Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Tech training can create a more attractive job for some employees, because it’s a marketable skill,” said Kotlyar. Kotlyar predicted that remote consultations with associates will expand beyond apparel into the electronics and home furnishings verticals.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2023

Obviously, retailers can generally recapture more value from returned items when they can charge more for them — either by negotiating better deals with clearance partners (such as TJ Maxx for apparel and Overstock.com for home furnishings) or setting up their own clearance outlets.

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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.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 27, 2025

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VMS

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In a letter to shareholders , Friedman again lamented the “widespread discounting” across the home furnishings industry. “ … While it’s been almost two years since we’ve deployed a promotional email, we’ve been receiving two sale emails per day from many home furnishings retailers.

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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.

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VMS

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The store’s interiors are inspired by the industrial architecture of Marimekko’s textile printing factory in Helsinki, with traditional retail display fixtures replaced by “carefully selected design gems from different decades and distinct material choices,” the fashion and home furnishings retailer said in a release.

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2025

The gutting of the fashion, accessories and home-furnishing sectors by e-commerce and the conversion of malls from apparel-heavy, transactional beasts to community social hubs has made mall landlords extremely welcoming of cafes. Malls are particularly welcoming, due to another accident of history: e-commerce. per cent, to $1.87

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Even the name Moshi Moshi is a Japanese phrase – it’s an informal way of saying “hello” when answering a phone call from a family member or friend – and given the love of Thai people for Japanese culture and products, that isn’t such a bad marketing tool. Some stores also sell pet accessories. Gross margin percentage was healthy 52.9

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Mass Relators

APRIL 13, 2021

WASHINGTON – Former Macy’s executive Martine Reardon is joining the National Retail Federation as chief marketing officer and executive vice president of content and membership. She served as Macy’s chief marketing officer from 2012 through 2016. She served as Macy’s chief marketing officer from 2012 through 2016.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Now it is looking to take its brand to the European market, rather than waiting for Europeans to visit Southeast Asia. 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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VMS

JANUARY 30, 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. Los Angeles-based apparel and accessories brand ban.do The big-box home furnishings retailer made the move to expand the program in the U.S.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Online retail, up 1.2%, continues to perform alongside home furnishings and DIY stores, up 1.1% Weak volumes and persistent cost inflation will likely stress the credit quality of retailers most exposed to holiday shopping, along with their suppliers of discretionary items such as durables, household products, and apparel.

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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. increase in spending on furniture and home furnishings, as well as a 3.5% The post Retail sales rise in August appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers. WASHINGTON – U.S. from last year and 11.1%

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Retalon

AUGUST 22, 2023

This makes it difficult to compare your turnover ratio to “industry averages” The most effective benchmarking analyzes turnover by your specific retail vertical and market segment. Apparel Retailers Within apparel, accessories and jewelry retailers have lower turnover ratios – around 2-3x.

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Retail Adventures

MARCH 7, 2025

Signs are a powerful, yet underutilized, marketing tool that can directly influence purchase decisions. Banana Republic recently added art and home furnishings to its merchandise mix with a new division called BR Home. This store in New Yorks SoHo neighborhood mixes home dcor and ready to wear in the same location.

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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. Up market department store Fenwick is soon to vacate Bond Street after 130 years to help ensure the business is on “strong financial footing”.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

Scot: [12:30] Yeah the counter is the used markets on fire and they’re marking the cars up so there’s kind of like an inflation of car prices in there that I think. Expected you know with the hit that restaurants took that the grocery would have outperformed the industry average but you know it doesn’t seem like it.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

And two categories that were down for the year we’re home furnishings and electronics which is interesting to me in a little surprising. Overall e-commerce hit like our two-year forecast so it was a doubling not a 10 Xing. [14:00] Scot: [16:32] Risk is a Wayfarer has really picked up nicely.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2024

At this point, the retail industry is well aware of how enamored Gen Z consumers are with retail segments like skincare and apparel. One retail category that has been garnering more attention from this younger consumer group recently is the home goods market.

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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. Prior to that, she was general manager of PAS Group’s Bondi Bather and Jets Swimwear.

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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. Russia accounted for about 4 per cent of H&M’s sales during the last quarter, making it the group’s sixth-largest market.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

We target first-to-the-market tenants and have 71 in our portfolio,” said Northwood Retail President Ward Kampf in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Concept 31/M was created to provide a more agile entry process for brands that want to “test” the Georgetown market. Photo credit: EastBanc.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 22, 2022

But the truth is many eCommerce trends come from the largest eCommerce market in the world, China. JD.com sells a range of products from electronics to food to apparel and has over 550 million active customers. The offline market is very important to us.” It is estimated that the community buying market was worth $36.9

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Retail Adventures

OCTOBER 17, 2022

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. The owners at Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings echo that sentiment with “We never miss a meal (or a snack)”. Food is Good.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Retail sales are projected to rise as consumer confidence strengthens, especially in discretionary categories such as electronics and home furnishings. Electronics and home furnishings are forecast to grow by 6 per cent, driven by increasing consumer confidence. Spending on health and wellness surged by 8.8

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