Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2024

For the coming fiscal year, the retailer is planning $800 million in CapEx expenditures to fund a major brick-and-mortar expansion that will enlarge its total store square footage by 2% — its largest physical expansion since 2017. In terms of capital, it will take about $11.5

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

In January 2022, the mattress chain announced its plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange via an IPO that would have returned the furniture retailer to the public markets six years after South Africa’s Steinhoff International took the company private. Today, Mattress Firm operates 2,300 stores across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

Mattress Firm has publicly filed for an IPO that will return the furniture retailer to the public markets six years after South Africa’s Steinhoff International took the company private. In 2017, Mattress Firm filed for bankruptcy to facilitate a prepackaged restructuring that included the closure of 700 underperforming stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Costco will put a renewed emphasis on ecommerce by doubling the number of locations with pickup lockers over the coming year and expanding its Costco Next brand directory. Costco Next has existed since 2017, but the retailer is expanding its selection to include new brands. The retailer’s net sales were up 16.7% year-over-year.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

A number of Sydney’s most iconic retail destinations – The Queen Victoria Building, Strand Arcade, and The Galeries – are now half-owned by Hong Kong-based Link REIT, which purchased a 50 per cent interest in the locations for $538.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

Over a four-week period, Build-A-Bear turned its store locations into micro-fulfillment centers so it could maintain store operations, keep associates working and create a bright spot for consumers navigating uncertainty and stress.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 19, 2025

The move, led by the founding Ramzan family, could result in hundreds of job losses across the fashion retailer s store network, which currently consists of around 60 locations and employs approximately 1,500 people. Quiz shares debuted on AIM in 2017 at 161p, valuing the company at over 90m.

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Wiser

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

For example, they can tell the customer that it’s in-stock at a location on the other side of town and get someone at that location to put it on hold for them. In-Store Returns . Making returns easier for shoppers removes some of the barriers to checkout. Or, that associate can have it shipped to them instead.

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Inside Retail

JULY 15, 2021

From its global reintroduction in 2017, to last year’s addition of our highly successful Gilly Go activewear line, to providing matching underwear, loungewear and activewear that can be worn by all genders – the brand has continued to evolve to best meet our customers’ needs,” she said. Image: Robert Stockdill.

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2023

Target US is making shopping easier for customers with the option to make product returns right from their cars at no extra cost. The new returns service is already available at over 500 stores across the US and is expected to reach all 2000 Target locations in the next few months. The post Target US aims to simplify returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Following the opening of 100 Ulta Beauty at Target shop-in-shops in 2021, Target will open more than 250 new locations by the end of 2022, with ambitious plans to eventually reach at least 800 locations. “We see substantial opportunities to build on our core capabilities to drive deeper guest engagement and long-term growth.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 16, 2022

He first held the role from 1986 to 2000, then again from 2008 to 2017. Both periods marked significant growth for the coffee retailer — Schultz’s second tenure saw the company‘s valuation rise from $15 billion to $84 billion and its global footprint expand from 16,000 locations to 25,000 in 75 countries.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

Located in the St. Matt Bradley : The industry was leaning toward the more “pampered pet” approach before COVID [the Yuppy Puppy location was designed in 2017], and the demand for doggy daycares skyrocketed post-COVID when people started returning to work and feeling guilty about leaving their dogs at home during the day.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It first launched in Leeds in 2017, and has since gone on to have pop-ups in John Lewis, M&S, and Paperchase, throughout the UK. The brand is returning to Leeds with this pop-up space, adjacent to the new Miniso store. Rare sneaker reseller Kick Game has opened its fourth UK location at Trinity, their first in the North of England.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 20, 2023

Falcone sold the business to struggling beauty distributor BWX in 2017. The post Why Irene Falcone is returning to the world of beauty appeared first on Inside Retail. People asked me how I made Sans Drinks so successful so quickly. I took everything that I learned from my time at BWX, and did the opposite.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The number of digital accessibility lawsuits has risen 571% since 2017, and good website design can both bolster defense cases against these claims and help prevent them from arising in the first place. Bottom-line benefits also include limiting litigation’s impact. Accessibility Must Cover the Entire Shopper Journey.

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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2021

Jeanswest previously won the Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Awards in 2016 and 2017, but Yeung said this time was particularly significant. As a result, the retailer recently opened the doors at three new locations, Dubbo Square (NSW), Lake Macquarie Square (NSW) and Spencer Outlet Centre (Vic), and has three more openings planned for 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

Customers also will have the option of shopping the even broader assortment on Amazon.com, and requesting delivery to an Amazon Style location where they can try on the item (and return it in-store if it’s not a fit). And Amazon promises that the prices in its Amazon Style stores will match those of Amazon.com.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2024

Since its launch in 2017, the platform has raised more than $1.29 Faire homepage (Image courtesy Faire) In 2017, Rhodes took the leap and founded Faire alongside three of his Square colleagues, including current COO Jeff Kolovson, who previously led Square’s retail division. They can return it, and they don’t have to pay for it.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2021

With a global retail network of 809 boutiques in 532 cities, Nespresso views these physical locations as an integral part of its omnichannel approach. Luxury coffee and espresso brand Nespresso is tapping into the power of those emotive experiences with the launch of its new immersive flagship boutique concept in Vienna, Austria.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Located at 101 7th Avenue in Chelsea, “The ARt of Beauty” pop-up enabled attendees to virtually try on Pat McGrath Labs’ core products, such as the Mothership eyeshadow palettes, book makeup sessions with the brand’s official makeup artists, and enjoy product giveaways.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Dobbies Garden Centres revealed today (30 September) that it is set to close 17 stores as it looks to return to “sustainable profitability” The garden centre chain is thought to have faced another difficult year after racking up losses of 130m last year driven by high inflation and unseasonable weather dampening sales.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Maintaining and further enhancing the brand’s industry-leading customer experience through existing feedback channels that offer free returns, quick delivery, and bi-weekly product drops will be integral to amplifying online retail. LSKD recently took this concept on the road with its BAF (Big As F*ck) Bus, a pop-up on wheels.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2024

Fast Retailing began embedding RFID tags in apparel back in 2017. In the US, Safeway and Walmart are ripping out self-checkout solutions in favour of returning to manned lanes and in the UK, the upmarket Booths is following suit, with all but two stores returning entirely to manned cashier stations.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

Sitting in the audience at Fashion Tech Forum Los Angeles in October 2017 musician will.i.am Nike even analyses the data I load into the Nike Run Club app each morning, which tracks distance, location, average pace and time. There’s a quote that comes to mind often when referring to fashion and retail innovation.

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Broad Reach Retail

MARCH 14, 2025

We are pleased to announce the successful sale of Wood River Plaza, a 65,838-square-foot shopping center located in Wood River, Illinois, approximately 15 miles northeast of downtown St. We are proud of the significant enhancements made at Wood River Plaza, and we are thrilled to have delivered strong returns for our investors.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Juicy Couture is making its return to physical retail in the UK after 7 years with the opening of a new store at Westfield Stratford City. Its decision to close physical stores followed broader struggles in the market and was a strategic move to revive the label through these channels.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

We also opened stand-alone stores in Los Angeles and New York in 2016 and 2017. IR: You recently announced plans to open a number of new stores in the US, UK, and Australia, marking your return to the Australian market as a stand-alone retailer. CK: We’re still trying to find the right location.

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

New Look is in a remarkably better position now than it was when I returned to it in 2017. The post Former Sainsbury’s boss returns to high street as chairman of New Look appeared first on 365 RETAIL | Retail News.

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VMS

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Electric vehicle manufacturer Polestar (Gothenburg, Sweden) has opened a new retail location in Corte Madera, CA where it will offer sales, service and test drives of its cars. The brand, which calls its physical locations Polestar Spaces, currently operates in 15 states. Polestar was founded by Volvo Cars and Geely Holding in 2017.

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Wiser

APRIL 20, 2018

They must be designed, manufactured, and then distributed to retail locations. . Do these merchandising displays return the investment brands pour into them? How many brands are actually looking at this return? billion market), yet over 800 new breweries opened in the US in 2017. How well do they work?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Shopping Goodwill online will go back to social service programs at the location where the item was donated, so there’s a real circular ecosystem around this venture that I know the consumer cares about. I think [they’re going to] align their conscious consumerism around it pretty quickly.”. The OG Advantage.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2024

The first location is expected to open in New York City later this year. Whole Foods plans to expand this model to additional locations in New York City, before eventually expanding it to other metropolitan cities across the country. Amazon’s US$13.7

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VMS

AUGUST 4, 2021

Plus, the return of live summer music events, cultural festivals, exhibitions and sporting events (the 2021 MLB All Star Game, for one) will bring much-needed pedestrian traffic to the city ready to stroll, shop and dine. Located in downtown Denver’s LoDo district between Coors Field and Denver Union Station is the historic Dairy Block.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 24, 2023

With the return of tourism to New York after pandemic-related declines, luxury retailers are again betting on refreshed flagships to drive consumer interest and traffic. Beginning in 2017, brands including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Gap said they would shut their flagship stores on Fifth Avenue. There were 47.3

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Retail Dive

JUNE 18, 2025

The retailer is opening its third Local location in the city, in Brooklyn, next week. Services in the 3,000-square-foot Williamsburg location include online order pickup, alterations, returns, gift wrapping and clothing donation. The merchandise-free hubs debuted in 2017 as a way to engage with customers in their neighborhoods.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The return of independent bookstores As of 2023, the American Book Association (ABA) has announced a total 2,185 bookstore businesses, 2,599 locations, and over 300 more members than it had in 2019, reaching its highest membership levels in over 20 years. What’s driving this resurgence?

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