Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2021

Retailers will be able to access Walmart’s cloud-based services to reach new customers through Marketplace and offer national two-day shipping through Walmart’s Fulfillment Services. Amazon Pharmacy offers six-month prescriptions for Prime members , starting at a cost of $6 for common ailments.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

Brooklinen’s physical expansion was inspired by 227% year-over-year sales growth at its retail stores in Brooklyn and Manhattan. “Beyond growing the business, our intention with retail is to authentically integrate into each community where we put down roots,” said Josh Illig, VP of Retail at Brooklinen in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The retailer is hoping that members will see the fuel incentives as valuable at a time of rising gas prices. Kroger Boost is an accelerant,” said Bill Bennett, VP and Head of Ecommerce at Kroger in an interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2022

At SHEIN, we believe that it is our responsibility to build a future of fashion that is equitable for all, while also accelerating solutions to reduce textile waste,” said Adam Whinston, Global Head of ESG at SHEIN in a statement. million for failing to protect shoppers’ data during an October 2018 data breach.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2023

Zhang, an Ebay “boomerang,” rejoined the company in September 2022 after 12 years at a series of early-stage startups, including Gilt Groupe and the marketplace 1stDibs. She joins at a pivotal moment. The platform’s gross merchandise volume (GMV) has been on the decline since 2018 — the company reported $18.2

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2023

Shein’s model does share direct connections to Chinese factories, which allows for rapid turnaround on the latest styles, with most orders shipped directly to consumers from the factory. 1 shopping app in America back in 2018 , but today it’s largely out of the game at No. Wish also was the No.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

For the first time the tech giant broke out revenue from its advertising business (more than $31 billion in 2021 — see, you’re impressed) and announced that it will be raising the annual fee for its Prime subscription for the first time since 2018, from $119 a year to $139 a year. Since 2018 in the U.S., stock market’s history.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2022

At eBay ’s investor day March 10, CEO Jamie Iannone shared details about the company’s long-term growth strategy and previewed new products, including plans for the eBay Vault — both a physical storage facility and a digital marketplace for trading cards and other high-value collectibles.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Outsourcing fulfillment occurs when a business hires a third-party provider to manage some or all aspects of the logistics process, which can include storing inventory, fulfillment of orders, producing items and shipping orders. In 2018, Netflix accounted for 15% of global internet bandwidth, which was the number-one spot.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2023

Since launching the brand in 2018 in Australia and New Zealand, we’ve seen over 200 per cent increase in sales. [It] This reflects the growing demand for good quality fashion at competitive prices.” “One example of this is the recent expansion of Vero Moda. One key aspect of this is our focus on efficiency.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2021

According to Coresight Research ’s Inside the World of Amazon’s Private Label Offering report, Amazon now has over 22,617 products from 111 private label brands across nearly every category — three times the number of brands they had in 2018. Design for online…or at least, make the best use of the data available to you.

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Inside Retail

JULY 5, 2024

At its height, Australia’s largest online bookseller, Booktopia, had a $2.4 But even at its peak, in the 2022 financial year, Booktopia was still unprofitable. It moved into a larger warehouse in 2014 and by 2018, it was shipping 30,000 parcels per day. million turnover, 5 million customers, and sold a book “every 3.9

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Aimed at “fostering self-expression” among its core Gen Z demographic, each box retails for $30 and is shipped quarterly, with no ongoing commitment for customers. Jewelry and accessories retailer Claire’s is tapping into “drop” culture with its newest offering, a subscription box service called cDrop.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2023

After purchasing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of successful beauty brands and platforms, the business, which was valued at $860 million five years ago, is now worth about $36 million. How does what was once an incredibly successful beauty business see its share price fall from $7 in 2018 to just 20 cents today?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

Retailers are now investing significant resources into logistics, deploying the latest inventory management systems, automating warehouses and hiring hundreds of hardworking staff in an effort to pick, pack and ship online orders as quickly as possible. Using this stock to fulfil online orders is known as ship-from-store. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

Those disruptions, and their ripple effects on shipping, distribution and warehousing, are expected to continue for months to come and into 2022, meaning that decentralization will remain a core strategy for ensuring business continuity. Vishal Patel is VP of Product Marketing and Technology at Ivalua.

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Cisco Retail

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As I write this, 31 vessels are anchored and waiting for berths at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. It’s a sign of increasing congestion around the world, caused by a surge in imports, worker shortages, and shutdowns at Chinese ports due to COVID-19. We recommend a four-step process to defend against cyberattacks at ports.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2024

Although her Wall Street background gave her a clear advantage in finance, her time working under Mary Beth Laughton — Sephora’s VP of Ecommerce at the time — unlocked new career possibilities. I eventually realized in 2018 that there was a critical opportunity around convenience , and I wanted to advance that strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Research from New York University found sustainable products delivered $114 billion in sales in 2018, up 29% from 2013 , and delivered 50% of consumer packaged goods growth during that same time period — despite representing only 16.6% of the category. So how do retailers stay ahead of the pack regarding sustainability?

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

Unlike other British department stores, such as Debenhams and House of Fraser, which both collapsed into administration after years of erratic sales growth, or even John Lewis, which has been unable to halt a steady sales decline since 2018, Selfridges has actually reported a sales increase every year for the last decade, reaching £1.97

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While you may not be shipping products worldwide, the benefit of an international company is its extensive network of suppliers, sourcing and tools. It’s also the speed at which you’re able to communicate with your account manager or designer. You’ll also want to investigate a company’s international reach and network.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2020

At this point, it’s impossible to quantify the ramifications of COVID-19. If a certain industry relies on offshore factories, reshoring means allocating the resources necessary to localize that production, which means organizations no longer have to depend on international deals and long-distance shipping. Businesses are taking notice.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 19, 2022

Azura Fashion Group was born out of the uproar caused by Burberry’s revelation in 2018 that it had destroyed millions of dollars worth of excess stock, rather than sell it at a discounted price, to protect its brand image. Luxury’s discount problem.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Everything a customer comes in to us to buy is a component to make something,” said Christopher DiTullio, Chief Customer Officer at JOANN in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. DiTullio: Prior to the pandemic we had already rolled out BOPIS in all our stores, and we were shipping internet orders from 200 locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In the end, Kerrits closed out 2020 with growth in both its wholesale and DTC channels, with the latter increasing by an impressive 150% , according to Sara Florin, Senior Director of Branding and Marketing at Kerrits in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. The company launched its DTC site on Shopify , and then Florin joined in late 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2021

Albertsons , for example — which launched its marketplace in 2018 with the goal of offering its customers more than 40,000 new specialty products — has since shuttered the operation for reasons not shared with the public. But this model is unlikely to work for most retailers. If you compete on assortment alone you cannot beat Amazon.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Established in Hong Kong in 2018 by Paris-born Julien De Preaumont, Le Dessert has quickly gained a reputation for its signature Pavlovas and Charlotte layer cake creations, as well as creative jar desserts and cookies. De Preaumont started his career at PayPal in France, before going on to create a tech start-up in online sport betting.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

What it didn’t have at that point was a streamlined, intuitive online checkout process — and that quickly became a major hindrance to the company’s DTC expansion plans. “We With more shoppers in our network, that’s more shoppers at Polywood that can use one-click checkout. It was an involved, intense process. said Narang.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

NYU Stern and IRI found that 50% of CPG growth from 2013 to 2018 came from sustainably marketed products. Don’t Stop at Shoes. According to Nate Faust, CEO at Shop Olive, more than 10 billion single-use boxes were shipped last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In 2018, Nike tested the neighborhood-centric Live pilot in Los Angeles. Consumers get a high degree of flexibility to discover the best of Nike, online or in-store, at their own pace. Sustainability at the Forefront. Its quick success encouraged the company to follow suit with Live stores in Tokyo, New York and now Eugene.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

. “Our customers have been delighted by the launch of Toys ‘R’ Us in WHSmith stores, so we are excited to have signed a new exclusive agreement which extends our partnership with the brand,” said Sean Toal, Managing Director at WHSmith High Street in a statement. Retail Group , as well to cruise ship and airport locations.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The shop is located within a complex made from shipping containers. The retailer's latest shop is located at Stackt Market, a shopping complex made of shipping containers in downtown Toronto. There is no menu at SuperMarket," the team said. Bodegas, pharmacies and hardware stores are among the influences.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The retailer’s ‘gifting’ panels, located at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Federation Square in Melbourne and in Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall are positioned to serve consumers with a speedy and convenient shopping experience while they are out and about in the lead up to Christmas. The global market for vending machines estimated at US$134.4

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

But the rise of online-only used car dealers like Carvana and Vroom — which also set out to evolve the car-buying process albeit through digital solutions — threatened to chip away at CarMax’s dominance. They want to do that at the kitchen table when they have a little bit of time and can access their computer.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

These locations include physical stores that take in returns for other retail brands, as well as office buildings, post offices and shipping company stores, kiosks and more. From a customer perspective, according to research from Optoro , 66% of consumers prefer to bring returns to stores rather than shipping them back.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Launched by brother and sister Oran Holtzman and Shiran Holtzman-Erel in 2018, the fast-growing online retailer uses little-known ‘micro influencers’ to demonstrate its products and attract customers. The brand launched in the UK and Germany last year and recently opened a local warehouse in Australia to facilitate faster shipping.

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