Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Hip-hop entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly placed a $3.3 million bid to acquire his own fashion brand, Sean John , out of bankruptcy, according to Bloomberg. The retailer is currently 90% owned by brand management firm GBG USA through a joint venture with Combs, who sold the majority stake in 2016. Combs is now the stalking-horse bidder for Sean John; other interested buyers can submit offers until Dec. 15, 2021.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Harrods has launched its first stand-alone H beauty destination in Scotland, in the heart of Edinburgh. Following two successful H Beauty store openings across England, the latest H beauty, will be located at St James Quarter, in the heart of Edinburgh’s shopping district. The store is an experiential playground where both beauty novices and experts can discover the industry’s most innovative brands in addition to finding their long-standing favourites. © Sandy Young Photography Sandy Young/scot

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Woolworths Group has put forward its own non-binding bid to acquire Australian Pharmaceutical Industries at a cash price of $1.75 per security – a 20c per share premium on Wesfarmers’ $1.55 per security offer. According to Woolworths, API’s board has determined their proposal is likely to be superior to Wesfarmers’, and it is working to “quickly” finalise its due diligence enquiries.

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Retail Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Dave Clark, CEO of Amazon.com’s consumer business, said the company expects to be the largest carrier of parcels by the end of this year or early in 2022. Mr. Clark said Amazon has been building its supply chain infrastructure for over two decades to get to this point.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Since the start of the pandemic, the prevalence ofanxiety, stress, depression and PTSD amongst all age groups has skyrocketed — igniting more conversations around mental health. Subsequently, the term “neurodiversity” has sprung up in multiple conversations surrounding the way we interact with our environments. Neurodiversity celebrates the differences in how people’s brains take in and process information.

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Tokinomo

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Tis the season to be jolly! Also, it’s that time of year when customers are buying a lot more and spending more time in-store than ever. Retailers and brands need to be prepared for holiday shopping because it’s an opportunity that only strikes once a year.

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Retail Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Toys R Us is opening a new U.S. flagship store at the American Dream mall in New Jersey. The store will feature more than 10,000 toys, a two-story slide and an ice cream parlor. “Toys R Us is back and it’s back in a mega way,” said Yehuda Shmidman, WHP Global and Toys R Us chairman and CEO. “This is going to be our largest format store in America.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Gift cards are shaping up to be a holiday hero this season, as consumers and retailers continue to grapple with supply and shipping issues. The latest data from the Adobe Digital Economy Index revealed that out-of-stock messages rose a whopping 325% in October 2021 compared to the same month in pre-pandemic times (way back in 2019), and in the last month alone consumers have been hit with more than 2 billion out-of-stock messages online.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Debenhams.com has opened a physical flagship Beauty destination at the iconic Manchester Arndale. Since the acquisition by the Boohoo Group at the beginning of 2021, the British e-tailer has harnessed their beloved heritage whilst rebranding their aesthetic welcoming a fresher, modern and more inclusive image overall. The launch of the Debenhams.com Beauty store, spreading across two floors and covering a total area of 7,552 sq. ft of prime retail space, will give customers the chance to experie

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2021

After experiencing bullying in the workplace, Amber Wilkinson left her corporate job and started a small business with the aim of bringing a little more kindness to the world – through clothing. The Melbourne-born brand Kind is Cool has a range of clothing options for kids and adults featuring positive messaging. This Christmas, the brand has launched a festive range of unisex clothing and is donating $2 from every sale to anti-bullying foundation Bully Zero.

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Retail Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Gina Drosos, CEO of Signet Jewelers, which owns Jared, Kay and Zales, said the company had expected consumers to do their holiday shopping earlier this year and made sure it had the right merchandise and marketing plans in place to meet demand. The company’s same-store sales were up 18.9 percent in the third quarter on top of a 14 percent gain during the same period in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

eBay will acquire Sneaker Con Digital ’s authentication business to enhance the marketplace’s Authenticity Guarantee. More than 1.9 million pairs of sneakers are available on eBay any given day, making the category an important one for the retailer. “eBay has always been a vibrant community of enthusiasts, with deeply knowledgeable buyers, sellers and employees,” said Jordan Sweetnam, SVP and General Manager of eBay North America in a statement.

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Cisco Retail

DECEMBER 2, 2021

There is no doubt that the future of work for almost everyone is hybrid, but the reality of keeping a hybrid workplace up and running is a complex endeavor. Whether your business has 100, 1000, or 100,000 employees, keeping them connected and secure from wherever they choose to work, is no small task. The race to keep ahead of this hybrid workforce has also accelerated the journey to the cloud for many enterprises.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Woolworths Group has put forward its own non-binding bid to acquire Australian Pharmaceutical Industries at a cash price of $1.75 per security – a 20c per share premium on Wesfarmers’ $1.55 per security offer. According to Woolworths, API’s board has determined their proposal is likely to be superior to Wesfarmers’, and it is working to “quickly” finalise its due diligence enquiries.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

NVIDIA is making it easier than ever for researchers to harness federated learning by open-sourcing NVIDIA FLARE , a software development kit that helps distributed parties collaborate to develop more generalizable AI models. Federated learning is a privacy-preserving technique that’s particularly beneficial in cases where data is sparse, confidential or lacks diversity.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Dollar General is preparing to embark on a massive expansion as it comes off a strong Q3 2021. The off-price retailer announced plans for 1,050 new store openings, 1,750 store remodels and 100 store relocations; the launch of 1,000 pOpshelf locations by fiscal 2025; and the company’s entrance into Mexico with 10 stores in fiscal 2022. The new store openings will help Dollar General maintain its momentum.

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Cisco Retail

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Commonwealth Government in Australia recently announced imminent changes to reporting obligations related to critical infrastructure security. The changes have been under consideration for some time and the subject of widespread consultation among owners and operators of 11 sectors which have been identified as high priority. Referred to as CISONS – or critical infrastructure and systems of national significance – these high priority infrastructure assets have the potential to cause enormous

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Premier Retail has suffered a stop-start beginning to FY22, with total sales down 3.5 per cent throughout the half-to-date due to the mandated closure of more than half of its store network. According to the business, which runs Jay Jays, Just Jeans, Peter Alexander, Smiggle, Portmans, Jacqui.E, and Dotti, it has already lost more than 42,000 trading days this financial year – though stores have already started reopening across key states in Australia and New Zealand.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether facilitating cancer screenings, cutting down on false positives, or improving tumor identification and treatment planning, AI is a powerful agent for healthcare innovation and acceleration. Yet, despite its promise, integrating AI into actual solutions can challenge many IT organizations. The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), one of the world’s top-rated cancer research and treatment centers, is using the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite to test AI workloads on higher-precision 3D c

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In the first usage of Amazon ’s Just Walk Out (JWO) technology by a non-Amazon international retailer, Sainsbury’s has deployed the cashierless solution in its Holborn Circus convenience store. In another first, customers access the checkout solution via the Sainsbury SmartShop app rather than the Amazon app, meaning they can use an interface they already are familiar with.

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Cisco Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Cisco is proud to be the only vendor recognized by SE Labs as Best Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) in their 2021 Annual Report. We’re honored to receive industry recognition for excellence in the network firewall market and for making security less complex, more agile, and better able to defend against today’s and tomorrow’s threats. I couldn’t be prouder of our Cisco Secure Firewall team and our amazing customers who continue to develop their network security around our firewall, and who have

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

China’s dominance in manufacturing has made it the factory of the world. The subsequent economic growth enriched an ever-expanding middle class, and the country’s retail industry has quickly adapted to supply a growing appetite for consumption. Some of these developments in the way people spend their money, powered by the latest technology, will soon be appearing on a device near you.

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

KP Snacks has refreshed its packaging to mark its £150m sales milestone earlier this year. The new packs will be available from December and feature “vibrant colours, sharp graphics and bold patterns”. John McDougall, brand manager at KP Snacks, said: “Hula Hoops is an iconic brand and continues to be a dominant player in the crisps, This story continues at Hula Hoops unveils refreshed packaging.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Marta Ortega Pérez has been named Chairwoman of Inditex Group — parent company of Zara , Pull&Bear and Massimo Dutti — and Óscar García Maceiras will replace Carlos Crespo as CEO, completing a “generational handover process” at the fashion conglomerate that began in 2011. Pérez, the daughter of Inditex founders Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera, has worked in different areas of the group for the last 15 years, in particular strengthening Zara’s brand image and fashion proposition, an are

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Cisco Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Zero Trust : as the name implies, is the strategy by which organizations trust nothing implicitly and verify everything continuously. This industry north star is driving different architectures, frameworks, and solutions to reduce an organization’s risk and improve their security posture. Beyond the need to enforce strong authentication and authorization to establish trust of an endpoint, how can we verify continuously?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Virgil Abloh, artistic director at LVMH, Louis Vuitton and Off White, has passed away. Abloh had been privately battling cancer for several years, according to a statement from LVMH. “We are all shocked after this terrible news,” LVMH chairman and chief executive officer Bernard Arnault said. “Virgil was not only a genius designer, a visionary, he was also a man with a beautiful soul and great wisdom.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

REI Co-op has named long-time Amazon executive Cameron Janes to its newly created position of SVP and Chief Commercial Officer. The outdoors retailer also has promoted Kelley Hall to EVP and CFO, and named Vivienne Long to SVP and Chief Marketing Officer. Cameron Janes. Janes, whose most recent position was VP, Physical Retail for Amazon, will begin his new role on Jan. 2, 2022.

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Cisco Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Justin Hillberg, managing director of shared services of SurfStitch-owner Alquemie Group, is stepping down from his role leading the surf brand’s restructure at the end of this week. “While leaving was a difficult decision, the timing for an exit feels right for me and the business,” Hillberg said. “The Alquemie Group remains in a very strong position with exciting plans for the future and a strong executive team that is focused on delivering growth.”.

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