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How to Revitalize Seasonal Businesses to Stay Open All Year

Retail TouchPoints

Managing this requires keen budgeting skills and pre-planning, which can cause stress for seasonal business owners. Thoughtful budgeting and money-saving strategies are a crucial part of any business plan, seasonal or not. Diversification of offerings also is a key way that many businesses draw off-season customers.

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Despite Subscription Declines, Rent the Runway Plans to Go Public

Retail TouchPoints

Rent the Runway — which allows users to rent, subscribe and buy designer apparel and accessories — plans to list on the NASDAQ under the ticker “RENT.”. In response, Rent the Runway closed its retail stores , did away with its unlimited subscription plan and launched into resale. million from $256.9 million in 2019.

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Digital Transformation Propels Burton’s Omnichannel Growth Plans

Retail TouchPoints

Larocque has spent more than 20 years with Burton, becoming SVP Operations in 2010. The second prong was replacing foundational systems, such as the company’s legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. “It We began the journey by getting our heads around the data.”.

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Top Wish Execs Share Plan for Winning Back Consumers, Beginning with ‘Wishmas’

Retail TouchPoints

When Wish debuted in 2010 it took the U.S. And this is just the first of in a series of shopping events Wish has planned for 2023. Retail TouchPoints: What’s your plan to bring Wish back to the forefront, especially with so many new competitors in the space now?

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Nordstrom Names Ex-Target and Walmart CFO to Top Financial Post

Retail TouchPoints

Smith brings extensive experience in retail finance posts, including serving as CFO at Walmart from 2010 to 2014 and at Target from 2015 to 2020. At Nordstrom, Smith will be responsible for financial planning and analysis, accounting, tax, internal audit, treasury, investor relations and strategy sourcing.

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How Invertigro, Urban Plant Growers plan to shorten the food supply chain

Inside Retail

The alliance, which is made up of 165,000 businesses across the grocery supply chain, is calling for a ‘national food security plan’ to minimise future price increases due to further disruption. The post How Invertigro, Urban Plant Growers plan to shorten the food supply chain appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Tractor Supply Leverages Pricing Optimization Solution

Retail TouchPoints

The rural lifestyle retailer has been a Revionics customer since 2010. Despite a slow fiscal Q4 2023, Tractor Supply announced in February 2024 that it planned to open up to 95 brick-and-mortar stores and complete its 10 th distribution center this year. Tractor Supply Co.

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