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How Touchland Uses Data to Drive Brand Expansion

Retail TouchPoints

The brand previously relied on disparate tools and software to support distinct functions, and there was little connection between its core accounting software and additional data created by operations, marketing and other teams. Ulta launched Touchland in 1,300 stores in January 2020 — and its products sold out within two weeks.

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Q2 2021 Roundup: How Target, Macy’s and Foot Locker Harnessed Consumer Optimism

Retail TouchPoints

Target’s Store-Based Fulfillment Model Drives Convenience. The secret to Target’s success is the retailer’s expertise at utilizing its stores for fulfillment, whether as a staging ground for last mile delivery or an efficient curbside pickup hub. Target’s physical comparable sales grew 8.9%

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From shop floor to Reebok Pacific GM: Ashley Sampson’s career journey

Inside Retail

Once I’d earned my stripes in the retail business, I moved into the corporate office and cut my teeth in sales, being trained up as the key account manager for a number of Globe brands in the Myer business. AS: A key lesson that’s stuck with me, that wish I’d realised earlier is that true, meaningful growth is really uncomfortable.

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8 retailers slashing jobs and cutting costs in 2024

Retail Gazette

Administrators at FRP said the reduced store footprint would coincide with “a renewed focus on the brand’s products, online sales channels and wholesale strategies, bringing the brand in line with industry peers and supporting a return to financial stability”.

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Why Investors are Racing to Buy Up Amazon’s Hottest Third-Party Sellers

Retail TouchPoints

Rollup firms are typically able to buy these Amazon businesses at anywhere from 4X to 6X EBITDA, sometimes less, according to Thomson: “As long as you manage to keep the same efficiency that any one of those accounts had when they were a standalone, you can get a 15X to 25X valuation on your company. There is massive financial arbitrage here.

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In Their Own Words: How Retailers Are Coping With COVID-19

Retail TouchPoints

Together, these retailers discussed the state of retail through COVID-19 and offered first-hand accounts of how retailers adapted their businesses. Its local retail store, which accounts for almost half of the business’ revenue, shut down completely for a few months. Sauceda , CEO, Sauceda Industries. An Opportunity To Try New Things.

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Amazon’s Counterintuitive Next Big Move — Helping Brands Sell Off Amazon

Retail TouchPoints

With 2 million third-party sellers accounting for more than half of its retail revenue, Amazon ’s relationship with the businesses that sell on its platform has become essential to its success. As those sellers have become more successful though, they have also become more powerful …and more demanding. And it doesn’t stop at the transaction.