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Outgoing Myer CEO John King on why Black Friday might overtake Christmas

Inside Retail

At Myer’s annual general meeting this week, outgoing CEO John King predicted that trading activity on Black Friday would likely surpass Christmas, with the department store preparing stock ahead of time to mitigate any logistical delays related to potential industrial action. per cent increase in total sales to $3.36

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Apple Store Creator’s ‘Commerce-at-Home’ Startup Enjoy to Go Public via SPAC

Retail TouchPoints

Johnson likens the impetus behind Enjoy’s “commerce-at-home” model to that which has driven successful companies such as Peloton and Airbnb. With Enjoy, customers make an appointment with a retailer, and a trained expert shows up at their door with the store experience neatly packed up in a suitcase.

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Ron Johnson’s Enjoy Technology Files for Bankruptcy, Set to be Sold

Retail TouchPoints

Back in 2016, Ron Johnson was asked in a fireside chat at Shoptalk about the biggest mistake he had ever made. Six years later, Johnson might answer that question differently — his “commerce-at-home” startup Enjoy Technology filed for bankruptcy on June 29, 2022, after a series of setbacks including staffing shortages and dwindling liquidity.

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Key Disaster Preparedness Takeaways for Retailers from an Eventful Summer

Retail TouchPoints

Recently, Hurricane Idalia caused 350,000 outages in Florida and Georgia, while Hurricane Ophelia brought damage that left at least 140,000 people without power across Virginia and parts of North Carolina. Ed Spears is a technical marketing manager in Eaton ’s Critical Power and Digital Infrastructure Division in Raleigh, N.C.

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Utilizing the External Data Boom for Digital Shelf Optimization

Retail TouchPoints

It can constantly and immediately change the way it is arranged to beat other shelves at capturing the customer’s attention. What you are optimizing are essentially two things: How the users find your products What they see when looking at them. While customers come to browse the physical shelf, your digital shelf goes to the customer.

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EE Studio Store, an Innovative Fusion of Technology and Physical Retail, Makes Debut at Westfield London

365 Retail

EE has raised the curtain on a visionary new flagship store, The EE Studio, at Westfield London, White City. The UK’s largest telco retail space, the store presents a seamless integration of physical and digital experiences for consumers, laying a foundation for a novel retail strategy in the telecommunications industry.

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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

Do you ever think about the customer instincts at checkout? This would allow your online customers to check out with crypto — whether it’s Bitcoin, Ethereum or even Dogecoin — and then have the product delivered or pick it up at a retail location. Expect the need for a crypto manager. Get ready for a technology retouch.