Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The partners piloted the program in select geographies this fall and are now expanding to offer nationwide delivery from more than 900 of Kroger’s sushi locations and 1,600 floral locations in under one hour. Then, in 2018, the retailer launched its own internal delivery service featuring nearly 55,000 items. The Kroger Co.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Health food and beverage retailer Delicia Franchising has been fined $11,100 after it admitted to breaking the Franchising Code, according to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC). Launched in 2018, the franchise currently has 10 locations.

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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. Now six new stores are in the works, destined for Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, St. Louis, Long Island, N.Y. and Newark, Del.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 5, 2024

Subscribe to Retail Gazette for free Sign up here to g et the latest news straight into your inbox each morning B&M said it was planning to open at least 45 new stores in the UK this year as part of its target to reach 1,200 locations nationwide. Hall has been a non-executive director at the value chain since 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2021

CVS Health has introduced Aetna Virtual Primary Care, connecting consumers with physicians and specialists anytime and anywhere. The ecommerce titan entered pharmaceuticals with the acquisition of PillPack in 2018 and has since focused on building off this base.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

The FreedomPay Next Level Commerce platform is designed to provide secure contactless payments and data solutions through transactions that FreedomPay President Chris Kronenthal said give a “fast, frictionless and innovative consumer experience.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

Simon and Brookfield are aiming to “identify a leader that is focused on modern retail, the consumer experience and the goal of creating a sustainable and enduring JCPenney.” Soltau joined JCPenney in October 2018 with the goal of spearheading a turnaround at the struggling retailer.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2020

Even with 74,000 personal shoppers and its recently launched Express Delivery service, Walmart has faced challenges keeping up with demand as consumers escalate both their online ordering and their expectations for faster home delivery. Walmart will continue to leverage more than 5,300 physical locations in the U.S., according to CNBC.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

“By adding Inventory Scan to our current fleet of robotic scrubbers, we obtain critical inventory data that previously was time-consuming to obtain. Inventory Scan assures items are available and easy to locate in the club, freeing up time for our associates to focus on members and the shopping experience they deserve.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2022

The company plans to end 2022 with 80 Bars, up from its current total of 65 locations. Lande-Shannon brings two decades of experience guiding brands through successful marketing strategies while also driving culture and leadership initiatives.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

The Nasa-tech-inspired eyewear brand is opening its first US-based bricks-and-mortar location, a 500-square-foot storefront at 436 West Broadway. Later on, in 2013, the American consumer product goods conglomerate Sequential Brands Group acquired Revo. Then, it set up a direct-to-consumer channel. “It

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Australian luggage brand July recently launched its first US bricks-and-mortar location in the heart of New York City’s shopping-centered neighborhood, SoHo, at 127 Greene Street. New York City was an obvious choice for the brand to locate its first US store said Athan Didaskalou, July’s co-founder and director.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

Thanks to its core product — stylishly packaged, “beauty forward” hand sanitizers crafted in partnership with the well-known Givaudan perfume house — the brand achieved a $60+ average order value (AOV) from its inception in 2018. After six months of B2C sales in the U.S., This is the key to growth.”

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“As a result of COVID, we made the strategic decision to pivot our store strategy to new locations and platforms that have better traffic,” said a Tru Kids spokesperson in a statement. The original Toys ‘R’ Us was liquidated in 2018 , but Tru Kids acquired its intellectual property and resurrected the retailer in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Claire’s relevance was waning in the late 2010s as the shopping malls where so many of its stores were located became less of a destination among young consumers. But no matter where the Claire’s brand grows, and which bleeding-edge technologies it employs, consumer insights will be at the center.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It appears the ecommerce giant is using these brick-and-mortar locations primarily for consumer and market testing purposes, but Amazon has released little data about plans or timetables for additional openings. The Kent location is the first of these stores outside the U.S.; We may also look at some city center locations.”.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2021

The store format, which is customised for each location, features a range of gourmet produce from local suppliers including speciality growers, bakers, producers and cafes. The Coles Local concept was first introduced in Melbourne’s Surrey Hills in 2018 before expanding the concept to locations at St Kilda, Glenferrie and Fitzroy.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2023

Also on Thursday, Walmart announced plans to open 28 new health centres in Texas, Arizona and Missouri, bringing the national total to more than 75 locations. The growing interest in health care among some of the country’s largest retailers comes as American consumers pull back on discretionary purchases in the face of persistent inflation.

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Wiser

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C or DTC) brands are everywhere these days: advertised on buses, pulling shoppers in on Instagram, and increasingly setting up storefronts on Main Streets around the world. After all, these brands found success online by really understanding their target market and directly applying this to consumer marketing.

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Retail Focus

MAY 24, 2023

The independent brand will continue to bring eyewear innovation to consumers across London at affordable prices. Abbas Manai, Co-Founder at bloobloom says “London is the perfect location to launch bloobloom’s expansion as it’s such an iconic shopping destination. bloobloom was founded by Abbas and Fares Manai in 2018.

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Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

With inflation in the United States reaching its highest point in 40 years, many consumers are making difficult choices about household expenses, including whether or not they can afford medical care. Health Care Consumers” (n=4,545) was fielded between February and March 2022. Consumers” (n=2,005), was fielded in September 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

an hour in some locations — as well as full benefits for full-time employees and the company’s latest incentive, paid college tuition for frontline workers. Sign-on bonuses of up to $3,000 are also being offered in some locations. retailers to boost its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all employees, back in 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

Just Walk Out” technology, first introduced by Amazon Go in 2018, is now being delivered by a variety of tech companies (Zippin, Trigo, Grabango) at retailers as diverse as Tesco, Aldi, Giant Eagle and more. Consumers find the experience of buying online and picking up at store to be easy, convenient and a time saver. BOPIS is growing.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

For most types of consumer retail stores, the pandemic scared regulars away, diminished traffic from visitors, altered consumer preferences, snapped formerly reliable supply chains and required dramatic shifts in the way stores serve their clientele. But that’s only part of the story.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

The store opens amid continued upheaval in the world of big-name baby chains: BuyBuy Baby is in the midst of closing nearly all its stores following the bankruptcy of parent company Bed Bath & Beyond , while Babies ‘R’ Us has returned with the opening of its first new store since its own 2018 bankruptcy.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 3, 2024

The range of physical and virtual retail spaces, retailers, products and prices leaves consumers spoilt for choice. But the retail landscape and consumer behaviour are changing, and changing fast! These were located in laneways, shopping arcades, main streets and multistorey shopping centres. billion in 2018 – a 28.2

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Thousands of beauty-lovers descended on New York City recently to enjoy the return of Sephoria, a consumer beauty event that Sephora first launched in 2018. Jessica Stacey, Sephora’s senior vice-president of external communications, events and experiential marketing, said there are plans to take the festival to more locations in 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Located in its birthplace of Eugene, Ore. The stores would include integrated online-to-offline capabilities as part of a digitally empowered phase of Nike’s Consumer Direct strategy , the Consumer Direct Acceleration. In 2018, Nike tested the neighborhood-centric Live pilot in Los Angeles.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

Local inventory involves storing stock closer to where customers work and live, as opposed to the industrial zones where warehouses and DCs are typically located, and it’s becoming an increasingly important part of retail supply chains. It’s no secret that consumers prefer fast delivery. That’s where local inventory comes in.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Instrument maker Fender , for example, wanted to find a way to keep consumers engaged despite its dealer network being disrupted by store closures. Initially capping the giveaway to the first 1,000 consumers, “we extended the offer to 500,000 a few days later and ultimately had 930,000 players using Fender Play,” he noted.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Even prime locations, local partners, name recognition and often a portfolio of new merchandise brands haven’t kept Australia from becoming a dead end for some major international retailers. In some cases, the failed Australian ventures were part of a flawed strategy to breathe growth into struggling home market operations.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2024

In 2018, the retailer launched Sephoria, an immersive beauty event enabling customers to meet brands and access exclusive products. “We Sephoria has now grown to have 140 participating brands and three global locations, including New York, Paris and Shanghai. “It’s We donated 1.7

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

While L.L.Bean remains committed to its e-Commerce, catalog and retail direct-to-consumer businesses, the retailer also sees an opportunity to grow by providing “new audiences, as well as our current customers, new ways to access our iconic apparel and footwear through third-party retail locations and online shops,” Amanda Hannah, L.L.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2021

But while blending of in-store and online provides consumers with significantly more flexible shopping, it also creates operational challenges. Consumers’ new shopping habits picked up during the pandemic show no sign of waning. Online : Consumers also love the convenience online shopping provides. billion in 2020, up 32.4%

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

With more than 800 stores and another 250 to 300 pop-up locations during its Halloween high season, as well as a strong DTC site, Party City has a pretty solid presence on the U.S. Nevertheless, in 2018 the party goods retailer went a step further and began selling on Amazon as well. Meeting Consumers ‘Where They Are’.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The International Longevity Centre notes that “retailers could thrive, not just survive, if they innovate to adapt to more older consumers”. Retail brands could then grant variable discounts and rates, rewarding consumers for the right behaviour. Connected sustainability. Data management meets emotional intelligence.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Aldi, which only recently introduced self-serve checkout in Australia , announced last week that it would open its first checkout-free store on a trial basis, at a location in London that is yet to be confirmed. Woolworths introduced it in supermarkets in 2018, as a trial at its store in Sydney’s Double Bay. A new direction for Aldi.

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