Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Malls were once the nucleus of “shopping culture.” But many shopping malls have endured an identity crisis. Coresight also found that traffic at top-tier malls was up 12% in 2022 over pre-pandemic 2019 levels, while traffic was up 10% at non-top-tier malls. For example, you don’t always have to place a Michaels next to a Lowe’s.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 8, 2024

The Body Shop is at risk of losing its B Corp status, which it was first granted while under its previous owner Nature &Co. The ethical beauty retailer was awarded its certification in 2019, making it one of the biggest global B Corps and the biggest beauty chain with a B Corp rating outside Latin America, according to Retail Week.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2022

In 2019, online grocery accounted for 6.3% in 2019, while millennials and Gen Z visit six on average monthly. In this case, a simple integration of known out-of-stocks to the picking process would direct shoppers to a clearer and less disrupted shop. of total US grocery sales. Then in 2021, grocery ecommerce sales reached 9.5%

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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 Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Touchwood Shopping Centre in Solihull has continued to expand its leading offer with the arrival of Spanish fashion retailer Mango. Ardent UK acquired Touchwood in summer 2021, the first major shopping centre acquisition since the onset of the pandemic, in a deal that effectively called the retail investment market.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Called “Buy Direct,” the third-party marketplace is being integrated into Bing’s existing ecommerce experience, Start Shopping, where consumers can find products and are then directed to a retailer’s website to make the purchase. Google’s shopping function is more algorithm-based, relying on the query itself and search history.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

locations in preparation for the upcoming holiday shopping season. This software, developed in 2019, reflects innovative approaches retailers are taking to streamline inventory management. After grappling with excess stock last year, Walmart’s.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2022

The online shop will debut on June 18, 2022 during China’s 6.18 mid-year shopping festival. This online expansion follows the 2019 opening of the brand’s first fully owned and operated shop and restaurant in Asia, in Hong Kong.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Cornerstone stakes in two super-regional Australian shopping centres have gone up for sale in the first such investor opportunity in two years. Dexus Wholesale Property Fund is offering a 20-per-cent interest in Gold Coast’s Pacific Fair Shopping Centre and a 25-per-cent stake in Sydney’s Macquarie Centre.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The holiday shopping season seems to get bigger every year. The introduction of ecommerce has allowed consumers to shop the big sales from the comfort of their own home, avoiding the crowds and offering increased convenience and variety. In 2019, Black Friday online sales totaled $5.4 Holiday shopping isn’t cancelled.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2024

The California-based grocer will roll out Caper Carts, Instacart’s AI-powered smart carts, and FoodStorm, an order management system designed to power the retailer’s food service and catering experiences. Save Mart also will upgrade to Instacart’s Storefront Pro in order to add advertising to its ecommerce storefront. .

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A1 Retail

APRIL 25, 2023

The O 2, which is owned and operated by AEG and Crosstree Real Estate Partners, has reported a stellar trading period throughout Q1 and Easter half term, with sales throughout the destination surpassing 2019 results. We very much look forward to continuing this momentum throughout Q2 and the rest of the year.”

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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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Inside Retail

JUNE 23, 2021

Australia’s Fashion Capital, also known as Chadstone shopping centre in Melbourne, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. In that time, the way people shop has changed dramatically. But according to Chadstone’s centre manager Michael Whitehead, some things have stayed the same. “At

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A1 Retail

APRIL 26, 2021

Springfields reopened on April 12 th with sales in the first week up 31% vs. the same week in 2019. When comparing the first week’s trading with the same period in 2019, sales were up 31% on average from over 50 retailers. Five retailers had triple digit growths with the largest sales at an enormous +173% vs 2019.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Body Shop owner Aurelius called in administrators for the retailer’s UK operations on Tuesday, just weeks after snapping up the business. They lost that feeling one got when buying a Body Shop product – that you were helping to change the world.” Portas told The BBC: “L’Oreal knows how to use brands.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

A post-pandemic uptick in Australian e-commerce is here to stay, according to a new study conducted by order and delivery management software company ShipStation. 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

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2019, 7-Eleven Australia removed physical checkout from the store at its head office in Melbourne. Will they be able to manage product limits if consumers are able to scan and go with these scarce items?”. The post Aldi UK’s latest Special Buy: checkout-free shopping appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail Focus

JULY 19, 2021

The ‘offline’ retail experience at Trentham Shopping Village is proving a hit with businesses and visitors alike. With an occupancy of 98%, the popular North Staffordshire retail destination – to the south of Stoke-on-Trent – is thriving despite the challenges of Covid-19 and online shopping. visitors per year.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

London Designer Outlet (LDO) in Wembley Park has welcomed the appointment of Daniel Tomkinson, the former Chief Executive of the Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA), as its new General Manager. With Christmas still to come, the Golden Quarter started with like for like sales at 90% of 2019 levels, and +36.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Day’s responsibilities will include managing Starboard’s merchandising strategy worldwide. Prior to her promotion, Day was the VP of Merchandising for Starboard and held a number of senior merchandising roles with the company since she was hired as Director of Merchandising in 2019.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 25, 2023

From closing stores to reconfiguring product lines, the end of tax-free shopping for tourists has plagued the retail industry since it was axed at the end of 2020 as part of the government’s Brexit plans. It seems the industry-led campaign has worn down the government as the issue is now headed to Westminster at the start of September.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Australia Post has deemed November 2021 the “biggest month in Australian online shopping history” after delivering a record 21 million parcels across an admittedly extended sales event period. According to AusPost, online shopping throughout November beat last year’s record by 13 per cent, and jumped 76 per cent on 2019’s figures.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Bright Data , the global industry leader in making public web data accessible to all, has today released new research that reveals consumer sentiments around the 2021 holiday shopping season, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. For those that currently only shop in person, 14% said they will do more online shopping this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Tru Kids has closed the two Toys ‘R’ Us outlets it opened in 2019, according to Bloomberg. The original Toys ‘R’ Us was liquidated in 2018 , but Tru Kids acquired its intellectual property and resurrected the retailer in 2019. The new entity opened stores at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, N.J.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Our focus remains on seeking to drive further and sustainable cost efficiencies and inventory management,” he added. The customer-first plan was introduced back in 2019 and remains the centrepiece of the company’s strategy to deliver for all its interested parties.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since 2019 Ikea has opened shops in major cities such as Tokyo, Madrid, Moscow, Paris and New York to grow its presence on busy high streets. Ikea is buying the former Topshop flagship store on London’s Oxford Street for £378 million. Administrators at Interpath Advisory said the transaction is expected to complete in January.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The store is slated for the Jingjiang Impression City shopping center in Taizhou, a city located near Shanghai. Forever 21 then opened a store on Alibaba ’s Tmall and has begun advertising its offerings for the 618 mid-year shopping festival. to manage Forever 21’s China operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Walmart and Affirm first partnered in 2019 to bring BNPL options to shoppers on its website and app. will help even more consumers increase their purchasing power during the holiday shopping season and beyond.” Walmart will offer buy now, pay later (BNPL) options at self-checkout kiosks in more than 4,500 U.S.

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This Black Friday Weekend (25th – 28th November), retail sales are set to hit £8.71bn as consumers make use of bumper discounts to shop early for Christmas. Shopping for Christmas 2022: Black Friday Weekend report forecasts a 0.8% 2019 – 2021 actuals, 2022 forecast. The VoucherCodes.co.uk Sales (£bn). Growth (YoY %).

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

The idea isn’t to have Uber drivers deliver customers a full grocery shop, said Woolies Metro general manager Justin Nolan, but to bring a smaller ‘top-up’ shop to your door, and will complement the business’ bigger e-commerce offering. The broader initiative follows a trial partnership with Uber in 2020.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

The centre already has a successful track record of integrating an indoor market format into the shopping centre having launched “The Market Hall” in 2019. Salford Shopping Centre is currently on the lookout for businesses to take up residency in the new INDIEPOP Market Hub.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

billion in Q2 2021, the highest second-quarter sales in over a decade, up 29% year-over-year and 5% compared to 2019 pre-COVID levels. Online sales in particular grew 65% over 2019 levels and represented 33% of the total business, offsetting an 11% brick-and-mortar decline compared to its pre-COVID performance.

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Star Miconics

APRIL 12, 2024

Operating a coffee shop or café is an exercise in multitasking. Modern Labeling Technology The teams at these shops must ensure they work accurately; mistakes and shrinkage can account for 4-10% of inventory loss. coffee shop market expanded to more than 40K stores in 2023 , 7% growth over 2019.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2022

Cox established Workspace Barossa, the region’s first co-working space, in July 2019. But it wasn’t long before Cox realised that there was an opportunity to create something bigger than a temporary shop. “I The post Proud local creates shop window for Barossa producers appeared first on Inside Retail. A vision to share.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2022

Cox established Workspace Barossa, the region’s first co-working space, in July 2019. But it wasn’t long before Cox realised that there was an opportunity to create something bigger than a temporary shop. “I The post Proud local creates shop window for Barossa producers appeared first on Inside Retail. A vision to share.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Shopping centre operator Westfield has launched Auslan Santa, an initiative for hearing-impaired children who use Auslan as their primary form of communication. . Auslan, the sign language used by Deaf Australians, does not use English sentence structure and has its own syntax and vocabulary.

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