Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

We responded by ensuring affordability was at the forefront for the customer. Housing affordability is at its lowest in decades and will continue to make the wallets of Australians thinner. In 2024, another Plan and Order Point will open in Cannington, south of Perth, for customers to get one-to-one, expert planning advice.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

ProCook opens the doors to its latest store on Thursday 23 rd November, following continued plans to pursue UK retail expansion. The new store at atria Watford Shopping Centre in the Greater London area is the brand’s 60 th store to open.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Petco will expand its exclusive retail partnership with  Canadian Tire with the addition of Petco shop-in-shops at 99% of Canadian Tire stores by the middle of 2023 as well as a dedicated product assortment online at canadiantire.ca. Petco also has a shop-in-shop experience at Lowe’s stores , which launched in early 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is betting big on going small, with plans to open up to 30 new small-format locations across the country in 2024. The planned expansion is in addition to the nearly 15 small-format stores that the retailer already operates. Macy’s Inc. in a statement. beginning in 2024.”

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Citing its actions following previous corporate mergers, Kroger said it plans to lower prices when its planned merger with Albertsons is finalized. The supermarket giant will invest $500 million to lower prices on “day one” following the transaction’s close, and also plans to invest $1.3

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Buzzfeed has sold youth culture media company Complex to livestream shopping platform NTWRK , which plans to use the acquisition to build a “next generation content and shopping experience.” The fusion of content and live shopping creates an immersive experience tailored to the tastes of today’s digitally savvy consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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MARCH 27, 2024

with plans for stores in a dozen new markets through a partnership with mall operator CBL Properties. The first wave of store openings started in November 2023 at malls in Roanoke, Va. Throughout the rest of 2024, stores will open at malls in Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn.; expansion plans. and Winston-Salem, N.C.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2023

Kohl’s has announced the locations of the next 250 stores that will be opening 2,500-square-foot Sephora shop-in-shops in 2023. Last year Kohl’s and Sephora announced plans to expand their partnership to all of Kohl’s more than 1,100 locations. Kohl’s also plans to open 50 smaller-format Sephora shops by the end of 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

A little less than one year after Toys ‘R’ Us made its return to the world of UK brick-and-mortar via nine shop-in-shops in WHSmith stores, TRU parent company WHP Global has announced plans to expand the partnership and add 30 new locations by this summer. Locations and opening dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

The Body Shop Canada has filed a Notice of Intention (NOI) to file for protection under the country’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, following a similar filing by the retailer’s UK arm last month. Additionally, The Body Shop US Limited has “ceased operations” as of March 1, 2024, according to a press release.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sydney’s Paddy’s Market is at the centre of a debate over its redevelopment with some traders and members of the public opposing plans to give the venue a significant facelift. At the moment, we don’t make money. The post Controversy surrounds plans to revamp Sydney’s Paddy’s Market appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Party City has launched a new digital party-planning marketplace, aptly called Party+ Marketplace , that brings together local vendors and service providers with the retailers’ range of party supplies. Suppliers and service providers will work with customers directly through the Party+ platform.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

During her time at Lululemon, which spanned 13 years from 2012 to 2020, Shaughnessy led over 40 stores and oversaw the brand’s national wholesale and community presence in ANZ. As an omnichannel retailer, making it easier to shop the brand is the main priority, Shaughnessy told Inside Retail. “A

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Retail Focus

APRIL 26, 2024

The new unit has been signed on a 10-year lease and is located on the Upper Level of the shopping centre. KIKO Milano currently has 25 stores across the UK with a rapid expansion plan to open multiple new stores in key shopping districts in the UK this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Kohl’s will add 45 new 750-square-foot Sephora shop-in-shops in stores across 29 states in the next few months, bringing the total to 910 Kohl’s stores by the end of 2023. The newly announced smaller shop-in-shops will be opened at Kohl’s stores across the country, including four apiece in Indiana and Utah and three in North Carolina.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

David’s Bridal is expanding into event planning with the debut of a new all-in-one wedding planning platform and vendor marketplace called Pearl by David’s. The Pearl platform enables brides to plan their wedding and connect with thousands of local vendors across the U.S., all in one place.

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JULY 20, 2023

The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., We are always looking for new ways to delight our customers and improve the shopping experience,” said Leandro Balbinot, CTO at Whole Foods Market in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Disney has announced plans to significantly reduce its brick-and-mortar footprint, beginning with the closure of at least 60 Disney Stores across North America as the retailer bolsters its ecommerce operation. The closures are the first step in a total re-evaluation of the retailer’s global brick-and-mortar footprint.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

Back in the 1950’s his grandfather, Stanley Whitman, decided to open a luxury shopping mall in Florida that would rival Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. Taking advantage of the balmy Florida weather, Bal Harbour Shops pioneered the idea of an open-air shopping mall. Matthew Whitman Lazenby and his family have never dreamed small.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2022

Third-party marketplaces have emerged as one of the biggest growth opportunities for retailers this year, with companies from Macy’s and Bed Bath & Beyond to Giant Food and Michaels launching marketplaces (or announcing plans to do so) in the last six months alone. And what is bought more often than grocery? Second Time’s the Charm?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2024

With online shopping hitting record highs during the most recent Thanksgiving holiday weekend, many companies often focus on preparing for this annual period of peak demand. That’s why retailers must find ways to optimize their cloud resource planning strategies ahead of a time of demand. So Who’s Doing It Well?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

UK-based travel retailer WHSmith is bullish on growth prospects for 2024, with plans to open more than 110 stores this year — and more than 50 of those openings will be in North America.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

Macy’s Backstage , Lids and Carhartt all have announced expansions of shop-in-shop formats with parent and partner retailers. Macy’s plans to eventually add Backstage-branded spaces at 270 locations across the U.S.; Macy’s Backstage at Macy’s. Macy’s Backstage at Macy’s. Lids x DSW and The Shoe Company.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The iconic brand also will expand to cruise ship and airport venues, with its first airport store scheduled to debut at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in November 2023 via a partnership with Duty Free Americas. No information about the number of planned stores or their opening dates was available. Retail Group.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2022

stores in August 2022 with the opening of a location at the Gran Plaza Outlets in Calexico, Calif. In addition to this Southern California store, the retailer has new shops planned for Illinois, Rhode Island, Nevada, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida and Puerto Rico.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 15, 2024

Superdry landlords are expected to bear the brunt as the retailer prepares to launch a new restructuring plan this week in the latest attempt to turnaround the business. The ailing fashion retailer confirmed on Monday it was in the “advanced stages” of preparing a restructuring plan and expects to launch it “in the coming days”.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2023

Melbourne Airport and Lotte have launched the new Lotte Duty Free store, as part of the airport’s plans to significantly expand its duty-free footprint. The plans include a renovation to the arrivals store set to be complete at the end of 2024, while the departures store will be updated by the end of 2026.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Reasor’s Foods has reduced cart abandonment among its online shoppers with the deployment of a white-label meal planning solution from GroceryShopii. Since integrating the solution into its RecipeToTable meal planning option in summer 2021, shoppers using it are 5X more likely to complete their ecommerce transactions compared to non-users.

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MARCH 31, 2023

But as the OG value-shopping app tries to win back consumers, it has more than a few hurdles to overcome — not least of which is luring back lapsed consumers who now have new alternatives that don’t come with any negative history. And this is just the first of in a series of shopping events Wish has planned for 2023.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Sovereign Centros has announced the signing of a significant upsize at Metrocentre for anchor tenant Primark. Anchoring Exhibition Square, a key junction where Yellow, Blue, and Platinum Malls meet, the shopping area of the upsized store will cover nearly 80,000 sq ft.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It might have been the worst-kept secret in retail, but after months of unconfirmed reports , behind-the-scenes testing and tales from the front lines , TikTok has finally, formally launched its new ecommerce offering — TikTok Shop. in November 2022. reads the company announcement. The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The outlet at Castle Towers in the Hills district is the first interstate store for the four-year-old business. The post Brooklyn Donuts opens first NSW store, plans national footprint appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. Brisbane-based Brooklyn Donuts is spearheading expansion into New South Wales with its first Sydney store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2023

In Shein ’s ongoing efforts to stave off the threat of rival discount shopping app Temu (which overtook Shein as the No. 1 shopping app in America in April 2023), the company is expanding its product assortment beyond fashion and has signed agreements to sell products from brands including Skechers and Lansinoh.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Last week, Endeavour Group’s BWS tried its hand at a new frontier: serving piping hot coffee for its Devonport, Tasmania customers. It also allows the team at BWS to work with experts in a different field to bring a new offer to life: one that BWS couldn’t do on its own.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns , shares with Inside Retail advice on getting started in the US market, some tips on cross-border shipping and logistics – including managing returns in a way that builds customer loyalty – and how to drive repeat business. The post Planning to sell online in the US?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

At Claire’s we are reimagining the ways we reach and interact with consumers by letting the interests and passions of ‘Gen Zalpha’ lead our brand,” said Kristin Patrick, EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Claire’s in a statement.

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