Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2022

This expansion of its omnichannel offerings reflects growth plans that the retailer outlined in January 2022, when it revealed its goal of increasing annual sales to $8 billion to $10 billion and, over the next six to seven years, adding 500 new stores to its existing roster of more than 1,400 locations.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

billion apparel industry in Australia. Despite a slight dip in 2020, the global apparel market is set to grow to about US$2 trillion by 2028, from US$1.79 Locally, women’s apparel represents the largest segment with an estimated market volume of US$11.86 billion; the men’s apparel market is about half of that, worth US$6.35

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The service will cover thousands of DICK’S Sporting Goods products including sporting and athletic equipment, outdoor recreation gear and apparel, footwear and accessories. “We’re Options include one-hour rush delivery or scheduled deliveries with windows later in the day.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

New Balance Debuts ‘Reconsidered’ Program To launch its new Reconsidered resale program, New Balance has teamed up with resale tech platform Archive for its branded online experience and Tersus Solutions for the cleaning, fulfillment and warehousing of trade-ins. locations throughout the year to be recycled. stores later this year. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2021

Although the new location touts all of the features found in the Guangzhou, China location, it also brings new services designed to reaffirm Nike’s commitment to sustainability, as evidenced in its Move to Zero initiative. Nike has brought its Rise store concept to Seoul, South Korea. more…).

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Customers selecting home delivery on the Bed Bath & Beyond and buybuy BABY websites will have their orders fulfilled in stores by personal shoppers working with Shipt , a division of Target. Available items and cutoff times for same-day deliveries ordered on the websites will vary by the shopper’s location.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

Local inventory involves storing stock closer to where customers work and live, as opposed to the industrial zones where warehouses and DCs are typically located, and it’s becoming an increasingly important part of retail supply chains. Using this stock to fulfil online orders is known as ship-from-store. . Ship-from-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

At the store level, the funds will go toward: Renovations to nearly one-third of its locations; Expansion of curbside pickup ; Piloting “micro fulfillment centers” within supercenters to speed up fulfillment of pickup and delivery orders ; and Deploying digitization, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make stores smarter.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2024

Xue stated that JD Logistics already operates several self-operated warehouses across key European locations, including the UK, France, Germany and more. By combining Evri’s local delivery expertise with JD’s omnichannel fulfilment capabilities, brands and merchants will be able to send their inventory to JD’s warehouses. “JD

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Retail Times

JUNE 14, 2022

a leading, global, omnichannel retailer of apparel and accessories, today announced that it has expanded its same-day delivery service to the majority of its UK store fleet, including in over 30 Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie kids and Hollister locations. Abercrombie & Fitch Co.,

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In today’s market, putting the right fulfillment system in place gets you a competitive edge. What is order fulfillment?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2022

Retailers save on shipping costs while leveraging their in-store inventories to fulfill customer orders, while shoppers get the products they want without having to wait for a delivery. Prior to this, online orders had been fulfilled from a central distribution center. Click-and-collect, a.k.a. Riding the Incremental Sales Surge.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 29, 2024

can get free Same-Day Delivery on eligible orders of millions of items, including beauty, home, pets and apparel, across Amazon and local retail stores. Same-Day Delivery sites are part fulfillment center, part delivery station, and allow the company to fulfill, sort, and deliver products from one location.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. Harness the Power of Location to Deliver Contextual Shopping Experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

while other apparel and electronics retailers will trumpet order-to-pickup service times of under five minutes. In addition, grocers will use robotic MFCs (microfulfillment centers) to pick and pack their goods from the store locations. Physical stores will still exist for shopping, but with virtual, personalized storefronts.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

An ​​​​in-store trade-in program is being piloted at eight New Balance retail locations before scaling into more US stores later this year. The technology to facilitate New Balance’s Reconsidered experience and the fulfillment of these products is provided by ​​Archive, a technology platform for branded resale.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2020

Iconic apparel retailer Brooks Brothers has joined the ranks of retailers whose struggling businesses were tipped into Chapter 11 bankruptcy by the pandemic. Brooks Brothers already has decided to close approximately one-fifth of its roughly 250 locations in North America. Those stores were located in Darien and Westport, Conn.;

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

Amazon has announced plans for its first-ever physical fashion store — dubbed Amazon Style — which will feature women’s and men’s apparel, shoes and accessories. Amazon’s done this before… just not for apparel. The goal is an Everything Apparel Store IRL. The King of Ecommerce is no stranger to brick-and-mortar — far from it.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

WHP also will build up the brand’s presence in Mexico with IB Group and grow its brick-and-mortar footprint in Central America via its partnership with Fastco , including four new Express stores in key locations through 2026. The company also plans for shop-in-shop experiences in Mexico and Indonesia.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response to evolving consumer behavior, many retailers are pivoting from malls and large-format stores in city centers to neighborhood locations that aim to serve the work-from-home population. s Mosaic District — its first-ever location.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The pop-up shops will be located within these Roblox experiences: Princess Dress Up Obby; Cotton Obby!; Adidas has created a range of apparel that embodies the playful, imaginative and visually bold spirit of Roblox, while staying true to Adidas’ contemporary and performance-driven character,” according to a company statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Digital accounted for 44% of net sales in Q4 2020, and the retailer also highlighted the fact that 25% of its digital sales were fulfilled from its brick-and-mortar stores via curbside pickup and same-day delivery. The increasing prominence of digital reflects the company’s “Polaris” omnichannel transformation strategy. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2023

From high-end luxury brands like Balenciaga and Gucci focusing much of their stock offering on sneaker apparel to High Street stores like Walmart offering budget-friendly options, sneakers and sportswear is big business for brands.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2022

Location, location, location. Harris Scarfe currently has 52 stores, including 41 full-line stores that sell apparel, manchester, homewares, small electronics and luggage, and 11 Harris Scarfe Home stores that offer homewares exclusively. We’ve been very busy in the digital space, and Covid amplified that,” Dean said.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Matt Kawadler: I’ve been involved in building DTC brands for about 10 years, and what they’re missing is that whole channel of offline revenue, which ends up being 35% of apparel purchases. We’re also expanding into women’s apparel [after adding activewear and men’s bottoms in 2022], so we’re thinking about that for growth.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 7, 2023

Under Armour, the global sports apparel brand, has opened its first UK Brand House in Liverpool ONE in spectacular fashion. It will allow us to fulfil our obsession with levelling up these athletes; fuelling their journey every step of the way. said Kara Trent, Managing Director EMEA at Under Armour.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

In addition to toys, games and stuffed animals, apparel, accessories and services like complimentary Uber trips were available to appeal to middle and high school-aged children. It’s the power of choice — being able to walk into any location, to pick out anything you could possibly dream of and walk out the door and know it’s yours.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Shein and Forever 21 are joining forces in a deal that will allow Forever 21 to sell its youth-focused apparel to Shein’s 150 million online users.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

(Image courtesy Whitman Family Development) The ACCESS Pop-Up installation is constructed of approximately 30 shipping containers that can be easily transported from location to location.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

The retailer unveiled its plans at a recent investor meeting and said it will target “under-penetrated geographies” for the new locations, in particular rural and small-town markets. The off-price chain plans to open approximately 50 net new stores this year, and ramp up the pace of expansion to about 80 stores per year thereafter.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2020

Q1 2020 financial results for Costco , Nordstrom and Abercrombie & Fitch encapsulate how three retail verticals — club, department and specialty apparel — are weathering the COVID-19 pandemic. of its locations and plans to have all stores operational again by the end of June. Costco posted a 7.3% jump in e-Commerce sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Traditionally, sport/leisure apparel and footwear brand FILA relied primarily on retailers to get its products on the bodies and feet of consumers. Since FILA doesn’t operate its own brick-and-mortar stores, this strategy made good business sense until COVID-19 shuttered physical locations around the globe. sneaker collaboration.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

[Update from 3/6/2024] Over the next decade, Target plans to build more than 300 new stores and upgrade the vast majority of its brick-and-mortar fleet, with projects ranging from full remodels to adding Ulta Beauty locations, upgrading fixtures and supporting same-day services.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 12, 2020

Fashion designer Virgil Abloh and AMO director Samir Bantal have designed the Off-White flagship store in Miami Design District to be a fulfilment centre and a multipurpose events space. If we're able to kind of fulfil our needs by ordering a lot of things online, what's the role of a physical store?," Bantal added.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2020

The overall resale market has grown 21X faster than the retail apparel market over the past three years, and it was expected to reach $23 billion by 2023 , but safety concerns are rising to the forefront. The pandemic also may accelerate retailers’ embrace of smaller stores located closer to shoppers’ homes.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Seeking to minimize customers’ return complexities, Walmart has partnered with FedEx for at-home pickup of unwanted gifts or ill-fitting apparel. Using Walmart.com or the retailer’s app, they will receive a return code/QR code that they can take, along with the packaged item, to a FedEx Office location.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I have one [mall] by me that used to mainly be apparel retailers. I’ll need to bring my car because the footprint is so big, but I can go and run half a dozen errands on my list in one location, so that saves me time,” she explained. Many developers and landlords are taking note and applying similar levels of curation.

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