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October 27, 2025
- Brand House Collective, formerly known as Kirklands Inc., has named Lisa Foley as its new chief marketing officer, reporting to CEO Amy Sullivan. “Lisa is a proven leader who understands the intersection of marketing, customer, and growth,” said Sullivan (via Chain Store Age).
- Hormel is recalling 4.9 million pounds of chicken over concerns it may potentially be contaminated “with pieces of metal.” The frozen chicken was marketed under the Hormel Fire Braised branding, and affected products were produced between Feb. 10 and Sept. 19 of this year (via The New York Post).
- GameStop drew a great deal of media attention, as well as an improvement in its stock price, following the declaration that the console wars (notably between PlayStation and Xbox) were over. “Halo: Campaign Evolved” is slated to release on both Xbox and Playstation consoles, despite having originally been an Xbox-exclusive IP (via MarketWatch).
- Volkswagen has signaled that it has an adequate supply of chips to continue its planned production, at least for now, in the face of a semiconductor chip shortage initiated by a Chinese export ban. “The current chip crisis shows how fragile our world is. Unlike the last semiconductor crisis, this one involves very simple chips that are used across industries and especially in cars,” CEO Oliver Blume said (via Reuters).
- Lululemon is partnering with the NFL to produce apparel for all 32 teams in the league. “It really is about enabling our existing guests to be able to now wear Lululemon in arenas and stadiums, but it’s also about a new guest and expanding and really connecting our worlds in order to grow our guest base,” Celeste Burgoyne, president of Lululemon’s Americas division and global guest innovation, said (via CNBC).
- Amazon plans to expand its operations in the Netherlands over the next three years, and is slated to invest ~$1.63 billion in doing so. This sum represents the largest investment in the ecomm giant’s Dutch operations since first opening shop there in 2020 (via Reuters).
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October 24, 2025
- The September CPI report showed that prices rose by a lower-than-expected 0.3%, yet annual price hikes for a variety of consumer goods increased to the fastest pace so far this year. Wall Street appeared happy with the news, which seems unlikely to get in the way of the Fed’s plan to continue interest rate cuts (via CNN Business).
- Amazon has committed $2.5 billion to planned skills training, with the goal being broad-based upskilling for the future of work within the company. “Whether someone dreams of working at Amazon, works here now, or has moved on to their next chapter, our goal is the same: helping them have access to the education and training needed to thrive in whatever comes next,” Beth Galetti, SVP of people experience and technology at Amazon, said (via Chain Store Age).
- Procter & Gamble topped Wall Street estimates surrounding its Q1 business, bolstered by strong demand for its beauty and hair-care products. Shares ticked up modestly on the news (via Reuters).
- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada is ready to resume trade negotiations with the U.S. whenever President Trump is ready. Trump previously stated that trade talks with Canada had come to an end, following an Ontario political ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan in which Reagan spoke negatively about the impact of tariffs (via CNBC).
- Taco Bell is extending its Taco’s and Tuition eduction benefit to employees at all levels of the organization. “No matter how long a Team Member is with us, we want their time at Taco Bell to be meaningful. We’re proud to invest in their future, regardless of where their path takes them,” said Jamie Harrison, global chief people & culture officer at Taco Bell (via Chain Store Age).
- Target plans to terminate 1,000 corporate employees in addition to closing 800 open roles, moves which affect approximately 8% of its total workforce. These changes “set the course for our company to be stronger, faster and better positioned [for the future],” incoming Target CEO Michael Fiddelke said (via CNN Business).
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October 23, 2025
- General Motors is promising a unique “eyes-off” technology which will allow drivers to watch movies, catch up on emails, and other tasks while their vehicle pilots itself. “When we launch this, we’ll see what happens. We may be the first to have a personally owned self-driving vehicle that works, that’s safe and that’s important. I don’t view it as catchup. I view it as leapfrog,” said Sterling Anderson, Chief Product Officer at GM (via CNN Business).
- Amazon has rolled out four different back-end tech solutions to enhance its operations: smart glasses for delivery drivers, the Blue Jay robotics system, agentic AI model Project Eluna, and Integrated Last Mile Driver Academies (iLMDA) (via Chain Store Age).
- Unilever claimed it was beating competitors “by a mile” after delivering double-digit sales growth from its brands, including Dove, K18, and Nutrafol. The company managed to beat Q3 projected sales growth in a narrow fashion as it moves into higher-margin areas (via Reuters).
- Dick’s Sporting Goods is bucking the smaller store trend, instead expanding its physical footprint by building more “House of Sport” stores which usually come in at about 120,000 to 150,000 square feet — more than doubling its traditional locations. “We need to build the concept that if somebody else built this store across the street from us, we’re out of business, and that’s exactly what we did,” Edward Stack, executive chairman, said (via CNBC).
- Walmart is reportedly pausing the hiring of job applicants who require H1-B visas to work, sources claim. President Donald Trump has raised the fees for those visas to a substantial sum of $100,000 (via CNBC).
- Alibaba has launched its own AI chatbot assistant, integrating the functionality into its Quark app. Quark began as a browser, but has since improved its capabilities to become Alibaba’s flagship app (via Reuters).
