Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As the Black Friday 2024 shopping frenzy approaches, Australian retailers are gearing up for their biggest challenge yet – managing skyrocketing demand while staying efficient. By adopting automation in areas like supply chain management and customer service, Australian retailers can meet rising global demand and secure long-term growth.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Retailers acted with agility, changing the way they planned and managed inventory in a remarkably short time. According to figures from Adobe, online shoppers faced 60 billion out-of-stock messages from March 2020 to February 2022. In the years to come, AI will prove extremely useful in supply chain management. The Way Ahead.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Cash flow management can be one of the most significant issues for seasonal businesses. Managing this requires keen budgeting skills and pre-planning, which can cause stress for seasonal business owners. Workforce management also can be a key component to expanding into year-round operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2023

The senior management team of Franchise Group , led by the company’s CEO Brian Kahn along with a consortium of financial partners that includes B. Under the proposal, Franchise Group common stockholders other than the management group will receive $30 in cash for each share of common stock they hold, representing a premium of 31.9%

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2023

Coles says it has provisioned a further $25 million to cover possible underpayments to the salaried management staff of its retail businesses as it continues an internal probe into its payroll. The post Coles beefs up provision for historical underpayment of management appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2023

Retail managers now face employee management and safety challenges that require additional tools and oversight. Since 2020, there has been an unfortunate trend toward increased safety threats to retail employees. Retail managers must address these incidents’ effects on employee morale and retention.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2022

The impact of this increasing growth is the resulting strain on incumbent infrastructure that was originally designed to manage only about 5% of a retailer’s total sales capacity; the steady rise in costs from stretching this capacity have shown home delivery, buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) and curbside fulfilment to be highly unprofitable.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2025

A timeline of events Tuchuzy was founded by Daria Sukic in 1995 and operated for 25 years before first entering voluntary administration in June 2020 its demise at the time was put down to the volatile retail market caused by the pandemic and lockdowns. per cent drop in clothing, footwear and personal accessory spending.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

retailers sold in November 2020 increased 25% year-over-year , with an additional increase of 106.1% year-over-year in December 2020. . According to Digital Commerce 360 , in 2020 consumers spent $861.12 Retailers around the world rely heavily on gift card purchases. In fact, the number of digital gift cards U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2025

Combining Education and Customer Service Since its official launch in 2020, the Jointly app has notched half a million downloads, and monthly average user figures are in the tens of thousands , said Kooi. Its really essential to ensure that youre selling the product that matches what the customer is looking for.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

The company veteran had retired in 2020 but returned to replace retiring CEO John Donahoe. As a result of this reorganization, ONeill is retiring after 26 years, but will stay on in an advisory capacity until September 2025.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2025

The Australian arm of the Dutch-founded denim giant, established in 1989, collapsed into voluntary administration in early 2020 as the advent of covid engulfed the market. After a four-year hiatus, G-Star Raw is poised to re-establish its presence in Australia and New Zealand, emerging from a turbulent chapter in the market.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 27, 2025

In its submission to the Fair Work Commission, the ARA stated that the General Retail Industry Award 2020 currently presents many rigid restrictions that hinder productivity and lead to operational inefficiencies. Employees could also waive meal breaks for six-hour shifts or opt to take meal or rest breaks at the start or end of a shift.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Tough times “We’ve poured everything into it, given it every opportunity and it got to the point where it just couldn’t work,” Ross Poulakis, Harrolds Group’s managing director, told Inside Retail. Notably, Harrolds was a latecomer to e-commerce, only launching an online shopping site in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In fact, marketing agency Empower said its seen a 90% increase in consumer interest in the advent calendar category since 2020. The company has always launched new products for Christmas, and for several years Ludys Operations Manager Jolene Nitchey-Keppen kept bothering me about this advent calendar idea that she had.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 8, 2025

Pitcher Partners appointed experienced global asset experts Gordon Brothers to manage the stock liquidation sale process. Before appointing voluntary administrators in 2020 with debts of around $50 million, it had 146 stores and employed nearly 1000 people. Founded in 1972, Jeanswest rose to prominence on its fits best promise.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The decision to close all its stores in 2020 could have been seen as a rare failure for beloved childrenswear brand Hanna Andersson. Creating a White-Glove Experience Online The first initiative, which actually predates Lapic, is the brand’s digital personal shopper program.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

But recently, a lesser-known division of Gordon Brothers found itself in the spotlight when the company sold the iconic British brand Laura Ashley to brand management firm Marquee. The deal was managed by Gordon Brothers Brand Division, which had spent the previous four years revitalizing Laura Ashley after its 2020 bankruptcy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2024

Dennis has explored the challenges and opportunities for retailers specifically with his 2020 book Remarkable Retail , which has become a bible of sorts for industry executives. “I was always asking some version of the same question, which is, ‘If the world has changed so much, why have you changed so little?’”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Retailers unable to manage returned goods effectively and restore them to perfect conditions for their customers end up either selling these items at a significantly reduced price or disposing of them entirely. Return Management Strategies Leveraging technology can create more efficient processes for purchasing and making returns.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In 2020, India banned Shein’s app alongside other Chinese applications like TikTok due to security concerns during border tensions. Shein was extremely popular in India before the ban in 2020, especially among young consumers due to its affordable pricing and vast range of trendy fashion, Westphal said.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2025

A customer-centric approach to supply chain management is challenging; it requires a deep understanding of consumer expectations and behaviors, not just today but also for the foreseeable future. In 2020, global ecommerce sales reached $4.2 For starters, consumers appetite for digital commerce is skyrocketing. trillion.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Key areas of focus will include driving profitable consumer traffic, enhancing inventory management, further advancing digital growth and evolving the value delivery model. Keith Melker Melker’s most recent position was CEO of Wehner Multifamily, a Texas-based property management company.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Before joining New Zealand healthcare brand Comvita , Andy Chen worked in HR and project management at Walmart for 10 years. I spent 10 years at Walmart in HR management and project management. The trigger for the switch was in early 2020 during the pandemic, I looked around and I thought about a post-Covid world.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

An affiliate of brand management company Bluestar Alliance has purchased the U.S.-based Bluestar brought back the Justice brand as an online-only retailer in April 2021 following its $90 million acquisition of the company in November 2020. The Bluestar portfolio includes brands such as Brookstone, Bebe, Limited Too and Hurley.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2025

This may very well be the perfect training for an e-commerce manager. I was fortunate that they trusted me with so much of the business and ended up giving me a new business that they had just acquired to manage and grow, and it really lit that fire for driving growth and change and from a customers point of view, she said.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

reported during 2020, but despite soaring ecommerce adoption, online returns will remain in line with recent years at 20.8%. The categories with the highest return rates were similar to those in 2020: Auto parts ( 19.4% ); Apparel ( 12.2% ); and Home improvement and housewares (tied at 11.5% ). Approximately 16.6% of all U.S.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Optus hired these employees as retail consultants and store managers around Australia between January 2014 and March 2020. The backpayment includes more than $5.4 million in wages and entitlements and more than $2.4 million in superannuation and interest.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2023

FTD is a portfolio company of Nexus Capital Management and FYF is a subsidiary company of Tenth Avenue Holdings. FTD, originally founded in 1910, has been implementing a number of tech enhancements since 2020, including updates to its Mercury Online platform implemented in May 2022. Financial details of the deal were not released. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Krausz’s most recent experience was serving as the Chief Marketing Officer at digital health distribution platform HealthPlanOne , which she joined in August 2020. “Keira’s decades-long track record of successful marketing management will be a welcome addition to Purple,” said DeMartini in a statement. 25, 2023.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Hugo Boss said Stephan Sturm will step in as chairman of the supervisory board, replacing Hermann Waldemer, who has held the position since 2020. stake in Hugo Boss in June 2020, now holds 7.99% of the brands total share capital through 5.6 09/12/2024 x 1:00 PM Frasers Group, which initially snapped up a 5.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

Some of the planned improvements include barcode scanning, more efficient inventory management, easier options for adding product images and real-time support to fix any issues that come up. The service launched in July 2020 and initially served select cities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Canada before expanding to parts of the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

trillion in 2020, while U.S. Additionally, total order count was up almost 10.45% from holiday 2020 levels, according to data from Klaviyo. As a result, Cyber Week 2021 accounted for 23% of total ecommerce spend, down slightly from 24% in 2020. Usage was up by 40% compared to holiday 2020, while credit card usage dropped 5%.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On behalf of the board and management team, I would like to thank Julie for her valuable contributions since she joined Bath & Body Works in 2020,” said Boswell in a statement. In Q2, which ended Aug. 3, 2024, the retailer reported net sales of $1.53 million , a 2.1% decline from the same period the previous year. “On

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

Since 2020, the company has outsourced its design, production, marketing and distribution to Chinese licensee Glamel. Von Furstenberg and de Boni announced last week that by the end of 2024 all operations for the brand will once again be managed in-house. DVF will continue to work with Glamel to distribute its brand in greater China.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The warehouse club retailer began testing the inventory scanning functionality in October 2020 and started this chainwide rollout in January 2022. Our initial goal at Sam’s Club was to convert time historically spent on scrubbers to more member-focused activities,” said Todd Garner, VP, In-Club Product Management at Sam’s Club in a statement.

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