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Inside the Real-World Santa’s Workshop that is PersonalizationMall.com

Retail TouchPoints

PersonalizationMall.com ‘s factory ranks have swelled from 500 to 4,000 employees and the facility is now operating 24/7 to create 150,000 items a day — each of them unique. It truly is a real-world Santa’s Workshop, although it didn’t reach its current scale overnight. In the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Ill.,

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Build-A-Bear Enhances Shopper Journey by Delivering Relevant Customer Data to Associates’ iPads

Retail TouchPoints

Build-A-Bear Workshop has deployed a new cloud-native, mobile-first POS and customer engagement solution in 450 stores across the U.S., For more than 26 years, Build-A-Bear Workshop has become known, and beloved, for its highly interactive visitor experience.

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NRF Launches Retail Sustainability Center

Retail TouchPoints

As part of the NRF Big Show, the organization will host a Sustainable Retail Workshop on Jan. Scot Case, VP of Corporate Social Responsibility at NRF, will be the Center’s Executive Director.

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Three Ways to Improve Your Productivity in Your Workshop

365 Retail

It can tell you a lot about the operation of your business as a whole, and improving it has knock-on economic benefits. If you are run a workshop in manufacture, engineering or another trade, the productivity of your workers is plain to see in the speed and effectiveness at which they complete repair or assembly tasks. Music at Work.

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Retailers Focus Giving Tuesday Efforts on Feeding People, Pets

Retail TouchPoints

The Chewy Gives Back program will make product donations of up to $1 million per week to shelters and pet rescue operations in need, based on purchases made through Jan. This year the program supports Sesame Workshop , EmbraceRace and Roots ConnectED. 27 to Dec. 3, 2024, with a seasonal goal of raising $10 million.

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Microsoft Closes All Physical Stores In Pivot To Online Operations

Retail TouchPoints

Microsoft will shutter all its physical Microsoft Store locations as part of a “strategic change in its retail operations,” according to a statement from the company. Microsoft currently operates 73 stores in the U.S. The company hosted more than 14,000 online workshops and summer camps and more than 3,000 virtual graduations.

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Build-A-Bear Names New Tech Chief

Retail TouchPoints

Build-A-Bear Workshop has hired Dara Meath as its new SVP and CTO and placed her on its senior leadership committee, reflecting the retailer’s commitment to its ongoing digital transformation efforts. Dara Meath. Meath will report to Build-A-Bear’s CFO Voin Todorovic. Prior to Conair she was the VP of IT at The Camuto Group.

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