Customer Data

In an interview last week at CRMC 2017 in Chicago, Tom Tracy, senior vice president of marketing at Monro, an automotive services retail chain, discussed how the company is leveraging a new data management solution to help it better engage customers. About a year ago, Monro went through an RFP process to find a CRM…

An unknown number of Kmart stores have been targeted by hackers, leading to stolen credit card numbers and unauthorized activity on customers’ credit cards, Sears Holdings Corp. said late Wednesday. Kmart’s store payment systems were infected with a virus-like computer code undetectable by current anti-virus systems. No personal information, such as names, addresses, social security…

As ad technology (AdTech) and marketing technology (MarTech) veer ever closer, retail marketers are picturing the merged data payoff it could represent – helping to build stronger, more profitable customer relationship, ones that customers appreciate more, too. But there are some key points to consider in order to pull this relationship off successfully. Here are three of those points, each centered around being smart with data.

Welcome to this week's episode of Retail Right Now. In this episode, Joe Keenan review the week's top retail news stories, including J.C. Penney's new CMO; Warby Parker's new Prescription Check app; and Target's settlement from a 2013 data breach.

Converge, consolidate, unite … call it what you want, but ad technology (AdTech) and marketing technology (MarTech) are on an irreversible (some might say collision) course to merge data as a source for tracking, anticipating and building customer relationships. However, just because it has to happen doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. There are…

Brooks Brothers said Friday it recently became aware of a security incident, which could impact the payment card information of customers who purchased items at its stores between April 4, 2016 and March 1. The upscale men's apparel retailer said the identified malicious software could have impacted users’ names, payment card account numbers, card expiration dates…

Brooks Brothers said Friday it recently became aware of a security incident, which could impact the payment card information of customers who purchased items at its stores between April 4, 2016 and March 1. The upscale men’s apparel retailer said the identified malicious software could have impacted users’ names, payment card account numbers, card expiration dates […]

Increasingly, consumers are taking charge, buying when they want, where they want and for what price. Not surprisingly, many retailers have difficulty engaging and personalizing communications and offers across multiple channels, including brick-and-mortar stores, e-commerce sites, mobile apps, call centers and social media. This issue is compounded by the fact that most retailers’ internal systems…

In episode 91 of Total Retail Talks, Aaron Bata, head of customer experience at Tuft & Needle, a manufacturer and online retailer of mattresses, is interviewed by Total Retail's Joe Keenan on how the brand is using feedback from its customers to inform business decisions. Bata also offers his advice for other retailers that are…