Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Supermarket Coles has finalised its plan to power its sites by 100 per cent renewable energy by the end of FY25, signing the last power purchase agreement needed to meet the target earlier this week. Recent agreements with Origin Energy, ACCIONA Energía, and ENGIE will allow Coles to cover its estimated energy costs from July 2025. Coles’ chief sustainability, property and export officer Thinus Keevé said he was proud that the supermarket has been able to cut a clear pathway to its renewable ene

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Remarkety , a data-driven ecommerce marketing platform, has launched Email Capture Booster. The solution was designed to strategically interact with the customer as soon as they add an item to their cart as a way to reduce abandonment. Email Capture Booster connects with customers once they have had time to show interest in a product, helping mitigate the risk of coming off as intrusive and turning prospective customers away.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Luxury French ski-wear brand Moncler staged a very different runway event recently. On September 25, in the midst of Milan Fashion Week, Moncler created a fashion show which took viewers on a digital journey to five major fashion cities to revel in the 2021 Mondogenius collection. The show was thoughtfully hosted by musician and Moncler ambassador Alicia Keys.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Under Armour has named Massimo Baratto to the newly created role of EVP, Chief Consumer Officer, to oversee all aspects of Under Armour’s consumer strategy across global marketing, ecommerce and retail. Additionally, the retailer announced the upcoming departure of Chief Marketing Officer Alessandro de Pestel, who will leave in February 2022 to pursue other opportunities.

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Intelligence Node

OCTOBER 14, 2021

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Macy’s has joined a number of other major retailers — including Walmart , Kohl’s and JCPenney — in the Fanatics club after announcing a new partnership with the online sports merchandise retailer to increase its own online assortment of fan apparel 20X , according to multiple sources. Fanatics Founder and CEO Michael Rubin told the New York Post that the partnership with Macy’s will help Fanatics reach more women, a key target for the ecommerce company as sales of women’s sports merchandise have

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ecommerce fraud exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic as online shopping gave cybercriminals more targets. The average volume of successful monthly fraud attacks increased exponentially in 2020 for mid- and large-sized U.S. retailers, jumping 43% to 48% when compared to 2019. Criminals are also becoming more savvy. NuData , an online security firm owned by Mastercard, reported that 76% of attacks on retailers in the second half of 2020 were qualified as sophisticated, meaning they were harder to

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As CEO of the much-loved Australian women’s fashion brand, Camilla, Jane McNally has successfully steer the business through one of the most challenging periods in recent retail history, with a thriving online business and expanding physical store network clear evidence of her effective leadership. But she didn’t set out to be a CEO. In this interview with the head of the Australian Retailers Association Paul Zahra, McNally explains how she started her career in retail and some of th

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Same-store sales at Walgreens rose 8.8 percent in the chain’s fourth quarter buoyed by COVID-19 vaccines and testing. Net income for the company was 72 cents per share compared to 43 cents per share for the same period in 2020.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

German fashion retailer Hugo Boss on Thursday raised its outlook for the current year after third-quarter earnings rebounded above pre-pandemic levels on the back of strong demand in Europe and the Americas. The group now expects sales to grow by about 40% in 2021 on a currency-adjusted level, up from a previous target growth range of 30-35%. Operating profit (EBIT) is now seen at 175 million to 200 million euros ($273m to $312m), compared with a previous forecast for 125 million to 175 million

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Starbucks is calling the decision to close two stores where workers were seeking to form a union a coincidence. The chain said one of the locations is closing as part of a remodeling effort and will be reopened as a store to the public while the other will be converted into a training center. Starbucks Workers United has said that it believes the store closures were intended to disrupt unionizing activity. “Starbucks split up an entire store that they knew had a strong union majority and p

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Barbeques Galore has launched a brand-new customer loyalty program, the Barbeque Legends Club, with a distinct offering of expertise and experience, following extensive market research by the brand. The new hub will house a mix of evergreen and seasonal aspirational and educational content, more than 30 free barbecue courses, paid masterclasses, member-only offers, and the opportunity to engage online with other barbecue aficianados.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D – MA) is calling for Amazon.com to be broken up following a Reuters report that the company’s Indian business copied products from other sellers, gave them preferential search placement and sold the items on its site. The news organization said that documents reveal that employees had access to proprietary data that they used to replicate popular products.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Lovisa CEO exits business after 12 years at the helm. After 12 years at the helm of jewellery retailer Lovisa, Shane Fallscheer has stepped down from his role as chief executive and managing director, effective October 14. Fallscheer will be succeeded by Victor Herrero, former Inditex Group head of Asia Pacific and managing director of Greater China and has committed to ensuring a smooth transition.

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Cisco Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

During a ransomware attack, it is critical to detect and respond early and quickly. By decreasing your mean time to detection in identifying the attacker’s behavior, your security team can quickly investigate and respond timely to prevent a ransomware incident. And, if you can interrupt the attacker’s tools, tactics, or techniques early in the process that will force most attackers to abandon the campaign as they cannot progress further along in the “kill chain”.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For autonomous vehicles, what’s on the surface matters. While humans are taught to avoid snap judgments, self-driving cars must be able to see, detect and act quickly and accurately to operate safely. This capability requires a robust perception software stack that can comprehensively identify and track the vehicle’s surrounding environment. Startups worldwide are developing these perception stacks, using the high-performance, energy-efficient compute of NVIDIA DRIVE AGX to deliver highly accura

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Cisco Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Often, engineers from many teams (e.g., Network Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps) can spend hours looking at bandwidth and performance data. A closed-loop corrective action (CLCA) process – looking for details to identify, analyze, and find or correct a problem – often is like looking for a needle in a haystack. New, easy to deploy, reporting tool for Cisco SD-WAN.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

McDonald’s announced that it will test the meatless McPlant burger in eight U.S. restaurants next month. The plant-based menu item from Beyond Meat is currently available at McDonald’s locations in Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

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Cisco Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Dublin’s Institute of Education prepares their private-tuition students to matriculate into a number of leading colleges and universities in Ireland and throughout the world through a customized, challenging curriculum that focuses on excellence, achievement, and innovation across 28 choices of subject study. Founded in 1969, the Institute has a 50-year history that prioritizes high standards, hard work, determination, honesty, and enthusiasm for learning with small class sizes and extracurricul

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Winc, a digital wine club, is going public on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WBEV” The company’s subscriber based stood at 120,000 as of June 30, 2021. Winc acquired Natural Merchants, an importer of organic and biodynamic wines, sold at Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 14, 2021

GeForce NOW members have the power of our NVIDIA RTX Servers to throw at their favorite PC games. They can use that power to stream Crysis Remastered today, and the complete Crysis Remastered Trilogy starting tomorrow — with the best performance and RTX graphics for Founders and Priority members. With this great GFN Thursday also comes in total of seven games joining the GeForce NOW library this week.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Consumer Price Index rose 5.4 percent in September as a combination of high demand and limited supplies led to further inflation. Economists are divided in their estimations of how quickly inflationary pressures will ease.

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The apparel e-retailer has ruled them out in the past, but a recent business model shift and its customer acquisition needs could change that.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Lowe’s has launched Lowe’s One Roof Media Network, a digital platform that provides ad placement on Lowes.com, the chain’s mobile app and sponsored content on its site and social media pages.

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The retailer invested in its online operations and transformed stores into fulfillment points early in the pandemic. But it hasn't been easy.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Retailers selling groceries have seen sales of center store categories pick up since the beginning of the pandemic last year and many expect that to continue. Forty-five percent reported that center store sales have grown more than 10 percent since the pandemic began, 18 percent saw revenues increase between five and 9.9 percent and 19 percent were flat to up 4.9 percent.

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Diversity in mannequin body size and gender can help shoppers see themselves reflected in a brand — and drive loyalty.

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Shopping Center

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Orlando, Fla. — Coldwell Banker Commercial Sunstar Realty has arranged the $3.3 million sale of a 20,780-square-foot retail property located at 801 N. John Young Parkway in Orlando. Ray Brunner of Coldwell Banker Commercial Sunstar Realty represented the seller in… The post Coldwell Arranges $3.3 Million Sale of 20,780-Square-Foot Retail Property in Orlando appeared first on Shopping Center Business.

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Retail Times

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Russian food retail market – one of the largest in Europe with an estimated value of RUB 17.4 trillion (or about USD 240 billion) in the 12 months to the end of June 2021 – has undergone seismic changes in recent years. The latest trend driving the growth of the sector is Russians’ increasing demand for convenience shopping, with new retail champions emerging as a result.

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Cisco Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It’s October and that means it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It’s a perfect time to have conversations with your colleagues, customers, family, and friends about the importance of cybersecurity not only in business but as part of our everyday lives. At the root of it, our customer’s cybersecurity challenges include people and complexity. So make sure you check out our Cybersecurity Awareness Month hub, we have a lot of great information coming out throughout the month that you can share wit

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