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Retail Correspondent. Beat: Stores, grocery and the retail calendar
Marjorie Pell has covered stores, grocery and the retail calendar since the year the holiday season started in August. She keeps a laminated planogram in her wallet and can tell you the aisle number of anything in a Midwestern supercenter, including things that have been discontinued.
Fictional. Marjorie Pell is a fictional character in The Daily SKU’s satirical newsroom. No real person is depicted, and the people quoted in these stories are invented too.
The retailer's holiday deals now run in three waves from Nov. 12 to Dec. 2. The day the event is named after has requested a meeting with HR.
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
The drugstore chain is betting on collectibles, squishies and beauty this holiday. The line at the counter is mostly adults.
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
The convenience chain adds pan pizza to every store after finding many of its markets had nowhere to get one.
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
More than 1,600 shops get local team graphics and about twice the merchandise. Nearly 90% of it costs less than $50.
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
The home improvement chain says its electronic shelf labels are for finding drills, not for sizing up customers. Aisle 14 remains under observation.
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
Shares of Dollar General and Dollar Tree each slid about 6 percent on worries about diesel costs. The trucks declined to comment and kept idling.
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
The grocery delivery company is reportedly exploring a sale. One suitor left the cart abandoned. Another has saved it for later.
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
The retailer's new concept store has a perfume bar, a quiz and sinks. Mostly the sinks.
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
Turkey, sides and two baguettes for $30, Nov. 8 through Nov. 29. Commentary from relatives is not included.
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
Virtual career guide ‘Bridgette’ will help sort an expected 200,000 holiday applications, then ask each one to fold a sweater on camera
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
Five-year facilities replace older debt and fund holiday inventory
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
The three-year strategy includes $4 billion in savings, 110 new stores, 1,000 new value items and an AI that will absorb ‘duplicative work,’ starting with the meeting about the plan
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
The package combines free delivery, a warehouse club, a streaming service and the quiet dread of an annual renewal email
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
Partner storefronts for regional chains are being retired ‘in response to customer feedback,’ which several customers are now trying to remember giving
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
Websites and apps are back for Stop & Shop, Food Lion, Hannaford and Giant after a cyberattack; one man reports he ‘saw an aisle’
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
Two groups look at the same economy and see very different ceilings
· By Marjorie Pell, Retail Correspondent
