Thu.May 27, 2021

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Walmart and Gap Partner to Launch Exclusive Home Essentials Line

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart and Gap have entered a strategic partnership to introduce Gap Home , a home essentials brand exclusive to Walmart. The collection, which will launch June 24, will feature more than 400 items across home décor, tabletop, bedding and bath, with styles designed for every space from college dorms to homes. The launch collection was designed with sustainability in mind and features items made with organic cotton and recycled materials as well as quality materials such as denim and chambray.

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David Jones Food review leads to end of bp partnership

Inside Retail

Following a review of David Jones’ food business, which was signalled by chief executive Scott Fyfe in March , the department store’s partnership with convenience chain BP is ending. The 35 dual-branded sites built over the past year will be transitioned in the coming months as DJs continues to streamline its Food business. “Our organisations have collectively agreed to work through a managed transition that will see our relationship end in the coming months,” a BP spokesperson said.

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Widen Collective Offers Retailers Greater Control Over Digital Content

Retail TouchPoints

Widen Collective , a platform designed to help brands streamline their workflow by enriching product data with marketing copy and digital assets, has introduced updates to help retailers scale their content operations. The platform can give retailers more control over their content to better manage its use. Some of the new capabilities include: Product variants: These tools can automate the process of adding descriptions, feature lists or digital assets to individual SKUs by adding attribute ass

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VIDEO: Behind the evolution of Wittner

Inside Retail

Iconic Australian footwear brand Wittner may be more than 100 years old, but they’re currently on a path of innovation and sustainability. In this chat with CEO Catherine Willamson – the first female to ever take on the role in the history of the business – we discuss Wittner’s first ever sustainable capsule collection and what it’s like driving a historic retail business into the future.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Sustainable Apparel Coalition to Publish Products’ Environmental Impact Data

Retail TouchPoints

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) and its technology partner Higg have launched the initial phase of a new transparency program that will publicly share environmental impact data about products, beginning with their materials content. The program provides a consistent way for brands, retailers and manufacturers to share sustainability information on apparel and footwear items across categories including water use , greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel use.

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Victoria to offer support to businesses hit by snap lockdown

Inside Retail

Victoria’s minister for industry support and recovery Martin Pakula has said the state government is working on a targeted package to assist businesses following yesterday’s announcement of a snap seven-day lockdown. According to the ABC , Pakula said the package will be announced next week, with the intention for businesses impacted by the lockdown to receive support “generally within a week or two”.

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How Ezibuy and Gumtree unlock incremental revenue with personalisation

Inside Retail

E-commerce has seen exponential growth over the past year as the world went into pandemic-fuelled lockdowns, travel bans, and closures. Many retailers have been forced to find new ways to engage their customers, sustain their businesses and find new opportunities for growth leading to an accelerated shift from physical retail to e-commerce. The surge in online sales has also led to increased customer expectations and a demand for better service and personalised experiences.

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VASHI opens its new concept flagship store in Covent Garden

Retail Focus

Today, Vashi unveiled and opened a new home for bespoke fine jewellery in Covent Garden – the brand’s new flagship store and its seventh bricks-and-mortar location. With an immersive in-store experience, open workshop and full behind-the-scenes visibility of every stage of production, the new flagship welcomes customers into the heart of the jewellery making process like never before.

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Inside 80 Collins – Melbourne’s newest luxury precinct

Inside Retail

Saint Laurent, Mulberry and Golden Goose are just a few of the international designer brands that have opened stores in 80 Collins, Dexus’ new high-end shopping and dining precinct in Melbourne. With a 38-level office tower, boutique hotel and 5,000 square metres of retail space, 80 Collins aims to give different types of customers – CBD workers, international tourists and local shoppers – multiple reasons to come back and explore the precinct at different times of day.

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Seven Dials unveils Olive Jennings bricks-and-mortar debut as part of incubator initiative

Retail Focus

Shaftesbury has officially announced the opening of Olive Jennings at 35-37 Monmouth Street in Seven Dials, marking the first retailer to launch as part of the ‘Start Up With Seven Dials’ pop-up incubator initiative. . Olive Jennings , a curated lifestyle brand founded by designer Amy Harrison-Mason and named after her grandmother, is one of four female-led brands to be selected from a pool of 30 entrants following a comprehensive judging process with a panel of industry experts. .

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The Personalization Playbook: 2024 Strategies

Did you know—74% of IT leaders are looking to improve their tech stack to offer better personalization? It’s impossible to ignore the importance of personalization, but it comes with challenges. How do you do it with a tight budget? What about customer privacy and the use of data? The Personalization Playbook is packed with research and insights from Orium, Talon.One, and Bloomreach and gives IT leaders answers to these tough questions, helping them shape 2024 strategies for personalization.

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Retail appointments for the week

Inside Retail

Former WooliesX GM takes on HealthyLife MD role. Ananth Sarathy, former general manager of digital experience at WooliesX, will lead the newly launched online HealthyLife business as managing director. Sarathy has held a number of other leadership roles in digital within the Woolworths Group over the last eight years, including as general manager of loyalty and data solutions.

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Vitamin Shoppe Adds Franchising to its Expansion Strategies

Retail TouchPoints

The Vitamin Shoppe is planning to expand its footprint in the U.S. through a new network of franchise stores as the health and wellness sector booms. For the first time in the retailer’s 44-year history, independent operators will have the chance to open The Vitamin Shoppe stores in their own communities via an omnichannel franchise model. Franchise partners will receive ongoing support from The Vitamin Shoppe for retail operations, supply chain, brand and product marketing, legal, real estate a

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Woolworths resurrects Healthy Life with launch of digital wellness destination

Inside Retail

Woolworths Group is hoping that its knowledge and expertise in digital platforms can help resurrect health and wellness brand Healthy Life. After quietly acquiring the Healthy Life business in 2019, following the closure of all stores, Woolworths has focused on reviving the business with an unparalleled digital offering. The new online health and wellness destination, known as HealthyLife, will sell vitamins, sports nutrition products and a specialised range of natural and organic goods not curr

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Trunk Time may be Costing You

Retail TouchPoints

Does anyone actually like returns? Ecommerce retailers are looking for ways to minimize the bottom line impact of returns — some even forgoing recovering the product to save on shipping costs. Meanwhile, an astonishing 78% of consumers surveyed in BOXpoll from Pitney Bowes said their most recent online returns were inconvenient. A dislike of returns may be one of the most unifying sentiments in our culture today.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

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

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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‘Back to the hustle’: Why Ryan Gracie left Catch to join MyDeal

Inside Retail

After spending nearly five years as chief marketing officer at Catch, Ryan Gracie has left to join MyDeal , an up-and-coming online marketplace that listed on the ASX last October. . We recently spoke with Gracie, who ranked 47th on Inside Retail’s 2021 Top 50 People in E-Commerce , about the rise of online marketplaces, how pureplays can compete with omnichannel retailers and what he loves about marketing.

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Xovis FLOW Helps Retailers Track In-Store Traffic Flow and Patterns

Retail TouchPoints

Xovis , an intelligent people flow solution provider, has launched the Xovis FLOW cloud-based offering. This integrated SaaS solution aims to help retailers understand traffic flow in real time by gathering visitor data from Xovis sensors, with options to expand analytics capabilities. Key features include: AI-powered people counting; Data and alerts in real time; Gender statistics, mask detection and more; Analysis of people flow data with an accessible web application; Seamless integration of

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Pureplay underwear brand Knobby unveils new identity

Inside Retail

Underwear subscription brand Knobby has rolled out its new brand identity, designed to “evoke a sense of nostalgia” and reflect the brand’s renewed focus on freedom, culture and creativity. . The new logo is inspired by the ’70s aesthetic, using colours from natural Australian icons such as blue from Mooloolaba and pink from Lake Hillier. .

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Instacart signals global ambitions with Facebook exec hiring

Retail Wire

Instacart has hired Nikila Srinivasan as its first VP of product for international markets. Mr. Srinivasan joins the delivery service from Facebook, making him the third executive that has left the social media firm for a job at Instacart.

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Planning the Architecture of Your Modular DXP

Are you considering moving away from a monolith platform and over to composable architecture? Join experts from Google Cloud, GroupBy, and Orium as they discuss the benefits of moving to a modular digital experience platform. In this masterclass, uncover key indicators that show your brand is ready for a modular DXP, and learn how to lay the foundation for composable commerce.

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Gap to launch home range with Walmart in the US

Inside Retail

US fashion retailer Gap is set to enter the home furnishings category, releasing its first home essentials range in partnership with Walmart. The Gap Home collection will feature more than 400 products, ranging from home decor and tabletop items, to bedding and bathroom accessories. Gap’s seasonal and special home collections will drop throughout the year and will be developed in partnership with its licensing agency, IMG.

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Walmart CEO says more work to be done on racial equity

Retail Wire

Walmart is among the retailers and brands that have stepped up efforts to address racial bias and provide opportunities for its employees and vendors. “The structures of systemic racism are complex and deeply ingrained in society,” said Walmart CEO Doug McMillon. “There are no simple answers to these challenges. There’s always more to do and so leaders need to ask themselves and their organizations if they can be doing more.

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Yum! Brands buys Australian tech startup Dragontail

Inside Retail

Fast food corporation Yum! Brands, the US parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, has purchased Australian tech startup Dragontail for US$93.5 million. Yum! Brands’ acquisition of Dragontail will take the startup’s emerging technologies in-house in addition to its kitchen order management and delivery software. According to CFO Chris Turner, the move would allow the US company to scale Dragontail’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology globally across its operations. “W

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Amazon mulls about opening brick-and-mortar pharmacies

Retail Wire

Amazon.com is considering opening brick-and-mortar pharmacies as either standalone stores or within its grocery stores, according to unnamed sources who spoke with Business Insider. If Amazon, which owns PillPack, opens pharmacies it will be facing lots of competition from major chains including CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Rite Aid, Kroger and others that operate thousands of stores apiece.

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How Personalized Customer Experiences Drive Retail Growth and Revenue

Speaker: Shaunna Bruton - Associate Director of Product Strategy at Orium | Sam Panzer - Director of Industry Strategy at Talon.One | Frank Passantino - Director of Product Management at Bloomreach

More and more, customers are expecting a better personalized CX. But can retailers actually deliver? Data from McKinsey shows that companies that excel in personalization increase their revenue by 40%, but despite these numbers, retailers struggle to implement customer personalization strategies. So what are the potential solutions? Join us to gain a better understanding of the current retail landscape and learn what you can do to translate personalization strategies into practical implementatio

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How Pandora’s digital formula boosted sales during the pandemic

Inside Retail

Pandora’s dedicated digital group and the launch of digital features on its site helped boost the jewellery chain’s financial results last year, according to Jim Cruickshank, company vice president of Digital Development and Retail Technology at Pandora. One of the digital features introduced that was a hit with the Danish brand’s customers was the augmented reality Virtual Try-On service, which has now been expanded to include the brand’s entire product catalog.

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New #CiscoChat: Unlocking the Power of your Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Cisco Retail

In today’s landscape, people and businesses are connecting more applications, infrastructure, and devices via the cloud than ever before. As demands rise, so do the challenges and the needs of our customers. Anticipating and planning to meet those needs, Cisco has been developing a hybrid cloud strategy and building the infrastructure that enables our customers to rise to the unique challenges of this era.

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Spar to invest £125m in business

Talking Retail

Spar has unveiled plans to invest £125m in its stores, supply chain, and IT over the next 12 months. Managing director, Louise Hoste, told delegates at the Spar virtual conference today (27 May): “Last year was a year which saw accelerated growth as a result of the dedication and focus of our colleagues. Therefore we. This story continues at Spar to invest £125m in business.

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Going on-premise with SecureX orchestration remote

Cisco Retail

Cisco SecureX has been enabling customers to build more secure, integrated infrastructure for over a year now. Leveraging both Cisco and third-party integrations, you can centralize visibility and aggregate intelligence while conducting incident investigation and response. SecureX orchestration allows you to take these integrations to the next level by creating custom workflows that enable your products to interact with each other in entirely new ways.

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Retails Next Frontier: Exploring and Proving the Value of AI

AI is everywhere. It’s in customer service interactions, product recommendations, marketing outreach, and yes, even commerce experiences. But not every use of AI provides the same value to your brand. In this masterclass, experts from Constructor, commercetools, Contentstack, and Orium discuss how AI can complement your composable tech stack and help bring in immediate ROI.

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Retail Industry Awards extends entry deadline

Talking Retail

Retailers have extra time to submit their entries for the Retail Industry Awards, the sector’s most prestigious accolades run by Independent Retail News and TalkingRetail.com. The entry deadline for the awards, which are now in their 26th year, has been extended to 11 June – apart from the Independent Retailer of the Year category. Kim. This story continues at Retail Industry Awards extends entry deadline.

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Barnes & Noble opens a different kind of bookstore

Retail Wire

Barnes & Noble has opened a bookstore in Kirkland, WA, its first in 14 years in the Seattle area. The new location looks in many ways more like a local bookstore than the cookie-cutter layouts the chain had previously used. “What I think we should be able to do at Barnes & Noble is use the resources and capacities of a large bookstore, but effectively harness them within a culture which is much more independently minded,” said CEO James Daunt.

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Applying DevNet Associate Skills to Real World Tasks – June Webinars

Cisco Retail

Nothing says summer fun like studying network automation. Am I right!?! Okay, maybe it’s not quite as much fun as amusement parks, beaches, mountain hiking, or camping, but that doesn’t mean you can’t also have fun studying for a DevNet Certification between those other activities. And I’ll be hosting a series of FOUR webinars in June 2021 focusing on applying the skills of a DevNet Associate to real world tasks, use cases, and problems that come up everyday for a networ

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CVS ties sweepstakes entries to COVID-19 vaccines

Retail Wire

CVS Health announced that customers who have gotten or will get the COVID-19 vaccine at one of its pharmacies will be entered into the company’s “One Step Closer” sweepstakes. Participants can win one of more than 1,000 prizes in the contest, including a seven-day trip on Norwegian Cruise Line, VIP tickets to the 2022 Super Bowl and $5,000 cash prizes for family reunions.

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Kelly Goetsch - Chief Strategy Officer at Commercetools | Jason Cottrel - CEO & Founder at Orium | and guest speaker Brendan Witcher - VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.