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How Uniqlo Plans to More than Triple its North American Store Count by 2027

Retail TouchPoints

Uniqlo reportedly plans to expand its North American footprint by 10% by opening 20 to 30 stores annually to reach 200 locations by 2027, Daisuke Tsukagoshi, CEO of Uniqlo North America told Reuters. Each new store will feature self-checkout kiosks, in-store pickup and free clothing alterations. The first four U.S.

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Smaller Spaces, Bigger Tech and Optimized CX

Retail TouchPoints

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. Self-Checkout/Roaming Checkout. Roaming checkout enables employees to take payments from shoppers from anywhere inside the store.

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What’s next for Designerex, the Airbnb of fashion rental

Inside Retail

As part of the deal, PixelForce is building a Shopify app that will enable designer fashion brands to show customers exactly how much they could earn if they rented out items on Designerex after purchasing them. Kore frequently describes Designerex as the Airbnb of fashion rental. Brands don’t need to get involved in renting.

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2023 in review: 8 stories that rocked retail this year

Retail Gazette

The Range has since started opening Wilko stores and owner Chris Dawson told Retail Gazette earlier this month that he plans to open 40 more next year. Although White has had some successes, such as the launch of John Lewis value range Anyday, some elements of her plan such as its foray into housing has been met with criticism.

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Short-Form Video and UGC are Reshaping the Realm of Influencer Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

TikTok and Instagram are volume platforms, they’re like the fast fashion of social media,” Dulay explained. Where do you plan to use that content? Maybe you want to use that content on your website to increase conversions on your checkout page.”. But don’t count YouTube out.

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Retail Industry Landscape 2021

CJ Retail Solutions

The way it adapted to the new reality of Covid with literally weeks of planning, has to be admired. From the checkout to the boardroom, retail employees pulled together and recognised they had a job to do – and did it with aplomb. Looking forward.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 316 Annual Predictions 2024

Retail Geek

But most of TikTok shops and YouTube native checkout and these other experiences are what we would call video commerce. I think there’s use cases where native checkout in video makes a lot of sense. And even video commerce is not a very big thing.