In addition to the exciting things happening in shoes, there are many other notable merchandising and service initiatives underway at Saks.
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Employees at all the chains around the world now attend training four times a year at which customer-service initiatives are hammered home.
His research reveals they are significantly more likely to participate in community service initiatives, join civic, religious or business organizations and be politically involved.
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The group also identified promising ways that community and interfaith service initiatives can help transform schools through academics, youth development, social and health supports, and family engagement.
The new service includes an app recommendation program, known as Scout, a rewards program called Percs, "social media integration, " and customer service initiatives known as Pulse and Circle.
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Where are the public service initiatives of the Kennedy years?
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The IRS has dramatically ramped up its efforts to both curb ID theft and help victims (even, it says, at the expense of enforcement and service initiatives).
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The National Taxpayer Advocate has recommended the IRS develop ROIs for its taxpayer service initiatives and measures that create better incentives for IRS leaders to adopt procedures that prevent delinquencies and promote voluntary compliance.
Service and quality-control initiatives include more English-Spanish training for store workers, mystery shoppers assigned to put pleasant service to the test, and an "e-learning" program to update employees on new products and services more quickly.
Moreover, by the end of the 2013 fiscal year I expect we will see the first benefits of these many operational, service, and merchandise initiatives.
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He predicted that Mr. Hagel, if confirmed, would have a hard time pushing shifts in defense-spending priorities, and he would need support from all the military service chiefs to push through his initiatives.
Significant new economic growth, if it is achievable, will come mainly from successful deregulation initiatives in the agriculture and service sectors, which together make up over 70 percent of the economy.
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Tescan closed down in 1981 and, after a short period of unemployment, Mr Ashdown got a job as a youth worker with Dorset County Council Youth Service, where he was responsible for initiatives to help the young unemployed.
Almost 71 percent of citizens said they would prefer to pay a service fee rather than fund e-government initiatives through taxes.
The Company intends to continue to consider using pricing initiatives on BlackBerry 7 devices and service fees in some markets as a way to maintain our subscriber base and drive more BlackBerry users.
Duncan said the strongest trends his company sees in these development initiatives are in the growth of service-oriented software architectures, subscription-based software sales and industry-specific standards in areas such as radio frequency tags and cellular telephony standards.
Even though both the companies missed market expectations in their latest quarterly results, Home Depot seems to have handled the difficult housing market and slow demand recovery better with successful cost-cutting and efficiency initiatives, store remodels, improved service and better pricing strategies.
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And some iTunes initiatives, like a Ping social networking service, flopped.
The strategy builds on several initiatives, including Executive Order 13571, Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service, and Executive Order 13576, Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government.
My team at AltruHelp is working to address this problem by providing organizations and individuals with social technology to amplify awareness of civic initiatives to relevant audiences while inspiring increased levels of service.
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Belkin and Cisco intend to develop a strategic relationship on a variety of initiatives including retail distribution, strategic marketing and products for the service provider market.
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The Internal Revenue Service uses social media tools and platforms to share the latest information on tax changes, initiatives, products and services.
So initiatives like the Isis mobile payments network in the U.S. and other joint worldwide standardization initiatives like those driven by the GSM Association are bringing together mobile operators and payment service providers to try and create critical mass.
The ICBL pays lip service to the idea of clearance, but only as secondary to their main bureaucratic, legislative and publicity initiatives.
But famous examples of maladministration such as the troubled introduction of a new IT system for the National Health Service, chaos in the allocation of rural payments and tax credits, and ill-drafted private-finance initiatives seem to justify concern.
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