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Services and the mid-market: Takashimaya’s post-tourism plan

Inside Retail

per cent from the preceding year, to breach 1 trillion yen (US$7 billion) for the first time since 2007. That sounds nice but still, you might well be shocked that the chain spent a whole 17 years getting revenues back to where they were in 2007.

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Relationshop Empowers Regional Grocers with Stor.ai Acquisition

Retail TouchPoints

including Southern California grocery chain Vallarta Supermarkets , which deployed the company’s technology in July 2022 to bolster its online shopping and fulfillment. This icommerce approach relies on a combination of “intelligent data, individual engagement and integrated shopping,” according to a Relationshop statement. “We

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Behind the Scenes of TikTok Shop with a Pioneering U.S. Seller

Retail TouchPoints

Now the company has become the first toy brand to test out the hottest new arena in digital selling — TikTok Shop. 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. in November 2022. We’re nimble and super entrepreneurial.

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The Original Factory Shop nears sale to In The Style owner

Retail Gazette

The Original Factory Shop (TOFS) is close to being sold after more than 17 years under the ownership of private equity firm Duke Street Capital. Related Story The Original Factory Shop hires new advisors as it explores sale 20/12/2024 x 12:44 PM TOFS, which has been owned by Duke Street since 2007, operates over 180 stores across the UK.

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LSKD to open first of six planned physical stores in Melbourne

Inside Retail

Sportwear apparel brand LSKD will open its first Melbourne brick-and-mortar store at Chadstone Shopping Centre. LSKD (Loose Kid), founded in 2007, is a Brisbane-based athleisure brand that specialises in functional sportswear with a street aesthetic. It is a very surreal feeling seeing the store build start,” said Daniel.

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Generation Z: Between the Worlds of Digital and Analog

Retail TouchPoints

Constant interaction with friends on Instagram and TikTok is part of Generation Z’s lives, so there is no question that these social media channels influence what digital natives put in their shopping carts. Shopping with a PC or smartphone only ranks second and third in the PwC study. Shopping Must be Rapid and Streamlined.

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Pop Up code of practice extended through the next decade

Inside Retail

The Shopping Centre Council of Australia and the National Retail Association both welcomed the decision, which is the longest extension given to the code since it was created in 2007.

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