Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Walmart is planning to make $14 billion in capital expenditures, up from its recent rate of $10 billion to $11 billion annually. In addition to giving 425,000 store associates a raise, the company will increase starting rates to $13 to $19 per hour, based on the store’s location and market.

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VMS

JANUARY 25, 2022

owners of Sears and Kmart, announced plans to permanently close the Ft. Sears location. The company also sold some land it owned adjacent to the location to RK Centers, which is planning to build a mixed-use development on the site. Transformco (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Lauderdale, Fla.,

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Inside Retail

MAY 21, 2024

Fast Retailing, the parent company of Japan apparel retailer Uniqlo , has announced the locations for 11 new stores in the US, on its way to a target of 20 openings in North America this year, which in turn is the first instalment on its plan to reach 200 stores in 2027. It needed flagships in high-profile street locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Even as Amazon continues to open fashion, grocery and convenience brick-and-mortar stores, the ecommerce giant announced planned closures of all 68 of its 4-star , Books and Pop-up locations — 66 stores in the U.S. Amazon is not abandoning its Amazon Go cashierless convenience stores, with plans to open locations in Mill Creek, Wash.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2023

Located at Highpoint shopping centre in Melbourne’s western suburbs, Foodle offers a combination of grocery shopping, dining, and take-home options. Loh, known for successful Australian restaurant chains including Sushi Jiro, Old Beijing, and Dragon Hotpot, plans to expand the Foodle concept in the coming months. million in 2015.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2023

In January 2023, the company announced plans to invest $35 billion by 2040 to expand its data centers in Virginia , and in May it shared plans to invest $12.7 This positions Ohio as a critical location for the most discussed technology in the world, artificial intelligence,” said Ohio Lt. The AWS U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

“Maly is a champion for diversity in leadership, people development and data-based insight, and she will leverage the values of the brand to build community and experiences in its neighborhood locations.”. The Becks had been with Bluemercury for 20 years and stayed on after Macy’s acquired the company in 2015.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

She joins Macy’s from InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) and succeeds CTO Naveen Krishna, who is leaving the company; Marla Beck, CEO and Co-founder of beauty retailer Bluemercury , which Macy’s acquired in 2015 , will leave the company this summer.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2022

Amazon is planning to shut all 68 of its physical bookstores, Amazon 4-star, and Pop up stores across the US and UK, shifting its focus to the groceries businesses and new retail concepts, the company told Reuters. The cost base of the stores is reasonably high because most are located in premium malls where rental costs are high.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2022

The festival was launched seven years ago by JDDJ — the Dada-owned on-demand delivery service for retailers and brands — to mark its founding on April 15, 2015. Livestreaming, also a festival staple, will be a big component as well, with more than 10,000 stores planning to run livestreamed sales events on JDDJ.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Starbucks Corp projects profits to grow between 15 to 20 per cent per share over the next three years, a significant increase from previous guidance based on spending plans of US$2.5 The plan includes new equipment to heat food faster with less plastic waste, new store designs with larger shelves for orders and additional employee benefits.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Founder and designer Kate Nixon said that the business started in Byron Bay in 2015, with her hand-making lace bralettes and posting products online. From pop-ups to a permanent location. It will also continue its pop-up stores, with an opening planned in Los Angeles next year, and a Gold Coast pop-up on the horizon.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Frankly, we let some inaccurate reporting influence the timeline of a transition plan that we had,” said Korey in an interview with The New York Times. However, just a month later Korey announced that she would in fact remain on as Co-CEO alongside Haselden and disputed the charges of workplace impropriety, which first appeared in The Verge.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The price marks a far cry from the company’s US$70-a-share peak in 2015, the beginning of its battle with digitally-focused retailers. However, he believes that, ultimately “Macy’s needs to articulate a plan to become meaningful and more remarkable and the means to fund it. But it’s notably less than the estimated $9.1

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Retail Focus

JUNE 7, 2022

This new signing is the latest addition to Covent Garden’s growing luxury marketplace and will sit alongside luxury multi-brand watch retailer Bucherer, which recently doubled the size of its flagship Covent Garden location, housing Rolex, Omega and Cartier boutiques in store; bespoke jewellery brand Vashi, Tiffany & Co.,

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Mass Relators

MARCH 26, 2024

Now, 95% of Food Lion’s 1,108 stores have more sustainable lighting with upgrades planned in 2024 for the remaining locations. Lighting upgrades at the retailer began in 2015 and have saved over 892 million kilowatt-hours. In 2023, Food Lion converted overhead lighting from fluorescent to LED in 224 stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2024

The apparel retailer is expanding its brick-and-mortar footprint with plans to open at least 14 new stores in 2024, bringing its store count to nearly 100. We started Untuckit online in 2011, but retail has really been the backbone of our company since 2015,” said Chris Riccobono, Founder and Executive Chairman of Untuckit in a statement.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

British precision sportswear brand, Castore , is embarking on a strategic expansion with the inauguration of its first upscale, bespoke flagship store located on Grafton Street, Dublin. This location places Castore amidst a bustling shopping district, sharing the vicinity with renowned fashion retailers such as Jigsaw and Sweaty Betty.

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Cisco Retail

AUGUST 5, 2022

Prior to 2015, IT was largely decentralized. IT staff were located within the functional departments they supported, and decisions were made in that localized setting rather than consideration of a more centralized overarching enterprise level approach to technology. Financial review of IT operating and investment levels.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 16, 2022

Johnson spent 13 years at Starbucks and joined the top leadership team in 2015, when he was named President and Chief Operating Officer. Although I did not plan to return to Starbucks, I know the company must transform once again to meet a new and exciting future where all of our stakeholders mutually flourish.”.

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The brand, which was founded in 2015 by Wirral-based brothers Phil and Tom Beahon, has thrived since its inception and has seen phenomenal growth in just eight short years. Due to the brand’s expansion, Castore has recently announced plans to open new stores in Grafton Street, Ireland and Bluewater – the UK’s second largest shopping centre.

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2023

Vincom tries to cover itself with four tailored formats: Vincom Center, which is designed for high-density locations; Vincom Mega Mall, a retail/entertainment concept averaging about 110,000sqm of gross floor area (GFA); and Vincom+ and Vincom Plaza, two formats that are oriented toward smaller provincial cities. per cent.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2022

In fact, according to the D&D Daily’s 2020 Retail Violent Fatalities Report , retail fatalities were up 40% between 2015 and 2020, with 2020 racking up the most fatalities and incidents ever reported in a single year. . Stores certainly can’t predict violence, but they can minimize the impact through technology and planning.

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Indigo 9 Digital

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Since the hot dog stand was so popular Meyer decided to bring the stand back to the park for two more summers before deciding to open the first Shake Shack location in Madison Square Park in 2004. Walmart, for example, became the largest seller of organic food in the United States in 2015 more than a decade after the first Shake Shack opened.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

Amazon has announced plans for its first-ever physical fashion store — dubbed Amazon Style — which will feature women’s and men’s apparel, shoes and accessories. Amazon Style will actually be the company’s seventh physical retail format, which all began with Amazon Books way back in 2015.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2022

In 2014, the company launched Prime Now one-hour delivery for daily essentials in selected areas of Manhattan, rolling out the offering to several more cities throughout 2015. At the time, Amazon held an incredible competitive advantage and, as other retailers have struggled for years to catch up, Amazon has just kept going.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

The retail design elements of a shop-in-shop location must respect the environment of the host retailer but also speak to the customer by communicating the distinctiveness of the hosted brand. We’re excited to continue to build on the success of our dynamic partnership and expand to more locations in the coming year.”.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2021

There are currently 12 drive-thru Gloria Jean’s locations in Australia. We’d always had plans for drive-thru to be a big part of our future growth, but following Covid, that programme will be accelerated.”. Covid made us accelerate our longer term plans,” George said about the company’s focus on digital. “We

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Mass Relators

JUNE 23, 2022

Publix is moving ahead with its planned expansion into Kentucky, the company’s eighth state. On Thursday the supermarket broke ground on its first Kentucky store, which is expected to open in the fourth quarter of next year, and announced plans for a third store in the state. LAKELAND, Fla.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

based parent company of Primark (London), has outlined its five-year growth plan for the clothing retailer, which includes expanding its footprint in the U.S. New leases have been signed for five additional locations in New York and another in Washington, AB Foods said. store in Boston in 2015. Associated British Foods, the U.K.-based

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Dezeen

MARCH 1, 2023

The store is located in Seoul's Gangnam district and was designed by WGNB to reference the graphite used to produce PXG 's golf clubs. WGNB has designed PXG's Seoul flagship store "Rather than merely applying the material to every plane, we studied the characteristics of graphite itself," the studio told Dezeen.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 14, 2022

The optimistic outlook has led retailers in the Vietnam region to dust off their pre-pandemic expansion plans and accelerate store openings. Korea’s Lotte Mart has been in the Vietnam market since 2018 with ambitious growth plans, although it has had to moderate these because of the pandemic. Vincom currently has 1.7

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Here, we chat with Missfresh about how the DMWs operate, how it’s digitalising fresh markets and its plans for the future. Missfresh was the first to invent the distributed mini warehouse (DMW) business model in China in 2015, before any other player in the on-demand DMW industry.

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Mass Relators

JULY 11, 2022

Publix is moving ahead with its planned expansion into Kentucky, the company’s eighth state. Late last month, the supermarket broke ground on its first Kentucky store, which is expected to open in the fourth quarter of next year, and announced plans for a third store in the state. LAKELAND, Fla.

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Dezeen

JANUARY 23, 2023

Located in a former fish factory in the city's Meatpacking District, Space10 's offices now include a library of 100 future-focused books, a snack bar and a design shop, alongside an existing gallery and event space. It plans to host two exhibitions each year and keep all its events free to attend.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

During the pandemic, brick and mortar locations have evolved, offering customers curbside pickup, improved omnichannel experience and some offering entertainment-oriented venues. The high-end private beer spa is located in the old city centre of Brussels, Belgium. combining experiences is not easy. combining experiences is not easy.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

Next year, Okafor plans to open her first physical store in Africa. Arriving in Korea in 2015, I quickly discovered that K-beauty had no provision for people of colour in its cosmetics as the main market was Asia. We are currently located in Korea. IR: What are your future expansion plans?

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