Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

Target has ambitious plans to drive an additional $15 billion in sales growth by 2030. The retailer revealed these long-term plans along with financial results of its 2024 fiscal year, which ended Feb. Targets net sales decreased by 0.8% compared to the previous year, falling from $107.4 billion to $106.6 Comparable sales rose 0.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 10, 2025

When brands like Target and Amazon announced they would deprioritize company DEI efforts, social media erupted with boycott threats and planned blackouts. Conversely, companies like Costco doubled down on DEI efforts , and social media feeds became filled with consumers signing up for memberships. While 73% of U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2025

Even if you’re a couture bride looking for a high-end gown or you’re on a budget and [planning] to get something on Amazon, at some point you’re going to encounter David’s Bridal because of the way people consume media in and around their wedding. Here’s how Davids plans to do it.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 8, 2025

The season also marked the continuation of trends first seen during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, with Black Friday setting the tone for a practical and planned-out festive period. Early promotions captured a significant share of the festive budget, allowing consumers to plan purchases while taking advantage of discounts.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

But consumers are demanding in other ways, too. According to a study by UC Today , 90% of consumers expect to have an omnichannel retail experience when we shop. Digital channels are alive with opportunities to dazzle consumers. But where does that leave your marketing strategies for the humble shop floor?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

While policymakers often champion tariffs as a mechanism to protect domestic industries, their ripple effects are far-reaching, inflating costs, disrupting supply chains and, ultimately, burdening consumers. Price-sensitive products suffered a drop in demand as consumers struggled to shoulder the rising cost of tariff-stricken goods.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2024

David’s Bridal also plans to expand the resale program by introducing a store and mail-in trade-in program for authentic David’s garments. Additionally, the retailer plans to introduce storied and vintage items into its ecosystem.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2025

Supporting these expectations is the fact that more than 2,000 planned closures already are underway this year. Inflation and a growing preference among consumers to shop online to find the cheapest deals took a toll on brick-and-mortar retailers in 2024, said Deborah Weinswig, CEO of Coresight Research in a statement.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

Some of the key initiatives the denim and accessories brand has implemented include an in-depth analysis of its ideal consumer base, a content creator platform and community called Team True and a new-and- improved loyalty program. The revival plan has also aided in welcoming in a new wave of customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon’s summer Prime Day sales event now serves to kickstart many retailers’ summertime sales and back-to-school marketing efforts, and is generally pivoting marketers’ planning calendars. How will this ultimately impact marketers’ planning calendars, now that we’re past Halloween?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2025

For example, if a consumer comes to the returns counter in-store to return an expensive OLED TV, retail analytics and AI assess the consumers transaction history behind the scenes. Instead, relying on data-driven guidance and retail analytics can support retailers to be more flexible and even provide a personalized approach to returns.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

2025 marks a year of accelerated growth, with a strong focus on premiumisation, direct-to-consumer expansion, and a broader lifestyle offering beyond denim. While we are well-known for being a mens denim bottoms business, as we focus on winning with women consumers, we can extend that authority into categories such as womens apparel and tops.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

The store serves not only as a place for product sales and services but as a base camp that should equip and inspire consumers for exploration, said Martina Cerletti, Retail Marketing Director for The North Face EMEA in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In the future, the brand plans to expand its assortment to include more specialized collections and collaborations, such as its ongoing partnership with Khloé Kardashian. Toys ‘R’ Us parent company WHP Global began working to bring its stores to Mexico in April 2023 , followed by plans to bring Babies ‘R’ Us to the country in January 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2025

has filed for Chapter 11, citing steadily rising operating costs and changing consumer habits as the reasons for its current financial difficulties.The storied San Francisco company has operated in the city for 174 years, since founder Anton Roman opened the first store on Montgomery Street in 1855. is not going away.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

consumers after a UK launch in September 2023. TikTok Shop plans to expand its refurbished electronics assortment over the coming months to also include earphones, headphones, smart watches and more. TikTok Shop has expanded the refurbished electronics product category to U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2025

In fact, during the companys Q1 earnings call with analysts, the companys Executive Chairman and Principal Executive Officer Marcus Lemonis announced plans to open four Overstock stores and one BuyBuy Baby location.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

store last month , with another five in development and plans to eventually operate 50 locations in the region. The Steve Madden board of directors has unanimously approved the transaction, which the company plans to fund with a combination of committed debt financing and cash on hand.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

But the merchant was suffering from a bit of an image problem that made it seem fusty and old-fashioned, a situation that led to a companywide turnaround plan initiated in 2020. In the words of Paula Mitchell, Digital General Manager, We wanted consumers to think of Freedom not as your mums brand but as your best friends brand.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Under IMG’s leadership since 2005, AFW has elevated resort collections, showcased Indigenous designers and initiated a consumer-integrated model. The emergence of consumer-facing fashion events including PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival and Melbourne Fashion Week has led some to question the relevance of a closed industry-only event.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

Read on to take a look at the issues we plan to watch and cover onRetail TouchPoints. To me this illustrates both how powerful gen AI-based solutions can be, but also the preparatory and ongoing work required to make them truly useful to both consumers and retailers. 13 from 6 to 8 p.m.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

Our teams worked together for two years to create this collection, and I cant wait for consumers to see everything we have to offer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

A Robust Portfolio of Fashion Brands With a range of offerings including formal fashion from Brooks Brothers, casual apparel for younger consumers from Aropostale, outdoor apparel and gear from Eddie Bauer and everyday fashion for the whole family from JCPenney, Catalyst Brands will boast expansive reach across multiple market and customer segments.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These new second-screen shopping experiences will be powered by Shopsense AI, which offers an AI-driven retail media platform that allows consumers to shop while consuming content. The partnership also will help Bell Media diversify its advertising offerings.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Thats especially important when todays media-savvy consumer understands the difference between paid-for promotions and editorial reviews. In fact, according to a recent study more than half (53%) of consumers do not trust influencer content. For the beauty industry, staying authentic isnt a nice idea, its a business imperative.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 5, 2025

With unpredictable tariff costs and erratic consumer demand, the household goods maker is undergoing some reorganization. According to Schulten, P&G is implementing a plan to mitigate any negative effects associated with U.S. Procter & Gamble is laying off about 7,000 employees over the next two years. of the workforce.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Her business plan, which centered around creating products for people with curly, coily, tight and textured hair, was decades in the making ( 20 of dreaming, 10 years in development and five years in-market, according to the Pattern Beauty website ), but now Ross and her Co-CEO Christiane Pendarvis are setting their sights on growing the brand.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Flying Tigers expansion strategy is rapid; it plans to have a footprint of 50 stores across Australia in the next five years. The design-led variety retailer is looking to offer Australian consumers an entirely new shopping experience and fill a gap in the market with its sustainable, affordable and playful designs.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Cafes, restaurants, and takeaways grew 2.3 per cent to $5.48 billion, while clothing, footwear and accessories increased 1.7 per cent to $3.02 billion, and department stores climbed 0.4 per cent to $1.91 ” The post Strong boost in Australian retail sales in October, says ABS data appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 6, 2025

The Brighton concept store marks the retailer’s 145th store opening, but it is intentionally different from the rest of the network, with a two-storey floor plan that takes consumers on a journey to find their perfect fit.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Earlier this year, the company quietly removed Monki’s larger sizes “due to low demand” and to cut costs, a move not well received by consumers. Retail Detail reports that H&M has long been planning to merge Monki with Weekday, as both brands appeal to young people but apparently can no longer make it on their own.

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Wiser

MAY 12, 2025

In the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry, seasonal retail displays are planned months in advanceoften 8 to 9 months before they hit store floors. But despite early planning, retail display execution frequently diverges from strategy. But despite early planning, retail display execution frequently diverges from strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

If your team hasn’t considered the following three challenges, though, now is the time – before they become profit pitfalls and everyone from FP&A (financial planning and analysis) to operations is caught flat-footed. However, what retailers must do now is respond as quickly as possible to shifts in consumer and competitor behavior.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Providing Access to First-Party Data With so much competition over the holidays, its essential for mid-market brands to reduce wasted ad spend by targeting consumers who are most likely to convert. consumers starting as early as June. If you missed this holiday window, its never too soon to start planning for next year!

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2025

If the events of 2024 taught us anything, its that value can mean many different things depending on a consumers demographics, psychographics and cultural context. Holiday sales data from Mastercard, Visa and Salesforce pointed to improving consumer confidence. Question 1: What does my target consumer value?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

For many retailers, these platforms have grown to consume the whole marketing funnel and their templated options have become the default. Effective local area marketing consists of directional and localised messaging that will push consumers into your online or offline store but this requires deep understanding of community.

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