Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

million debt service payment on municipal bonds sold to help finance the venture, due to insufficient funds. The mall also had missed the previous payment deadline for the same reason in August 2022. The “AD” in the store’s name refers to “American Dream.”) 14 for one floor of a planned two-floor space. 1, 2023 $8.8

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Bed Bath & Beyond has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will implement an orderly wind-down of its businesses while “conducting a limited marketing process” to find one or more buyers for some or all of its assets. It remains to be seen if a court-approved sales process will enable better results for the retailer.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Party City is hiring 20,000 temporary workers for the holiday season — 80% of its 25,000 seasonal hires in 2019 — even though the retailer is drastically reducing the number of Halloween City pop-up stores it will open this year. Home delivery is free for orders of $35.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2020

Payless, which has dropped the “ShoeSource” from its name, plans to open 300 to 500 freestanding stores across North America over the next five years, beginning with the opening of a prototype store this fall in Miami. Among the retailer’s new brands is the Kendall + Kylie line designed by Kendall and Kylie Jenner.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Think food services, retail and personal and laundry services, for instance. This included adding ecommerce platforms, touchless payments and contactless delivery such as curbside or buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS). Reasons cited were that the country’s 1.1 Although disparities continue, certain movements help.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2021

Lowe’s has allotted an additional $80 million in discretionary bonuses for frontline associates and plans to hire more than 50,000 new associates across the U.S. stores, distribution centers and call centers will receive the bonus on Feb. stores, distribution centers and call centers will receive the bonus on Feb.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, had piloted a cashierless customer experience at this store using its own technology in 2019. The store will continue to be staffed with Sainsbury’s employees who will answer shopper questions, check IDs for alcohol purchases and restock shelves.

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