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Gap and Old Navy wrangle over customer data

It isn't clear who should get what.

Gap and Old Navy wrangle over customer data
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Gap is spinning off Old Navy. The successful low-price apparel brand is becoming its own, separate company. And while splitting assets can be a tricky part of any break-up, the question of what to do with the customer data accumulated by both brands, over decades, looms large.

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