Tokinomo
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
We’ve talked about Millennials and Gen Z , but what about the youngest generation? In this article, we are going to focus on Gen Alpha. We will talk about the characteristics of this generation and how retailers and brands can change to adapt to the new shoppers.
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Total by Verizon , the telco’s prepaid wireless brand, will mark its one-year anniversary this month with the opening of its 50th store in greater Los Angeles, part of an aggressive retail expansion in Southern California and nationally. Since its debut, Total by Verizon has launched in more than 50,000 national retail locations and opened hundreds of exclusive stores around the country, with more planned for the remainder of 2023.
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Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Not that long ago, online retailers would have had a website designed and built, then launched and prayed. But these days they have a new tool to rely on that takes away the guesswork: Experimentation shortens the time it takes to go to market and speeds the improvement process. That, says Paul Tannock, head of ANZ and emerging markets with Niteco, can double visitor signups, increase margins and – best of all – boost sales because experimentation, as a process, can deliver real-time intelligenc
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Timex will seek to keep watches “on wrists and out of landfills” with the debut of its Timex ReWound program, according to Shari Fabiani, SVP of Brand and Creative at Timex Group. Consumers wishing to upcycle their watches will receive a prepaid shipping label, and the brand will inspect, clean and refurbish used watches with a working battery to prepare them for resale.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
Retail Wire
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
U.S. retailers are turning to innovative security measures to combat rising concerns over smash-and-grab robberies, with some installing fog-based security systems. The Density Security Fogger emits a dense, dry fog that quickly fills a store, drastically reducing visibility and disorienting potential thieves. According to Mike Egel, president of DensityUSA, this fogger is significantly more effective.
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Photo courtesy Kenny Flowers Photo courtesy Kenny Flowers Photo courtesy Kenny Flowers Photo courtesy Kenny Flowers Photo courtesy Kenny Flowers Photo courtesy Kenny Flowers Photo courtesy Kenny Flowers The Cabana Club on the second floor. (Photo courtesy Kenny Flowers) The Cabana Club on the second floor. (Photo courtesy Kenny Flowers) Photo courtesy Kenny Flowers Over the last few years, a playbook of sorts has emerged for DTC brands: An enterprising soul puts a new spin on a category or produ
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Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Amazon has launched a new virtual experience where fans can shop for products from Prime Video series and movies, beginning with the upcoming series Gen V , a spinoff of The Boys that will debut on Sept. 29. A shoppable dorm room. (Photo courtesy Amazon) Customers can immerse themselves in the world of Gen V with a virtual visit to Godolkin University , the fictional university where the show is set.
Wiser
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
SWOT analysis, an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, is a strategic planning technique that can provide valuable insights for your business by analyzing internal and external factors. Its simplicity and effectiveness make it a favorite amongst businesses of all sizes, helping them to understand their internal and external landscape better.
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
What’s the most important aspect of luxury retail design today? If you said “mastering techniques to improve in-person experiential settings,” you’d be exactly right. You might also raise the need for better and more innovative formats that improve customer service in the finicky luxe and affordable-luxury segments. In the first category, experiential retail places big demands on architects and interior designers.
Retail Gazette
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Footasylum has opened the doors to its new flagship store at 73-89 Oxford Street, as it continues to see strong demand for its branded streetwear offering. The 20,000 sq ft store, previously occupied by New Look trades across two floors, with additional customer service and click-and-collect lockers located in the store’s basement. The fashion and sportswear retailer said there has been” a significant investment in the store’s digital capabilities in order to create a mobile-first customer
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AI agents already analyze trends, draft content, and trigger actions across leading commerce platforms. Yet most organizations still rely on workflows built for human‑only teams, losing speed, margin, and customer loyalty. Humans + Agents: Rethinking Enterprise Commerce in the Age of AI Collaboration shows how to close that gap. In one concise read you’ll see where agent gains surface first, how early adopters prove ROI, and which lean controls keep innovation moving without risking data or bran
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
We’ve all heard the stats about the thousands of marketing messages the average consumer is exposed to weekly, and yet advertisers continue to forget just how noisy the media landscape is when planning their CTV campaigns. Perhaps optimism gets the best of us, and we think great results are all but guaranteed if our campaign has the right targeting, eye-catching creative tailored to our target audience and the TV medium, and a measurement plan to report on our priority metrics.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Delivery Hero is in advanced talks on a partial sale of its Asia business, the Wirtschaftswoche business magazine reported, saying Singapore’s Grab could pay a little more than US$1.07 billion. The Berlin-based company could sell its activities under the Foodpanda brand in Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand, according to Wirtschaftswoche , which cited sources familiar with the matter.
Retail Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The fast-fashion retailer has begun charging customers in the U.S., U.K. and most of Europe, unless they belong to its free loyalty program.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Yum China Holdings recently held its investor day, themed ‘Resilience.Growth.Moat’, and its CEO, Joey Wat, struck quite an optimistic tone about the future of the company. Speaking to Bloomberg , Wat mentioned that China’s economy is valued at $17 trillion, which is around 18 per cent of global GDP, so the scale of the economy gives Yum China a tremendous advantage in their operations.
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Category Management is a cornerstone of a successful retail strategy. While it promotes collaboration between manufacturers and retailers to optimize category performance, challenges persist in its effective implementation due to hurdles in communication and collaboration across teams and partners, and more. In this guide, we outline five essential strategies for success in 2025 that will touch on all the essential pieces of a successful strategy and implementation.
Retail Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The company is opening its 1,600-square-foot brick-and-mortar location just in time for the holiday season.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
A recent survey from the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) reflected the concerning state of mental health within the retail industry , with a range of pressures – including, but not limited, to rising cost of living, customer aggression, climate change impacts and retail crime – exacerbating these outcomes. According to the survey, more than three-quarters of retail workers have suffered from high levels of stress, anxiety, or depression in the past four weeks.
Retail Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The new capability enables cashierless shopping for softline goods like clothing, fan gear, hats and shoes.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
In line with consumer demands , fashion brands and other retailers are increasingly focused on reducing their environmental impact, and enhancing their sustainability throughout their supply chains. In Australia, a dearth of local manufacturing has added to this challenge, with brands often having less control over the production process than in other regions.
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Late deliveries. Split shipments. Spiraling freight costs. For home, furniture, and DIY brands, fulfillment has never been more complex—or more critical. This report outlines how a smarter, AI-ready order management system (OMS) helps you reduce shipping costs, streamline project-based fulfillment, and ensure accurate inventory across every channel.
Retail Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
That amounts to 100,000 more seasonal employees than the e-commerce giant planned to bring on last holiday season.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Yum China Holdings, Inc. recently held its investor day, themed ‘Resilience.Growth.Moat’, and its chief executive officer, Joey Wat, struck quite an optimistic tone about the future of the company. Speaking to Bloomberg , Wat mentioned that China’s economy is valued at $17 trillion, which is around 18 per cent of global GDP, so the scale of the economy gives Yum China a tremendous advantage in their operations.
Retail Gazette
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Official figures show slowing food prices were behind a surprise fall in inflation in August, with the cost of living now at its lowest level in a year and a half. Price rises for milk, cheese and eggs slowed the most, while fish and vegetable prices also eased. The Consumer Prices Index , which tracks annual price changes, showed that inflation fell to 6.7% in August, down from July’s 6.8%.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Covid wasn’t kind to wedding planners in China, where marriages are traditionally elaborate, expensive affairs , but the industry estimated at almost US$500 billion ($775 billion) is now facing a bigger threat: a plunge in the number of couples willing to tie the knot. The trend, which has become more obvious as the economy weakens and consumer confidence wanes, is also worrying officials trying to revive marriage, and birth, rates which dropped to record lows last year, leading to the fir
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LS Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
©iStock/1st Step The coming downturn is not inevitable, but restoring global growth will be extremely challenging. The IMF’s World Economic Outlook and Global Financial Stability Report suggest a difficult road ahead, warning that “the fog around the world economic outlook has thickened.” The rapid succession of large interest-rate hikes by the U.S.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
In the children’s story Goldilocks and the Three Bears , Goldilocks tries Mother Bear’s, Father Bear’s and Baby Bear’s porridge in turn; one is too hot, one is too cold, but Baby Bear’s porridge is just right and tastes so good the little girl spoons it straight down. Likewise, is there a particular amount of retail space in a country, region or locality, that is not too much, not too little, but just right?
Retail Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Agency officials credited more workers moving into career positions and network investments as to why the added fees are no longer needed.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Gucci creative director Sabato De Sarno takes to the runway in Milan on Friday, in a high-stakes designer debut for the Italian label’s owner, French luxury group Kering. De Sarno’s Gucci catwalk presentation – one of the industry’s most highly-anticipated shows this year – will serve as an aesthetic reset for the brand, aimed at reigniting sales, but it is also the first major test of a sweeping overhaul at Kering.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Retail Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The brand, which controls its own processing and is choosy about what it accepts, so far is turning a profit on the zooming side gig.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Fashion retailer Decjuba is working on establishing a physical store in Singapore later next year and expanding into selling menswear and beauty products. “We continue to look around the world and we don’t see another brand doing what we are doing as well as we do it,” said Tania Austin, owner and CEO at Decjuba, as reported by The Australian.
Retail Gazette
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Poundland has relaunched its website following an overhaul of its digital operations and rebrand of its Poundshop.com business. Customers will now be able to shop more than 3,000 products online at poundland.co.uk and have orders delivered “for as little as £1”. The discount retailer said the launch was “made possible by the digital migration of its Poundshop.com operation and the opening of a second digital fulfilment hub at its distribution centre in Darton, south Yorkshire” Subscribe to
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Australian Unity Diversified Property Fund has divested Woodvale Boulevard Shopping Centre in Western Australia to a local syndicator for $36.5 million. Appointed brokers of JLL – Nick Willis, Sam Hatcher, Nigel Freshwater and Sean Flynn – said the publicised on-market campaign for the property, which houses a strong performing Woolworths supermarket, received more than 180 inquiries leading to eight formal offers.
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