Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2021

YoY; Furniture and home furnishings stores: Up 5.9% Conversely, categories like apparel skewed positive last month due to retailers mostly being closed at this time in 2020. For instance, clothing and accessory store sales were up 18.3% month-over-month seasonally adjusted, and up 104.6% unadjusted YoY.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

By 2032, digital will be the most important area of their business, and sectors that today have remained relatively untouched — motor vehicles and parts, convenience stores, furniture/home furnishing stores, building material, and more — will have reinvented their digital posture and orientation.

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VMS

JANUARY 30, 2023

The move is designed to spur sales of higher-margin, discretionary items such as apparel, beauty products and home furnishings. At least one more is on the way, in Secaucus, N.J. Mass merchant Walmart (Bentonville, Ark.) has remodeled five of its SuperCenters in the Eastern U.S. Yaphank, N.Y.; Quakertown, Pa.;

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Retail Focus

JUNE 27, 2022

Braehead, a leading retail and leisure destination, owned by property company SGS and asset managed by Global Mutual Properties, has announced a string of recent and upcoming openings at the centre. Lids, which sells fan and fashion-oriented headwear and apparel across the US, Canada and Puerto Rico, has signed on a c.1,000

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2023

My research (done with various co-authors) shows that self-selection is at least as profitable as algorithmic identification for product categories where renters’ willingness to pay for temporary use of an item is relatively low. The ecommerce website Jet.com, which was sold to Walmart in 2016, used this strategy — just to name one example.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2021

For a very long period, the last 20 to 30 years , real wages in retail were flat,” said Dr. Michael Mandel, Chief Economic Strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. That will go to the expertise and additional capabilities that these employees will need to have, or learn, and become skilled at. ”.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2022

Sportswear retailer Nike and home furnishings firm Ikea have shut down their stores in Russia, as the world responds to the rogue state’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. Additional reporting from Anna Ringstrom, Gwladys Fouche and Eric M. Johnson of Reuters.

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VMS

APRIL 7, 2021

Currently at 18 percent, UBS predicts e-commerce sales will climb to 27 percent. The note also predicted apparel retailers will be the largest group impacted by growing e-commerce. UBS said nearly 21,000 apparel retailers could close. In addition, roughly 7000 home furnishing stores are also likely to close.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

I have a four-year-old and I have a one-and-a-half-year-old, and I saw the changes in the industry regarding resale in apparel, handbags, accessories, sneakers and home furnishing, but the baby industry was a little bit dated. Our team at Rebelstork are all experts in the retail space.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

RH (Corte Madera, CA) will open a four-level design gallery at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, CA that will feature a rooftop restaurant and wine bar, the luxury home furnishings retailer announced. RH also a 7,300-square-foot store located at the Fashion Island mall that will remain open.

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VMS

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Located at 97 Wooster St., it replaces a New York flagship that closed at the end of last year. Finnish design house Marimekko (Helsinki) has opened a new experiential retail space in SoHo. Continuing this tradition, our new store aims to create a dialogue with New York, its inhabitants and creative culture.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With borders closed and sales drying up, the Thai silk fashion house was forced to shed a majority of its workforce – from a peak of 2650 to a mere 650 at one point. Across the narrow canal behind Thompson’s home was a Muslim settlement, Ban Krua, which eked out a living weaving Thai silk.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The home furnishing and accent retailer, which operates 20 showrooms and 13 Ashley Home Store showroom licenses in Florida, partnered with cloud commerce provider Kibo , which offered a flexible ecommerce technology that would allow CITY Furniture to develop and support highly customized customer journeys and a fluid shopping-cart experience. “Our

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It isn’t clear who has the other 62 per cent, but regardless, Moshi Moshi’s current expansion is aimed at filling what the company sees as numerous gaps in the national market that are not currently covered by the existing 117-strong store fleet. Some stores also sell pet accessories. What makes Moshi Moshi special?

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

in August, as consumers spent more on apparel, electronics and home goods, the Commerce Department reported today. Separately, the Labor Department reported this week that prices of consumer goods continued to climb in August, albeit at a slower pace. increase in spending on furniture and home furnishings, as well as a 3.5%

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Mass Relators

APRIL 13, 2021

Reardon spent the last decade with Macy’s, retailer of apparel, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings and other consumer goods under the Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury banners. At NRF, Reardon will be responsible for driving the trade group’s marketing, event content and membership strategy.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 2, 2022

retail sales growth reflects the rebound in consumer spending after flat sales in September,” Claire Tassin, Retail and Ecommerce Analyst at Morning Consult , said. Online retail, up 1.2%, continues to perform alongside home furnishings and DIY stores, up 1.1% “October’s 1.3% Zen and Meow wholesale.zenandmeow.com .

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The home furnishing and accent retailer, which operates 20 showrooms and 13 Ashley Home Store showroom licenses in Florida, partnered with cloud commerce provider Kibo , which offered a flexible ecommerce technology that would allow CITY Furniture to develop and support highly customized customer journeys and a fluid shopping-cart experience. “Our

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

Despite this good news, many executives at shopping malls and “destination centers” wonder just how much of this returning traffic will find its way to their venues. Many mall owners have had to get creative with how they improve foot traffic and consumer spending at their centers,” CoStar Advisory Service’s Trantham noted.

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Retalon

AUGUST 22, 2023

Inventory Turnover Calculation Example Let’s look at an example inventory turnover calculation: A retailer has $1,000,000 in sales during the year. A higher turnover ratio indicates inventory is selling at a brisk rate. Meanwhile, higher volume categories like women’s apparel and family clothing drive higher turnover of 3-4x.

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Retail Next

AUGUST 12, 2020

Drink your Corona (at home), stop spreading the corona(virus)! . These shoppers will be at home, protecting their own health. Traffic trends across categories are still down to last year, however, jewelry and home continue to be the brightest spots. Susan Davidson is a Retail Consultant at RetailNext.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 22, 2022

Last year retail eCommerce sales in China came in at an eye popping $2.6 For context, the United States has the second highest share at 19%. JD.com sells a range of products from electronics to food to apparel and has over 550 million active customers. Invest in emerging trends to keep the competition at bay.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 24, 2023

The experience-led store includes a studio space offering free workout classes and a Joe and The Juice café, alongside the opportunity to shop its wide range of fitness apparel and accessories. Foyle adds that the intention behind the store also “depends on what brand recognition is needed and where it’s at in its evolution”.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

The US Dept of Commerce December Advanced Retail Sales Data is out, which gives us a full look at 2021 and the 2021 holiday season. If you want to follow along, we’ve made a deck with all the data available at [link]. So Episode 285 is a data deepdive into 2021. JAS_US_2021_Commerce_Recap Download.

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VMS

JANUARY 30, 2022

But on the plus side, let’s look at three major innovative trends that appear ready to help retailers find new ways to connect with customers in 2022. Tenspace (Columbus, Ohio) offers digital native and direct-to-consumer brands, like sports apparel brand Rudis, a physical space to test store concepts and brand activations.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Cusack was previously head of international business at menswear specialty retailer Retail Apparel Group. Robertson, who joined the group in January, formerly held the group buying and marketing director position at WHSmith Australia. Hill has been a director at Michael Hill since 2007. She joined Alquemie last month.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Jason: [2:04] Yeah yeah so it’s very cool I feel like I remember some of our very first podcast we’re like early in you know as SpaceX was knocking off all these milestones and we were we were talking about those a lot at the beginning of podcasts and. 10:15] So that growth rate is three point four percent so retail grew at 3.4

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Retail Adventures

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Let’s take a look at some shopper stopper ideas that can be tweaked and utilized on your own sales floor. This “Textile Market” sign at Anthropologie adds a fun flair to the items merchandised below. A sign like this is perfect for a fabric, quilt or even an apparel shop. This display at Cocoon works the “power of three”.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Retailers now compete with social media networks for eyeballs Apparel has shifted from designer led to consumer led, as evidenced by the meteoric rise of Shein. On average for the whole retail industry is a huge win and unprecedentedly more growth than we would traditionally get does that surprise you at all.

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