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Academy Sports + Outdoors Expands Revionics Partnership to Optimize Customer-Centric Pricing

Retail TouchPoints

As part of the new multiyear agreement — which builds upon a partnership that started in 2016 — Academy will use the Revionics Base Price and Markdown solutions to not only optimize its pricing strategy but better manage inventory levels throughout the product lifecycle.

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After 25 Years, a Rebrand is Just the Beginning for Edible

Retail TouchPoints

Farid Silber sat down with Retail TouchPoints to share details of Edible ’s new retail plans (hint: think “Eataly but smaller”) and how she plans to propel her father’s vision into a “ billion-dollar company. Retail TouchPoints: How do the company’s origins relate to you and your family?

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Ron Johnson’s Enjoy Technology Files for Bankruptcy, Set to be Sold

Retail TouchPoints

Back in 2016, Ron Johnson was asked in a fireside chat at Shoptalk about the biggest mistake he had ever made. The ultimate plan is to sell to the highest bidder. Ron Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Enjoy Technology. His response: “Going to JCPenney.” To fund its operations throughout the Chapter 11 proceedings, Enjoy has received a $2.5

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Dollar General promotes 18 executives

Mass Relators

In this role, Connolly will assist with all aspects of securities disclosure and compliance, as well as NYSE listing compliance, corporate governance, management of DG’s Board and its committees. Melanie Cook Brian Haug Brian Haug has been promoted to senior vice president, margin planning and analytics.

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Why Investors are Racing to Buy Up Amazon’s Hottest Third-Party Sellers

Retail TouchPoints

Rollup firms are typically able to buy these Amazon businesses at anywhere from 4X to 6X EBITDA, sometimes less, according to Thomson: “As long as you manage to keep the same efficiency that any one of those accounts had when they were a standalone, you can get a 15X to 25X valuation on your company. How Long Can the Gold Rush Last?

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How China’s Missfresh Makes Rapid Grocery Delivery Pay

Retail TouchPoints

A network of in-house riders ensures orders can quickly be delivered once they’re packed, and the dispatch and packing is all coordinated by AI that monitors inventory levels, gives pickers their tasks and plans routes for riders.

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E-commerce pioneer Mark Coulter on diversity, innovation and growth

Inside Retail

Coulter co-founded Temple & Webster in 2011 and was made CEO in 2016. Before taking this entrepreneurial leap, he worked as director of digital strategy for News Corp and spent over 10 years in strategy consulting and corporate management roles, including at McKinsey & Co.