Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

Known widely as one of the first subscription boxes to make a splash in the retail market, BarkBox has become just one piece of a much larger organization. RTP: How are you balancing your marketing and advertising to drive traffic not just to your owned ecommerce platform but also to your wholesale retail partners like Target?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2023

REI currently carries 35 brand partners that are Climate Neutral certified, including Cotopaxi and Allbirds, and is collaborating with brand partners that want to become certified. Customers can now easily sort and shop by Climate Neutral certified products thanks to a new feature on REI.com.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

Louis-area stores are being acquired by Leevers Supermarkets , a current Save A Lot partner with 29 stores, and they will continue to operate under the Save A Lot banner. Louis-area stores are being acquired by Leevers Supermarkets , a current Save A Lot partner with 29 stores, and they will continue to operate under the Save A Lot banner. “As

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Shein has partnered with designer Alice McCall to launch its first Australian capsule collection. I have always resonated with the idea that my designs can become attainable to a wider audience, so when the opportunity to partner with Shein presented itself, it felt like I was able to turn this vision into reality,” said McCall. “A

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2023

The global brand development and marketing platform has named two companies to serve as Hunter’s retailing and licensing partners in key geographies. Authentic plans to tap its global network of category experts and best-in-class operating partners to accelerate the worldwide expansion of Hunter in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2023

Private equity fund Glow Capital Partners is set to acquire a 51 per cent stake in an Australian hospitality uniform brand Cargo Crew. Glow Capital was established by Adore Beauty’s co-founder Kate Morris and former Quadrant Private Equity managing partner Justin Ryan in 2021.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 28, 2024

The Iconic began its journey to become BCorp certified last year. Additionally, the company’s continuous cooperation with Giving Made Easy enabled customers to donate 19,211 clothing items to Salvos Stores in 2023, while its relationship with preloved brand partners allowed shoppers to continue giving great products a new life. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2024

As consumer buying power continues to wane and become selective, there are three key tactics businesses should employ right now to overcome uncertainty, enhance competitiveness and build loyalty with consumers. Put mildly, it has been a challenging few years for retailers. Where should they start?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2024

A recent study of more than 4,700 consumers from Bread Financial indicates payment choices — including retail store credit cards, bank branded credit cards and buy now, pay later (BNPL) — at checkout have become a major factor in pleasing shoppers and closing a sale. Long gone are the days where retailers can only say, “Cash or card?”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

JD Sports has partnered with Instacart to offer delivery in as fast as one hour from more than 500 JD Sports and Finish Line stores nationwide. In today’s digital age, online shopping has become a norm, and customers are increasingly seeking swift delivery solutions,” said Kristin Matter, VP, Digital at JD Sports in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

While retailers must embrace a composable commerce strategy to become more agile and effectively disrupt their respective markets through rapid innovation, undergoing such a massive transformation is no easy task. It requires significant technical maturity and possibly assistance from an experienced partner. How to measure success?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2023

NorthLadder , a Middle Eastern marketplace for pre-owned electronics, has partnered with insights-led customer engagement platform MoEngage to create remarketing strategies and gamify the customer experience. NorthLadder enables customers to sell old electronic devices that would otherwise become e-waste in landfills.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

Online retailers About You , YOOX Net-a-Porter and Zalando have teamed up to reduce carbon emissions in their value chain by creating an online platform designed to help their brand partners set climate targets and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Then in 2023 it will become available to all eligible brand partners.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2024

Matt Kelleher, incoming Chief Digital Officer, Asda (Photo credit: Asda) Asda is continuing to evolve how it uses data to improve its customer experience as part of its long-term ambition to become the UK’s second largest grocery retailer. Asda currently sits in the number t h ree position after Tesco and Sainsbury’s ).

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2023

ReposiTrak is aiming to help retailers become compliant with the standards of Traceability Rule 204 of the Food Safety Modernization Act Section 204 (FSMA 204), which has sent the final rule to the Office of the Federal Register to be published. While there is a flat fee for suppliers, there is no cost to retailers.

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Tokinomo

APRIL 17, 2024

In the span of 5 transformative years, Tokinomo has become a global force, imprinting its innovative mark across 104 countries and 6 continents in the dynamic landscape of retail marketing. Hence, Tokinomo is not merely a provider of robotic displays but a catalyst for change in the retail industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Torrid has entered the Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) business to serve its size 10-to-30 customers, becoming resale platform ThredUP ’s first plus-size brand. Working with ThredUP is a natural step in our mission to become a more impactful brand as we leverage its RaaS platform to contribute to a more sustainable future for fashion.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2024

Beleaguered retailer Big Lots has increased its borrowing capacity by up to $200 million with a new “first in, last out” term loan facility, secured through an affiliate of Gordon Brothers Capital. Big Lots had a difficult fiscal year 2023, which ended Feb. 3, 2024. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s more effective when retailers empower CPG brands with technology partners that are more transparent. There will be no religious talk in this article, but I will pose a challenging question. And, amazingly so, the return on ad spend (ROAS) is almost always strong.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

RecycleSmart will do the sorting itself, taking the headache out of the process for customers and businesses, before passing collected waste onto councils and partners for recycling. Recycling has had a rough few years in Australia. But there is a new player on the scene. The next step will be to launch in further cities in 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Gen Z and Gen Alpha are becoming avid podcast listeners, making them a hot target for media brands and producers. To better engage with this growing “Gen Zalpha” listener base, Claire’s is partnering with podcast and audio entertainment production studio Audio Up Media on a series of new scripted audio shows.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

To succeed in the holiday peak season and ensure seamless fulfillment, deliveries, and returns, it’s essential for these partners to monitor key metrics, analyze operational data and maintain communication. Oftentimes, these hinge on the synergy between a brand and its third-party logistics (3PL) provider. 1: Demand forecasting.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2023

The senior management team of Franchise Group , led by the company’s CEO Brian Kahn along with a consortium of financial partners that includes B. If the current deal goes through, Franchise Group will become a private company and will no longer be traded on the NASDAQ. The transaction is valued at approximately $2.6

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Retail media networks (RMNs) are rapidly becoming one of the most lucrative digital ad formats, with predictions suggesting that by 2028, RMNs will contribute to 15.4% Without such a strategy, the RMN landscape risks becoming a winner-takes-all scenario dominated by a few major players.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 27, 2023

We look forward to working with our new partners in PAG, their investment affirms the strength of the platform and our future growth potential in Australia and New Zealand.” AVC currently owns and operates more than 210 pubs, bars and restaurants across Australia and New Zealand.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The company described the strategy as the “next step in the re-founding of the company” to deliver significant value to partners, customers and shareholders. To become a more global brand, it has a goal to reach 55,000 locations across the world by 2030.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We are thrilled to become part of Grocery Outlet and to have found a partner who shares our mission and business strategy,” said Lisa Bryson, CEO of United Grocery Outlet in a statement. “We Grocery Outlet, based in Emeryville, Calif., operates more than 460 stores in nine Western and Mid-Atlantic states.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Lululemon and Peloton have entered a “multi-dimensional” agreement through which Peloton will be the exclusive digital fitness content provider for Lululemon, which will become Peloton’s primary athletic apparel partner. In addition, a select number of Peloton Instructors will become Lululemon Ambassadors as part of the partnership.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

BJ’s Wholesale Club has become the latest retailer to launch a media network, offering brands a comprehensive advertising solution to connect with its members. The new program, called BJ’s Media Edge , is being launched in partnership with Microsoft’s PromoteIQ solution. “We million members. “We million members.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2024

This collaborative program features Microsoft experts and resources alongside those from a number of partners, including Adobe , Amperity , Sunrise Technologies and Icertis. For retailers this mass migration to the cloud has become imperative to meet scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency needs,” according to the RCA website. “If

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Enos added that strategic partners like Samsung will be key in bringing these unique offerings to market moving forward. When you think about our footprint, we’re large enough to matter to our brand partners, but small enough to execute test-and-learns, and be very agile and quick to market,” said Enos.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In our ongoing dialogue with Gen Zalpha, they have told us they would love to see more content from us, and I am thrilled that we can partner with Sony Pictures Television to create this series to deepen our engagement and express the power of our brand in unique, new ways. The answer to that question is becoming clearer.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Additionally, National Retail Solutions (NRS) , which provides point-of-sale and other store management solutions for more than 17,000 bodegas and neighborhood convenience stores, is partnering with Uber Direct to support same-day delivery offerings. Uber Eats expanded ordering hours and live order tracking in July 2022 ; and.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We’ve been able to sell lots and lots and lots of products, to the point that TikTok is quickly becoming one of our larger [points of sale] ,” he shared in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Now it’s here: first launched in the UK and several Asian markets, TikTok Shop was quietly made available in the U.S. in November 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Narasimhan will be fully immersed in the company during the transition period and will spend time with Schultz and the management team, partners and customers to gain in-depth exposure to the brand, company culture and Reinvention plan. Schultz will remain in the role of interim CEO during this transition period.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2023

“One of the factors that makes Amazon less susceptible to some of the challenges in the economy is that it has become a reliable and important partner to many in the consumer sector. The e-commerce giant booked a net income of $9.9 billion during the third quarter of FY23. billion, as sales grew 11 per cent to $87.9

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

By reimagining the way we work with our brand partners, we’ll grow our curated online assortment to serve more customers on even more occasions through increasing our use of unowned inventory,” said CEO Erik Nordstrom on the earnings call. over Q4 2022.

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