Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. Mastercard Spending Data Reveals 4 Key Takeaways for Holiday 2022.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2024

Bensons for Beds has returned to profit, despite a challenging economic environment and suppressed consumer sentiment, as it continues to make progress under its transformation strategy. loss in 2022, as sales jumped 7.5% The furniture retailer posted an EBITDA profit of £1.5m in the 53 weeks to 30 September, up from a £15.4m

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

So what changes should we expect to see in 2022? Outfits like GoPuff, Gorillas and 1520 took the grocery market by storm in 2021, offering a limited menu of consumables, delivered to your door in an incredible 30 minutes or less (and commanding multi-billion dollar valuations in the process.) Here’s my take: 1.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Australian luggage brand Nere is anticipating strong sales this holiday season, thanks to the ongoing travel boom, growing appeal of practical gifts like suitcases, and high-profile location of its first stand-alone store, which opened in November. Global expansion ahead Since Nere first launched in 2022, it has sold about 1.6

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A1 Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2023

We’re thrilled to be returning to the historic market and now vibrant retail hub of Covent Garden. In keeping with the market’s heritage when flowers, fruits, vegetables, roots and herbs would have been sold, we’ll bring our local, handmade, products made from fresh ingredients.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

For the 2022 holiday season, the trillion-dollar question is how do brands and retailers maintain growth, but do it profitably with an omnichannel approach? Here are our five holiday shopping predictions to consider as you develop your strategy for the 2022 season. For retailers, 2022 is about playing the long game.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 6, 2022

Global architecture, planning and design firm CallisonRTKL has released its Forecast 2022 report – looking at the accelerators, disruptors, and constants shaping the built retail environment in the year to come. In 2022, we will see physical retail environments simplify in-person transactions. Tempur-Pedic (New York City).

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The pandemic has been a challenging time for shopping centers, and even as vaccination rates climb and shoppers return to old habits, retailers are finding that many of their shopping preferences have permanently shifted. I think what’s going to be interesting is, how do we rebound in 2022?”

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2024

Last week, Amazon -owned grocery chain Whole Foods announced the launch of a new format store, Whole Foods Market Daily Shop, to make grocery shopping more convenient for urban consumers. The first location is expected to open in New York City later this year. Can Whole Foods successfully launch a small-scale grocery store chain?

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Retail Focus

MARCH 27, 2023

Non-physical marketing also limits some of the other key interactions D2C brands can have with their consumers, such as creating more impact around a ‘big news moment’, or having a physical platform to engage with your community plus the obvious brand building a physical store environment provides. 2 Pop-up location. . #2

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2023

Yet despite the complexities, an effective personalized approach to marketing is critical to success. Opportunities and Challenges Across Marketing Touch Points Email marketing: Perhaps the most popular example is the email campaign. of these emails being spam, 36% of which are from marketing and advertising initiatives.

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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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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2023

Target US is making shopping easier for customers with the option to make product returns right from their cars at no extra cost. The new returns service is already available at over 500 stores across the US and is expected to reach all 2000 Target locations in the next few months. she questioned.

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Independent Retailer

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

by International Market Centers. Atlanta Apparel’s first 2022 market broke records for the largest-ever number of exhibitors and largest retailer attendance at a February apparel market since 2016. The market was fantastic and probably our best to date.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While we’ve returned to some sense of normalcy, the VUCA [volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous] proposition has become a reality,” said Dr. Thomas Goldsby, Professor and Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee. RTP: What impact do returns have on supply chain costs?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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Independent Retailer

JUNE 21, 2022

Expansion in resources and programming is positioning Las Vegas Market as Summer 2022’s premier opportunity to source top furniture, gifts, and décor with new products from top lines complemented by engaging education and events. Robust Resources. Energizing Events and Celebrations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Dollar Tree plans to open 600 new stores and to renovate 1,250 Family Dollar stores in fiscal 2021, which runs through the end of January 2022. The new stores are expected to consist of 400 Dollar Tree stores and 200 Family Dollar stores; the latter group will be comprised of H2 and Combination Store formats, based upon market locations.

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Independent Retailer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The American Pet Products Association (APPA) and Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA) have announced Global Pet Expo will be held live and in-person March 23-25, 2022, in Orlando, Florida. The trade show team has been hard at work behind the scenes making sure Global Pet Expo 2022 is the best yet.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 11, 2022

CLEVELAND – ECRM announced on Tuesday that its 2022 Global Market: Spring Buying Days will take place March 28 to April 1. The launch follows the overwhelming success of last year’s two Global Markets, during which 2,460 buyers and 2,300 brands gathered to connect and engage around product discovery and education virtually.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

While more than half ( 54% ) of retailers responding to the 2023 Omnichannel and Fulfillment Benchmark Report said active physical stores are the final locations for inventory prior to delivery, retailers are increasingly using third-party services to handle the actual mechanics of picking, packing and delivering items to consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Image courtesy Petco Petco’s focus on services and partnerships (with other companies and with its associates, which it calls “partners,”) helped the retailer not just survive but thrive during the troubled years of the pandemic, so much so that Petco reentered the public market in 2021 with an IPO that valued the company at $6.4

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VMS

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

(PRESS RELEASE) EuroCIS, the leading trade fair for retail technology, will take place from February 15 – 17, 2022 in Halls 9 and 10 at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany Leading topics will be customer centricity, analytics, payment, connected retail and seamless store. Exhibitors can still register online at www.eurocis.com/2330.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

The 2022 back-to-school (BTS) season could be the most “normal” since the start of the pandemic, with even more demand than the record-setting BTS 2021 season for clothing, classroom supplies and new technology. Personalize Your Back-to-School Marketing.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The central London location is where the retailer opened its first store back in 1921 and has hosted some of the world’s biggest artists including The Spice Girls, Kylie Minogue, The Weeknd and Blur for autograph signings and exclusive performances. So, what exactly does the the next chapter of HMV look like?

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 3, 2024

The private equity-owned retailer revealed it had returned to profitability last month for the first time since its collapse in 2020, as EBITDA hit £1.5m loss in 2022. in the 53 weeks to 30 September, up from a £15.4m The private equity firm bought back Bensons but not Harveys.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

Macy’s will reportedly close four locations, in Fort Collins, Colo.; The closures are part of the retailer’s Polaris growth strategy , which aims to stabilize the department store as it pursues a return to growth. The company will offer impacted employees jobs at nearby locations or severance packages. Gaitherbeurg, Md.;

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

CBRE didn’t provide a breakdown of the number of Australian retailers responding about their 2023 growth plans, but 61 per cent of them indicated they were planning to increase the quality of store locations. The lift in sales followed a disappointing 4 per cent in December 2022 underpinning a 1.6 per cent month-on-month to $35.09

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Everyone in the retail industry knows January means two things: lots of holiday returns and the venerable NRF Big Show , running Jan. The industry’s ongoing search for talent — a particularly challenging problem in today’s tight labor market — will be addressed in a number of NRF sessions. 16 keynote from 3:15-3:45 p.m.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

A 2022 survey of more than 13,000 consumers worldwide found that 66% had stopped buying from a company because of a mismatch in values. The 2022 survey also found that a company’s environmental practices were a deciding factor for 78% of consumers. Reduce the Impact of Returns Returns are a net negative for everyone.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2022

locations, with plans to expand the waste-reduction campaign to 49% of the country’s locations by the end of 2022. Our customers have been eagerly waiting for refills to return to The Body Shop. The addition of 400 refill stations in 2022 would save an estimated 25 tons of plastic.

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VMS

JANUARY 12, 2022

The first of the new Carrefour locations is set to open in Crete before summer 2022. TeleUnicom will give us the best platform to enter this market quickly and efficiently. The post Carrefour Returns to Greece after 10 Years appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

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365 Retail

JANUARY 6, 2022

Global architecture, planning and design firm CallisonRTKL has released its Forecast 2022 report – looking at the accelerators, disruptors, and constants shaping the built retail environment in the year to come. In 2022, we will see physical retail environments simplify in-person transactions. Tempur-Pedic (New York City).

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VMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

W ITH THE WORLD adjusting to Covid a few years later as less of a threat and more a part of everyday life, retailers sought to return to business as usual. n 2022, inflation drove prices and interest rates higher. Starbucks workers organized at many locations in 2022. location voted in favor of starting a union.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new “Triple Shot” plan builds on the original reinvention strategy introduced by former CEO Howard Schultz at the company’s Investor Day in September 2022. Starbucks also plans to continue to drive visitor interest through ongoing product innovation, growing its coffee and core menu through “customization and personalized marketing.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

beginning in 2022. Now, True Classic is ready to manage brick-and-mortar operations on its own, with plans to open eight mall-based stores in markets including Houston, Dallas and Boca Raton, Fla., Once they purchase True Classic, more often than not, the customer returns with a repeat purchase and also buys into other categories.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 20, 2022

Now, the chaos is gradually giving way to a new order, and as they look to 2022, many businesses are finally hoping for a more orderly and “normal” year. Customers Care About Return Policies. During the pandemic-driven surge in online shopping, product returns became a major pain point for consumers.

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