Inside Retail
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Australia Post has opened its first dedicated parcel facility in South Australia in a bid to improve its business in the state, now being able to process 8,000 parcels an hour locally. Located in Adelaide, the 15,000 sqm distribution centre is the home of the business’ first machine able to simultaneously sort small and large parcels, which should go some way to improving productivity.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Louis Vuitton has announced the opening of its latest store in the newest luxury wing of Ayala Malls Makati, Greenbelt 3. Inspired by Louis Vuitton’s Spirit of Travel and intertwined with local elements, the store has special features that are unique to a traditional Filipino home. The luxury fashion house collaborated with Filipino designers and sisters Stephanie Kienle Gonzalez and Jessica Kienle Maxwell of Philux.
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Retail TouchPoints
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Over the past 18 months, retailers have been working hard to figure out how they can continue to meet and exceed customer demand when it comes to receiving orders, all while thinking about the next thing that will come their way. What many have found is that the ability to localize the last mile is a tremendous competitive advantage, especially as many retailers are beginning to entertain options like 10-minute delivery.
Tokinomo
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Marketing is an essential part of any business, especially in the retail industry. If you want customers to hear about your products, then marketing is the answer to your questions. Also, marketing is the one that helps you position your brand and improve the way customers see your brand.
Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber
Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Retailers around Australia are looking again to a brighter future. With New South Wales-based retailers opening their doors to shoppers and Victorian businesses set to follow, the Australian economy is being prised back open just in time for a busy holiday trading period. As restrictions ease, and consumers in Australia’s most populous states regain some basic freedoms, the recovery can now get underway.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Landsec has today announced the official opening of international fashion retailer, ZARA, at One New Change, the premier retail and leisure destination in the City of London. Located on Cheapside, the new 23,000 sq ft store features the latest Woman and Man collections over two floors, and follows recent ZARA openings across the Landsec portfolio at Bluewater and St David’s, Cardiff.
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Retail Wire
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Levi Strauss plans to open 100 stores next year after opening the same number in 2020. The brand is making investments to drive consumer-direct sales online and in stores while continuing to support in-store shops at the company’s retailer partners. “The consumer wants a seamless experience. He or she wants to be able to interact with us in our stores as well as on our website and so building an omnichannel experience has been critical during the pandemic,” said the company’s CFO Har
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 17, 2021
New South Wales customers came out in force to support local businesses last week, after retail and personal service businesses were finally able to open their doors to the public again. According to data from CommBank, clothing stores saw spending jump 336 per cent compared with the week prior, while jewellery sales rose 419 per cent and toys and games stores saw sales grow 235 per cent.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Birmingham can boast that it’s home to the world’s largest Primark store but from next week it will have another claim to fame as LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Birmingham opens the doors to the world’s smallest Primark. The LEGO model, which will be situated within the attraction’s Miniland display, is a replica of the city’s 160,000 square foot Primark , which opened in the city 2019.
Retail TouchPoints
OCTOBER 21, 2021
In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. According to Google, users shop across its platform more than 1 billion times every day, but only a fraction of them are actually buying products on Google — and the company is okay with that. “ We’re indifferent on where the shopping journe
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Wiser
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Ahh, the age-old problem for your brand—how to win more share of shelf. It’s common knowledge that optimizing shelf space at your top-performing retailers (and edging out the competitors in your category) is a core part of increasing sales. What’s not always common knowledge? That there are easier ways out there to convince stores to give you better placements on the shelf.
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Gianni Versace CEO, Jonathan Akeroyd, has been appointed as the new CEO and executive director of Burberry, effective April. Akeroyd will succeed Marco Gobbetti, who will step down from the role and leave Burberry by the end of this year. As the group’s new CEO, he will report to chair Gerry Murphy and the board. “Akeroyd is an experienced leader with a strong track record in building global luxury fashion brands and driving profitable growth,” said Murphy.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Coach introduces Windows of the Future, a new initiative where Coach stores around the world are reimagined as community hubs with bespoke experiences. Inspired by Coach’s free-spirited and inclusive approach to its heritage, the initiative will introduce bespoke window displays at nine locations around the world, many in collaboration with local artists.
Retail TouchPoints
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Customer experience and employee experience live in two different acronyms, CX and EX. That’s a problem. It means your organization is set up to serve two different initiatives without connecting the dots between the two. A recent Forrester survey report found that companies that provide connected experiences between CX and EX report dramatic benefits around innovation, cost reduction, revenue growth, customer experience and digital transformation.
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Cisco Retail
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Between reacting to change and reimagining education, there’s a bridge. You’re reinventing education models in real-time. The rise of distance and hybrid learning since 2020 means staff and students are relying on your systems like never before. You’re adjusting to a mix of new technology needs back in classrooms. Security and privacy are paramount.
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 20, 2021
You have to spend money to make money. It’s a phrase most people know well, especially when you own or run a business. Of course, a business shouldn’t use capital irresponsibly and spend without consideration, but establishing and growing a business does require money for inventory, marketing and advertising, staff costs, setting up internal systems and investing in growth.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Quality Street and John Lewis are making the nation’s sweet dreams come true as they announce the return of in-store pick and mix stations. Shoppers will be able to create their own bespoke collection of favourites from the 12 delicious sweets in this year’s pick and mix assortment, as well as personalise the collector’s tin which has been specially produced for John Lewis.
Retail TouchPoints
OCTOBER 21, 2021
PayPal is reportedly in talks to acquire Pinterest , according to media outlets including The New York Times , Financial Times , Bloomberg and CNBC. Bloomberg ’s sources said that PayPal is looking at a potential price of approximately $70 a share, which would value Pinterest at around $45 billion. If the rumors are true, the deal should be announced in the very near future: sources told Reuters that PayPal hopes to successfully negotiate and announce a deal in time for its quarterly earnings re
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Cisco Retail
OCTOBER 19, 2021
On a typically cool June 10, 2019, in San Diego, CA, we introduced a transformation in our network engineering certifications, with software, automation, and security woven throughout. We also announced a brand-new set of DevNet certifications that focused on a software-first approach to Cisco’s products and technologies. We had an Associate-level certification, various Specialist-level certifications, and a Professional-level certification.
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 17, 2021
After months without a full-time chief executive, Crumpler co-founder David Roper has returned to the bag business in order to bring it back to its roots. In an announcement made on the business’ Facebook, Roper said he is grateful for all the business’ staff and supporters, and is bringing his daughter, Virginia Martin, into the business – her exact role isn’t yet known, but a Crumpler spokesperson told Inside Retail she will be assisting Roper. “I’m so happy to be
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Tesco is launching its first checkout-free high street store where shoppers can pick up their groceries and leave without the need for a till. It is the latest retail giant to open a store where checkouts are replaced by high-tech cameras designed to track the items shoppers place in their baskets. The firm’s high street store trial, which it has called GetGo, launches in High Holborn in London on Tuesday.
Retail TouchPoints
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Saks Fifth Avenue is reportedly aiming to go public in the first half of 2022 with a targeted valuation of approximately $6 billion , people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. Saks was last valued at $2 billion in March 2021 when the company split off its ecommerce business from the brick-and-mortar operations, now called SFA. Venture capital firm Insight Partners took a minority stake following the split, when Saks’ sales annual sales were $1 billion.
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Cisco Retail
OCTOBER 20, 2021
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Inside Retail
OCTOBER 17, 2021
After enduring over 100 days of lockdown in NSW, non-essential retail, beauty, and hair services finally reopened their doors last Monday, to excited consumers and clients. Since reopening, hair salons and barbers have been overwhelmed by clients desperate to get their unruly locks back under control, and beauty services have been in high demand after months of home treatments and self-scrutiny during Zoom calls.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Laings The Jewellers has unveiled its stunning new-look showroom at Cardiff’s St David’s as it officially relaunches. The expansion project, which has seen the existing showroom more than treble in size to 4,735sq ft, features dedicated diamond and jewellery areas, providing guests with the opportunity to view carefully curated collections in an immersive environment.
Retail TouchPoints
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Eileen Fisher will reportedly step down as CEO of Eileen Fisher at the beginning of 2022 to focus on design, with the goal of eventually moving away from that role as well, according to WWD. She still plans to remain very involved with the retailer, including continuing to serve as chair of the board, but will step back from day-to-day operations. “I have tried before to let go and it’s just that I’m ready now,” said Fisher in an interview with WWD.
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Cisco Retail
OCTOBER 20, 2021
This guest blog was written by Aaron Sherrill , Senior Research Analyst at 451 Research , part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. . Set the Stage: A World Without XDR. Security operations teams at most organizations are overwhelmed by the sheer number of security products they’re required to manage. Over the course of many years , security teams have stitched together a robust security stack with dozens, if not hundreds, of disparate, siloed security tools , each aimed at protecting specifi
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Online marketplace Kogan has recovered somewhat from disasterous inventory and logistics costs of last year, with gross profit growing 31.6 per cent during the first quarter of FY22 compared to the prior quarter, though remained 1.7 per cent down on the same time last year. Gross sales grew 21 per cent year on year to $330.5 million, driven by Kogan First memberships – which hit 197,000 members in the quarter – as well as strong growth in Kogan Marketplace and Mighty Ape.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 19, 2021
CBRE Investment Management has announced the signing of sports fashion retailer JD Sports in a new flagship store at Lion Walk in Colchester, set to open this October. Lion Walk’s retail offering has continued to grow over the last two years under new management, with a range of major high street brands joining the scheme. Despite the pandemic, the Centre is currently at its highest ever occupancy and footfall, attracting 180,000 customers per week.
Retail TouchPoints
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Burberry has appointed Jonathan Akeroyd as CEO and Executive Director, effective April 2022. Akeroyd is currently CEO of Gianni Versace SpA , a position he has held since 2016. He will succeed Marco Gobbetti, who was named Burberry CEO in 2017. Gobbetti is leaving Burberry at the end of 2021 to take the reins at Salvatore Ferragamo. Gerry Murphy, Burberry Chair, will head the company until Akeroyd comes aboard in April.
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