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 Retail Spotlight: Home Depot Reimagines How Employees Conduct Tasks The home improvement retailer puts the customer first by initiating local fulfillment centers and simplifying freight-to-shelf inventory management For many retailers, the stock room is the cornerstone behind impactful, influential change. But when it comes to employees and associates, many retailers have failed to truly understand what it means to engage and empower its organization. In our latest report, the  Future of Retail 2017 , our researchers looks at how proper inventory management can reduce overhead costs, optimize order fulfillment and simplify employee tasks. Home Depot is one company that stands out when it comes to reimagining how employees conduct tasks and consumers buy goods. By leading innovation in the stock room, the American home improvement retailer is bringing fluid change to how it interacts with customers. In a world where digital retai...

 New browser extension, Read&Write for Microsoft Edge, now online A new Microsoft Edge browser extension is now available called, Read&Write for Microsoft Edge. The extension is currently in a free beta for users to experience but will be given a price once the beta phase finishes. Here’s the official description: Boost reading and writing confidence. Offer support for Word Online, web and OneNote to students with learning difficulties, dyslexia or ELL/ESL. Read&Write for Microsoft Edge™ offers a range of powerful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including: Hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting See the meaning of words explained with text and picture dictionaries Hear text translated into other languages Highlight text in documents or the web Simplify and summarize text on web pages Read&Write for Microsoft Edge™ is a us...