Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The company reports that members of the Prime Access program saved an average of $1,600 last year through shipping savings, coupons and membership discounts. It also noted that the program expanded its membership by more than 300% between 2019 and the end of 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2023

While Amazon has developed impressive systems to make sure its customers’ orders are shipped efficiently and quickly, the company has failed to show the same level of commitment to protecting the safety and well-being of its workers. What’s more, the vast majority of our employees tell us they feel our workplace is safe. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Gift cards are shaping up to be a holiday hero this season, as consumers and retailers continue to grapple with supply and shipping issues. Combine that with concerns about shipping delays for those products that are in stock and it should come as no big surprise that gift cards are looking pretty good to shoppers this year.

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Wiser

JANUARY 18, 2019

To learn more about the changes consumers are looking for in the coming year, Wiser has surveyed over 2,400 of our mobile app users about their 2019 shopping preferences. 52 percent of survey participants are more likely to make a purchase in-store in 2019 while 48 percent are more likely to make a purchase online.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

4, Amazon is offering what the retailer calls “Black Friday-worthy” deals, along with Epic Daily Deals and an Amazon Holiday Prep Shop hub to help consumers organize their holiday gift-giving and event planning. For its part, Walmart plans to hire 150,000 new U.S. Beginning Oct. 10, coinciding with the launch of Target Deal Days Oct.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Loqate’s 2021 holiday survey of 1,000 American consumers found that nearly half of Americans are planning a combination of in-store and online shopping this holiday season. In attempts to avoid the shipping delays and sold-out items that are expected this year, 88% of U.S. Free shipping and promotions drive consumer purchases.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S. in the next five years and also has its sights set on international expansion, with plans to launch omnichannel operations in key markets in Western Europe and Asia Pacific next year as well as an innovation center in Taiwan. Listen to the full episode here.].

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Asda has chartered its own cargo ship, and increased its stock of turkeys and other festive food compared with last year, in an effort to avoid disruption to customers’ Christmas celebrations. Asda has chartered a cargo ship (Rui Vieira/PA).

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2021

In the outdoor category, Eddie Bauer is a bit late to the game — REI Co-op has rented its gear for decades and expanded its offerings in 2019; that same year, DTC Coozie Outdoors (which has since been renamed as Arrive Outdoors )launched its own gear rental program.

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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. Michaels’ CEO Ashley Buchanan first revealed plans for a marketplace in a February 2021 story in The Wall Street Journal. Michaels gained access to some of A.C.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2021

In fact, the impacts of the most unique holiday in decades are still being felt: retailers should plan for continued shipping delays in the short term, and also continue to refine their omnichannel operations as they prepare for the rest of 2021. 3 shopping day in 2019. 11 through Dec. 24, 2020), or 2.4% 1 through Dec.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2023

In a stock exchange filing, the company said the right-sizing plan will incur between $80 million and $93 million in one-off costs but save the business $53 million to $59 million annually moving forward. That estimate excludes the cost of planned commissary closures in Southeast Asia and costs associated with “legacy IT assets”.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The business has been running since the end of 2019, and kicked off just prior to the first round of Covid-19 lockdowns. What we’ve seen is that the online purchase of vitamins [across the industry] has more than doubled since 2019,” Loutati said. “We It’s been an amazing acceleration of what was already a trend.”. What’s next?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Whole Foods delivered three times as many orders in 2020 as it did in 2019, causing the costs associated with equipment and technology to rise. In response, 81% of retailers are planning to increase investment in more complex last-mile initiatives over the coming year, according to Convey. Manchester, N.H.;

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2023

Canadian-born technical outdoor wear brand Arc’teryx will launch its first NSW store in Bondi Junction on Thursday (June 22), with plans to open more in the coming years. Every Arc’teryx order is delivered for free via carbon-neutral shipping.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Retailers will have to have a definitive plan to communicate order confirmations, delivery updates and delay notifications. Customers understand that, and just want to be informed as close to real time as possible so they can plan accordingly.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2020

Retail Ecommerce Ventures LLC, which purchased the brand assets of Dressbarn from Ascena Retail Group in 2019, has offered $20 million for the intellectual property and e-Commerce business assets of Pier 1 Imports. The retailer plans to hold an asset auction on July 8, according to SEC filings , and a hearing is scheduled for July 30 in U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Holiday hires will help retailers leverage their store-based omnichannel fulfillment capacity through buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), curbside pickup, home delivery and ship-from-store services. More and more, retailers’ last-mile efforts are tied in with shipping and delivery companies. The rescheduled Prime Day, set for Oct.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2020

Most of the closures are expected to be smaller, non- Zara branded locations, and the retailer also plans to open 450 new stores fitted with the latest sales integration technology. Staff members at the closed stores will be offered new roles with the company, such as handling fulfillment of ship-from-store orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

While this figure is down $50 from 2019, given 2020’s overall uncertainty, such a slight decline would represent a significant victory. Adding to the overall shipping volume will be those consumers who would normally have purchased a gift in-store and brought it to the recipient themselves.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Amid planning for new locations in other areas of New York and Washington, D.C., We see our location on the Upper East Side, and future locations we are planning to open in 2023, as complementary to our showroom experience, allowing us to reach the widest possible audience in whatever atmosphere they would prefer to shop with us.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Inflation has tightened margins and supply chain issues have caused havoc with inventory planning. Newly developed freight booking tools have made it easier and more efficient to book containers on large cargo ships, thereby reducing the need for air freight, which is generally seen as producing a larger carbon footprint.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Your clients’ websites must clearly communicate how inventory can be delivered, arrival time frames, and what different shopping and shipping options cost. Undertake the following: Create a sitewide banner that boldly announces purchase-by dates for remote holiday shipping to prevent consumer letdown and brand reputation damage.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In 2019, NMG joined forces with handbag and accessories reseller Fashionphile to roll out an integrated circularity program that included the debut of six Fashionphile locations inside Neiman Marcus stores. NMG also has teamed up with Give Back Box to let Neiman Marcus customers donate items they no longer use to someone in need.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2020

The Children’s Place plans to close 200 stores in 2020 and another 100 stores in 2021, the retailer revealed in announcing its Q1 2020 results. and Canada stores have been closed since March 18, the company enabled ship-from-store capabilities in approximately 85% of its U.S. in Q1 compared to the same period in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2021

The program has been an early success — 11% of Americans reportedly became subscribers within two weeks of its launch — and Walmart is seeking to drive further enrollment through benefits such as free next-day and two-day shipping. Walmart+ Rx for less builds on the $4 generics program Walmart Pharmacy launched in 2006. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A recent report from the payments and shopping service Klarna found that 34% of shoppers actually plan to spend more on gifts this year than last year, with Gen Z ( 57% ) and millennials ( 53% ) more likely than other age groups to expand their budgets. Stressed Consumers Spread Out Spending with BNPL. 22 and 23, which would be a new record.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

plan to start buying gifts earlier – the No. For example, store associates should get measured on fulfillment metrics if they are picking and shipping. Based on our research, 25% more customer service engagements this holiday – both physically or virtually – will involve associates compared to 2019.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 19, 2022

Together with Tim Bloore, he launched Azura Fashion Group in 2019 to provide brands with an alternative way of dealing with excess stock. It handles all the marketing, and if a product sells, it sends the supplier a shipping label and pays them a portion of the sale price.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Based in Toronto, Superette was founded in 2019 by entrepreneurs Mimi Lam and Drummond Munro. The company now operates six brick-and-mortar shops in Canada and plans to open locations in the United States next year. The shop is located within a complex made from shipping containers. A checkerboard floor defines the space.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Increases in cost of shipping both for raw materials inbound to Brazil plus outbound finished goods to our markets were a big factor for some of 2021 and much of 2022, but things have mostly normalised now,” he added. Be it trade shows, buyers, or subcontractors, it’s all reliable, according to Esser.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2022

Is the cost of shipping materials from an overseas location spiralling? Planning is essential to ensure products and materials arrive on time. When the plan breaks down, it is one of the biggest generators of stress in business owners. Is it worth opening at 10am instead? A critical eye on the supply chain.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Consumers may have once believed that an “Amazon’s Choice” designation indicated a review or testing process, but Amazon once granted that badge to marketers who were willing to pay for it, according to a 2019 Digiday story citing an Amazon internal deck from 2017.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The platform is doing triple the volume it did in 2019, its last normal trading year that wasn’t affected by Covid-19 lockdowns. . While it is based in Sydney, it entered the US market in 2019, and it plans to expand into the UK and Europe next year. “It “It’s something brands need to take note of.”. One-hour delivery .

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The luggage chain plans to offer multiple “doorbuster” deals on its e-commerce sites in Australia and New Zealand, where it will slash prices on certain products for a limited number of hours. Instead of launching two new websites at the end of October as originally planned, he set a new deadline of mid-August.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2021

At the height of the pandemic, not only did Toys R Us offer curbside pickup , it partnered with food delivery service DoorDash to offer same-day shipping on items that were available in-store. The company also introduced drone delivery in 2019. Data shows 30.97 We are leading the way,” Preet said.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

NL: It offers customers access to exclusive benefits, including personal shopper services, regular discounts and offers, as well as complimentary express shipping. We plan to grow this segment by ensuring these customers invest more in their wardrobe and by ensuring new customers are making considered purchases.

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