Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2021

Athleticwear brand lululemon shared plans to expand its physical store presence, opening 40 to 50 new mainline locations globally in 2021, according to comments made during its Q4 earnings call with analysts. “In Lululemon will expand its shop-in-shop strategy for MIRROR to more than 200 locations in North America this year.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

brick-and-mortar retailing in late 2021 with a 20,000-square-foot flagship store at New Jersey’s American Dream mall , followed by 452 Toys ‘R’ Us shop-in-shops at Macy’s in 2022. No information about the number of planned stores or their opening dates was available. Toys ‘R’ Us marked its initial return to U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2024

After opening the brand’s first brick-and-mortar location since its 2018 bankruptcy in July 2023, the company has now announced plans to bring Babies ‘R’ Us shop-in-shops to 200 Kohl’s locations this year. After filing for bankruptcy and shuttering all its U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2024

With online shopping hitting record highs during the most recent Thanksgiving holiday weekend, many companies often focus on preparing for this annual period of peak demand. That’s why retailers must find ways to optimize their cloud resource planning strategies ahead of a time of demand. So Who’s Doing It Well?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As SEOs [search engine optimizers], any heavy lifting we can do to clear a path for our clients toward success in the holiday shopping season will be especially welcome in 2021. Economists are predicting another very strong, extended online shopping period in Q4 2021. over the previous year, according to the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

Macy’s Backstage , Lids and Carhartt all have announced expansions of shop-in-shop formats with parent and partner retailers. Macy’s plans to eventually add Backstage-branded spaces at 270 locations across the U.S.; The company hopes to eventually have 270 such shop-in-shops nationwide. Macy’s Backstage at Macy’s.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

million people plan to shop between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday in 2022, representing 69% of all holiday shoppers, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Analytics. Black Friday is once again the top day to shop, with 114.9 billion in 2021. An estimated 166.3

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

One year after Kohl’s and Sephora launched their Sephora at Kohl’s shop-in-shop collaboration, the retailers plan to roll out the successful concept to all 1,100 Kohl’s locations. The Sephora at Kohl’s shop-in-shops are exhibiting strength across all categories, including skincare, makeup and fragrance.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

Trans-Tasman apparel retailer Mosaic Brands is set to open 130 new stores as customers return to in-store shopping. Although sales have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels, Evans said in-store shopping continues to lift each month. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Reasor’s Foods has reduced cart abandonment among its online shoppers with the deployment of a white-label meal planning solution from GroceryShopii. Since integrating the solution into its RecipeToTable meal planning option in summer 2021, shoppers using it are 5X more likely to complete their ecommerce transactions compared to non-users.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2022

Fast Retailing , parent company of brands including UNIQLO and Theory , revealed major global expansion plans — including opening at least 300 new stores — in its FY2023, which ends in July 2023. The retailer’s growth plans are being fueled by strong results for the six months that ended in February 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

Prime Day 2021 will officially span June 21 and 22, featuring more than 2 million deals across categories including fashion, electronics, toys, home décor and automotive. Prime Day 2021 Will be Driven by Loyalty and Discounts. consumers increased or maintained their spending on Amazon in Q2 2021, according to a survey by JungleScout.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

including Amazon , Target and Macy’s , have announced their plans for holiday hiring, but all told this season may see one of lowest levels of seasonal hiring since 2008 , according to report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas shared with Reuters. In conjunction with its holiday hiring plans, Amazon also announced that it is investing $1.3

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2023

As part of the retailer’s plans to open 100 locations in 2023, Ross Stores opened 11 Ross Dress for Less and eight dd’s Discounts stores in 13 states during February and March. This is the second year in a row when Ross Stores will grow its footprint by 100 locations while maintaining the same ratio of Ross to dd’s shops.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2023

Discount retailer The Reject Shop is facing a class action lawsuit for “purported underpayments” to staff, launched by specialist law firm Adero Law Between February 2016 and April 2021, seven former employees of the discount retailer allege underpayment during their employment with the company.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Target will add as many as 100,000 seasonal associates to its workforce this holiday season, approximately the same number as in 2021. The retailer is hoping the higher starting wage range it announced in February 2022 , $15 to $24 per hour, will streamline its holiday hiring plans despite ongoing labor shortages. 24, 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 25, 2022

Chanel plans to deliver personalized experiences to top-purchasing clients through dedicated boutiques as it builds upon strong FY2021 earnings of $15.6 This initiative is scheduled to begin in early 2023, with the first private boutiques planned to open in Chanel’s key cities in Asia. . billion in revenues — an increase of 49.6%

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Here are the Top 10 predictions retailers should keep in mind as they plan, implement and finalize their holiday strategies. Individual purchase patterns may or may not be shaped by this concern, but retailers themselves will utilize promotions to incentivize earlier shopping. And the number-one prediction for holiday 2021: 1.

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MAY 26, 2023

Performance apparel brand Canada Goose is continuing its retail expansion across the West Coast with plans for its first Los Angeles store, a permanent presence east of Seattle in Bellevue, Wash. The three new stores are part of the company’s plan, announced earlier this year , to more than double its current global store count by 2028. . —

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MARCH 31, 2023

But as the OG value-shopping app tries to win back consumers, it has more than a few hurdles to overcome — not least of which is luring back lapsed consumers who now have new alternatives that don’t come with any negative history. And this is just the first of in a series of shopping events Wish has planned for 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

More than one-third of consumers now shop online each week, up from 28% pre-pandemic. The customers of one of my clients, a retailer of hobbyist products, skew older and retired and did less shopping online. So what are the customer experience and commerce trends that will continue, or become more fully realized, in 2021?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Looking ahead, we remain confident in our expansion plans and continue to see plenty of opportunity to grow to at least 2,900 Ross Dress for Less and 700 dd’s DISCOUNTS locations over time.” billion in Q1 2021 to $4.3 billion in Q1 2022, which prompted the retailer to revise its forecast for the remainder of the year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Online shopping became a refuge, not because of overwhelming convenience, but because contactless commerce was necessary. Culled from this agile, iterative survey data, here are six things we learned consumers want from retailers heading into 2021: 1. One in four consumers are shopping more with small brands.

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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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Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

CHICAGO – The number of consumers planning to do at least some of their holiday shopping online rose to 82% this year, according to a recent holiday purchase intentions consumer survey from Circana , formerly IRI and The NPD Group. consumers are shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

The shop-in-shop retail approach can yield benefits for both the host retailer and the hosted brand, but there are certainly challenges to entering into this type of partnership. Would standing out or blending within the host environment drive the most traffic to the shop-in-shop? Making Space for a Shop-in-Shop Partner.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Dollar Genera l has announced plans to create approximately 10,000 net new positions during fiscal 2022, a 6% increase of its total workforce. In addition to more stores, Dollar General plans to expand its DG Fresh distribution centers and its DG Private Fleet network. Dollar General’s fiscal year ends Feb. 30, 2026. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

However, there will still be plenty of opportunity as well, particularly for retailers with strong last mile offerings, solid social media presences and a knack for bringing people together, according to Salesforce’s 2021 holiday projections. Rising Costs Will Reverberate from Suppliers to Retailers to Consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

Pinterest has signed a definitive agreement to acquire THE YES , an AI-powered platform that allows consumers to personalize their shopping feeds based on their brand, style and size preferences. THE YES team are experts in building an end-to-end shopping experience,” said Silbermann in a statement.

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MARCH 7, 2022

We delivered record EPS [earnings per share] in 2021 and achieved our operating margin goal two years ahead of schedule, reflecting our progress to drive more profitable growth.”. Kohl’s plans to enhance its data science capabilities in an effort to engage with customers more efficiently and provide greater relevance.

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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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MARCH 23, 2022

Demonstrating a high level of confidence in its “off-price and on-trend” Backstage concept, Macy’s will add 37 of the shop-in-shops across the country this spring. At that time Macy’s said it was aiming for a total of 270 Backstage shop-in-shops, and with these new expansion plans the retailer will have exceeded that goal.

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MARCH 28, 2022

Liu oversees the MINISO business, including product marketing, PR, user operations and global ecommerce, so he shared some exclusive insights into the company’s expansion plans and priorities. We have plans to enter some new markets as well. We elevate this shopping experience in three ways: We experiment with a lot of new products.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2021

Dollar General is planning significant expansion for 2021, including opening 1,050 new stores, remodeling 1,750 existing locations and relocating 100 stores. The shops focus on a rotating selection of seasonal merchandise, with about 95% of items priced at $5 or less.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

MINISO , a Japanese-inspired lifestyle retailer, has set its sights on brick-and-mortar growth and is accelerating its plans during the holiday season. The company revealed its plans to double its store fleet by the end of 2021, reaching 53 locations in the U.S. Our expansion comes at a perfect time for holiday shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Beauty and skincare brand The Body Shop has brought its in-store refill program to a number of U.S. locations, with plans to expand the waste-reduction campaign to 49% of the country’s locations by the end of 2022. The expansion is part of The Body Shop’s five-year refill-station implementation plan.

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