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Reports: Nike Cutting Ties With Six Retailers, Including DSW and Urban Outfitters

Retail TouchPoints

Nike has reportedly closed its accounts with DSW , Urban Outfitters , Shoe Show , Dunham’s Sports , Olympia Sports and Big 5 Sporting Goods as the retailer pulls out of specialty retailers and department stores, according to Forbes and other media outlets. billion , accounting for 35% of gross sales, according to Forbes.

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How Aussie footwear brand Alias Mae stays on trend in a fast-moving market

Inside Retail

Tom Kirkhope founded the Australian fashion footwear brand Alias Mae in 2011. Drawing on his family background in footwear, and his own experience in the industry, having started working in Chinese footwear manufacturing in 2011, he launched Alias Mae as a wholesale business. Our major wholesale accounts are managed in-house.

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Melbourne quake raises question for retailers: Are you ready for a crisis?

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We have to wait until we know what the timing is and then we’ll build a plan to get it back up and going again,” he said. The big challenge is [that] a lot of our casual team have not been working a lot anyway because of lockdown, so we’re just working out a plan for those team members. In February 2011, a 6.2-magnitude

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Making the Most of Store Visits Post-Pandemic

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On the other hand, some businesses, such as home improvement stores, actually saw sales increase throughout the pandemic and began course-correcting their retail footprints to account for more online traffic. To account for this, some retailers have shifted to a hybrid model of livestreamed in-store events.

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Barnes & Noble CEO: “The big guys should be doing better”

Inside Retail

It is with a similar plan that Barnes & Noble has begun to shift its image from a large corporation to a welcoming “indie” version of a bookstore chain. James Daunt’s slow but steady work to revive Barnes & Noble’s legacy Daunt has quite an interesting history in the world of book commerce.

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Beer Cartel invites consumers to buy up shares in the business

Inside Retail

There are also plans to introduce investor perks such as free shipping and discounted pricing on beer. Beer Cartel launched its beer subscription service back in 2009 and it now accounts for about 80 per cent of the online business, according to Kelsey. If they’re making regular purchases from us, they’ll get extra benefits.”.

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Who could replace Sharon White as the next John Lewis Partnership chair?

Retail Gazette

On top of that, she has faced fierce criticism around her turnaround plan, which includes a focus on non-retail activities such as house building. Her diverse experience could come in handy with the Partnership’s plan to have at least 40% of its revenue come from non-retail. Sound familiar?