Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2022

At eBay ’s investor day March 10, CEO Jamie Iannone shared details about the company’s long-term growth strategy and previewed new products, including plans for the eBay Vault — both a physical storage facility and a digital marketplace for trading cards and other high-value collectibles.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2021

On July 1, Melbourne-based direct-to-consumer (DTC) luggage brand July launched in the US, its first market outside of Australia and New Zealand. That’s the power of the US market,” July co-founder and chief strategy officer Athan Didaskalou told Inside Retail. So, why was the launch such a success? Play to our strengths’.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The retailer instated the delivery fees to avoid raising prices of the groceries themselves, starting with pilots in six markets during the summer of 2021: Portland, Maine; Providence, R.I.; Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 and introduced a free two-hour delivery option in 2018 as it steadily expanded the grocer’s delivery footprint.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

Rose-O’Rourke lived in Bondi with her sister, Karla Rose in the early 2000s, and they started retailing Zulu & Zephyr at the infamous Bondi Beach Markets in 2013. In 2017, the brand entered the childrenswear market with its mini category as a natural extension of the Zulu & Zephyr co-founders, who were young mothers themselves.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

For the first time the tech giant broke out revenue from its advertising business (more than $31 billion in 2021 — see, you’re impressed) and announced that it will be raising the annual fee for its Prime subscription for the first time since 2018, from $119 a year to $139 a year. stock market’s history. Since 2018 in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Market trends indicate that a powerful three-point strategy for you to bring to the brands you promote is: Inspire, Deliver, Sustain. Your clients’ websites must clearly communicate how inventory can be delivered, arrival time frames, and what different shopping and shipping options cost.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 19, 2022

Azura Fashion Group was born out of the uproar caused by Burberry’s revelation in 2018 that it had destroyed millions of dollars worth of excess stock, rather than sell it at a discounted price, to protect its brand image. Over the years, Azura Fashion Group has turned to the secondhand market to sell items that are returned.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A business model that was only possible with their unparalleled investment in the systems and shipping, fulfillment and supply chain infrastructure to support it. Since Amazon Prime’s inception 15 years ago, Amazon has only increased the annual membership cost three times — rising from $79 per year in 2005 to $119 in 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

What it didn’t have at that point was a streamlined, intuitive online checkout process — and that quickly became a major hindrance to the company’s DTC expansion plans. “We It was an involved, intense process. Once there’s a certain percentage of fraudulent orders, financial companies [can stop servicing you].”

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Not only is this better for the environment, but also it saves on product and shipping costs,” Howard said. Nguyen tells Inside Retail that she saw a gap in the market for a pharmacy that specialised in cannabis education, dispensing and support. Now, they are reaping the rewards, and plan to continue growing the business.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The US website shot to fame in 2018 for its cheap prices – and incredibly long delivery times – and quickly became the most downloaded shopping app worldwide, doubling its revenue that year alone to £1.5bn ($1.9bn). When it launched in 2010, Wish.com was the only manufacturer-direct discount shopping app on the market.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2021

We’d always had plans for drive-thru to be a big part of our future growth, but following Covid, that programme will be accelerated.”. RFG is exploring ways to reduce the entry price of drive-thrus for potential franchisees, such as retrofitting shipping containers, rather than building stores from scratch. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2021

According to Coresight Research ’s Inside the World of Amazon’s Private Label Offering report, Amazon now has over 22,617 products from 111 private label brands across nearly every category — three times the number of brands they had in 2018. Amazon controls the inventory, marketing and promotional strategy.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The company now operates six brick-and-mortar shops in Canada and plans to open locations in the United States next year. The shop is located within a complex made from shipping containers. The retailer's latest shop is located at Stackt Market, a shopping complex made of shipping containers in downtown Toronto.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Marketers have been gorging on them for decades, addicted to the delicious data they provide. As a digital marketer, you know where we’re going with this. Other kinds of cookies come with their own merits for marketers. Is contextual marketing the new black? Delicious in the moment but destructive in the long run.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In the end, Kerrits closed out 2020 with growth in both its wholesale and DTC channels, with the latter increasing by an impressive 150% , according to Sara Florin, Senior Director of Branding and Marketing at Kerrits in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. The company launched its DTC site on Shopify , and then Florin joined in late 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2021

To be sure, some of the retailers debuting marketplaces are looking to compete directly with Amazon: Walmart , Target , Hudson’s Bay and the planned Debenhams marketplace (under new owner Boohoo Group ) are all essentially huge digital department stores with broad category reach. But this model is unlikely to work for most retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In fact, JOANN began an initiative to improve the store experience, involving everything from lighting, fixtures, open spaces, work tables and in-store tech, in 2018, with a pilot store in Columbus, Ohio. “It Over the next seven to eight years , the retailer plans to refresh its entire fleet of 850 stores. and Sherman Oaks, Calif.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The global market for vending machines estimated at US$134.4 Goldring said consumers are becoming more planned and purposeful in their shopping trips and that this could impact the uptake. However, Goldring believes vending machines could be impacted by the changing nature of the self-serve market and the rise of micro markets.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Since launching in the UK in 2018, furniture brand Maker & Son has quickly established itself as a go-to furniture brand for comfort, with its popular Instagram videos of a woman throwing herself onto the large cushioned sofas captivating consumers. Local manufacturing. When we expand into Singapore that will probably be.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JANUARY 11, 2023

In 2018 Casper spent $80.7 High marketing costs are one reason for Casper’s struggles but returns have also eaten into the brand’s profitability. Trader Joe’s does not offer online shopping and does not plan to. In the past Morgan Stanley has estimated the average order value for a one day shipping order from Amazon is $8.32.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2022

So that’s how it started, and it was a direct-to-consumer business way back then in the ’90s, it was a party plan-type setup. I worked in resilience training, basically taking care of people who were taking care of business, but by 2018, I was really missing the creative process. So that was the beginning [of Ngali] in September 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2021

Back in 2018, the fast food chain cheekily escalated the burger wars to the next level with creative use of technology to make the headlines. Imagine how effective your marketing spend is if you’re confident in the channels your customers are using? Rewards include shopping bonuses and entries for shopping spree sweepstakes.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It wouldn’t be precisely accurate to count Bookshop.org among the successful conquerors, since its 1% market share of print book sales is dwarfed by Amazon’s approximately 50% (by some estimates, it’s even more). But then, “from the years of like 2009 to 2018, I just watched Amazon start eating everybody’s lunch,” he said.

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Wiser

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It also comes with the benefit of an established marketing machine and a strong customer experience. While a brand might offer a generous return window, the hassle of having to ship an expensive product back to the warehouse is not one any consumer wants to deal with. Carefully Plan Your Footprint. Understand the Risks.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It’s now available on-demand , which makes this a good time to issue a spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen the episode yet but plan to, don’t read any further until you have. Since taking the helm of the nutrition and wellness retailer in 2018, Leite has introduced a broad range of initiatives aimed at reviving and growing the business.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In addition, new vendors are entering the market with innovative ideas and technologies that can ease the returns process for both the customer and the retailer, as well as improve profitability. “In The system could be set up to make such an offer only when the profit margin exceeds the shipping costs.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Hy-Vee has offered hearing aids for individuals with a prescription since 2018, in partnership with Innerscope. Hy-Vee plans to expand over-the-counter hearing aids to 100 total stores by the end of 2022. The post Select Hy-Vee stores selling O-T-C hearing aids appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 25, 2022

Established in 2018, this Decor Rental and Balloon Business has solid brand visibility and booked clients. The business currently has an average of 150 bookings annually without any advertising, so there is huge potential with the right marketing campaign. Digital Marketing Agency. Decor Rental and Balloon Business.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It’s probably twofold why [marketplaces are] starting to explode,” said Richard Hankin, a former eBay executive who is now SVP of Go-to-Market, North America at marketplace SaaS solution Marketplacer. Is the market saturated for mega-marketplaces with more than a million products and hundreds of categories like an eBay or Amazon?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

I was studying a double degree in commerce and law and did a marketing unit in China where we were brought around to various businesses, including visiting the wholesale markets over there. Compostable packaging was not so prevalent back in 2018, so I had to get creative to find ways to reduce plastic.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

New ultra fast fashion competitors like ASOS and Boohoo entered the market and did what Forever 21 did but better. Not only are these retailers fast to market with their trendy designs they are also skilled eCommerce operators. Shein is vertically integrated allowing it to go from design to shipping in as little as three days.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The brand needed the loan while it sold through excess stock it was left with after shipping issues peak last year caused delivery delays. in the year to 31 January, 2018. The furniture brand, which had concessions in House of Fraser, reportedly suffered after the department store fell into administration in 2018.

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Cisco Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

18 months ago, I thought I had it all planned out. But when that cruise ship came back into port, it was a completely different world, and suddenly I had to re-think all the plans I had. You see, I had interned with Cisco the summer of 2018 and from that moment, I knew I had to come back.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

point lift from December and was the first early January lift in five years – back in January 2018, the Consumer Confidence Index was 122 points, having lifted 5.5 per cent in November, the labour market remaining extremely tight with an unemployment rate of 3.4 On 8 January, it was only 87.4 points on the last week of December 2017.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2023

Here, Holloway talks about her journey from the banking world to fashion, the value of the tough early days ‘doing the markets’, expansion efforts in the UK and US, Merry People’s strength in digital marketing, the challenges of balancing a business with motherhood, and why the brand’s future is unisex.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Here, we speak with general manager Liam Robson about designing the brand’s high-end shops and expanding beyond the Australian and New Zealand markets. . LR: We acquired the business in 2018. We see a good opportunity for the brand in those markets longer term, especially as we ramp up and move to an international digital business.

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