Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

Despite these statistics, many retailers still don’t have functional workplace violence plans. If they do have a plan, it’s likely that it hasn’t been recently updated, and many employees may not know it exists. My 35-plus years of experience in retail, most of that time being in loss prevention, has taught me a lot.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

Prior to that, in 2017, it announced a North Star strategy centered on customer loyalty. As part of its restructuring under the Bold New Chapter, Spring announced the plan to cut the fat and close down 150 of Macys underperforming stores by the end of 2024. Whether this latest effort proves to be a success remains to be seen.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

Jeff Gennette, Chairman and CEO of Macy’s since 2017, plans to retire in February 2024 after a total of four decades with the retailer. He will be replaced in the top spot by Macy’s EVP and Bloomingdale’s Chairman and CEO Tony Spring, who has been named Macy’s President and CEO-elect and gained a seat on the board of directors.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2025

The company entered Australia in 2017 and currently operates 66 stores in the market. JD plans to open another 10 stores in Australia this year. London-listed JD Sports Fashion has more than 3300 stores in 30 countries.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2024

The company first filed for bankruptcy in 2002 , then again in 2017. After emerging from its 2017 bankruptcy, Rue21 made a concerted effort to adapt to today’s shoppers, with a new loyalty program and revamped executive team that included a new CEO and CIO , both of whom joined from GNC in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2024

Back in May 2023 Costco said it would delay planned membership fee hikes, citing the impact of inflation on consumers. Along with the fee hikes, Costco also is raising the maximum annual 2% cash back total from $1,000 to $1,250 per member.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2020

After emerging in January from its second stint in bankruptcy since 2017, Payless “is back,” the retailer trumpets on its newly launched e-Commerce site. Margolis plans to rein in costs with such strategies as negotiating leases that use a percentage of store revenue to pay a share of the rent rather than a fixed payment.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2023

Renowned Australian footwear business Munro Footwear Group (MFG) recently acquired the popular but beleaguered New Zealand kids’ footwear brand Bobux, as part of a plan to consolidate its presence in the children’s market. The long-term plan is still being finalised,” he said. The initial focus is on stabilisation.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Customer experience LSKD has ‘audacious’ growth plans for the next few years and Shaughnessy is expected to play a key role in helping the brand create a unique in-store experience and ensuring the right products are stocked in each store. LSKD was recently named ‘Business of the Year’ in the 2024 Telstra Best of Business Awards.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 “Since we’ve introduced Amazon One at Whole Foods Market stores over the past two years, we’ve seen that customers love the convenience it provides, and we’re excited to bring Amazon One to all of our customers across the U.S.” billion.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Mattress Firm has withdrawn its plans for an IPO this year, according to documents filed with the SEC. In 2017, Mattress Firm filed for bankruptcy to facilitate a prepackaged restructuring that included the closure of 700 underperforming stores. Today, Mattress Firm operates 2,300 stores across the U.S.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2025

The brand, trading internationally as Kenangan Coffee, has opened its first store in a Sydney Westfield shopping mall and plans to open a second in Melbourne by the end of the year. According to local sources, the launch is part of Kopi Kenangan’s global expansion plan, which aims at 100 outlets outside of Indonesia.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

Amazon, the $2 trillion gorilla, arrived on our shores officially in December 2017, just in time for Christmas. In April 2024, it announced it planned to invest $490 million in opening two new fulfilment centres in Horsley Park, Western Sydney, with one to open later in 2025 and the other by 2026. Amazon announced it posted over $3.1

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

More recently, the company’s offline efforts have been in the convenience space, with the launch of its cashierless Amazon Go stores, and grocery, following its acquisition of the upscale US grocery chain Whole Foods in 2017. In April, Amazon opened a hair salon in London. So I’m not surprised by the move,” Facioni told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2025

Enthusiasm for this new way of shopping fueled the company in its early years, leading to its IPO in late 2017. Last year, Baer laid out his plan to turn it all around, beginning with a reimagining of the Stitch Fix brand and experience. But as with most good ideas, competitors followed, customers left, and with them went revenues.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 31, 2025

Product from a tech lens Prior to launching Uni in 2022, Keating founded a charity platform GoFundraise while she was at university before founding app creator DWNLD which she went on to sell to Dropbox in 2017. Uni has a large innovation and tech side to it, so it feels like the same world to me, she stated.

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365 Retail

MARCH 26, 2025

Liverpool Football Club has submitted a planning application to Liverpool City Council to expand and refurbish its flagship retail store, located outside Anfield Stadium. The proposed plans could see the store size increase by just under 4000 square feet as we extend the mezzanine floor and revamp the store ahead of the 2025/26 season.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2024

The lawsuit, filed in 2017, alleged that Founder and then-CEO Kevin Plank knowingly or recklessly misrepresented facts regarding consumer demand for Under Armour’s products as well as the company’s financial and operating results, according to the Wall Street Journal. 16, 2015 and Nov. billion revolving credit facility.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2025

But the pharmacy chain has plans that far exceed Australias border, launching into New Zealand in 2017 with its first store and growing its footprint there to a total of 48 stores quickly. Now, Chemist Warehouse has stores internationally across New Zealand, Ireland, China and most recently Dubai.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Ascena filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July, and is currently finalizing a plan that would cut its debt by approximately $1 billion and give ownership of the remaining assets to lenders including Bain Capital and Monarch Alternative Capital. Ascena already is planning to sell Catherines to FULLBEAUTY Brands for $40.8

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Aldi began working with Instacart in 2017 and in June 2023 debuted Aldi Express, a virtual convenience store offering nearly 2,000 of its most-shopped items for delivery. “By In March 2024 Aldi laid out plans to add 800 U.S. Aldi will roll out Instacart Connected Stores solutions across all Aldi South Group locations in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2024

“As we execute our 2024 plans and look to the future, we’re putting key leaders and capabilities in place to sustain profitable growth over the long term,” said Brian Cornell, Chair and CEO of Target in a statement. Gomez joined Target in 2013 and was named to the leadership team in 2017.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Related Story Aussie outback footwear brand RM Williams confirms Soho debut 07/08/2017 x 2:03 PM RM Williams opened its first UK store in Knightsbridge in 1989, however its international expansion was previously held back due to production constraints.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2024

The department store retailer previously tried to go private in 2017 in a deal that ultimately fell apart, according to CNBC. Nordstrom’s current plans to explore going private were first reported by Reuters in March 2024.

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Retail Dive

MARCH 14, 2024

The sporting goods retailer is opening eight House of Sport stores in 2024, as well as 16 next-generation locations as it increases store investments.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2024

The company plans to relaunch Tigerlily early next year following a restructure, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. The brand was acquired by Crescent Capital in 2017, but fell into voluntary administration in March 2020, largely due to the impact of Covid-19.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Since its expansion into Australia in 2017, the retailer has opened 78 stores including the new TK Maxx store in WA. Having doubled its presence across Australia, the company plans to open further stores in Perth in the coming years as part of its continued national growth strategy.

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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. Dick’s Sporting Goods posted strong results in fiscal 2023, which ended Feb. increase in comp store sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

Canada Goose has named Matt Blonder as its first-ever Chief Digital Officer (CDO), one of five key appointments designed to drive the retailer’s five-year strategic growth plan. Having joined Canada Goose in 2017, Bourke previously led the retailer’s investor relations and strategy functions.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Cosmetique, an Australian national cosmetic and injectables chain, has announced plans for a $17.5 With new clinic sites already slated for 2025, the expansion will involve opening four new clinics in New South Wales and Victoria initially, with more planned for following years. million ASX listing of parent company Stormeur.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

million people plan to shop between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday in 2022, representing 69% of all holiday shoppers, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Analytics. This would be nearly 8 million more people than in 2021 and the highest estimate since NRF began tracking the data in 2017.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2021

Walmart also plans to upskill its associates with knowledge about how to use the new equipment, which will better prepare them for future jobs and reduce the need to directly handle freight. Walmart and Symbotic have been working together since 2017, when the companies launched a pilot of the automation system at a Brooksville, Fla.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The company has been profitable since 2017. The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S. The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

MINISO , a Japanese-inspired lifestyle retailer, has set its sights on brick-and-mortar growth and is accelerating its plans during the holiday season. The company revealed its plans to double its store fleet by the end of 2021, reaching 53 locations in the U.S. in April 2017, MINISO has forged a unique place in the market.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 26, 2025

In 2017, she took on the role of category director for fashion and beauty. Last week, the supermarket revealed plans to cut 3,000 jobs as part of a drive to simplify its business and address rising costs, including a 140m leap in employer national insurance contributions from April.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2022

Just five months after the opening its first brick-and-mortar store in Las Vegas, size-inclusive lingerie brand Savage x Fenty is planning to more than double its physical footprint, from five locations to 11. metro area.

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