Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

Toys R Us has agreed to acquire arts and crafts retail brand Riot, expanding the toy company’s product offering and bolstering its position in the e-commerce space. ” Riot has about 540,000 retail and 2400 wholesale customers, complementing Toys R Us’ network. .

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Retail Dive

AUGUST 1, 2022

The department store in Maryland is sparsely merchandised and low on traffic. Senior Reporter Ben Unglesbee takes a look inside to see how retail has changed since the heyday of malls.

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Retail Dive

MAY 26, 2022

Rising food and gas prices are causing consumers to pull back on discretionary spending. That hurt retailers in the first quarter.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

But his daughter, Somia Farid Silber, who’s now the company’s President, isn’t coasting on the company’s past success — she’s too busy thinking about the next 25 years. I would go on the road with my dad to visit stores and help open new ones, so I learned a lot at a really young age about customer experience and service. times a year.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Airbnb Ireland may pay as much as $30 million in penalties and compensation after the company admitted it misled customers about the currency of the prices on its accommodation booking platform. The misleading conduct affected about 70000 customers between January 2018 and August 2021.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Furniture retailer King Living is expanding its footprint into North America, opening its first US showroom in Orange County, California late this year. The company intends to open a second US showroom in Chicago, followed by a debut in Canada – in Calgary – next year.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Toys ‘R’ Us ANZ has decided to exit its UK business, citing an unsustainable business model and its negative impact on the group’s overall performance. This involves the transfer of all the UK assets to Tru Kids in a settlement of the US$1.8

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

The once jet-setting duo spoke to Inside Retail about how different starting a successful retail business was in comparison to launching careers in fashion after experiencing almost instantaneous success with their platform ‘How to Live’, that amassed over 100,000 followers online and the brand they built with that.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2024

But this is not a replication of history, Inside Retail spoke to Nuholt Huisamen, managing director of Levi Strauss & Co for East Asia Pacific, about how nostalgia is fueling the future of the business. This is not happening in the US, this is not happening in the place where this brand was born,” said Huisamen.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

We also see AI giving us some really interesting opportunities within our guest services areas, to bring in more data and insights when customers contact us. And [we’re also exploring use cases] in content creation to allow us to develop content that’s more personalized. The possibilities are really endless.”

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Selling online in the US can be lucrative, as many Australian retailers and brands are discovering. Loop is the leading post-purchase platform optimising returns, post-purchase, and reverse logistics for more than 3500 brands, representing about 15 per cent of Shopify’s gross merchandise value. Begin with baby steps, she advocates.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

The way that we assess all the opportunities that come in is thinking about how we can do something truly different,” D’Arcy said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Overall, from a brand awareness, consideration and relevance perspective, we felt like that was a great place for us to be, and among a very influential audience.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The business already operates across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, China, and the United Kingdom, but a step into the US is a whole different beast. According to Statista, the US furniture retail category is worth $379.6 However, it isn’t the only Australian player looking to expand in the US.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2024

What all these retailers are excited about is getting in front of an incremental consumer ,” said Hannon in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. If you think about the world that we’ve built, it’s one where you’ve got a real multi-category shopper. “As

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2023

US private equity investor Advent International is reportedly to acquire a majority stake in luxury fashion label Zimmermann from Style Capital. Some media reports said the acquisition agreement, which has not yet been finalised, could value Zimmermann at about US$1 billion. Both companies declined to respond to the media.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

WHP Global will roll out flagship-style Toys ‘R’ Us stores throughout the U.S. The Toys ‘R’ Us brand is growing fast and our expansion into air, land and sea is a testament to the brand’s strength,” said Yehuda Shmidman, Chairman and CEO of WHP Global in a statement. “The Toys ‘R’ Us marked its initial return to U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

With a compound annual growth rate of about 25% , this category is poised to reach $426.2 You can kind of think of us as the Sephora of NA.” It brings us closer to that North Star of the stores being a neighborhood store.” The non-alcoholic beverage (NA) market is projected to reach $176.7 billion in 2024.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

Australian luxe-for-less beauty brand MCoBeauty launched into the US market this week and is now stocked in over 1,800 Kroger Co stores. Inside Retail: How did MCoBeauty approach entering into the US market? Did this differ from the “copy-and-paste” method used to enter New Zealand? SS: Not at this stage. SS: Six per cent.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 18, 2024

Inside Retail spoke to Olivia Magnan, Goodbyes co-founder, about the year that was and the year ahead. I think the surge in secondhand [shopping] is making significant strides in competing with traditional fashion retail, which is what we’re all about, trying to encourage people to shop secondhand over new.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2023

It seems like just about everyone on earth is obsessed with the promise of artificial intelligence. So what can AI teach us about the human mind at work? The insights we can glean there can teach us a lot about how we shop, not just for clothes and shoes but for just about anything we buy.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The company said on its website that it plans to increase investment and “drive meaningful growth” in its core markets – the US and Canada. According to TechCrunch , which quoted data from intelligence firm Sensor Tower, Poshmark has about 8.1 million monthly active users on its phone apps. billion last year.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

There are about 1600 possible product combinations, according to Felicity McGahan, group CEO of Strand, the 96-year-old Australian luggage chain that launched Nere in 2022. We’re very much about value and being accessible to all.” When Covid took travel from us, we all realised the role it really plays in our lives.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

News.com has reported the 102-year-old chain is set to close after a series of decisions in boardrooms in the US and Australia and the collapse of negotiations to sell the business to rival Bob Jane Corporation. Bob Jane got offered to buy out all the stores,” a source told News.com.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 19, 2024

It’s not only [about] choosing the right mall, that’s quite easy nowadays, because all the data is there, but it’s about the right space in the mall. How do we find the floors that will be best for us?” It’s not about me saying, ‘I love diversity.’ You see that through your eyes.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We need more more of the country to not only know about us, but to experience us and experience the proposition and understand they can save money by shopping with us,” he told Inside Retail. Most Australians haven’t even visited Temple & Webster, let alone bought from us.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The average warehouse size is now 147,000 sq feet, and average sales per warehouse is US$252 million. Membership fees to rise The annual membership fee is US$60, which has not changed in more than six years – but it is going up. per cent, about the same as for 2022. Membership revenue increased 8 per cent to US$4.6

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

“With our process, we try to understand what is influencing clients today, so we can think about the big themes that may carry forward into 2024. Some people might talk about this as the art and the science. The Style Forecast also provides a vehicle to explore more quirky marketing and merchandising themes.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2024

It has raised over US$65 million in funding and has an omnichannel presence in the UK, US and Australian markets. Here, we speak with the founder and CEO about the business’ origin story and what it has in store for the year ahead. Inside Retail : How did the idea for Papier come about? billion by 2028.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2024

million (US$3 million) fine for its involvement in the harassment of a couple in Massachusetts, according to court documents. They had been subjected to threats and disturbing deliveries, including live spiders, cockroaches, a funeral wreath, a bloody pig mask and a book about surviving the loss of a spouse.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2024

Product curation When it comes to stocking products, Motte said it’s about curating brands, not having the broadest assortment. “We For us, the word partner is not a gimmick.” We have always believed in stores,” he said, noting that Sephora opens about 200 stores a year. It has to be lively, it has to be exciting,” he said.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Nautical Bowls, an acai bowl retail chain founded in the US, is heading to our shores. If we can have successful franchisees then by default we will be a successful brand in Australia as it has been in the US,” he said. And that’s one of the things I love about the product. Dean Lightfoot is the area developer for Australia.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2023

Sportswear retailer LSKD has been expanding rapidly throughout Australia in recent years, and has now set its sights on a bigger market: the US. Here, we speak to founder and CEO Jason Daniel about the brand’s international strategy, e-commerce’s growing interest in physical retail, and doing more with less. One is Blenders Eyewear.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Singapore-headquartered e-commerce company Qoo10 has entered an agreement to acquire American e-commerce platform Wish from ContextLogic Inc for US$173 million. The price represents a bargain at about 1 per cent of its value at the time the struggling marketplace listed on the stock market a little over three years ago.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2024

We are past the point of conjecture about whether AI will upend the retail industry; it already has. In a recent study sponsored by Nvidia, 69% of retailers that used AI in 2023 reported that it increased revenues, and 72% said it reduced operating costs. Now, AI will find and buy items for us. With AI, that is about to change.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I think a lot of retail media networks focused first on their on-site business and now they are thinking about off-site, but off-site is a very, very different ballgame. We were challenged from the beginning to think about how to build both together.” But they’re also learning other things about their customer or their product.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Penny Cox recently took over as CEO of Toys ‘R’ Us in Australia and New Zealand. Inside Retail : Why did you decide to join Toys ‘R’ Us ANZ as CEO? In fact, I’m a customer myself, having three girls under the age of 6, so it’s something I feel strongly about. Penny Cox: I’m lucky. I love the category of toys and babies.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 17, 2024

But our four-legged friends no longer help us hunt, and instead we send them Valentine’s cards (Moonpig reported a 30% year on year increase this year). million households adopting a pet over the pandemic alone, 85% of us now see them as part of the family. Pets have never had a bigger role in our lives.

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