Robert DiPietro

It's the store experience that makes it relevant to the consumer. They hit the hot button of organic, delivered it at a good value, and the employees are happy. It's not rocket science—give the customers what they want at a fair price with competent associates.

On the surface, this seems like a home run! While the terms are not spelled out, if they can make the financials for the customers fair, this will open up a new branch of customers for Sears.

Based on the shelf life of washer/dryers and Refrigerators, I could also see...

I'm tired just reading about this. Why is it separate? It seems disjointed and not the customer experience I would expect from Target. I'm personally a heavy Target shopper, especially now that they added grocery, but I'm not sure I like this as a consumer. I'll comment back after...

Boxed software is clearly going away and retailers could just sell a 'key code' to unlock the subscription and maybe collect the first month then a residual off the following months. I don't think selling it in retail stores will go away, but the packaging will.

I'll bet other software...

The most frequent practice that causes the best associates to leave is treating everyone equally. The best performers wonder why they work so hard or why other associates don't need to contribute as much. Move from individual incentives to team share and watch performance drop.

This is an interesting partnership. It opens up a new demo for Target with the Wired brand and brings authority that Target doesn't have.

I think the biggest problem is math. If everyone hits their 98% SLA, the shelf in-stock maybe is 92%. Here is my simple observation. The forecast is 98% accurate; the Vendor fills 98% of the order, the DC picks 98% of the order correctly; then the retail store executes...

Primary goal for retailers should be to maximize sales by matching customer traffic with staffing. Easily said, but difficult to execute. First of all, you may not realize that you are losing sales because of poor staffing because you use historical data to forecast. Second and MOST IMPORTANT, it's...

Great move by Samsung! This will become a direct threat to Apple. I had a chance to handle some of Samsung's devices at CES this year and I feel that they are closing the gap on Industrial Design with Apple. The product engineering feels on par and software parity...

No surprise here! Best Buy will keep to its core competency to help drive traffic and sales at its stores, not a competitor. I believe that is the third strike as Geek Squad tried it with Office Depot, FedEx and Target—3 strikes and you're out.

Target is likely to do...