"Home Depot Plans 14% Increase in Seasonal Hiring" by Chris Burritt at Bloomberg.  "Home Depot Inc. plans to add more than 80,000 temporary workers ahead of its busiest season, about 14 percent more than a year ago, as a housing rebound spurs spending on remodeling and landscaping.  The largest U.S. home-improvement retailer is hiring mostly seasonal workers, though some will be offered full-time work, said Tim Crow, Home Depot’s executive vice president of human resources. Last year more than half of 70,000 temporary employees were given permanent jobs, he said."  Read more:  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-06/home-depot-plans-14-increase-in-seasonal-hiring.html   "Target® REDcard® Products Now Available [...]

  "Dime a Dozen: Dollar Stores Pinched by Rapid Expansion" by Ann Zimmerman at WSJ.  "While dollar stores were Wall Street darlings during the recession, some retail experts say their proliferation could now become a problem.  Dollar General said last week it will open 635 new stores this year, including its 11,000th location. Another chain, Family Dollar Stores Inc. added almost 500 stores in 2012, up from 300 a year before, and is expected to do the same this year. Family Dollar currently has more than 7,000 stores."  Read more:  https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323644904578270211975829422.html   "New wave bowling at Bass Pro" by Johnny [...]

  "Budweiser's Clydesdale wins Ad Meter by a nose" by Bruce Horovitz at USA Today.  "Anheuser-Busch climbed back into the saddle with the Super Bowl's top commercial — a heart-tugging tale of the bond between a trainer and the Budweiser Clydesdale he raised.But it was a horse race.  This was the Super Bowl when ads with heart got all the love in USA TODAY'S Ad Meter, which, for its 25th anniversary, vastly expanded in scope by going online to 7,619 pre-registered panelists."  Read more:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/02/04/clydesdale-ad-wins-by-a-nose/1889693/   "Hulu Announces the Top Ads from Super Bowl XLVII": OVERALL MOST LIKED ADS Top [...]

  "Lowe’s exec: Mobile represents 20% of Web traffic" by Lauren Johnson at Mobile  Commerce Daily.  "A Lowe’s executive at the 2013 Mobile Marketing Association Forum San Francisco said that mobile represents 20 percent of the company’s Web traffic, showing how the medium is increasingly becoming a bigger priority.  During the “Mobile and retail: How Lowe’s develops and leverages a complete view of the consumer” session, an executives from Lowe’s spoke about how the brand has steadily been growing its mobile footprint. The panel was moderated by Jeff Hasen, chief marketing officer at Hipcricket, New York."  Read more:  https://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/lowe%E2%80%99s-exec-mobile-represents-20pc-of-traffic   [...]