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The Container Store Opens 100th Location, Doubles Down on Smaller Format

Retail TouchPoints

The Container Store has opened its 100 th brick-and-mortar location in Princeton, NJ — a small-format concept designed to boost employee productivity and optimize the customer journey. This is the sixth small-format location the Container Store has opened to date.

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Skirting Bankruptcy, J.Jill Secures $15 Million To Pay Debts And Fund Business Plan

Retail TouchPoints

The funds will provide “additional liquidity and financial flexibility” for the specialty retailer to meet its obligations to vendors and execute its business plan, the company said in a release. Term loan lenders holding 97.8% Term loan lenders holding 97.8% Bankruptcy Code.

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Luxury Lessons: What High-End Brands Can Teach Store Designers

Retail TouchPoints

But many luxury retailers are actually considering larger spaces, and in combination with the greater frequency of luxury retail renovations, high-end brands and retailers need to take a data-driven, more agile approach to store design and experience.

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Continuing Omnichannel Success Post-Holiday Season

Retail TouchPoints

Having systems that can provide visibility into all stages in an integrated way is critical to ensuring a positive customer experience and subsequent customer loyalty. Returns are inevitable after the holidays, but they do not have to tank any success that your retail business saw during peak season.

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Hudson Uses COVID Shutdown to Shave 5 Months off Transaction Platform Deployment

Retail TouchPoints

At the beginning of 2020, Hudson kicked off its deployment of the Flooid platform to provide a new backbone for all transactions across its 1,010 travel convenience stores and specialty retail, which includes proprietary book and tech stores, duty-free shops and food and beverage concessions. and Canada.

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Batteries Plus: Customer Data and Store Expertise Power Sweeping Digital Transformation

Retail TouchPoints

The company plans to get there by: Completely reimagining the path to purchase for all its varied consumer sets; Broadening marketing efforts to increase consumer awareness of what Batteries Plus does; and Doubling down on the advantage of its store footprint by finding new ways leverage its “secret sauce” — data.

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Retail Statistics You Should Know

Small Biz Trends

What do the latest retail statistics tell us about retailing in 2021? We have assembled all the numbers you need, including store operations, shopper behaviors, how retailers market their businesses, and much more. Retail Statistics: The Big Picture. The better customer experience, the more sales.