Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

of retail sales in China will come from ecommerce in 2021. If the forecast bears out, this will be a major milestone for online commerce, marking the first time that digital sales will account for a majority of all retail sales in any country worldwide. of all retail sales in 2021, while in the U.S. of the country’s total.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Clarke joins AEO from PVH Corporation where she served as Global Chief Supply Chain Officer from 2021. She will have full accountability for AEO store operations across the U.S. Before joining PVH, Sarah held various leadership roles at Gap Inc. and Canada, as well as brand finance and strategy and merchandise planning.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2020, more than any year since the advent of online and mobile commerce, consumers lost a sense of control. Culled from this agile, iterative survey data, here are six things we learned consumers want from retailers heading into 2021: 1. Something different (Advantage: DTC brands).

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Accelerating vaccine rollouts combined with pent-up consumer demand will drive 2021 U.S. increase over 2020, but sales could reach as high as $4.4 The projected increases for 2021 will put sales growth rates on a par with 2020’s. The 2020 November-December holiday season accounted for 19.4% growth rate.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

An inquiry by the DPC found that between July 31, 2020 and Dec. Fox pointed out that the fine is based on the way settings and features worked on the app three years ago, and since that time many of these issues have already been addressed, most of them before DPC began its probe in September 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 27, 2022

compared to the same period in 2021. Ecommerce accounted for 21.6% in 2021 and 20.6% The index, which was not adjusted for inflation, measured in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment. The payment company saw that online sales grew 10.6% of total retail sales, up from 20.9%

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2021

From April through December 2020, companies experienced the longest period ever of sustained high email volume, with email sending rates remaining at the level of the previous holiday season throughout most of 2020, according to Validity research. Verizon Media’s Becker says his personal wish is for 100% adoption of DMARC in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

in 2021 and in line with shrink rates seen in 2020 and 2019. billion in 2021. Theft, both internal and external, accounts for 65% of shrink, although it can reach as high as 70% in certain verticals. When calculated as a percentage of total retail sales, shrink represented $112.1 billion in losses, up from $93.9

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2021

In this article, we take a look at the key risks that may be faced by retail businesses in 2021 but also through the next decade. This has increased e-commerce’s share of global retail to 17% in 2020, up from 14% in 2019. The shopping behemoth accounts for over half the ecommerce market on its own.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Nike has reportedly closed its accounts with DSW , Urban Outfitters , Shoe Show , Dunham’s Sports , Olympia Sports and Big 5 Sporting Goods as the retailer pulls out of specialty retailers and department stores, according to Forbes and other media outlets. billion , accounting for 35% of gross sales, according to Forbes.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

retail sales in 2021, or $761 billion in merchandise, will be returned this year, according to a report from the National Retail Federation and Appriss Retail. Total retail sales reached $4.583 trillion in 2021. reported during 2020, but despite soaring ecommerce adoption, online returns will remain in line with recent years at 20.8%.

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2024

The US enacted a law in 2021 to safeguard its market from products potentially tainted by human rights abuses in Xinjiang, where the US government says China is committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims. They tested the merchandise for traces of cotton from Xinjiang, the far western region of China.

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Inside Retail

MAY 14, 2024

The shift dates back to 2020/21 when Pandora overhauled its business strategy to focus on crafting high-quality jewellery for the mass market and becoming the most desirable brand in the accessible luxury jewellery market, globally. “If In 2021, the business launched its first lab-grown diamond range in the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2021

In 2020, Paper Source had gross sales of approximately $104 million , a 32% decline from the $153.2 Paper Source closed all of its stores on March 16, 2020 and began reopening slowly between late May and early September 2020, causing the company to miss out on two of its most important holidays – Easter and Mother’s Day.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

compared to the same period in 2020 and 3.4% Claire’s is already working to build on this momentum through the launch of its Cdrop subscription box service in September 2021. million in Q2 2021 on revenue of $356 million. As of July 2021, the retailer had 6.5 Claire’s reported a net loss of $144.3

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

consumers said they shopped exclusively, or a lot, on marketplaces in both 2020 and 2021, according to research from Mirakl. Additionally, marketplaces account for 50% of the online shopping conducted by “power shoppers” that shop digitally once a week or more. Marketplaces are a hot topic in the retail industry: 57% of U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The bureau also released the Buy Now, Pay Later: Market Trends and Consumer Impacts report, which found that Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, PayPal and Zip together provided 180 million loans totaling over $24 billion in 2021, a near tenfold increase from 2019. Apparel and beauty companies accounted for 80.1% in 2020; A total of 13.7%

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The big differentiator is that Google insists its aim is not make the actual sale, but rather to support product discovery: “We’re indifferent on where the shopping journey ends, where that transaction takes place,” Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google told Retail TouchPoints in a 2021 interview.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

DressX launched in August 2020, and Meta added the company to its portfolio of virtual clothing designers in July 2022. DressX has developed a carbon calculation methodology for digital fashion and proposed a patent validated by The Carbon Accounting Company.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

earlier in 2021 and faces stiff competition from established U.S. But by all accounts the overall marketplace opportunity is only expanding, with companies increasingly turning to third-party marketplaces as a way to broaden their ecommerce offering. Marketplacer launched in the U.S.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 13, 2021

grocery purchasing in 2020, consumers continued to favor store brands for about one of every four purchases across all major food and nonfood categories based on the industry’s latest annual sales data, says the Private Label Manufacturers Association. The 2020 sales figures bear that out.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2023

In 2022, Amazon said it stopped more than 800,000 attempts by bad actors to create new selling accounts, down from 2.5 million attempts in 2021 and 6 million attempts in 2020. Holding counterfeiters accountable legally. This is coupled with advancements in the company’s machine learning-based detection capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

Pinterest also is launching multi-feed support for Catalogs, a new feature that will help businesses easily upload their products in multiple product feeds within the same Pinterest Business account. Shopify merchants, as well as any retailer with a Pinterest business account, can now add up to 20 product feeds to their account.

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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 TouchPoints

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The planned decrease in its brick-and-mortar presence accounts for approximately 6% of the retailer’s 5,000-store global footprint. Sales for September 2020 decreased 5%. Approximately 25% of the H&M Group’s stores have a contractual right to renegotiate or exit their leases each year.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For that reason, market research provider Euromonitor International has identified resilience and adaptability as the two driving forces of consumer behavior in the coming months in its recent report, Top 10 Global Consumer Trends 2021. Here are five key takeaways: The 2021 Consumer is Craving Convenience.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Macy’s Q4 and full-year 2020 results show signs of a turnaround for the department store, hard hit, like many of its counterparts, by the COVID-19 pandemic. 31, 2021 was $160 million , putting the company back in the black but still down significantly from the $340 million generated in the same quarter the previous year.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In 2020, consumers spent approximately $630 billion on online shopping, and merchants lost $12 billion to fraud. Account takeover fraud, which is driven by impostor scams, increased by 50%, with no signs of slowing down in 2021. K eep bots out of your customers’ accounts and checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

1, 2022, and the balance in the reserve account previously used to make payments on the loans is $862.12. The mall reopened late in 2020 but continued to suffer from the overall decline in foot traffic caused by the pandemic, and ultimately reported a nearly $60 million loss in 2021. American Dream missed a payment of $8.8

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2020, for the first time in Australia, more than half the shareholders of a public company voted in support of a climate change resolution put forward by shareholders in the face of opposition from the company’s board of directors. Freeburn and Ramsay 2021. A record 36 shareholder ESG resolutions were put forward in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2021

Brookfield Property Partners sold its stake in Forever 21 for $63 million during Q1 2021, which contributed to the real estate company’s quarterly income of $731 million. Brookfield’s flow from operations (FFO) was $125 million for the quarter, down from $309 million during the same period in 2020. Core Retail leased approximately 5.9

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2021

The move, which will include products sold both in-store and online, is part of an effort to rebuild JCPenney in 2021 as the basis for returning to solid growth in 2022. Shashoua also is Chief Investment Officer at Simon , which acquired Forever 21 in partnership with Brookfield Property Partners and ABG in February 2020.

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VMS

JANUARY 25, 2022

This accounts for an average of 16.6 retail sales, which soared to $4.583 trillion in 2021. “As The 2021 total rate of returns (16.6 percent during 2020, but online returns are in line with recent years at an average of 20.8 According to NRF, online sales accounted for $1.050 trillion of total U.S. billion (10.6

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2023

McConnell told Inside Retail that the “tone at the top” matters more than people think, and that, in his experience, boards do a bad job of holding themselves accountable. A year and a half later, however, Newstead was ousted and Hosking returned as interim CEO, with the business naming Michael Ilczynski as its new CEO at the end of 2020.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 24, 2022

consumer spending on general merchandise ended the year up 15% compared to 2020, with a 6% increase in unit sales. The fourth quarter of 2021 contributed 9% revenue growth and 1% unit growth over the prior year, according The NPD Group. “It Overall, holiday retail sales were not hindered by the various headwinds at play.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 8, 2022

(IRI) unveiled on Wedneday its 2021 New Product Pacesetters, featuring the top new food and beverage and nonfood product launches. The unpredictability of the pandemic made the work of manufacturers even more difficult than in 2020, as COVID-19 and the resultant behavior of shoppers ebbed and flowed during 2021. LIFE CUISINE.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 24, 2022

prestige beauty industry generated $22 billion in 2021, a 30% increase in dollar sales, versus 2020, according to The NPD Group. By category, fragrance outperformed all others in 2021 with sales up 49%, year-over-year, followed by hair products (up 47%), makeup (up 23%), and skincare (up 18%). . – The U.S. The post NPD: U.S.

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