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Target to Spend $5B to Enhance Operations in 2022, Plans 250 More Ulta Beauty Shop-in-Shops

Retail TouchPoints

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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Serial Returners and Refund Fraudsters: How Brands are Fighting Back With Data Insight

Retail TouchPoints

Online return fraud cost U.S. billion in 2022. For every $100 in returned merchandise accepted, U.S. to return fraud, the NRF has calculated. Serial returners’ are shoppers who deliberately buy several items knowing full well they won’t keep some of them. retailers $22.8 retailers lose $10.40

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What’s in Store for Grocery in 2022?

Retail TouchPoints

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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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

Among its multiple impacts, COVID-19 accelerated an elongation of the holiday shopping season that was already underway. Rather than being limited to a jam-packed four to five weeks from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, consumers are beginning their shopping as early as October (with a few doing so even earlier than that).

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H&M to Test Smart Mirrors and Enhanced Checkout Tech at COS Stores in the U.S.

Retail TouchPoints

H&M Group is rolling out a pilot of several new tech-enabled in-store shopping solutions at COS stores in the U.S., including new payment and checkout options, personalized styling facilitated by smart mirrors and upgraded delivery and return options.

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Where are Aussie consumers shopping now? Here’s what the data shows

Inside Retail

Lockdowns, store closures, and increased online shopping were all part of the ‘new normal’ for consumers and retailers during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. But it seems we may have finally seen the end of movement and retail restrictions – and the return of in-store shopping. And have a higher return rate.

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Payment as a Key Success Factor: Beyond Just Transactions

365 Retail

This requires suitable payment solutions – turning payment into a strategic success factor. Payment systems were of rather subordinate importance as a trade fair topic because payment in retail was mostly still analogue. Credit card payments were done via Imprinter and a paper receipt.