Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2021

Workwear brand Dickies has partnered with 3DLOOK to offer its customers in China a personalized fitting experience on the Tmall Global marketplace. The pilot program will leverage 3DLOOK’s AI-enabled technology to help provide accurate size and fit recommendations for Dickies apparel. Shoppers on the Dickies Tmall store will choose a style and then click on a measurement widget to be voice-guided through the fitting process.

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Retail Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Food manufacturers say that labor shortages, product shortages and high transportation costs are making it difficult to keep up with the demand of retailers, restaurants and their customers. Some of the largest sellers of these products including Walmart and Sysco, however, are not satisfied with the explanations provided by vendors and have taken to fining them for incomplete orders and late deliveries.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2021

Tuesday Morning has named off-price retail veteran Fred Hand as its new CEO, effective May 17, 2021. Hand was most recently COO of Burlington Stores , which he first joined in 2008 as EVP Stores and Operations. Prior to that Hand served as SVP, Group Director of Stores for Macy’s. “After a comprehensive search for a new CEO and interviews with several high-quality candidates, we are confident Fred is the ideal choice to lead Tuesday Morning’s future growth,” said Sherry Smith, Chairperson of the

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Retail Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Hamburg, Germany is among the many in Europe and elsewhere that has faced full or partial lockdowns during the pandemic. That has made it imperative for merchants to quickly adapt to changing circumstances including a clothing boutique that scheduled shopping appointments for customers or a comic book seller that had its associates post content to TikTok.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2021

Hair color company Madison Reed is making its Color Bar stores more engaging for customers with the deployment of a new digital swatch panel experience at four locations: New York, Miami, Chicago and Boston. The beauty brand partnered with custom retail display company OnQ to develop the new interactive experience — featuring a 46-inch touchscreen by Elo integrated with OnQ’s Converge digital engagement platform — which has become a supplement to Madison Reed’s on-site color specialists.

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Retail Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Disgruntled employees at a Dollar General in Maine resigned en masse leaving signs on the store’s door expressing their perceived treatment while working there. A photo of the messages have gone viral on social media accusing Dollar General of failing to treat workers with respect and pay them a living wage.

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Retail Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Beyond Meat reported first-quarter sales of $108.2 million, below the consensus of $113.18 million. The plant-based meat alternative brand was particularly hit by a decline in foodservice revenues, which were down 26 percent in the U.S. and 44 percent internationally.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2021

Brookfield Property Partners sold its stake in Forever 21 for $63 million during Q1 2021, which contributed to the real estate company’s quarterly income of $731 million. Brookfield’s flow from operations (FFO) was $125 million for the quarter, down from $309 million during the same period in 2020. Brookfield has been challenged by what has proven to be a difficult year for mall-based retailers.

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Retail Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Qurate Retail, the parent company of QVC, HSN and Zulily, reported that sales increased 14 percent to $3.3 billion during the first quarter of 2021 with sales rising in the U.S. and abroad. The company reported that online sites connected to its television home shopping properties saw a 25 percent jump in visitors, 20 percent growth in sessions and a six percent increase in total minutes spent shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2021

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Retail Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Peloton has said that the recall of the company’s Tread and Tread+ treadmills will cost it about $165 million in sales and $16 million in profits in the current quarter. The home fitness brand recalled the treadmills after they were connected to the death of a child and injuries with 70 others. Peloton initially rebuffed calls by the federal government to issue a recall, a decision that it has since called a mistake.

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MAY 7, 2021

Outerwear retailer Canada Goose will open its first California store in fall 2021 at the South Coast Plaza Mall in Costa Mesa, Calif., where it will house its first-ever Snow Room in the U.S. Following a successful pop-up at The Grove in Los Angeles this past winter, the permanent Orange County store will carry the full Canada Goose collection that’s fit for the Southern California lifestyle, including lightweight down styles, rain and wind gear, knitwear and more for men, women and children.

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Retail Wire

MAY 7, 2021

The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in April, down from 916,000 in March, leaving the national unemployment rate at about six percent. Employers have voiced concerns about being able to fill low-wage hourly jobs as they seek to staff up after laying off millions of workers during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Talking Retail

MAY 7, 2021

Nisa has announced that 9 out of 10 of its retailers are now stocking the Co-op own range brand, accounting for 13% of all Nisa sales. Ayaz Alam, Nisa’s trading director, said: “Co-op own brand products have been enormously popular with our retailers and their shoppers, and our best in market fresh has helped double. This story continues at Nisa and Co-op partnership ‘flourishing’ Or just read more coverage at Talking Retail.

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Retail Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Macy’s is adding a Backstage concept to its full-line department store at Short Pump Town Center in Henrico County, VA. The off-price shop will cover 11,000-square-feet inside the store and sell apparel and accessories, cosmetics, home and home office products, shoes and more. Macy’s is planning on opening 47 Backstage shops inside its department stores this year.

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Retail Times

MAY 7, 2021

The nation’s most loved Malt Loaf brand, Soreen, today announced the launch of its Fruit & Veg-Mmms bakes, which are high in fruit and veg and deliver on Soreen’s distinctive deliciously squidgy texture.

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MAY 7, 2021

About 45 percent of the nearly 4000 new store openings in the U.S. announced this year are Dollar General, Dollar Tree or Family Dollar locations, reports CNN. Based on Coresight Research figures, which tracks store openings and closures, this signals the continued rapid growth in this retail category. Analysts have attributed the increase in off-price retailers as a sign that the American middle class continues to shrink in size.

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Retail Times

MAY 7, 2021

Valspar Premium Blend v700 Walls & Ceilings paint has been crowned king in the ‘Washable Paint’ test category by the Good Housekeeping Institute. Scoring 83/100 for application, consistency, coverage, washability and durability, Valspar took first place above renowned paint brands including Farrow & Ball, Dulux and Little Greene.

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VMS

MAY 7, 2021

Walmart and Sam’s Club (Bentonville, Ark.) have partnered with C2FO to offer an expanded early payment program that offers minority-owned vendors better access to working capital, according to a press release. The program leverages a technology platform that enables suppliers to select invoices they’d like to request early payment on. Qualified diverse businesses gained access to the incentives earlier this week.

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Retail Dive

MAY 7, 2021

The REIT, which is set to go private in the third quarter, also recently walked away from three malls with delinquent loans.

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MAY 7, 2021

Tapestry (New York), owner of retail brands Coach and Kate Spade, reported that its third-quarter fiscal sales have returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to CNBC. These latest results have “significantly outpaced expectations,” said CEO Joanne Crevoiserat, attributing growth to online business and returning demand for its products in Asia. Overall revenue, however, has not yet reached 2019 levels.

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Talking Retail

MAY 7, 2021

Value has always been an important consideration for convenience store customers, but the events of the past year have thrown this consideration into even sharper relief, forcing many more people to re-evaluate their spending habits. The pandemic brought with it a wave of redundancies and business closures – particularly in non-essential retail – meaning many.

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MAY 7, 2021

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Retail Times

MAY 7, 2021

Following today’s release of Adidas figures for Q1 FY2021; Pippa Stephens, retail analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view: “Adidas’ sportswear specialism has driven an impressive rebound from the impacts of COVID-19, as consumers’ heightened interest in fitness and desire for comfortable apparel caused its revenue to increase by €887m to €5,268m during Q1 FY2021.

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365 Retail

MAY 7, 2021

2020 was a year like no other, and the shockwaves caused by the pandemic have inherently altered consumer-facing operations at their very core. Retail has been one of the most severely impacted sectors over the course of the last 12 months, and in that time we have seen adoption of new technologies and changes in existing ones at an unprecedented rate.

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Retail Times

MAY 7, 2021

Klarna, the leading global banking, payments and shopping service, has released the first in an ongoing series of quarterly global shopping trend reports.

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Shopperations

MAY 7, 2021

If you lead a shopper marketing team in today's CPG enterprise, you are most certainly familiar with the identity crisis this position comes with.

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Retail Times

MAY 7, 2021

“Covid passports” could still be required for customers visiting shops in England after the removal of lockdown restrictions on 21 June, Downing Street has indicated.

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Talking Retail

MAY 7, 2021

Welsh retailer Matthew Jones has won £10,000 in the latest quarterly draw run by Camelot for stores selling lottery tickets. Jones, who runs the Spar in Caersws (cor), Powys, said that he was shocked to win, partly because he did not realise that he had been entered. He added: “I was speechless when I first. This story continues at Spar retailer wins £10,000 in Site.

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Retail Times

MAY 7, 2021

The UK takeaway food business saw a huge rise in orders during lockdown – and this shows no sign of reducing, despite the relaxation of many lockdown restrictions. Foodhub, one of the UK’s leading food ordering apps, has revealed that despite the reopening of outdoor hospitality in April, more Brits than ever are tucking into a regular takeaway treat, compared to pre-lockdown last year.

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