Inside Retail

AUGUST 18, 2021

Discount department store The Reject Shop’s full year results tell an interesting story – one of business suffering under the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown, but also one of a strong reset to an ailing business model. Total sales in the chain fell 5.1 per cent over the course of FY21 to $778.7 million, well above the $1.1

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2021

The department store business saw total sales hit $663.2 In this challenging environment the deep retail sector experience of our management team pays off, enabling us to respond effectively to rapidly changing conditions.”. million, up 6.1 per cent, and its online division made up 9.2 per cent. “Our

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Holiday hires will help retailers leverage their store-based omnichannel fulfillment capacity through buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), curbside pickup, home delivery and ship-from-store services. The pandemic has negatively impacted the department stores’ businesses.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

However, apparel and department stores are elevated. Department stores are normally at 11% , but they are currently near 14%. Sakai also suggested that retailers encourage curbside buy online, return in-store (BORIS) during and after the holidays. Most industries now have return rates close to normal levels.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Since 2019, it has relaunched its online offering in Australia, rolled out dedicated e-commerce sites and fulfilment centres in New Zealand and the UK, and upgraded its warehouse management and order management systems, leading to significant efficiency gains and growth.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

You’ll have new delivery expectations: 30-minute drone delivery will likely be available in most major cities by 2032, although curbside and the role of the physical store will, surprisingly, still be important.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

US department store chain Target is testing a new fulfilment method that promises to speed up the delivery of online orders by using its own delivery drivers from Shipt, a same-day delivery platform the retailer acquired for US$550 million in 2017. For years, Target has put our stores at the center of how we serve our guests.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2023

Product quality has become more important for online shoppers compared to two years ago, along with product cost, shipping cost, customer reviews, and authenticity. Categories like health and personal care and computers and electronics have a strong emphasis on product quality and authenticity.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Perhaps with M&S now motoring, Norman might jump ship to see if he can perform a similar feat at its rival? Price stepped down as deputy chairman and managing director of Waitrose in 2016 after 33 years at the business. He also has vast non-executive experience since he departed Tesco.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 20, 2021

Citing people familiar with the plans, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon intends to open retail locations that would operate much like department stores, selling apparel, personal-technology gadgets, household items and other merchandise, and handling returns. .’s latest brick-and-mortar experiment. Penney and Sears.

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Retail Focus

MAY 24, 2023

When a retailer runs out of an item, it can damage sales and brand reputation while also costing money in shipping, storage, and lost opportunity. Another type is a spine store layout which uses endcap displays and corrugated shelving to draw customers to the products on display.

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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? But it’s not all about cars and bikes.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Department store Liberty even called out its record beauty calendar sales as factor behind its growing profits last year. “Year-after-year we are increasing units to meet demand, both in the UK and internationally, with more and more countries being added to our shipping list each year,” says Coonan.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. YOY growth this holiday season, whereas department stores will only see a 0.3%

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2022

That first retailer was the upmarket Auckland department store, Smith & Caughey’s. A foray into the UK followed and in both markets, distribution partners ship to customers online and offline. From its New Zealand e-commerce site, the brand only ships locally.

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2023

The market research firm predicts click-and-collect sales will grow by 8 per cent in 2023, and the growth is expected to be driven by customers who prefer to avoid delivery fees or shipping costs during this period of high prices. In order to settle disputes, managers may need to be present curbside, and this could lead to staffing issues.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Amazon’s director of Australian operations, Mindy Espidio-Garcia, said that 2,000 seasonal workers had been on-boarded to help pick, pack and ship customer orders at its sites, over the festive season.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2021

Sheldon noted that late-season shipping delays further discouraged December sales. Nordstrom is already an expert at this , and American Eagle may be able to pivot failing American Eagle stores as support for its new Aerie locations. “I I don’t think stores are unimportant.

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Retail Insider

MAY 25, 2021

Also in the mix was Entrupy, a tech-driven way of authenticating luxury goods which prevents fraud by taking a microscopic image and comparing it to a database of millions of images with a 99% accuracy rate and the drop-shipping platform Avasam. It was close but the judges finally went with Zynstra. 2020 winner Infarm.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 9, 2023

“Having a wide range of fulfillment options, including delivery to home, collection from store – and by using stores for fulfillment – allowed Walmart to ramp up capacity in a way that many other players struggled to do. Lowest prices” came in second and “fast shipping” came in eighth place.

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Retail Next

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Driving up to the store, I was struck by the retro façade. At RetailNext we often use two photos to illustrate how little has changed in physical retail, particularly department stores. We have one photo of a department store of today and one of 30 years ago illustrating the lack of change. But this was fun.

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365 Retail

MARCH 14, 2022

After six years steering the ship, Mr Rowe will now pass responsibility to continue the firm’s revival to two of his top lieutenants. The boss worked his way up from the shop floor into store management roles before his heady ascent resulted in a director role in 2012.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

After Forever 21 opened its first store in 1984 in the United States fast fashion started to gain in popularity. Although clothing is a department store staple retailers like Sears or specialty retailers like Gap couldn’t keep up with a more nimble fast fashion retailer like Forever 21.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Marks & Spencer has said it started out with third party brands flowing through its distribution network but it is planning to give sellers the flexibility to use a drop ship model where the brand holds onto its inventory and fulfills the order itself. “M&S’s This is especially the case with Jaeger,” said an industry veteran. “In

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The brand needed the loan while it sold through excess stock it was left with after shipping issues peak last year caused delivery delays. The furniture brand, which had concessions in House of Fraser, reportedly suffered after the department store fell into administration in 2018. pre-pack administration deal in August 2019.

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Retail Next

OCTOBER 24, 2019

One of the hottest trends in retail right now is BOSS: Buy Online and Ship to the Store for pickup (very similar to, but not the same, as BOPIS, or Buy Online, Pickup In Store). It’s the digital version, for us dinosaurs, of going to a department store and having them order the right size when something wasn’t in stock.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2021

To be sure, some of the retailers debuting marketplaces are looking to compete directly with Amazon: Walmart , Target , Hudson’s Bay and the planned Debenhams marketplace (under new owner Boohoo Group ) are all essentially huge digital department stores with broad category reach. However, these dangers can be managed.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2021

While many customers will have purchases shipped directly to their homes this year, brick-and-mortar stores have rolled out their own solutions that may impact the way we approach the 2021 holidays. That’s where master data management (MDM) comes in. Location, Location, Location.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping. Scot: [28:09] Yeah.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On the brick-and-mortar side, The Edit LDN has been selling high-end footwear at the iconic Harrods department store in Knightsbridge for a year, and plans to expand to a Galeries Lafayette in Doha, Qatar beginning Nov. We provide them with trends data about what’s selling as well as an account manager and personal shopping team.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

The business is growing really well, membership is growing, and I think our position in the marketplace continues to get better and better,” Coscto Australia’s country manager Patrick Noone told Inside Retail. Shipping goods directly from each store could broaden the reach of what the business can realistically offer online.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 21, 2021

Sort of automatically gets attributed a greater intelligence it’s like well if you manage to move and come here you must know stuff, so you like Americans in Britain generally regarded as being sort of feeble-minded but you know once they’ve got a job then they regarded as well they must know something.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“I attempted to buy their products during a half-price sale at Woolworths but was unable to find any complexion-based products for my skin colour in multiple stores, consequently learning from the manager that the darkest shade in any store in the country was ‘medium beige’,” Willink said.

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I Love Fashion

JANUARY 19, 2023

Pros Cons Stores hundreds of products styles, & premium products Allows providing samples, small and large bundles of 3 items Allows bulk discount, shipping time, and ways variations Has no minimum order and fulfills orders placed before noon PST within a day Doesn’t accept returns without prior approval 2.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 30, 2022

“Our stores played a pivotal role in the fulfillment of these sales as almost two-thirds of our online revenue [in the fourth quarter of 2020] was either picked up in-store or curbside, shipped from a store or delivered by a store employee. Fast shipping. Invest in the warehouse store model.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

My Gucci Marmont bag from Vestiaire Collective has shipped. Bagged a pre-loved bargain, supported circular fashion and didn’t even set foot in a store. I wrack my brains to remember when I last bought new clothes in-store. Quick email check. GlamCorner has a sale. Aje has released its new collection. Meet the Gen Z revolution.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Department stores or apparel stores or malls get back to kind of pretty pandemic levels. Grocery E-Com > 10% someone deploys(not pilots) MFC. Shopify marketplace.

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