Customer Satisfaction With In-Store Sales Up Since 2008
Volume 2, Issue 2 January 31, 2014 View/Print Entire Newsletter In a survey that was conducted before news broke of Target Stores’ hacking meltdown, Motorola Solutions found that overall in-store customer satisfaction has grown 23% in the last six years.…
Rosy Economic Predictions for 2014, With Caveats
Volume 2, Issue 1 January 15, 2014 View/Print Entire Newsletter Many of the economic numbers surfacing during the weeks straddling New Year’s Day have led to optimistic predictions. But you may want to keep a weather eye out for possible…
Unemployment Law Hikes Penalties for Employers
Volume 2, Issue 1 January 15, 2014 View/Print Entire Newsletter Employers who routinely brush aside the unemployment claims they don’t intend to contest may want to rethink that strategy in light of legislation that could subject them to added costs…
NLRB Drops Ambush Elections Court Case Defense, Will Revisit
Volume 2, Issue 1 January 15, 2014 View/Print Entire Newsletter The National Labor Relations Board has agreed to voluntarily dismiss its appeals of a D.C. Circuit Court ruling that overturned its ambush union election rules decision. The ambush election decision,…
Employers in Colorado Can Test Workers for Marijuana
Volume 2, Issue 1 January 15, 2014 View/Print Entire Newsletter On January 1, the news media was filled with stories about state-licensed retail shops that began selling marijuana under Colorado’s new law legalizing pot. Over the past several years a…
NRF Estimates Retail Imports Will Be Up 4.8% in January
Volume 2, Issue 1 January 15, 2014 View/Print Entire Newsletter Import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to grow 4.8% in January over the same month last year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report…
ALAN Expands Its Disaster Response Planning Efforts
Volume 2, Issue 1 January 15, 2014 View/Print Entire Newsletter Since its founding following Hurricane Katrina, the member companies of the American Logistics Aid Network have responded to meet the logistics needs of both government agencies and nongovernmental organizations when…
