Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Retail rode strong into Q2 2021 as shoppers returned to stores even as digital sales remained elevated. in Q2 2021 while its digital comparable sales grew 10% , building on the 195% growth achieved in 2020. Target’s Store-Based Fulfillment Model Drives Convenience. Target’s physical comparable sales grew 8.9%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

Most experts expected holiday 2021 to be a digital success, and the season didn’t disappoint: global sales hit $1.14 As a result, Cyber Week 2021 accounted for 23% of total ecommerce spend, down slightly from 24% in 2020. trillion , up from $1.1 trillion in 2020, while U.S. 18 and Dec.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Adobe Index — which analyzes consumer transactions across more than 100 million SKUs in 18 categories — found that consumers have spent more than $541 billion online in the first eight months of this year, from January through August 2021. 1, 2021, consumers will have spent more online than the $575 billion they spent in all of 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

The company is planning to open 100 new stores this year while at the same time relocating or closing 25 existing stores, bringing the net total of new stores in 2021 to 75. 30, 2021, total sales increased 4% to $2.3 For the 13 weeks ended Jan. I was pleased with how we navigated this trend, and utilized core Burlington 2.0

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2023

GameStop will replace its departing CFO Diana Saadeh-Jajeh with Daniel Moore, who will take on the roles of Principal Accounting Officer and interim Principal Financial Officer effective Aug. Furlong and Recupero, both former Amazon executives, had been brought on in June 2021. The troubled retailer reported a $50.5

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Culled from this agile, iterative survey data, here are six things we learned consumers want from retailers heading into 2021: 1. Retailers selling to the consumer of 2021 must pay careful consideration to their carrier strategy. Something different (Advantage: DTC brands). One in four consumers are shopping more with small brands.

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Consumer Drop-Shipping Shipping Returns 312

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

can link eligible accounts to earn 2% cash back from Bank of America (on top of the rewards and benefits they already earn on qualifying purchases) and one Star for every $2 spent at Starbucks. Customers can either link their accounts through the Bank of America or Starbucks site to start collecting rewards.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2021

Prime Day 2021 sales grew relatively modestly compared to last year’s Prime Day, up 6.1% In 2020, the ecommerce giant disclosed that third-party sellers accounted for $3.5 Despite this increase, CPC for Prime Day 2021 was estimated at $2.25 , only slightly higher than the $2.20 billion in sales. for both years. during that year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2021

2020 saw a huge upswing in email and online fraud affecting retailers, including spoofing of retailers’ websites, consumer account takeovers and fraudulent delivery of messages. That’s why we predict retailers will increase authentication efforts in 2021; and inbox providers agree. Wider use of authentication tools.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After linking its loyalty program with Dick’s Sporting Goods in 2021, Nike is now partnering with Hibbett on a similar “ connected partnership.” Members can now link their Nike membership and Hibbett Rewards accounts on the Hibbett website.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Accelerating vaccine rollouts combined with pent-up consumer demand will drive 2021 U.S. 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% retail sales to at least $4.33 trillion , according to the National Retail Federation (NRF).

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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. The shopping behemoth accounts for over half the ecommerce market on its own. While the pandemic has shed light on the resilience of the retail industry, there are still looming risks for the next decade.

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Payment Services Consumer Customer Experience Accounting 306

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2021, businesses in the United States will face new VAT rules for selling to final consumers in Europe. 1, 2021 to July 1, 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but U.S. While the changes are meant to help streamline the filing and collection of Value Added Tax (VAT), they unintentionally make tax calculation more complex.

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Payment Services Telecommunications Accounting Planning 174

Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

million animal lives, including cats, dogs, rabbits, primates and more, were taken for lab experiments in Australia from 2021 to 2022. The cosmetics retailer cited AFSA’s data reporting that 10.7 It added that other countries such as the Netherlands, the UK, and the US have already made significant investments in animal-free research.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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. An inquiry by the DPC found that between July 31, 2020 and Dec.

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Star Miconics

MAY 14, 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

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. and Canada, as well as brand finance and strategy and merchandise planning.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Learn more about our latest app update — featuring Ubisoft Connect account linking for faster game launches — now rolling out to members, and the six new games joining the GeForce NOW library. — NVIDIA GeForce NOW (@NVIDIAGFN) December 8, 2021. The update also improves the streaming experience on Mac. Version 2.0.36

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Cisco Retail

AUGUST 17, 2021

We are giving you a sneak peek into our recommendations for email security based on 2021 trends that will be out later this year. Internal Email Scanning: Account Take Over (ATO) is a new threat to organizations. When it comes to safeguarding email against today’s advanced threats like phishing and malware information is power.

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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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Cisco Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I am excited that one of the most interesting and influential groups of developers working on these apps will be coming together to explore the paths forward in software next week at KubeCon + CloundNativeCon 2021. They’ll discuss using Istio along with a custom Envoy filter to run account-based canary in production.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Account takeover fraud, which is driven by impostor scams, increased by 50%, with no signs of slowing down in 2021. The 2021 Javelin Identity Fraud Study includes findings on identity fraud scam approaches that criminals use on each generation: Baby Boomers. K eep bots out of your customers’ accounts and checkout.

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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. According to the NRF, online sales accounted for $1.05 Approximately 16.6% of all U.S. trillion in U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2022

One day after announcing the departure of CEO Mark Tritton , Bed Bath & Beyond has named Laura Crossen as its new SVP of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, and Susie Kim as SVP of Treasury and Investor Relations. Kim, who joined the retailer in May 2021 to lead the company’s investor relations, will take over Crossen’s previous role.

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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

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. Approximately 25% of the H&M Group’s stores have a contractual right to renegotiate or exit their leases each year. H&M has not yet identified which stores will be shuttered.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This would be nearly 8 million more people than in 2021 and the highest estimate since NRF began tracking the data in 2017. Among those shoppers 67% plan to visit stores, up from 64% in 2021. billion in 2021. year-over-year growth experienced in 2021 but still well above the average annual increase of 4.9%

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Talking Retail

JULY 9, 2021

The top cat in this category is Felix, which accounts for about one-third of category value and continues to flourish with impulse sales growth. This story continues at MustStocks 2021: Cat food. sales uplift this time around. Or just read more coverage at Talking Retail.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

increase over holiday 2021. from 2021 and accounting for 16.3% Discounts for computers are expected to be as high as 32% (up from 10% in 2021), while electronics discounts could hit 27% (up from 8% ), and toys 22% (up from 19% ). Adobe expects U.S. online holiday sales to hit $209.7 billion in the period from Nov.

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Apparel Returns Promotions Accounting 302

Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Build a trustworthy team to help you manage your budget, or better yet, outsource the task to an accountant who can help you to get everything in order. The post A Guide To Starting Your Courier Business In 2021 appeared first on Retail Focus - Retail Design.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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 members accounted for half its sales in the country in the first half of fiscal 2021.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2023

The cashierless tech has been making inroads at a number of different retailing venues: Sainsbury’s deployed the Just Walk Out technology at a convenience store in November 2021 ; In March 2023 , the technology was reportedly expanding to 200 Panera Bread locations; and Six Flags and Coors Field added Amazon’s cashierless tech in May 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

DressX has developed a carbon calculation methodology for digital fashion and proposed a patent validated by The Carbon Accounting Company. Since June 2021, DressX has partnered with Flowcarbon to offset carbon emissions from all its operations, seeking to make itself carbon neutral.

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