365 Retail

APRIL 28, 2025

Completing these actions in-person and visiting a department store can take hours out of our lives, hours many of us simply don’t have spare. We now have things like one-click purchases, meaning if we see something we like, we can buy it there and then without having to go through a checkout process.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 13, 2025

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that online retail giant Amazon is looking to open large bricks-and-mortar stores in the US to sell clothing, homewares, electronics and other products, much like a department store. And it would come at a time when some long-running department stores are closing up shop.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

Those brands that have avoided bankruptcy have often been forced to undertake aggressive cost reduction and store closures. Department stores have been particularly impacted, with consumers forced online during the pandemic now choosing to buy direct from brands or from more price-competitive online marketplaces.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Isetan-Mitsukoshi is a storied department store chain with 15 units in Japan, including five in the Tokyo metropolitan area. One of them, the Isetan flagship in Shinjuku, boasts the highest sales of any department store in Japan. This was one of the factors leading to the introduction of dedicated tax-free checkouts.).

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2023

Amex card holders can now use their membership rewards points at the online checkout and earn Myer One credit on any purchase where rewards points are redeemed. In January, roval department store David Jones replaced its long-term credit card partner American Express with Latitude which will be launched in September.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

The Foam connects directly into pre-existing light fixtures at any retail space, including shopping centers, department stores or groceries.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While discounts and deals will be core, the ailing department store chain is also prioritizing in-store merchandising and curation to improve the customer experience. To make finding the perfect gift even easier, Kohl’s has developed a new front-of-store experience, aptly called Gift Shop, that is curated for various holiday gifting needs.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The concept was developer by Triple Five Group and is billed as the “first-ever modest clothing department store” (i.e. The 35 brands that will be represented each have individual leases, but American Dream will staff the store, provide a shared checkout experience and host a loyalty program.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Next stop — your favorite department store to pick out an outfit for a work trip later in the week. The store is quite busy, so you flag down a salesperson and they help you check out from a mobile point-of-sale (POS) system. You decide to mobile order via your iPhone, so the latte is waiting for you as soon as you arrive.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2023

Myer, for example, recently announced that it would be partnering with undercover police officers to curb theft in its department stores. I think it’s the case where [retailers] really didn’t think shoplifting would increase with self-checkout, but it’s made it really easy.”

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

Bunnings is looking to improve the customer experience for its trade customers with an expanded range of specialty products, tailored customer service desks in stores, dedicated self-checkout, load-and-go spaces and a fully transactional e-commerce site. Kmart, Target and Catch working smarter, not harder.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Pain Point #1: Selling Apparel Items in a Cashierless Store Amazon has deployed its Just Walk Out (JWO) cashierless technology in a range of sports venues, providing friction-free checkout for customers and faster transactions for retailers.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It’s enough to make him “really confident” that the department store is on its way to being a successful business again. On the front end, Target has made improvements to its website user experience, including the checkout and search function, which have helped increase conversions.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Founded in 1985, Taking Shape is the market leader in the plus-size fashion space in Australia and New Zealand, with around 150 bricks-and-mortar stores across the two markets, including about 60 concessions in Myer department stores. Offering more buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) options at checkout is another priority for the brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

These partnerships build on the brand’s partnerships with more than 30 retailers across grocery, drug, toy, apparel, department stores and specialty, which include Walmart and, most recently, Macy’s. Claire’s will add two additional partners this spring, but did not identify the grocers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

In mid-2021 rumors also surfaced of plans for large-footprint department stores , although Amazon hasn’t formally announced anything along these lines. Amazon Style could be a first foray in the department store realm where the company could expand to other untouched categories at brick-and-mortar, such as homewares.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 3, 2023

Whether it’s a small boutique or a major department store chain, all businesses can harness the potential of this powerful technology. Meanwhile, other companies are using AI to provide a more personalised shopping experience for customers by analysing their browsing and checkout history.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What people think about when they focus on retail innovation is the tech side of the business — next-generation marketing tools, cutting-edge last mile vehicles, frictionless checkout — but there is still plenty of innovation happening in the more foundational strategies of running a retail business. Its Aii of 78.8

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2021

Starts at 60’s move into e-commerce comes as health concerns and store closures due to the global pandemic continue to drive more seniors to shop online. Since shifting to a department store model, the company’s online offering has skyrocketed from around 30-50,000 SKUs to 700,000 SKUs at the end of May 2021.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 12, 2025

Published June 12, 2025 Daphne Howland Senior Reporter post share post print email license A Nordstrom Rack location across from the department store's Seattle flagship. Other department stores are also pushing further into off price. The department stores are hardly the only ones expanding in the space, however.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JUNE 27, 2024

In today’s competitive retail landscape, department stores must continuously seek ways to enhance efficiency to stay profitable and keep customers satisfied. To help department stores optimize their operations, here are seven key best practices that can drive efficiency and success.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

“Many domestic retailers were not strong on digital, especially department stores which offer similar home product ranges,” she told Inside Retail. . Amazon’s Achilles’ heel. One weak spot in Amazon’s quarterly results was its physical retail sales, which fell by almost 16 per cent.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

The first store will open later this year at The Americana at Brand, a shopping centre in Los Angeles, and reportedly be around 30,000 square feet – much smaller than a typical department store, which is around 100,000 square feet. Winners and losers.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 20, 2022

Amazon’s recipe for the department store of the future includes algorithmic recommendations and what one corporate director called “a magic closet” in the fitting room. At 30,000 square feet (2,787 sq meters), the planned “Amazon Style” shop near Los Angeles is smaller than the typical department store.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The company’s latest business update for the Stock Exchange of Thailand states that The Chalong mall has 17,000sqm of net leasable area, and is anchored by an 8,000sqm Robinson department store. On the ground floor is the large, single-level Robinson department store that caterpillars up one side of the mall.

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Inside Retail

JULY 8, 2021

Inside Retail spoke to four SDA members, who work on the frontline across supermarkets and department stores, about their experiences of customer abuse and the support they would like to see from retailers. Store transitioned to Kmart last month. According to the SDA, over 85 per cent of workers are being abused while they work.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

This is the seventh year of the Index , and while the company noted that top-performers “aggressively” rolled out optimized content, frictionless checkout and other cross-channel capabilities, there was a sizeable gap between industry leaders and their peers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Without any speculation about the future of shopping in the flesh and the fate of the department store, let us examine why a mobile app is worth the investment, whether or not you also offer an amazing brick-and-mortar experience: The Perks of Push Notifications. Let’s face it, retail has been having a very tough time recently.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The food hall in the basement of the David Jones department store on Bourke Street. Interstore | Schweitzer also found that digital was used in two primary ways: to tackle checkout challenges and to deliver dynamic content that drives consumer engagement and empowerment. Photo courtesy of: Shutterstock.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

He later discovered the similar issue at other stores in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey and New York. The lawsuit added that Walmart had been fined $2 million by a California court over pricing errors at checkout in 2012.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2024

Sharing the good fortune Another example of a retailer’s growing focus on loyalty programs is Australian department store, Myer. It recently strengthened its Myer One loyalty program by partnering with American Express, Commonwealth Bank, and Virgin Australia’s Velocity program. million active members, with 5.2

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

The ‘Scan & Go’ solution allows members to use the Sam’s Club mobile app to bypass the traditional checkout line in the club, as well as fuel stations and cafes. Walmart aims to rapidly expand this tech to its nearly 600 clubs by the end of the year.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

During the past 10 years, Qiping Sun, VP of Asia Pacific at LS Retail, an Aptos company, has witnessed significant changes in the Asia-Pacific retail landscape: the rise of e-wallets, the adoption of Software as a Service, the embrace of contactless service and self-checkouts, to name a few. Some seemed uncomfortable using the technology.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 8, 2023

This comes as the department store retailer launched a service allowing shoppers to virtually ‘try on’ their potential rental purchases , in partnership with fit software firm Zyler. Mian commented: “There is uncertainty about whether customers desire aided assistance within a grocery store or prefer complete automation.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2022

Department stores. “On On [previous trips to the US], we would always make the department stores a really big ticket item on the trip agenda, but we don’t anymore because we’re not seeing enough innovation from them,” Lattouf said. One category that didn’t make the cut?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

“We’ve found a large number of orders going through food stores — more groceries from boutique dealers like your local butcher, rather than the big supermarket chains,” Bartalotta said. . But he expects to see an uptick in orders going through department stores once they reopen.

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