Retail Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Performance footwear and apparel brand, HOKA® launched in 2009 and has been disrupting the running industry ever since. Covent Garden is one of the richest and most diverse shopping and dining destinations in London with an experience-led approach to retail and hospitality, and a strong line-up of global, British, and independent brands.

Apparel 147

Apparel Location Accessories Fashion 147

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Meindert Wolfraad launched Lekker Bikes in 2009 while living in Australia as a backpacker, and over the years, he grew the brand into a successful global cycling business. Meindert Wolfraad: I started Lekker Bikes back in 2009, in Sydney. In 2018, he stepped down as CEO to take on a more strategic role.

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Management Consumer ATS Shopping 130

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Three years on, Bookshop.org now serves close to 2 million customers annually and has 1,700 independent bookstores participating, not to mention a roster of esteemed organizations that curate shops on the site, including The New York Time s , The Atlantic , Buzzfeed and a host of celebrity book clubs.

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Shopping Fulfillment Accounting Promotions 291

Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2023

Back in 2009, industrial designer Meindert Wolfraad identified a gap in the market for practical, comfortable and stylish commuter bikes that would enable Sydney-siders to get around, similar to what he saw growing up in the Netherlands. Meindert Wolfraad: Lekker Bikes started back in 2009, in Sydney. Watch this space in 2024!

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Planning Consumer Management Marketing 243

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2023

By embracing innovative solutions like autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, repurposing existing spaces and utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM), cities can foster engaging shopping experiences while addressing mobility and parking challenges.

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Planning Promotions Outdoor Finance 214

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2021

Online shopping revenues experienced massive growth and unprecedented highs in 2020. The pandemic forced consumers to shop more online, getting them more accustomed to an extremely convenient and cost-effective buying experience, which has helped form shopping habits that will stick around forever. between 2020 and 2024.

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Checkout Shopping Management Consumer 172

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 8, 2023

“Banks and private equity shops have waited to see if the tide turned but higher rates don’t allow hiding anymore.” One major bank is referring 100 small businesses a month to its restructuring team, up tenfold from 18 months ago, Paul Kirkbright, a managing director in A&M’s restructuring practice, said.

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Finance Management Marketing Planning 130

Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2022

per cent in the March quarter – the highest level since 2009 – eyes have fallen on supermarkets to see how they handle the rising cost of stocking their shelves. It’s a bit difficult to dig into the trend, as customers are increasingly buying what’s available rather than what was actually on their shopping list.

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Supermarket Promotions Management Shopping 130

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2022

Contactless payment evolved with Venmo’s release in 2009, and similar mobile solutions like the Apple Wallet have followed. Consider which service might pair best with your consumers’ shopping habits, and take a look at what your competition is doing. Many commercial apps now ask for a credit card on file to make in-app purchases.

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Payment Services Advertising Accounting Consumer 185

Small Biz Trends

JULY 3, 2022

Meta Pay supports most major credit and debit cards, as well as PayPal and Shop Pay. It’ll stay the same easy way to shop, send money, and donate to causes you care about on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and anywhere else you could use Facebook Pay. We’re looking forward to building this out.”

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Payment Services Accounting Shopping Management 98

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2021

Online shopping revenues experienced massive growth and unprecedented highs in 2020. The pandemic forced consumers to shop more online, getting them more accustomed to an extremely convenient and cost-effective buying experience, which has helped form shopping habits that will stick around forever. between 2020 and 2024.

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Checkout Shopping Management Consumer 131

A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

ft space will maximise its market share within inner-London, just in time for the Christmas shopping season. The impressive trading space (4,000sq ft) will offer 27 more local jobs for the community, as the year’s busiest shopping period begins. The 4,000sq.

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Returns Fashion Shopping Consumer 59

A1 Retail

APRIL 26, 2021

Street Soccer, the youth charity supported by Sir Alex Ferguson, opens its first ‘community store’ at Ocean Terminal, the waterfront shopping centre in Leith, Edinburgh. Events of the past year have provided further opportunity to reassess and re-evaluate the shopping experience of the future.

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ATS Shopping Management 59

365 Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Performance footwear and apparel brand, HOKA® launched in 2009 and has been disrupting the running industry ever since. Covent Garden is one of the richest and most diverse shopping and dining destinations in London with an experience-led approach to retail and hospitality, and a strong line-up of global, British, and independent brands.

Apparel 65

Apparel Location Accessories Fashion 65

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2023

Giving Amazon a Run for its Money Source: Jungle Scout Amazon’s biggest competitor at the moment is Walmart, which launched its third-party marketplace in 2009 but didn’t really start hitting the gas until a few years ago. “If We have 4,600 stores; we are within 10 miles of 90% of the U.S. Those are tough numbers to beat.

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Fulfillment Advertising Marketing Consumer 270

Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2022

IR: Tell me more about how the rise of online shopping during Covid helped you reimagine how the space could be used. And because it’s been around since 2009, people feel fairly confident about ordering that one online. ST: We started in 2009. It can be added to and reconfigured, and you can play around with the finishes.

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A1 Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Performance footwear and apparel brand, HOKA® launched in 2009 and has been disrupting the running industry ever since. Covent Garden is one of the richest and most diverse shopping and dining destinations in London with an experience-led approach to retail and hospitality, and a strong line-up of global, British, and independent brands.

Location 59

Location Apparel Accessories Fashion 59

Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2022

Missguided, founded by Nitin Passi in 2009, shocked the retail industry after declaring that it had fallen more than £80 million ($136 million) in debt. But how did this fast fashion giant collapse so quickly and what lies ahead for Missguided under new management? However, those days are long gone. Self-inflicted wounds.

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Fashion Fast Fashion Returns Management 130

Retail Bound

APRIL 13, 2024

Strategic Considerations: Inventory management becomes paramount. Retailers need to consider their capacity to manage logistics and the value of faster delivery to their customer base. This space also uses utilities, and the excess inventory requires employees to manage and organize it.

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Drop-Shipping Shipping Merchant Services Payment Services 97

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Born of a collaboration in 2009 between Marc Chaya and perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, Maison Francis Kurkdjian has become a major player in the luxe fragrance industry, and is sold across more than 700 locations worldwide. This year, we will enter China, with a shop at Nanjing-deji and online with Tmall.

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Boutique Fashion Marketing Department Stores 130

I Vend

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

McKinsey’s research into the way that retailers managed cost reductions in the Great Recession of 2007-2009 found that ‘resilient retailers’ reduced their costs by two percentage points, while their ‘non-resilient’ counterparts increased theirs by the same amount.

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Dead-Stock Payment Services Sporting Goods Inventory Management 94

Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

Suppliers were going broke left, right and centre, so it was all about the efficient management of inventory. But the biggest risk is buying and the efficient management of our working capital. Of course, you also have to manage costs, but that’s always important. We also had a forensic focus on our inventory stock turn.

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Drop-Shipping Markdowns Management Shipping 130

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

According to many statistics reports including the latest NRF’s Annual 2020 Valentine’s Day Spending Survey and conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, the gifts of love are driving retail sales through the roof: 2009, $14.7B. 2010, $14.1B. 2015, $18.9B. 2019, $ 20.7B. 2020, $27.4B.

Jewelry 52

Jewelry Point of Sale Specialty Store Inventory Management 52

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

According to many statistics reports including the latest NRF’s Annual 2020 Valentine’s Day Spending Survey and conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, the gifts of love are driving retail sales through the roof: 2009, $14.7B. 2010, $14.1B. 2015, $18.9B. 2019, $ 20.7B. 2020, $27.4B.

Jewelry 52

Jewelry Specialty Store Point of Sale Inventory Management 52

Mass Relators

MARCH 28, 2022

As customers’ shopping habits change and their needs evolve, we have services and offerings that we believe will bring an entirely new retail experience to those in Tennessee.”. The company last expanded its operating territory to include a new state in 2009, when it moved into Wisconsin.

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Fulfillment Planning Location Marketing 52

A1 Retail

JULY 15, 2021

Once safety tested, cleaned and repackaged, the appliances are sold for a reduced price on the AO Outlet Ebay shop, available for delivery to all UK postcodes. AO acquired the two-person delivery company in 2009, and it now offers delivery seven days a week on all items.

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Returns Planning Management Shopping 52

Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2022

This week, we chat with Kate Hall, head of marketing at start-up business, Releaseit, a one-stop shop where customers can rent anything from dresses to lawn mowers. Working on custom projects for these retailers gave me the strategic foundations for my role as marketplace strategy manager at Releaseit.

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Marketing Fashion Customer Experience ATS 130

Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 4, 2023

On Trader Joe’s podcast, Inside at Trader Joe’s, Matt Sloan, vice president of marketing said : “creating an online shopping system for curbside pickup or the infrastructure for delivery, it’s a massive undertaking. If you love Costco’s private label brand Kirkland Signature you can only shop at Costco to get it.

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Location Shopping Consumer Planning 96

Mass Relators

JUNE 14, 2022

Sellers may also access marketplace platform tools that help them speed up processes, identify growth opportunities and manage promotions and feedback. Ravi Karia, managing director of Pertemba, said: “ Building our business on the marketplace model, we’ve been exporting to the world since 2009. It allows U.K. Top-tier U.K.

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Payment Services Fulfillment Sporting Goods Promotions 52

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

According to many statistics reports including the latest NRF’s Annual 2020 Valentine’s Day Spending Survey and conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, the gifts of love are driving retail sales through the roof: 2009, $14.7B. 2010, $14.1B. 2015, $18.9B. 2019, $ 20.7B. 2020, $27.4B.

Jewelry 40

Jewelry Specialty Store Point of Sale Inventory Management 40

A1 Retail

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Woking Shopping, comprising the Peacocks Centre and Wolsey Place, has announced the opening of The Tea Terrace Restaurant & Tea Room, as well as the imminent opening of its sister brand’s debut restaurant The Ol’ West Grill & Diner. JLL and Nash Bond acted for Woking Shopping. Shouly Enterprises dealt direct.

Location 59

Location Shopping Management ATS 59

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 11, 2022

This includes some major brands and companies such as Oracle, Paypal, Irvine Company, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Orchard Commercial, Jones Lang La Salle Property Management, Abbott Vascular and many more. Since 2004, this Commercial Fencing Company has been creating fences from a state-of-the-art shop/warehouse facility.

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Location Finance Boutique Shopping 98

Retail Gazette

MARCH 5, 2024

Arc’teryx EMEA general manager Sven Radtke told Retail Gazette the name couldn’t be more appropriate. Named after the flying dinosaur Archaeopteryx, the branding was chosen to signify the retailer’s disruptive evolution within the outdoor industry as it built upon its principles of precise design and meticulous production.

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Outdoor Fashion Apparel Fulfillment 52

A1 Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Giggling Squid , the BGF-backed Thai restaurant chain founded by Andy and Pranee Laurillard in Hove in 2009, is to launch a 3,800 sq ft restaurant with a further 1,100 sq ft riverfront dining terrace.

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Boutique Outdoor Location Management 59

Indigo 9 Digital

JANUARY 27, 2023

By Tricia McKinnon Do you remember the time when people looked down on Amazon as a place to shop for clothing? Chart of Amazon US eCommerce Sales by Product Category, 2022 With Amazon dominating the apparel sector many direct to consumer brands which once shunned Amazon are now setting up shop on the platform. Well times have changed.

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Apparel Fashion Accessories Shopping 52

Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 9, 2023

Consumers love shopping online but what they really want is control. We also believe that by using stores effectively, Walmart mitigated some of the higher costs associated with the online channel” said Neil Saunders, Managing Director at GlobalData Retail. Consumers are looking for one stop shopping.

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Drop-Shipping Advertising Fulfillment Consumer 98

Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The enhanced assortment in many convenience stores has led food service sales inside of these stores to increase at a faster rate between 2009 and 2018 than in any other in-store category. It’s not out of the ordinary to walk into a convenience store and walk away with breakfast, a grab and go meal for dinner as well as your favourite snacks.

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Grocer Fulfillment Retail Trends Customer Experience 52