Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Target Australia managing director Richard Pearson is just the latest person to attempt a turnaround at the perpetually underperforming retailer, but nearly one year into his role, this time, he says, is different. Taking share off specialty stores.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 27, 2022

ESW’s unrivalled global and domestic DTC ecommerce ecosystem will be augmented by Scalefast’s industry leading specialty store and data analytics capabilities. In a rapidly evolving market, this new, combined entity increases our ability to execute on a bold vision as a partner to brands at every stage of their DTC ecommerce journey.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

When Ashley Raymond, Danna Tao, Margy McCallum, and Meagan Doyle teamed up for a class project at The University of Texas at Austin, little did they know they would launch not one but two companies together. According to Verified Market Research , the self-defense products market was valued at around $2.9

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2023

With a bustling market square at its centre, the energetic retail hub for locals and must-stop for passersby will boast a new full-line 3850sqm market-style Coles supermarket, a modern designed Coles precinct, new specialty stores, and internal and external architectural design concepts.

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Shopping Center

MAY 14, 2021

Crate & Barrel is set to open a new location at Twelve Oaks Mall in the Detroit suburb of Novi. Twelve Oaks Mall is home to 180 specialty stores and 30 restaurants. Novi, Mich.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Additionally, Amazon has shut many of its physical stores aside from grocery, including bookshops and specialty stores, even though the retailer had a growth plan to nearly double its store footprint, according to people familiar with the plans. The company is aiming to redeploy these employees to more profitable areas.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2023

We’re trying to keep that customer over 40, but we’re trying to go back to our younger customer as well,” Preis said during her session at CommerceNext’s Ecommerce Growth Show , held June 20-21 in New York City. We are not a department store, so we’re not forced into merchandising certain product categories together,” Preis explained.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 9, 2024

A former Coles Group category manager with overseas experience as a grocery buying manager at Tesco and Waitrose, he built a team of five in the first three months of operation. “We They include both market leaders and brands usually only found in vets and specialty stores, a mix that Burke sees as a strong point of difference for Swaggle.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

Retail TouchPoints spoke to Jim Fielding, a Partner at Archer Gray and former retail executive who has written the book All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive’s Journey to Living and Leading Authentically , for his take. In our current environment and our divided nation, it should not be a surprise that there are protestors.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

will construct a new, larger store to replace its existing operations at South Plains Mall in Lubbock, Texas. The new 220,000-square-foot flagship will take over the former Sears site at the mall, replacing the two locations Dillard’s currently occupies within the complex. Dillard’s (Little Rock, Ark.)

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

A report conducted by Research and Markets confirmed that the global market for writing instruments is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6 per cent between 2023 to 2028. At the conference, Atighetchi spoke with Saunders about Papier’s focused approach to omnichannel distribution.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Senior retail consultant at Univers Retail | Published author | Visiting lecturer. This transformation can be dissected into several distinct stages, often referred to as disruptions, in which retailers competed on multiple fronts: for physical space, consumer attention, and innovative store layouts and designs. Ghalia BOUSTANI.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Additionally, congestion at the Port of Shanghai, the largest port in the world, appears to be easing. The average waiting time across all vessel types, including tankers, bulkers and containers, at Shanghai has reduced to 28 hours, which is down considerably from its peak average waiting time of 66 hours during the lockdown in China.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2024

The story so far “At Deliveroo, we understand the need to deliver the next unexpected product, especially as food trends evolve ever so quickly in Singapore, and we’re continually adapting to meet consumer demand,” Parke told Inside Retail.

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Retail Adventures

APRIL 4, 2024

Here’s why: People don't always shop at your store just because they like what you sell; lots of stores sell the same products. And customers don't always choose a store because they happen to like the owner, although that helps. How much do you know about your best/repeat customers and how they shop?

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Mass Relators

APRIL 24, 2023

NEW YORK — At a time when store brands have grown to become a $230 billion industry in the U.S., PLMA has announced a fitting theme for its 2023 Private Label Trade Show: “The Store Brands Phenomenon.” The show will be held November 12-14 at the Donald E. Sales and dollar and unit market shares are at all-time highs.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2021

As an integrated dining and entertainment destination, there will always be something new for Sydneysiders to discover at Ed.Square Town Centre,” said Felicity Armstrong, general manager of retail assets at Frasers Property Australia. These include fitness centres, a medical centre, pharmacy, grocery, fashion and specialty stores.

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Inside Retail

MAY 11, 2021

Neil Saunders, MD at GlobalData, described the decision as “telling”, suggesting that L Brands was not able to secure a bid that it considered compelling. Such accountability is no bad thing and will likely sharpen efforts to enact a genuine turnaround at the company.”. The divorce gives Victoria’s Secret no place to hide.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Return rates at physical stores range from 8% to 10% , but rise to approximately 20% for e-Commerce, according to data from CBRE. Mantis looked at returns as a percentage of sales over the prior 60 days because “returns normally happen within a two-month window from purchase ,” he said.

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Rangeme

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This was primarily due to consumers staying at home, says Neil Saunders, Managing Director and Retail Analyst. In terms of actually shopping, most people, says Saunders, buy Valentine’s Day goods at mass chains such as Walmart, Target, and Kroger. This was followed by online-only retailers (34%) and other specialty stores (19%).

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Back in 2020, Amazon opened its first Amazon Go store in Seattle, introducing consumers to the concept of full-size, cashierless grocery stores. Essentially, shoppers could walk in, scan a QR code from their Amazon mobile app at a turnstile, add their items to their baskets within the store, and just walk out when they were finished.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 27, 2023

“While most consumers shopped online last year for the perfect Mother’s Day gift, we are seeing just as many people turn to department stores as a shopping destination this year,” says Phil Rist, executive vice president of strategy for Prosper.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The bottom line is that the scheme actually kills at least four birds with one stone: it puts money in people’s hands to spend and stimulate the floundering economy; it gives retailers a helping hand; it gets more people habituated to using digital payments; and it is another building block in Thailand’s highly advanced digital infrastructure.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said there were 210 department stores in Japan at the end of 2019 but attrition in the ensuing three years reduced that number to just 192 by the end of 2022. In Japan itself, year-on-year sales growth in January for the 15-store chain was 16.3 per cent over January 2022.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

For supermarkets, at least. The global sports nutrition market size was valued at US$10.7 billion in 2020 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.9 Much of these activities were undertaken at home, or close to home, as gyms and other health facilities were forced to close,” he said.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

For supermarkets, at least. The global sports nutrition market size was valued at US$10.7 billion in 2020 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.9 Much of these activities were undertaken at home, or close to home, as gyms and other health facilities were forced to close,” he said.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For DTC brands, linear TV is often not a media buy consideration, but it should be because at some point in your brand’s development you will reach the point where there is literally nowhere left to go for growth. But at some point, online marketing will hit a proverbial wall and growth will slow. Everything is going according to plan.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Westons are said to be seeking £4 billion for their European department store assets, including Selfridges’ four stores in the UK, Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland, and De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands. Valued at more than US$12.9 Central’s superregional malls and department stores are ubiquitous in Thailand.

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Inside Retail

MAY 10, 2023

For once, department stores are leading a retail sales recovery instead of lagging it. In Japan, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) reports that retail sales in the first quarter amounted to 39,781 billion yen (about $434 billion at current exchange rates), up 6.5 Supermarkets (5,921 stores) gained 1.8

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Mass Relators

MAY 13, 2021

Located in Seven Hills and Boardman, Ohio, and Westfield, Indiana, the new stores promise “a state-of-the-art shopping experience,” providing customers multiple ways to shop in a specialty store environment.

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VMS

AUGUST 31, 2021

Conversion: Specialty Store, Sales Area Under 10,000 Square Feet. Scope of Work : Design and deliver a new store concept across multiple formats. The Plano Experience Store, in a former restaurant site, is the first effort and acts as a customer-first, occasion-based shopping platform. BEFORE CONVERSION.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 8, 2021

We have assembled all the numbers you need, including store operations, shopper behaviors, how retailers market their businesses, and much more. If you own a retail store or are considering shop ideas for a new one, take a look at the stats below. Specialty stores are often a part of small retail store businesses.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2022

First quarter results for calendar year 2022 are in for the three biggest Korean department store retailers, and the numbers are encouraging. Shinsegae, Lotte, and Hyundai account for the top nine department stores in the country (coming in at number 10 is Galleria’s high-end flagship in Seoul). The big picture. per cent to 6.8

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Educational Insights first launched its shop in April 2023, and Lee Parkhurst, Senior Brand Manager at the company, said they’ve “been quadrupling our business month over month since.” I yell at my television, but my television will never interact back with me.

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VMS

JANUARY 24, 2023

Fluorescent lighting received a significant negative reaction and, notably, 20 percent of respondents selected overwhelmed, compared to the average selection of overwhelmed at 11.2 This suggests that fluorescent lighting can negatively impact a shopper’s in-store experience. percent per collage.

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VMS

AUGUST 31, 2021

Conversion, Specialty Store, Sales Area Under 10,000 Square Feet. Scope of Work: Full store conversion from retail bank to Tempur-Pedic showroom. Unique Challenges: A former bank, the space had soaring 28-foot ceilings and full-height glazing at the exterior. Submitted by: CallisonRTKL, Baltimore. BEFORE CONVERSION.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

MARCH 2, 2020

While Department stores are the ones to get the highest traffic during Valentine’s Day (36%), followed by discount stores and online shopping (32%), specialty stores are expected to grab 19% of shoppers, whereas local small stores stand at 15% followed by clothing stores and jewelry shops tied at par with 11% of intentions.

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