Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The winners were revealed and celebrated at the 2022 PAVE Gala earlier in December in New York City, and now we’re spotlighting their craftsmanship with a special report and interview series featuring the leaders driving these projects. The 2022 Winning Windows recipients at the 2022 PAVE Gala in New York City.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

Toys ‘R’ Us will make its latest attempted return to brick-and-mortar with 400 store-in-store shops at Macy’s locations and online at macys.com/toysrus, slated to roll out in 2022. Toys ‘R’ Us parent company Tru Kids Brands was acquired by WHP Global in March 2021 with the goal of expanding the business worldwide.

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Dezeen

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A fashion store filled with pillows and a furniture showroom that looks more like a luxury apartment are among our pick of the best shop interiors of the year, in the next instalment of Dezeen's review of 2022. Read on for Dezeen's top 10 shop interiors of 2022: Photo by Michael Rygaard. Photo by Hu Yanyun.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When customers aren’t actively searching and shopping for gifts, they are spending an elevated amount of time watching their favorite TV shows and movies — especially holiday classics like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Elf. In many ways, the same trends we see in consumers’ Q4 shopping behaviors mirror their TV viewership.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Craft tea retailer The Berry Tea Shop has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign via Birchal as it seeks to scale the business and expand its product portfolio. Founded in 2010 by Cliff and Paulina Collier, The Berry Tea Shop offers a selection of more than 48 varieties of loose-leaf tea, tea wares and accessories and includes a cafe.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2023

In its third annual Brand Protection Report , Amazon highlighted the success of its ongoing efforts to fight counterfeit products and said that 2022 saw more criminal referrals and industry partnerships than ever before at the company. This is coupled with advancements in the company’s machine learning-based detection capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Petco will expand its exclusive retail partnership with  Canadian Tire with the addition of Petco shop-in-shops at 99% of Canadian Tire stores by the middle of 2023 as well as a dedicated product assortment online at canadiantire.ca. Petco also has a shop-in-shop experience at Lowe’s stores , which launched in early 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

YouTube is getting into the holiday spirit with a nine -day, multi-format shopping event , From YouTube to You, that will feature interactive live shopping events, shoppable Shorts and video gift guides. 10 to 19, 2022. Creators are now also able hold to Q&A sessions with their viewers during their live shopping events.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2023

YouTube will launch a live commerce shopping channel in South Korea on June 30, 2023, according to reporting by the Yonhap news agency as well as other publications. The channel, which will debut with approximately 30 brands, will mark YouTube’s first official shopping channel anywhere in the world.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It might have been the worst-kept secret in retail, but after months of unconfirmed reports , behind-the-scenes testing and tales from the front lines , TikTok has finally, formally launched its new ecommerce offering — TikTok Shop. in November 2022. reads the company announcement. user data is stored in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2021

So, what can we expect to see in 2022 for social platforms? Emerging shopping platforms. It’s no secret that online shopping became more prevalent during the pandemic, so naturally social media platforms adjusted to this and became an increasingly popular shopping outlet. Bite-sized content.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Customers can also visit Selfridges’ biggest Christmas Shop to date, open on the fourth floor of the Oxford Street store, reimagined as a magical and immersive place where visitors are invited to spend time savouring the festive experience and choose ornaments that are special to them. Meave Wall, Selfridges’ Stores Director.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

At the end of 2021, the editors of Retail TouchPoints took a stab at predicting what would happen in ecommerce in 2022. 2022 certainly isn’t turning out how anyone thought it would. 2022 certainly isn’t turning out how anyone thought it would. Not to toot our own horn, but we hit the nail on the head with this one.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2022

If you aren’t adapting to customer behaviours in 2022, then you likely aren’t creating sustainable growth for your business. What to expect for retail in 2022. Here are some proven strategies for achieving versatility online: Integrate your offline and online shopping experiences. Download the free guide here.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Walmart customers have a new way to shop — by text message. The retailer’s new Text to Shop capability launched Dec. 14, 2022, and is available for free on iOS and Android devices. . The new Text to Shop service was built by Walmart’s incubation division Store No8 , in partnership with Walmart’s Global Tech team. . “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2022

The first Lowe’s + Petco store-in-store will open at Lowe’s Alamo Ranch, Texas location in early February, with plans to expand to 14 additional Lowe’s locations in Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina by the end of March 2022. More than 11 million new pets have entered U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a first indication of what to expect as we enter the heart of the 2022 holiday season, digital Black Friday sales hit record highs despite inflationary pressures, topping $9.1 Mobile shopping once again played a major role on Black Friday, with 48% of digital sales coming from smartphones, up from 44% in 2021. billion and up 2.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Consumer habits changed drastically last year as people went online to shop. According to McKinsey , 75% of consumers tried a new shopping behavior due to economic pressure, store closings and changing priorities, and the data we are seeing internally shows 50% of shoppers now intend to shop both in-store and online.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

The 2022 holiday season showed slow, but steady, improvement for the retail industry. Adobe recorded full-year sales growth of 6.1% , largely driven by heavy spending early in 2022 that tapered off as inflation took its toll. As economic headwinds curbed spending capacity, online retail grew in the U.S. Global digital sales topped $1.1

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2024

All of the products sold by The Body Shop have officially been certified as having 100% vegan formulations by The Vegan Society. In 2021, The Body Shop set a goal of making all of its products 100% vegan; at the time, 60% of its products already carried The Vegan Society certification. The retailer became a certified B Corp.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The 2022 MAPIC Awards winners are: Best New Retail Concept: Situ Live (Unibail-Rodamco Westfield). Retailer The Body Shop. Best Performing Shopping Center. Videos and pictures from the night to follow… YOU MAY LIKE: Creative Retail Awards crown the very best in worldwide design and display for 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company plans to host the Prime Big Deal Days shopping event this October to consumers across 19 countries. Amazon hosted Prime Day in the fall for the first time in 2022, unofficially marking the official (earlier) kickoff of the holiday shopping season. increase over 2022. In addition to the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Malls were once the nucleus of “shopping culture.” But many shopping malls have endured an identity crisis. Coresight also found that traffic at top-tier malls was up 12% in 2022 over pre-pandemic 2019 levels, while traffic was up 10% at non-top-tier malls. For example, you don’t always have to place a Michaels next to a Lowe’s.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

As rival TikTok ramps up its shopping initiatives , Meta is streamlining its own commerce strategy to drive more in-platform shopping on Instagram and Facebook. A shift toward a new dynamic for Instagram and Facebook Shops will require companies to enable in-app checkout in order to offer a Shop on both sites.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 8, 2023

Christmas Tree Shops , which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 5, reportedly plans to emerge from the process with most stores open, according to The Wall Street Journal. Christmas Tree Shops, which the Salkovitzs acquired from Bed Bath & Beyond in 2022, has been under pressure due to rising inflation.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Natura &Co will sell The Body Shop to Aurelius for £207 million ( $257.8 The private equity group is seeking to enhance ESG aspects in its portfolio and is committed to maintaining The Body Shop’s distinctive values, instilled by its founder, Dame Anita Roddick. stores in April 2022.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

Target plans to open an additional 250+ Ulta Beauty shops inside its stores in 2022. Over time, the retailer has committed to hosting at least 800 Ulta shops.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, while 49% of respondents said they shopped the same amount in 2023 as they did in 2022, 43% believed that they ultimately spent more money. “We Because of that, we put a lot more emphasis on questions around the economic environment and the role that that plays on consumer shopping behaviors.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon has debuted Rufus , a new generative AI-powered conversational shopping experience, at the same time that it reported strong earnings for Q4 2023 and the full year. billion , a huge increase from the $278 million in profit Amazon saw in Q4 2022. billion in 2022. customers in the Amazon mobile app.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 6, 2022

From different workshops to construction sites, Shop Vacs are an essential tool. Whether you are at a shop in your business or your home garage, the right shop vac will make easy work of almost any mess. You can pick them all up with a shop vac, from sawdust to nails, wood, screws, and liquids. What is a Shop Vac?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

TikTok has reportedly launched its much-discussed ecommerce platform, TikTok Shop, in the U.S., TikTok Shop was previously only available in the UK and seven countries in Asia. ” In early October 2022, additional reports surfaced that TikTok was teaming up with live shopping platform TalkShopLive to bring TikTok Shop to the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As part of its new web platform, Batteries Plus will: Focus on performance improvements; Review individual site categories; Optimize the online shopping journey through the addition of new features; and. Create a consistent experience for those who shop in-store and online.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Best Buy is offering in-store pickup for livestream shopping orders through a partnership with social-commerce platform TalkShopLive. 12, 2022 with a segment hosted by media personality Noah Schnacky, who led viewers through a live tour of his favorite products, which customers could purchase via the program and pick up at Best Buy.

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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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