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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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

In a world where technology, from smartphones to AI, is being integrated into almost every aspect of daily life, it may surprise some people to learn that the stationery market is thriving. The post How British brand Papier is driving growth in the global stationery market appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2021

Meanwhile, for merchants that had already built their businesses online before the pandemic, a larger addressable market buoyed most, but created scalability challenges for all (including Amazon). Culled from this agile, iterative survey data, here are six things we learned consumers want from retailers heading into 2021: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Since the start of the pandemic, companies have had to make an aggressive shift to an all-digital marketing approach, with email being the go-to channel. Such crowded inboxes — and the massive number of messages traveling throughout the entire email ecosystem — put increased pressure on marketers in a number of significant ways.

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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

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. Additionally, Amazon has acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.4 The lingering impact of COVID-19.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 19, 2022

TikTok is all about user-generated content, and besides sharing videos TikTok’s social media platform has evolved into a marketing channel for brands where they use the platform to connect with consumers between the ages of 13 and 60. In this article, we offer a step-by-step guide on how to start TikTok influencer marketing.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

leaving 15 stores in this market. 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

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Independent Retailer

APRIL 6, 2021

Informa Markets Fashion, host to a comprehensive portfolio of apparel and sourcing fashion trade events including MAGIC, COTERIE, PROJECT, and SOURCING at MAGIC, confirmed the first slate of event dates planned for the second half 2021.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 23, 2024

in the 12 weeks to 14 April, ahead of the online market which grew by 6.8%. Ocado accounted for 1.9% Morrisons achieved its best share performance since 2021 as it maintained its 8.7% portion of the market. Morrisons achieved its best share performance since 2021 as it maintained its 8.7% portion of the market.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Quartile , which provides advertising optimization services to ecommerce marketplace sellers, has purchased performance marketing solution provider Sidecar. Quartile expects that the acquisition will double its amount of advertising spend under management to $2 billion in 2021. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The company is committed to sustainable fashion, promoting the digital garment market as a way for consumers to showcase their style digitally. 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

JULY 8, 2022

GameStop has named Diana Saadeh-Jajeh, the retailer’s Chief Accounting Officer, as CFO, effective immediately. After making more than 600 corporate hires in 2021 and the first half of 2022, we have a stronger understanding of our transformation needs,” said Matt Furlong, CEO of GameStop in the memo. year-over-year to $483.7

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Cisco Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2021

September was an exciting month as APJC Cisco’s Growth Marketing team won two accolades at Forrester’s B2B Summit APAC 2021! Mark Phibbs, Cisco’s Vice President, Global Insights & Analytics and APJC Marketing, shared with summit participants how the marketing function can lead by leveraging the insights gained through analytics.

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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

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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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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Cisco Retail

AUGUST 17, 2021

With contributions from Jamal “Jay” Bethea, Cisco Secure Email Product Marketing Manager. 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.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 27, 2022

Atlanta Market was the epicenter of the nation’s gift and home décor buying with brands and sales agencies reporting record sales at the close of the winter 2022 edition, January 11-18, at AmericasMart Atlanta. We were looking to do business with new vendors and lines and Atlanta Market always has the ‘new.’”. “We

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Retail Gazette

JULY 23, 2023

Revolution Beauty is being probed by the City watchdog (FCA) over potential breaches of market abuse dating back two years. It is its latest setback, after its shares were suspended for nine months due amid an accounting scandal. key shareholder, Boohoo Group, revealed that it had been notified of the move by the FCA.

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Talking Retail

MAY 25, 2021

Convenience stores, both independents and the major chains, saw some of the market share gained during the pandemic fall away during the 12 weeks to 16 May 2021, new data reveals. The latest figures from Kantar show that collectively convenience stores now account for 12.5% of sales, down from 14.9% in May 2020.

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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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A1 Retail

AUGUST 19, 2021

New research by the Gift Card & Voucher Association and KPMG UK shows gift card and voucher market sees 25% growth in first half of 2021. B2B sales dominate, representing around 75% of the market. The new research also showed: B2B sales continue to dominate, representing around 75% of the market. B2C sales up by 19.5%

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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

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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Independent Retailer

OCTOBER 26, 2021

by International Market Centers. October Atlanta Apparel continued the upward attendance trajectory evident throughout 2021, with notable gains in accounts from the Northeast (+34%) and Southwest (+237%), augmenting its core Southeast and Midwest attendance base. Market Party. Increased Traffic. Live Selling.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Loyalty solution provider Clarus Commerce has officially rebranded as ebbo in the wake of its acquisition of PrizeLogic in late 2021. The new branding was created to signify the combination of Clarus Commerce’s loyalty offerings and PrizeLogic’s loyalty, promotion and rebate programs.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2021

Bed Bath & Beyond has named John Barresi as SVP of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, as the retailer continues to bolster its leadership team as part of its three-year transformation strategy. Barresi will join Bed Bath & Beyond on June 7, 2021, reporting directly to EVP and CFO Gustavo Arnal.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

Bed Bath & Beyond will launch at least eight new owned brands in fiscal 2021, with six debuting sequentially in the first six months of the fiscal year, which begins March 2021. Bed Bath & Beyond expects the sales penetration of owned brands to grow from approximately 10% to approximately 30% within the first three years.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

From signup to login to account changes and reviews, retailers face waves of opportunities to create a digital relationship with a customer. So how do we keep from alienating good customers while still filtering out bad actors taking aim from every angle — including false reviews, fake accounts and more? This is a fairly new concept.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2022

Mattress Firm has publicly filed for an IPO that will return the furniture retailer to the public markets six years after South Africa’s Steinhoff International took the company private. Mattress Firm first announced in September 2021 that it had confidentially filed to go public. In its fiscal year ended Sept. to hit approximately $4.4

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365 Retail

APRIL 26, 2021

The owner of Poundland has announced plans to list its shares in Warsaw instead of London, in its multibillion-pound stock market float. Poundland owner Pepco has announced stock market float plans (Pepco/PA). Poland is where this business started in 2004 and is still our biggest market,” he said. “It

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2022

JD.com has joined forces with Shopify to help retailers access China’s ecommerce market. The Chinese ecommerce market is expected to be worth $3.3 We believe that the partnership will unlock the huge potential of the Chinese market for brands outside of China. 31, 2021, U.S. trillion by 2025, according to GlobalData.

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