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

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

JANUARY 3, 2024

All of the products sold by The Body Shop have officially been certified as having 100% vegan formulations by The Vegan Society. In 2021, The Body Shop set a goal of making all of its products 100% vegan; at the time, 60% of its products already carried The Vegan Society certification. The retailer became a certified B Corp.

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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 TouchPoints

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 Times

JANUARY 3, 2024

Supermarkets saw their highest level of transactions in December since 2019, according to the leading marketing data and analytics company Kantar. Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides!

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 10, 2024

HMV owner Doug Putman is understood to have registered his interested in buying The Body Shop with the firm’s administrators. The Canadian businessman has made his mark in UK retail through his turnaround of HMV, which he rescued out of administration in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Paper Source will launch a new shop-in-shop experience in two Barnes & Noble stores this holiday season in the first collaboration of the two retail brands, which are both owned by Elliott Management. The first Paper Source shop-in-shop will open Nov. 19 in Hingham, Mass., with a second to follow in Charlotte, N.C.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2021

Target is expanding its partnership with Disney to bring Mouse House-branded in-store shops to more than 160 locations by the end of this year. The two companies originally teamed up in 2019 and currently operate 53 Disney shop-in-shop locations, which average approximately 750 square feet.

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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Cheesecake Shop is to have new owners. Aussie based investment River Capital has entered into an agreement to acquire The Cheesecake Shop Group (TCS) for an undisclosed amount from existing owners PAG Asia Capital. The post The Cheesecake Shop sold to Aussie investment firm appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Three of the country’s biggest retailers are taking significant steps to get consumers into the holiday shopping groove — and to do so (much) sooner than later. As we approach the holiday season, guests are excited to shop early,” said Christina Hennington, EVP and Chief Growth Officer at Target in a statement. Beginning Oct.

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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 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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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 Gazette

MARCH 14, 2024

Large scale retail restructuring and administrations such as Wilko led to a net of 14 store closures a day last year with 5,000 fewer shops now trading across the UK. Although the 9,138 new openings in 2023 marked the highest rate since 2019, the majority of these were driven by hospitality sites, the research revealed.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Stop & Shop has enhanced its in-store googly-eyed Marty robots to alert store associates when items need restocking, as well as detecting, in real time, when items are misplaced. Stop & Shop parent company Ahold Delhaize debuted the robots, which are manufactured by Badger Technologies , in January 2019.

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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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Tokinomo

JUNE 8, 2021

One of the things that are not going to be the same as it used to be in 2019 is shopping. The pandemic changed the way we did many things. Yes, eCommerce is gaining more popularity, but brick and mortar is not dead.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The gap between the number of international visitors in London and the spending associated with them widened in the final quarter of last year, sparking calls for the government to reinstate tax-free shopping. Last year, spending plunged 19%, while visitors were down 4% from the pre-pandemic levels.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2020

Facebook recently announced the launch of Facebook Shops. Facebook Shops is offering businesses the chance to tap into a community of 2.6 Facebook Shops is offering businesses the chance to tap into a community of 2.6 Facebook Shops also presents a remarkable opportunity for advertisers. from 2019.

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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 Gazette

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Cosmetics retailer The Body Shop has reignited its fight against animal testing with its long-term partners, Cruelty Free International. The company is bringing back its campaign 25 years after the UK’s absolute ban on animal testing was passed in 1998.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2021

Toys ‘R’ Us will make its latest attempted return to brick-and-mortar with 400 store-in-store shops at Macy’s locations and online at macys.com/toysrus, slated to roll out in 2022. Toys ‘R’ Us previously staged a comeback during the 2019 holiday season with two new standalone locations, but its revival was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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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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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Pollen Estate has announced that ‘ Pop-Up at the Cop Shop ’, the Crisis at Christmas Pop Up, will return to Savile Row this December 5th-14th, 2022. The pair are setting sights high for 2022, hoping to smash 2019’s incredible. 80 brands participated in 2019 and the drive is on to get to 100 for the pop-up’s return.

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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. Here, we ask Whitehead about the role of the shopping centre in the age of e-commerce and what retail trends he’s got his eye on.

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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. In store shopping is still very prevalent, even with the increasing availability of online retailers. This year is no different. In-Store Preferences.

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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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Retail shopping centres face a major challenge rebuilding customer traffic and sales after the Covid-19 pandemic is controlled. With occupancy rates under pressure, shopping-centre landlords have already reviewed property valuations to account for tighter rent market conditions and financial concessions required to retain key retail brands.

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VMS

MAY 18, 2021

shoppers are returning to shopping malls, according to a report by Placer.ai, published by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Foot traffic at Class A malls is showing steady growth over the past few months when compared to the same time period in 2019. Shopper visits to malls was down 18.7

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