Retail Gazette

JANUARY 23, 2025

Rituals international footprint has expanded rapidly since entering Asia in 2022, with new stores in Hong Kong and Japan contributing to 46 locations across the continent in 2024. The brand is also growing its digital and wholesale operations, with a focus on travel retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2025

By 2022, grocery stores accounted for about 25% of total food spending. There was no way to ensure this process would work across the variety of touch points that exist today for the largest retailers. As such, traditional grocers are losing market share. This is no longer true. Scale is no longer a hindrance.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Established in 2022 by Vinh Nguyen and two co-founders, Ther Gab quickly became a hit among young Vietnamese consumers. In 2022, Nguyen teamed up with designer MT and his long-term friend Julia to found Ther Gab. In our view, e-commerce platforms are already doing a good job as the point of sale with minimum cost for sellers.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Sales in the Americas increased 13 per cent, including a 27 per cent rise in the US. By the end of the year, the company operated 354 directly managed points of sale across 24 countries. About 300 boutiques have been renovated since 2022 The brands online sales grew 30 per cent last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As it did with many other aspects of retail, COVID-19 gave a major boost to touchless technology applications — and enthusiasm for these solutions will continue even after the pandemic has waned, according to Greg Buzek, Founder and President of IHL Group.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill banning retailers from offering any type of plastic bag to customers at the point of sale. The new law, scheduled to take effect Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Stripe will be the first payment platform to offer the service to business customers, including the Shopify Point of Sale app this spring. Additional payment platforms and apps will follow later in 2022, according to the company.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Additionally, National Retail Solutions (NRS) , which provides point-of-sale and other store management solutions for more than 17,000 bodegas and neighborhood convenience stores, is partnering with Uber Direct to support same-day delivery offerings. Uber Eats expanded ordering hours and live order tracking in July 2022 ; and.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 30, 2023

DCC is an optional service offered at the point of sale, allowing customers to view the cost of their purchases in their home currency. Consumers, on the other hand, should compare rates at the point of sale with those provided by their card issuer to ensure they are getting a good deal. trillion in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

During Brok’s tenure, Sephora has deployed new technology and services as well as expanding its partnership with Kohl’s : Sephora launched same-day delivery in partnership with Delivery Solutions in November 2021; In February 2022 , Kohl’s and Sephora revealed plans to add 400 Sephora shop-in-shops to reach their goal of 850 locations by 2023; and (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2023

ASOS is in the midst of its “Driving Change” transformation strategy announced in October 2022. ASOS experienced a year of declining sales. 31, 2022 ASOS saw active customers remain flat at 25.5 For the four-month period ending Dec. million and total revenue decline by 3%.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 31, 2022

Imprint Pureprint will be exhibiting at the 2022 Visual Merchandising and Display Show. The post Imprint Pureprint to exhibit at the 2022 Visual Merchandising and Display Show appeared first on Retail Focus - Retail Design. Visit them on stand F8 between the 5-6 April at the Business Design Centre in London.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Aēsop operates approximately 400 points of sale across the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia, with a recent advance into China, where the brand opened its first store in 2022.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With a rich heritage spanning over 119 years, Georg Jensen designs, manufactures, and distributes an extensive range of gold, silver, and diamond jewellery, watches, home decor, tableware, and hollowware, with a global presence of 2050 points of sale.

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Inside Retail

MAY 24, 2023

Japanese brand Uniqlo has decided to leave Russia after suspending its operation there last year, paving the way for a sale of the business, the Izvestia newspaper cited Russia’s deputy trade minister as saying. “I think they can offer potential buyers their business model,” Izvestia cited Yevtukhov as saying.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2024

But a legacy point-of-sale (POS) system that lacked any kind of mobile functionality tied too many associates to cash wrap workstations — a major source of inefficiency during ongoing labor shortages in retail. That mandate was particularly urgent given The Paper Store’s brick-and-mortar growth strategy.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

We know that privacy laws in Australia are under the microscope and expected to continue tightening in 2022 (and beyond). It’s privacy-first and gives both parties access to ready-to-buy audiences right at the point of sale, allowing for more precise targeting (right down to the SKU level). .

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The latest research by Publicis Sapient into consumers across the globe has uncovered five key trends that retailers need to embrace in 2022 if they want to transform into shopper-first organisations. In 2022, a seamless integration of online and offline will be critical to success. Evolve to create a one-stop shop for customers.

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Talking Retail

JANUARY 21, 2022

The number of Nisa stores using the company’s Evolution electronic point-of-sale (EPoS) system has risen by a quarter in the last year, says the group. This means nearly 550 stores now have the system, a figure that is expected to go well past 700 in 2022. Nearly 200 (190) were installed in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

According to the Forrester survey , 55% of brands say winning foot traffic will be a top challenge, while a McKinsey report found that more consumers switched brands in 2022 compared to the previous two years. Why is experiential retail having a moment? To help, retailers are transitioning to edge computing.

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 30, 2022

This can be particularly useful at points of sale for payment processing and signatures, for taking photos, or for any task that requires you to be mobile. Best 8-inch Tablet for Entrepreneurs in 2022. What is the best 8-inch budget tablet in 2022? YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Best Office Water Cooler Options in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Retail workers traditionally occupied point-of-sale positions or customer services positions, but now they are central to the success of complex and sophisticated supply chain operations. . Americans are on track to spend $1 trillion in ecommerce by 2022, according to Adobe’s study.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

The retailer is in the midst of rolling out new next-generation store technology, including new point-of-sale (POS) hardware and software, as well as upgrading its stores’ WiFi and network bandwidth. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): You began in your post at JCPenney in 2022.

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Star Miconics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Star Micronics is having a blast at VARTECH 2022! That is precisely what Star Micronics is doing this year at VARTECH 2022 in Orlando, FL. Find Out More About Star at VARTECH 2022. We’ve launched many modern point-of-sale (POS) and self-service solutions since the last VARTECH conference, and it’s not stopping now!

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Star Miconics

JULY 26, 2022

Christine Duffy, Director of Distribution Sales at Star Micronics America, has been honored with RSPA's W2W 2022 Leader of the Year Award! The post Star’s Christine Duffy Is Honored With RSPA’s W2W 2022 Leader Of The Year Award appeared first on Star Micronics. Love industry news?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

At Lumen Field, which began hosting JWO stores in 2022, this fall will see the addition of five new JWO concessions stores and one RFID-enabled store, which enables these checkout-free stores to include merchandise like clothing, hats and fan gear. as well as Baltimore’s first JWO store at M&T Bank Stadium.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The experience will be in nearly 200 Walmart supercenters by the end of January 2021, as well as in select Health Centers and Neighborhood Markets, and Walmart will expand the redesign to nearly 1,000 stores byQ1 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2022

An easily movable point-of-sale area will allow stores to change their layouts in order to create a more experiential shopping journey, which will be supplemented with community, education and athletic events. New North Face locations in 2022 include stores in Schaumburg, Ill.; Portland, Ore.; Indianapolis; Wauwatosa, Wis.;

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

Throughout 2022 we will test a new frictionless and personalized shopping experience — from the fitting room to checkout,” said Alan Boehme, CTO at H&M Group in a statement. COS (which stands for Collection of Style) is owned by H&M and currently operates 13 locations across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2022

Discount variety chain Dollar General is looking to self-checkout as a way to “leverage and reinforce our position as a low-cost operator,” COO Jeff Owen told analysts on the company’s Q1 earnings call on May 26, 2022. Now, Owens said the company also plans to begin testing a 100% self-checkout store format across 200 locations this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

BNPL got a boost as consumers worldwide grappled with inflation, and experts identified multiple BNPL growth opportunities in August 2022. Google Pay has partnered with Affirm and Australia-based Zip and will begin offering their pay-in-four services on Android devices early in 2024. YoY and $2.5

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The partners plan to open at least three Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go stores; a second location is already planned for The New York Times Building at 40th Street and 8th Avenue in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

in November 2022. We’ve been able to sell lots and lots and lots of products, to the point that TikTok is quickly becoming one of our larger [points of sale] ,” he shared in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. reads the company announcement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The company plans to equip two of its Whole Foods stores with cashierless solutions in 2022. Amazon announced that it would make its JWO technology available to other retailers in March 2020 , and deployed the technology at an Amazon Fresh store in June 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

External Theft According to the NRF, shoplifting and other forms of external theft, including burglary, accounted for 37% of reported shrink in 2022. Employee Theft Alarmingly, internal theft accounted for nearly one-third of shrink in 2022 (NRF). This represents the greatest source of loss for retailers of all sizes.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Adobe expects BNPL to set more records throughout the rest of the holiday season, driving a projected $17 billion in online spending, which would be an increase of nearly 17% from 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

The transaction is expected to close in Q1 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. Square plans to purchase buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Afterpay in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $29 billion. The Melbourne, Australia-based company currently serves more than 16 million consumers and nearly 100,000 merchants worldwide.

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