Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Research from Google indicates that this holiday season will be more omnichannel in nature than any before it, with 64% of consumers saying that they plan to shop both online and in-store. This follows on a huge bump in omnichannel fulfillment options spurred by the pandemic and ongoing product shortages.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Orders will be placed on Amazon.com and delivery will be handled by Jüsto, a startup founded in 2019. We see this expansion as part of our continued commitment to providing shoppers with the most convenient way to shop our stores each and every day.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 17, 2025

Thats where our expertise lies not with the business traveler, not duty-free airport shops, said Shaw. Stacy Shaw: I joined the company in 2019 to create a luxury division; Starboard had been discussing this as a strategic move even back then. RTP: How will Starboard be supporting these resort retail shops?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

ChaseDesign just finished our annual study of 1,000 shoppers to see what the latest insights are around online grocery shopping, specifically focused on which delivery methods are winning out pre, during and now post-COVID times. In 2011, less than 1% of grocery shopping was done online. COVID obviously changed that, almost overnight.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2023

The Body Shop has gone beyond hair care, shower gels and hand soaps to include makeup in its product refill program, which prevented more than half a million plastic bottles from entering the environment in 2022 alone. stores in April 2022 , The Body Shop has stations in 50% of its U.S. footprint. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Customers selecting home delivery on the Bed Bath & Beyond and buybuy BABY websites will have their orders fulfilled in stores by personal shoppers working with Shipt , a division of Target. Customers using the Bed Bath & Beyond and buybuy BABY websites will be charged a flat rate of $4.99 for orders over $39.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Target’s Store-Based Fulfillment Model Drives Convenience. The secret to Target’s success is the retailer’s expertise at utilizing its stores for fulfillment, whether as a staging ground for last mile delivery or an efficient curbside pickup hub. compared to Q2 2019. Target’s physical comparable sales grew 8.9%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

All Target Deal Days promotions will span both days, marking a departure from how the shopping holiday has operated in previous years, and select deals will become available starting Oct. Target plans to handle the uptick in holiday shopping, particularly in online fulfillment, by hiring an additional 130,000 associates for the season.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Sundays was founded in November 2019 by Barbora Samieian, Noah Morse, Sara Samieian, and Moe Samieian Jr., But it was the stress Barbora Samieian felt while shopping for furniture after the birth of her first child that made her think there was an opportunity to completely rethink furniture design and merchandising.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

The pandemic threatened the livelihood of brick-and-mortar retailers, especially those with a strong presence in shopping malls. Together, these services helped Build-A-Bear truly bolster its omnichannel business, create a better customer experience, improve fulfillment efficiencies and even reduce transit costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

has partnered with Instacart to launch Kroger Delivery Now, a virtual convenience store fulfilled by Kroger that delivers fresh groceries and household essentials in as little as 30 minutes. “Our new service provides customers with one more way to shop with us and addresses the importance of convenience and immediacy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

The retailer’s physical locations drew more than 1 million visitors in 2019 with an average conversion rate of 50%. The new Seattle flagship will build on Glosser’s ecommerce expertise with an enhanced “Online Pickup” feature that lets customers shop online and pick up their orders in-store through a separate entrance.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Mall owner Simon has expanded and rebranded its Shop Premium Outlets online marketplace. The site, now called ShopSimon , represents “the next phase in [Simon’s] journey to create the ultimate omnichannel shopping experience,” according to a company release. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2020

We are meeting our customers how and where they are shopping and have enhanced our fulfillment options and health precautions to ensure a safe and welcoming shopping experience.”. However, Macy’s future appeared uncertain even before the COVID-19 pandemic. The retailer posted a 0.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

Mint House Shop Your Stay page for its NYC location. Founded by Jet.com and Walmart veteran Marc Hostovsky in 2019, Minoan is looking to enable an entirely new kind of retail — native commerce. But at Mint House the shopping happens in the real world — just not in a store. A room at the Mint House 70 Pine location in NYC.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The retailer also is currently seeking third-party solution providers in areas including payment processors, order management and shipping and fulfillment. Moore’s stores and intellectual property during the company’s 2019 bankruptcy. Moore , recently announced that it was acquired by “one of the largest companies in our industry.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2021

GIANT has added frictionless just walk out technology at a grab-and-go convenience store located at its Philadelphia ecommerce fulfillment center. Once an individual downloads the app, they can simply scan in, shop and walk out. office in 2019 for a cafeteria that serves 1,000 workers. It’s that easy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 20, 2020

Global Shopping Festival, which generated $38.4 in gross merchandise value over a 24-hour period in 2019. Festival will get hands-on advice from Tmall Global, with their products featured on the marketplace during the shopping holiday. Alibaba’s cross-border B2C marketplace Tmall Global has launched the Go Global 11.11

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2021

Walmart’s ecommerce sales were up 103% from Q2 2019. This is a critical moment for brick-and-mortar grocers to digitize the in-store shopping experience and unlock similar revenue streams,” said Sean Turner, CTO of Swiftly in commentary shared with Retail TouchPoints. Membership income increased 12.2% compared to 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

year-on-year through September 2020, boosting ecommerce’s share of its total sales from 33% in 2019 to 59% during this period. An electronic waste recycling program that M.Video launched in summer 2019 is now available in 450 stores, with plans to add another 200 locations in 2021. Q3 2020 net sales for all channels climbed 25.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

With no physical stores in any of the five boroughs, Instacart will fulfill orders from the area’s two closest locations, in Valley Stream, N.Y. That venture failed in 2019 when Walmart did away with Jet.com , rolling its operations into the larger Walmart.com website. and Secaucus, N.J.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In September 2021, the retailer partnered with Instacart to launch Kroger Delivery Now , a virtual convenience store fulfilled by Kroger that delivers items from a selection of 25,000 fresh groceries and household essentials in as little as 30 minutes. Kroger has been bolstering its omnichannel operations in recent months.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

We’re already seeing online shopping demand level off , with consumers finding a new balance between digital and physical channels. In fact, Salesforce has already predicted that the modest growth of the 2021 holiday shopping season could foreshadow this year , with Q1 data showing a 3% YoY decrease in global digital sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2020

One common thread among many of the studies: fewer trips to brick-and-mortar stores in favor of increased online shopping. of shoppers say they’ll shop online more than they did before the pandemic, with just 10.6% said they now shop with more brands than they did a year ago, and 46.2% The survey of 809 U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 14, 2024

Kohl’s has years of experience in this area; the retailer partnered with Amazon in 2017 to accept returns for the ecommerce giant, expanding the service chainwide in 2019. Kohl’s has relied on partnerships to boost foot traffic at its stores, including a long-time shop-in-shop agreement with Sephora and a more recent one with Claire’s.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Soon many more Amazon orders will be arriving without that friendly Amazon “over-box,” because as of today SIPP is expanding to all Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) sellers in the U.S. Then in 2019, the program was expanded to Amazon’s retail vendors. and Canada. and Canada. depending on an item’s size and weight.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) brought Meg’s Flowers to court, noting that the flower shop did not directly maintain any local shopfronts accessible to customers, contrary to its claims in 156 websites and in 7462 Google advertisements.

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Retail Focus

JULY 30, 2021

First launched in September 2019 on Milan’s Montenapoleone, Bally Haus’ experiential environment offers new ways of shopping with a multi-functional format that lends itself to cultural programming, including film screenings, panel discussions and exhibitions. Bally Haus London opened its doors on July 13th.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

The retailer is seeking to be “more responsive and flexible as we continue to refine our operating model going forward in response to the incredibly rapid change and how customers want to shop with us,” said CEO Corie Barry during an earnings call. in fiscal 2020, well above the 17% growth experienced in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 25, 2020

“The speed and convenience of our fulfillment options are unmatched across the country, and they’ve become even more critical for our guests searching for easy and safe ways to shop during the pandemic,” said John Mulligan, COO at Target in a statement. “By

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

shopping festival indicate the strength of China’s rebound from the impact of COVID-19. That’s nearly 2X the 2019 GMV total of $38.4 Non-Chinese Brands Took Advantage of Shopping Festival. Like Weinswig, Halliwell cautioned that selling in China requires much more than simply opening up a virtual Tmall shop. “I

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2022

A lot of new marketplaces have sprung up in the last few years, but even among that now dense crowd, Shop Premium Outlets (SPO) stands out. First and foremost, Simon cares about happy, healthy retailers because those are their tenants,” said Neel Grover, CEO of Shop Premium Outlets in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2023

The closest we’ve come to making small-screen moments shoppable has been shopping networks like QVC and HSN — until now. What we hear from them is not only that they want to shop from what they’re watching on their TV screens, [but that] they really don’t understand why they can’t do it already.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Stores and fulfillment centers are well staffed and our price position remains strong. Notably, Walmart didn’t kick off the holiday shopping season with October promotions like many other retailers, including rivals Target and Amazon. Customers should expect to find the items they want [at] great values.”. Target saw 12.7%

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Panelists shared insights from the Salesforce Shopping Index , which collected responses from more than one billion consumers worldwide, and the annual Sixth Edition: State of Marketing Report , which was released this May. since the 2019 State of Marketing report. “It AI Leading The Transformation.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

In Australia, more than half of consumers now say that they prefer to shop online instead of in stores since the pandemic,” says Boyer. “So The ShipStation report reveals that 45 per cent of Australian consumers claim to have spent more in 2020 than they did in 2019, while 85 per cent anticipated spending more in 2021 than they did last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2021

The wide range is due to uncertainty regarding how consumers will shop post-pandemic — potentially impacting the performance of Prime Day 2021, which has returned to a Q2 date. compared to Prime Day 2019, reaching $10.4 In 2020, Prime Day was delayed until October. Prime Day Returns to July, but Amazon Still Welcomes Experimentation.

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