Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

Pinterest has signed a definitive agreement to acquire THE YES , an AI-powered platform that allows consumers to personalize their shopping feeds based on their brand, style and size preferences. THE YES features hundreds of merchants and boasts a fashion taxonomy that relies on human input and machine learning to power its algorithm.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

Transactional commerce includes infrastructural elements like product listings, checkout, shipping and returns. The customer has evolved in these two decades and expects a unified shopping experience in which their favorite brands behave the same way online as they do in-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

YouTube has announced a series of new enhancements to make shopping more integrated on its platform, including a new Shopping section on the site and a partnership with Shopify that will allow merchants to easily feature products on their YouTube content. The Shopping section will roll out to additional countries later this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

Turning Shopping into a Force for Good’ Olivela Founder and CEO Stacey Boyd (center) with some of the beneficiaries of the Malala Fund. Throughout the shopping journey, the charitable impact of each purchase is clearly presented, from product detail pages to the cart. Olivela’s origin story traces back to Dadaab, Kenya.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

Embracing AI Walmart’s goal is to make shopping experiences effortless, engaging and personalised. There is also a new AR feature called ‘Shop With Friends’. Customers will be able to share their fashion finds with friends and ask for their feedback. It’s essentially a ‘Virtual Try-On’ service that becomes a social experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2022

Jane , a DTC home décor and fashion retailer, explained how its unique approach to live shopping and social commerce has resulted in massive returns at the 2022 Retail Innovation Conference & Expo. Jane took advantage of this discovery by giving its home influencers fashion items, which led to impressive results.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Thai retail conglomerate Central Retail opened the doors to its second eat-shop-play lifestyle centre on the Thai island of Phuket on 6 October. The eat-shop-play moniker is not a bad descriptor. On the other flank is the fashion zone, with small specialty tenancies featuring brands from Thailand, Korea, China and Japan.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 3, 2023

Shoppers who prefer to use self-service checkouts may have noticed some changes of late. The homewares giant tells Retail Gazette it has an optional checkout method called scan and pack, which had been around for about 18 months, where shoppers can use the Ikea app to scan products while they shopped.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As global apparel revenues plummeted almost 20 per cent in 2020, e-commerce has emerged as the silver lining of the fashion industry’s challenging year. E-commerce fashion sales are expected to grow almost 39 per cent between 2020 and 2023. What can retailers do to make the most of this opportunity? Download your free copy.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

M&S chairman Archie Norman has claimed faulty self-checkouts are behind shoplifting “creeping in” among the middle classes. The former MP said customers were tempted to leave without paying when the machines failed to scan products.

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Retail Times

JUNE 4, 2021

Desigual, the leading fashion retailer, has today announced it is deploying MishiPay in stores in Barcelona and Madrid. MishiPay is a mobile self- technology for shopping in physical shops and transferring the immediacy of the online experience to the real world.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

That translates into gift shops and cafeteria spaces that are often sterile environments featuring the same mediocre-quality products and pre-packaged foods. In typical gift shops, “you see a lot of things behind glass display cases, but what people are usually looking for is some deodorant or even a hairbrush,” she said. “So

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A1 Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

Freedom Day and the easing of covid-19 restrictions has boosted online fashion order volumes, the latest data from True Fit, a personalisation platform for apparel and footwear retailers, reveals, as UK shoppers dress to impress as their social lives expand and kit out their wardrobes for the return to the office.

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Retail Times

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Klarna, the AI powered payments network and shopping assistant, has released its second annual trend report, ‘The Checkout’, which provides a review of consumer trends over the past year. Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides!

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M19 Retail

JULY 5, 2023

MIAMI, FLORIDA, July 5, 2023 – Mi9 Retail, a leading provider of Retail Software, is pleased to announce that the Aubuchon Company has successfully piloted Mi9 Store Self-Checkout in their hardware and home improvement stores. Mi9 Store Self-Checkout software uses intuitive and highly configurable UX to engage customers and process sales.”

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 20, 2022

The online retailer is making another push to grow its fashion business, announcing on Thursday it will open its first-ever apparel store this year, with a tech twist. 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

MARCH 22, 2022

Throughout the last decade, the fashion retail sector has arguably been challenged in ways unlike any other industry. In response, fashion has channelled its creativity into driving innovation, not only within the development of products and ranges, but also in the way organisations operate. More than just a marketing tactic.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Australian Fashion Council (AFC) and Afterpay have collaborated with Vicinity Centres to unveil The Edit, an experiential retail space celebrating local designers and the latest in-store technology – from shoppable changing room mirrors to gesture-controlled screens. It’s part of their branding.”.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While augmented reality mirrors are floating around, we have taken them to another level by adding checkout functionality to them, and as I understand it, this hasn’t been done anywhere in the world,” he told SmartCompany. But most importantly, it is fun. Especially if you want to try on a lot of different outfits,” he says. “I

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

To do it, Forever 21 is: Making significant investments to align its digital and physical channels ; Enabling fast, frictionless checkout ; Meeting Gen Z where they are, on social media, to drive discovery ; and Listening to its customers to evolve its brand in line with their expectations. Forever 21 one-click checkout with Bolt.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

As luxury fashion brand AMIRI prepares to expand its brick-and-mortar footprint from its four U.S. The partnership with AMIRI is not Tulip’s first with a luxury fashion brand; the solution provider has worked with premium retailers including Mulberry , Saks Fifth Avenue , Kendra Scott , Kate Spade , COACH and Michael Kors.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As discount shopping app Wish continues its comeback effort , parent company ContextLogic outlined its plans for 2023 at a summit for its merchants — including a major overhaul of the platform’s shipment pricing structure in order to bring down shipping costs for customers. The brand also opened a pop-up shop from Dec.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Appointments for high-end fashion brand shopping have been a long-time standard, but they’ve begun to trickle down to fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara too. Customers book an appointment online and then shop in-store, creating a more curated feel while making life easier for associates to manage.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2024

Fake fashion e-shops According to researchers at Avast, an internet security company, more than 4000 fake e-shops were set-up to exploit consumer spending in the post-festive season sales. Nationally in the year prior, over $9 million was lost to online shopping scams according to the National Anti-Scam Centre.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2023

The closest we’ve come to making small-screen moments shoppable has been shopping networks like QVC and HSN — until now. What we hear from them is not only that they want to shop from what they’re watching on their TV screens, [but that] they really don’t understand why they can’t do it already.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2022

Before the May 25, 2022 grand opening of Amazon Style — the retailer’s initial venture into fashion brick-and-mortar retail — some thought the Los Angeles space at the Americana at Brand would be dominated by technology and devoid of human interaction. Fitting Digital into Physical Fashion Retail.

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A1 Retail

MAY 19, 2022

New research from Scandit , a specialist in smart data capture, reveals insights into the changing omnichannel expectations of today’s fashion consumer and how retailers can respond to keep the physical store alive. Serving the needs of omnichannel shopping. Delivering on customer needs via technology .

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

In June, Pinterest acquired AI-powered shopping platform The YES , and later that month Founder Ben Silbermann announced he was stepping down as CEO and that Bill Ready , formerly President of Commerce at Google, would be taking the helm. Julie Bornstein, Founder of The YES and now Chief Shopping Officer, Pinterest.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cybersecurity company Kasada recently revealed that cybercriminals have compromised more than 15,000 customer accounts of Mexican fast food chain Guzman y Gomez, liquor retailer Dan Murphy’s, streaming service Binge, home shopping network TVSN and Event Cinemas since November.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2023

stores will be opened in areas where the fast fashion retailer already has a presence, with two slated for California and one each for Maryland and New Jersey. Each new store will feature self-checkout kiosks, in-store pickup and free clothing alterations. The first four U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Dan Lurie, Head of Product, Shopping, Pinterest. At the very least, the form it takes is very different from its counterparts: “Pinterest is not social media, although we are grouped in that category,” said Dan Lurie, Head of Product, Shopping at Pinterest. “We’ve RTP: So where and how does shopping come in?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The new initiative also will help Pinterest and its brand partners capitalize on its incredibly engaged user base: Pinterest users (aka Pinners) spend 2X more than users of other platforms and have 85% bigger baskets at checkout, the company shared. . ET and focusing on a range of topic areas, including food, home, fashion and beauty.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 12, 2021

Southeast Asia’s leading online fashion and lifestyle retailer offers customers a world of payment options and a seamless shopping experience. Now, consumers who shop Zalora will have the ability to pay with any of their preferred local payment solutions at online checkout as part of a seamless shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

Claire’s is celebrating the opening of its next-generation store in Paris with a Fashion Week event on March 6, 2023 that will spotlight the brand’s partnership with fashion designer Nicola Formichetti and V Magazine. At the same time the brand also is expanding its presence across grocery stores in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 8, 2024

The rise of the shopping mall and cookie-cutter chain stores in the 90s and 2000s played a part in disengaging us from our local communities. As many of us work from home some of the time, our high streets and neighbourhood shops matter again. Simply put, we’ve lost our town centres, our meeting points, our sense of community.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Zalando has created a new invite only shopping service for hyped limited edition products. Back in June last year, the retailer snapped up a majority stake in the online fashion and lifestyle publication Highsnobiety in a bid to bring content and commerce together.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

These days, online shopping is a massive industry. So, let’s dive into what it takes to set up an e-commerce fashion store. . OpenCart also caters to fashion stores with templates and stock images. . Use Location Names – Let’s use My Fashion Store as an example. Step One: Choose Your E-Commerce Platform.

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