Retail Gazette

JULY 16, 2025

He started as the UK’s biggest supermarket’s head of group strategy in 2014, before going on to lead retail operations at Tesco’s west London convenience stores and serve as category head of cooking ingredients and global grocery. Chitnis was named as director of trading at Booker Wholesale, a subsidiary of Tesco, in 2020.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 30, 2025

Buzzword two: RFID and Inventory management With overall retail return rates averaging almost 15 percent, online returns reaching about 18 percent, and new Environmental Protection Agency sustainability reporting regulations for brands beginning in 2025, inventory management has been climbing up retailer radars for more and more reasons.

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Shopping Inventory Management Visual Merchandising Consumer 130

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Efforts by US President Joe Biden to “plug the loophole” in his final days in office, and incoming President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to raise tariffs on China , are threatening investment returns and livelihoods in largely agrarian Guanyun, home to about 1 million. His exports have almost doubled every year since.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 19, 2025

McKeon returned to the supermarket in January as part of a wider leadership shake-up under executive chairman Allan Leighton, aimed at better meeting the daily and weekly shopping needs of ordinary working people and their families who demand value.

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Supermarket Grocer Returns Management 105

Retail Dive

JULY 9, 2025

Under its new ownership, Family Dollar sees an opportunity to return to its roots, according to a statement from Chairman and CEO Duncan MacNaughton. Dollar Tree won a bid for Family Dollar in 2014, beating out a higher offer from competitor Dollar General due to antitrust concerns.

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Payment Services Beauty and Health Department Stores Marketing 91

Retail Gazette

JULY 18, 2025

Boots was acquired by Walgreens in 2014 The North American-based private equity firm, which includes stationery retailer Staples in its portfolio, is headed up by Stefan Kaluzny, who has a well-documented track record of acquiring distressed companies, aggressively cutting costs, and selling off its assets to generate cash. .

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Beauty and Health Returns Planning Marketing 66

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2021

Flexible payment provider Affirm is expanding its range of services to include the post-purchase experience with the acquisition of online returns solution Returnly for approximately $300 million. Returnly currently facilitates returns and replacements for online orders for more than 1,800 merchants.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Returns Fashion 279

Inside Retail

JULY 4, 2024

Spanish fashion label Desigual is returning Down Under, partnering with The Iconic to launch its spring-summer collection. Desigual first entered Australia in 2014 with a flagship store in Melbourne through a licensing agreement with Edwards Imports.

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Returns Fashion Location Planning 276

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ksubi’s return to operating stand-alone stores in Australia has been a long time coming. The post Ksubi’s return to Australian shores with Bondi Beach House and what’s next appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. It comes as the brand plans to open new stores in Sydney and Melbourne in early 2024.

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Returns Fashion Consumer Marketing 273

Inside Retail

JANUARY 18, 2023

Woolworth Holdings’ sale of the David Jones department-store business has cleared the way for the brands of its Country Road Group division to return to the shelves of Myer. After taking full control of the business in September 2014, Woolworth bought Politix two years later.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

The company returned to physical retail in August 2021 and has since opened stores in Seattle, Los Angeles, Miami and London. That marked the first time the company would be led by someone other than founder Emily Weiss, who began Glossier in 2014. By the end of 2022, Glossier plans to open stores in Washington, D.C.,

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Returns Planning ATS 288

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

For the first time since its founding in 2014, Glossier will have a new CEO. In her blog post, Weiss also teased Glossier’s plan to return to NYC’s SoHo neighborhood with a brick-and-mortar store in early 2023. Founder and current CEO Emily Weiss will become the retailer’s Executive Chairwoman as Kyle Leahy moves into the top spot.

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Promotions Returns Planning Consumer 286

Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2023

Daunt, who has served Aldi for more than 25 years, has been the CEO of Aldi Australia since 2014. Local media have reported that the 51-year-old CEO is committed to staying in the worldwide role for three years and will likely return to Australia in the future. Prior to that, he was the group MD for the company.

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Supermarket Returns Management 245

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Scentre Group chair Brian Schwartz said that since Allen’s appointment in 2014, he had built a strong organisation and culture focused on its people, the customer and communities. In an announcement today, the ASX-listed retail landlord’s board said Allen will be replaced by Elliott Rusanow who will assume the role on October 1.

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Returns Planning ATS Shopping 246

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

the former New York City flagship will become a drop-off site for returning items. On March 27, Rent the Runway laid off its entire retail staff during a Zoom call, offering no assurance that the jobs would return, according to a report in The Verge. “We We have no visibility into when or if we will be able to reopen our stores.

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Apparel Returns Finance Accessories 247

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Reduce Carbon Emissions Associated with Product Returns. The average ecommerce return rate hovers around 20% to 30%. Cutting the number of product returns can greatly reduce the transportation and other steps (repackaging, warehousing, discarded products, etc.) that can increase carbon emissions.

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Returns Promotions Customer Experience Consumer 278

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Among the solutions chosen for the 2022 cohort were tools that support sustainability by repurposing garments in both the physical and digital worlds — solutions that can advance the evolution of retail personalization with innovations in areas such as the metaverse, NFTs, gaming, social commerce and product returns. Paris; and Tel Aviv.

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Social Commerce Fashion Returns Consumer 243

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2022

She joined the company as Head of Investor Relations in 2014, helping develop the retailer’s relationship with many of its current investors. At the same time, we are focused on returning to adjusted EBITDA profitability. The retailer also reported disappointing Q1 2022 results, including a 13.9% of its active customers.

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Returns Management Marketing ATS 289

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

In 2014, fashion veteran Christopher Molnar decided to go after a white space he felt was being overlooked by the big fashion houses — premium essentials. Customers can try products for seven days and return what they don’t like at no charge. What some might consider a risky business move has paid off in spades for the brand.

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Fashion Wholesale Apparel Returns 306

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Additionally, the growth rate for total (online and physical retail) sales has returned to pre-COVID levels, climbing 4.1% for the five -year period from 2014 to 2019.) in 2023 and projected to increase by 4% in 2024. The CAGR for total retail sales was 3.6%

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Consumer Apparel Accounting Marketing 284

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Preventing, Reducing and Managing Returns. Ecommerce returns rates are on the rise, growing by 95% between 2014 and 2019. Stock returned to retailers is often landfilled — considered financially unviable to circulate back into inventory. New advancements in technology can also reduce returns at source.

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Shipping Fulfillment Returns Management 264

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For ecommerce retailers — particularly those in the fashion sector — this represents a massive opportunity to heighten sales, lower returns and offer customers a new way to shop online. Online purchases are three times more likely to be returned compared to in-store purchases. The Problem With Fashion Etail.

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Fashion Returns Boutique Shopping 234

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Wells has been Group CFO since 2014, overseeing the finance division and leading the acquisitions of The Good Guys in 2016 and E&S this year. He returned to JB Hi-Fi as GM in 2016. In his new role, he will support the growth of the brands as part of the group’s further expansion.

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Finance Accounting Returns ATS 130

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Neill’s background is telecommunications but she said the idea for Mys Tyler had been brewing since 2014, when she was living in New York. However, it wasn’t until 2020, after witnessing the growth of affiliate marketing, that she finally decided to quit her job and return to Sydney (pre-pandemic) to bring the idea to life.

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Fashion Social Commerce Telecommunications Returns 247

Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

Meanwhile, German-owned supermarket Aldi has aligned itself with Woolworths’ and Kmart’s stance, confirming its Australia Day Special Buys catalogue will not be returning this year.

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Supermarket Accessories Apparel Marketing 264

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Early adopters have proven that the technology can provide a significant return on investment. In fact, according to a recent Accenture study , 92% of the 50 North American retailers surveyed said they are either piloting RFID or have reached full adoption, up from 34% in 2014. RFID can raise inventory visibility up to 99%.

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Fulfillment Markdowns Inventory Management Customer Experience 286

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2021

In return, merchants pay a fee that varies from approximately 2% to 5% of the overall purchase price. Penny Townsend serves as Chief Product Officer at Qualpay , a company which she co-founded in 2014. From there, it’s up to the payment service provider to ensure payment from the customer.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Telecommunications Checkout 279

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A network outage can mean lost sales in the short term, as shoppers simply move to another brand for that purchase, or losses in the long term if that customer does not return. The Evolving Threat Landscape Retailers increasingly rely on digital platforms for sales, inventory management and customer engagement.

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Payment Services Wholesale Store Layout Inventory Management 278

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

Sandro and Maje in 2014 in the United States was opening one store every three days — that’s how much the demand was. return that could then be reinvested in another friend’s business concept. “There’s an emergence of a new generation whose wallets have grown, or rather they finally got their wallets,” he said. “[Gen

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Consumer Fast Fashion Finance Shopping 306

Inside Retail

JUNE 11, 2024

Kaye said that O’Malley’s seven-year tenure had overseen significant operational expansion in Australia and Europe, driving strong growth in shareholder returns. “On Meanwhile, Perkins has served as a non-executive director of the company since retiring as CEO in 2014. per cent of its issued capital.

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Accounting Returns 147

Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2023

Department store Myer has registered strong sales growth in its December half – and its profit is the highest since the first half of 2014. As customers returned to in-store shopping, online sales fell 9.8 Audited results for the 26 weeks to January 28 show sales grew 24.2 per cent to $1.9 billion while tax-paid profit increased 101.4

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Department Stores Returns Shopping 130

Inside Retail

APRIL 7, 2022

Gregory joined the global fast-food chain in 1996 as a crew person, worked his way up to become chief financial officer and took on the top job in 2014. As I step up and into a global position, I have every confidence that he is the best leader to return home and drive the plans for our continued growth, innovation and success.”.

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Returns Marketing Management Planning 147

Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2023

Liven, founded in 2014, gives digital cashback rewards to diners each time they eat or drink at a participating venue, which can then be redeemed for future purchases. Unfortunately in so far (sic) as getting cash return, the only course of avenue is to pursue the restaurants,” said one message, purportedly from Liven’s customer service team.

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Payment Services Point of Sale Location Shopping 245

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A group called Bleach stepped in and picked up their debt and ran the business until 2014. All the while, General Pants was Ksubi’s biggest account, so when the second iteration of the brand ultimately went into administration in 2014, General Pants took over running the brand. In 2008, they actually went into administration.

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Wholesale Fashion Location Planning 243

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Co-founded in 2014 by David Wei and Ivan Lim, the brand was an official partner of this year’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, and experienced rapid growth throughout the pandemic. Digital furniture retailer Brosa collapsed into voluntary administration on December 14.

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Planning Returns Fashion Management 245

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The strategy behind the catalogue relaunch is not a hail mary to return J Crew to its former glory – the company’s sales are close to US$3 billion this year, according to its CEO Libby Wadle – but rather to evoke a sense of nostalgia amongst customers and reposition itself as the pioneer of all-American style.

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Fashion Returns Department Stores Consumer 147

Retail Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As a result, customer footfall has now reached its highest level for two years at the centre as shoppers and leisure-goers return to experience the new offer found at the centre. The reletting of these stores to a variety of retail and leisure operators underlines Telford Centre as a major regional retail and leisure destination.” .

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ATS Department Stores Fashion Management 147