLIQ distinct is the way it contextualizes social data. With many other companies looking to advertise across social media, “what they’re talking about is ‘liking,’ not what [users] are like,” he explained. He laid out the challenges presented by social media: Over the rest of the web, to target an audience, “you need to know who it is and what they’re doing,” he explained. “Who it is comes from cookie-based data. You can’t do that on social media,” because it’s either technically impossible or somewhere on the spectrum of unsound ethics or illegality. And while targeting audiences across the web normally deals with “reading of the static content,” that tactic doesn’t work so well in social media, he asserted. “It’s dynamic and it’s not grammatical,” he said of social data.
The solution, as far as Compass Labs is concerned, is to look at publicly available social data, interactions, Tweets, check-ins and the like, and users’ relationship graphs. The technology takes into account data from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn — but, as Venkatachari explained, even if a user has one or more accounts with each of those networks, it evaluates and targets to each separately. “We don’t connect the dots,” he said, “for privacy reasons, [and] for the reason that you have given us a very different persona.” CLIQ then targets ads based on users’ specific interests, across a number of product/service categories. Venkatachari explained the goal is to seek out characteristics of audiences brands would want to reach. “Who are the best customers?” he said. “What are the characteristics of the most engaged audience?” To figure this out, the technology has to look at behavior and not just affinity toward a brand. Venkatachari pointed out how, with a particular high-end fashion brand, “80 percent of the people who ‘like’ it don’t have remotely the household income to afford it.” The whole process, Venkatachari said, “brings together marketing and advertising in an integrative manner.”


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I’m very pleased to announce that Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Revolution Analytics. Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, the world’s most widely used programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics. Show More Summary
This week, Microsoft introduced the next generation in more personal, more mobile and more intuitive computing with Windows 10. We also got the 411 on Cortana’s persona. Apparently, there was room for more excitement, following the Seahawks miracle win to return that that annual pro football championship. Show More Summary
Microsoft has revealed a few new tidbits about Spartan, its new 'modern' browser for Windows 10, and its relationship with IE.
Microsoft's touch-first Office suite, as well as its desktop Office 2016 suite, are inching closer to public preview.
Yesterday, we announced a new chapter for Windows, where we’ll be delivering a More Personal Computing Experience for end-users and a truly Universal Platform for developers. For users, Windows 10 will be even more of the Windows Experience they know and love. Show More Summary
In the next few days, Microsoft will deliver the latest preview release of Windows 10. But don't expect to see everything that the company showed off in this week's live demo. Here's what you'll see and what's still missing.
Some of the most productive work happens when you can harness the collective knowledge and skills of a group. When you bring the right backgrounds and experience together, suddenly the most challenging problems feel like they can be solved. Show More Summary
2015: this is the year that sci-fi becomes real.
Company lawyer Brad Smith spoke in Brussels about government reactions to terror attack.
Microsoft is developing new Windows 10 hardware, including a new conferencing system with Perceptive Pixel multitouch displays and augmented reality glasses known as HoloLens.
Microsoft shared a bit of its pricing strategy for Windows 10, and provided he first public demonstration of Windows 10 mobile.
On Wednesday, Microsoft shared more about Windows 10 experiences and how it will “inspire new scenarios across the broadest range of devices, from big screens to small screens to no screens at all,” writes Terry Myerson, executive vice president, Operating Systems, in a blog post. Show More Summary
App lets you capture Windows game clips, interact with friends cross-platform
The following is a post from Jean-Philippe Courtois, President, Microsoft International. The key challenge posed at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year is this: what can we do to kick-start economic progress amid global complexity?...Show More Summary
Microsoft has purchased Equivio, maker of a machine-learning platform for the legal industry, for an undisclosed amount.
I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Equivio, a provider of machine learning technologies for eDiscovery and information governance. We are making this acquisition to help our customers tackle the legal and compliance challenges inherent in managing large quantities of email and documents. Show More Summary
Microsoft will show off Windows 10 mobile and touch-first Office for Windows at its January 21 Windows 10 event, but the first mobile preview isn't likely until February.
Having the right data means that businesses can predict trends: What are the energy demands in buildings? What products should a company continue to stock, and which ones should they stop carrying? Azure Machine Learning provides the data to help make these kinds of decisions, changing the way business – and lives – are affected. Show More Summary
Microsoft is making Windows 8.1 available to its PC partners for anywhere from 'zero dollars' to $15 per copy, according to recently disclosed OEM licensing information.
Maybe you’ll be participating in a breakfast or a parade honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or maybe you want to learn more about the iconic civil rights leader, whose birthday is honored Monday with a federal holiday. You can start...Show More Summary


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Every Macworld brings something new to Mac lovers. This year, Steve Jobs pulled out an interoffice envelope, opened the flap and revealed the new “ MacBook Air” – the thinnest notebook computer on the planet. For us though the highlight of the...
Scientific tests, arranged by Greenpeace, reveal that Apple's iPhone contains hazardous chemicals. The tests uncovered two types of hazardous substances, some of which have already been eliminated by other mobile phone makers.
A sewage exit discharging untreated wastewater in Jiangsu Province.
The fourth edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics is out now. Apple moves up as a result of Steve Job's "Greener Appple" pledge to phase out PVC and other chemicals from their product line. But Nokia is on top because they've...
We are cheering! Steve Jobs has decided to bring us closer to the greener apple that Mac users all over the world have been asking for.
In Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, a factory directly discharges wastewater into Poyang Lake.
Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics
The latest Greenpeace ranking of electronic manufacturers' recycling and toxic content policies has a couple of surprises: a previously low ranked Chinese company leaps to the number one spot, and Apple stays in last place.
All the popular people get lots of mail on Valentine's Day. But Apple boss Steve Jobs has been getting messages for a while from Apple fans asking for a green Apple. Now news reaches us that Steve may just be considering sending a little green...
The electronics industry is often considered a 'clean' industry. But sleek shiny gadgets hide a darker side of the industry. Our new report 'Cutting Edge Contamination' exposes that some of the electronics industries' biggest brands, and their...
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