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Nordstrom’s anniversary sale adds 65 brands to the mix

Retail Dive

The department store is offering its loyalty program members early access to discounts depending on their membership status. Nordstrom’s anniversary event follows the nearly 125-year-old retailer’s exit from the stock market. By Cara Salpini • March 3, 2025 Cara Salpini/Retail Dive Deep Dive DTC is dead. Long live DTC.

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Kmart MD talks Target merger, shrinkage, and adapting to customer behaviour

Inside Retail

With customers continuing to seek more value as cost-of-living pressures bite, Wesfarmers’ Kmart Group is set to benefit from shifting consumer demand, and an increasingly strong value proposition. Labour, leases, and clearance stock So, what are those levers?

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Reinventing the phone shop: Dialling up the experience

Retail Gazette

That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. A new breed of concept phone store are popping up in a bid to rival tech giants Apple and Samsung. According to managing director of commercial Bridget Lea, the format welcomes in “a new EE” focusing on “fulfilling all our consumer tech needs”.

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5 years after US bankruptcy, Roots notches third quarter of sales growth

Retail Dive

The retailer hired a new head of omnichannel growth in the quarter and discussed plans to update its stores and operations. In-stock levels also improved in the quarter. Most Popular At Home blames bankruptcy on tariffs, consumer uncertainty Is the US undermining ‘Made in America’ apparel manufacturing?

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Sustainable Fashion: Elvis & Kresse

Retail Insider

The company used designs informed by shop floor staff at luxury department stores who told her what designs sold well every year, not just one particular year. There is a strange belief around ethical consumption that products should be at a price that low income consumers can afford otherwise that is of itself in some way unethical.

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Rainy summers and autumn heatwaves, are retail sales seasons dead?

Retail Gazette

Retail Gazette explores whether the traditional sales seasons are dead – and what retailers are doing to overcome increasingly unseasonable weather. There has to be a clear reason to buy so early in the season” “We don’t see the big ‘seasonal switch’ being as clear cut for the consumer as it once was,” he explains.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

Digital in-store heats up, QR codes make a comeback Yes. Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers. Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. Jason: [4:27] Yeah I want to say their stock was at 450 when you made that prediction and you can get it for the budget price of 1193 right now.