Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Craft tea retailer The Berry Tea Shop has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign via Birchal as it seeks to scale the business and expand its product portfolio. Founded in 2010 by Cliff and Paulina Collier, The Berry Tea Shop offers a selection of more than 48 varieties of loose-leaf tea, tea wares and accessories and includes a cafe.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Amazon has launched a new in-app shopping experience, designed to give customers a fresh way to both discover products and seamlessly shop from content created by other customers, influencers and brands. We invent every day to make shopping easy and fun,” said Oliver Messenger, Director of Amazon Shopping in a statement.

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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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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 14, 2025

Its a tenet that the companys latest CEO, Corie Barry, kept front of mind as she took the helm in 2019 , throughout the upheaval of the pandemic and into today. What’s driven all this change is a consumer who shops incredibly differently than they used to and has higher expectations , she said.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Midland Gate shopping centre in Perth has attracted the interest of Hong Kong-based alternative investment firm PAG, which partnered with Australian property syndication company Fawkner Property to purchase the asset for about $465 million. It also houses an eight-screen Ace Cinemas complex.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

However, while the holiday shopping rush comes with significant opportunity — Cyber Monday 2023 alone is estimated to generate $13.7 This enables ITOps and engineering teams at retail brands to find and address issues faster and with more precision, so those issues never impact the consumer and their shopping journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Natura &Co will sell The Body Shop to Aurelius for £207 million ( $257.8 The private equity group is seeking to enhance ESG aspects in its portfolio and is committed to maintaining The Body Shop’s distinctive values, instilled by its founder, Dame Anita Roddick. million ) in a transaction expected to close by Dec.

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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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APRIL 6, 2021

As we all know, people window shop to see what’s new, for entertainment or to decide what to buy,” said Yulie Kwon Kim, Director of Product Management Commerce at Facebook in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. A big piece of this is that it’s like a ‘Choose your own shopping adventure.’

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The latest data from the Adobe Digital Economy Index revealed that out-of-stock messages rose a whopping 325% in October 2021 compared to the same month in pre-pandemic times (way back in 2019), and in the last month alone consumers have been hit with more than 2 billion out-of-stock messages online.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2025

Its just the way I like to shop. Henne was founded in 2019 by Bartel, her sister Michelle Ring and friend Laura Broque. It’s a personalised experience and we wanted the customer to feel like they’re in a beautiful home when shopping in-store, Bartel said. I love being guided through the pieces.

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MARCH 14, 2025

The 150,000-square-foot space, located within the District at Howell Mill shopping center in Atlantas Upper Westside neighborhood, will offer furniture, home dcor, housewares, appliances and home improvement essentials. Following the successful debut of its initial large-format store in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Ill.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2025

The companys latest moves include selling off Reverb , a resale marketplace for musical instruments that it acquired in 2019 , and a host of updates to its seller experience. Etsy continues to make refinements to its business model as it seeks a return to growth amid increasing competition. million in 2024 from $942.1

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2022

flagship following its 2018 bankruptcy, just in time for the holiday shopping rush. The launch of the UK websites coincide with the rollout of Toys ‘R’ Us shops at Macy’s across the U.S., Toys ‘R’ Us ANZ relaunched the brand’s website in Australia in 2019. Last December, Toys ‘R’ Us opened its first U.S.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

Embracing AI Walmart’s goal is to make shopping experiences effortless, engaging and personalised. There is also a new AR feature called ‘Shop With Friends’. InHome replenishment Back in 2019, Walmart launched the ‘InHome’ service for pickup and delivery options for customers.

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Inside Retail

MAY 19, 2021

A further 39 per cent said they kept shopping with the brands they had a loyalty account with regardless of the pandemic, while 13 per cent said they shopped where they wanted regardless of loyalty programs. I’ve always shopped there), while belief loyalty is driven by an emotional connection with the brand (i.e.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

in 2020 over 2019 — and b8ta’s collection of high-end electronics made its shops a target for thieves. b8ta Japan was formed in 2019 as a joint venture between US VC Evolution Ventures and b8ta, but in September 2020 it ended its direct relationship with the U.S. The city had been suffering from a surge in burglaries — up 50.9%

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Shopping is about more than just a transaction, as evidenced by our inaugural global feature on the ‘Most desirable shopping precincts’. Home to Apple’s London Campus, a 2229sqm food hall and a glass chimney lift, Battersea Power Station also has housing and hundreds of shops located in its historic turbine halls.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Closing the Online Discovery Gap Calpak has seen consistent growth online, but the “focused and funneled” nature of the online shopping experience meant many customers missed discovering the brand’s diverse product set. In 2019, Calpak tested its store hypothesis even further by opening a pop-up in New York City.

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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

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

JANUARY 31, 2023

In contrast, in the 2019 RPI, no club store ranked higher than seventh. Personalized prices, promotions and rewards also became 3X more important at driving overall price perception compared to 2019. million more omnichannel households today than there were in 2019, with a combined grocery budget of $4.9

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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

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 Focus

AUGUST 31, 2022

Icon Outlet at The O2, the London outlet shopping destination, developed by AEG and Crosstree Real Estate Partners, has announced the opening of Superdry, the premium apparel brand. Sales at Icon Outlet were up +54% over the August bank holiday weekend versus 2019, with the Entertainment District posting similarly strong results.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Project: Lombardini22 / Photographer: Luca Rotondo Hamleys was founded in 1760 by William Hamley and acquired by Reliance Brands Limited (RBL) in 2019. Located in the Campania region, it joins Hamleys’ existing stores in Rome, Milan, and Bergamo, all of which opened earlier this summer.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

The USDA Food and Nutrition Service is accepting applications for a $5 million grant, funded by the American Rescue Plan , to increase the number of retailers offering online shopping for customers who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

He was named SVP of Retail Operations in 2016 and President in 2019. He was named President in 2008, added the CEO title in 2016 and was named CEO in 2019. All three executives are long-time Publix veterans: Murphy began in 1984 as a front service clerk in Margate, Fla., working his way up through various positions.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

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. Day’s experience prior to joining Starboard includes roles with JCPenney and Soma.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

schuh has announced a collaboration with Are You Mad , a waste design studio, to repurpose post-consumer waste into functional and creative shop fixtures. The post schuh partners with Are You Mad to transform retail waste into shop fixtures appeared first on Retail News and Events.

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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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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2025

The global retail industry was transformed overnight as stores were forced to close or severely limit in-person shopping, supply chains were disrupted and consumers faced unprecedented levels of fear and uncertainty. trillion in 2019 to nearly US$4.29 Global online retail sales went from almost US$3.46

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