Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2022

Responsible athleisure brand Able Made has launched a new immersive pop-up retail experience to promote its sustainable mission-driven message at 1 Hotel Central Park in New York City. Through the partnership with 1 Hotel — properties are inspired by nature and created using reclaimed materials — Able Made has found a pop-up home that aligns with its own values to afford an eco-friendly shopping destination.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Retail sales continued to perform well in February recording a 9.1 per cent year-on-year increase according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data released today. . Despite supply chain disruptions, departments stores recorded a 5 per cent increase after months of decline. Clothing, footwear and personal accessories recorded a 17.8-per-cent increase compared to February last year, followed by cafes, restaurants and takeaway food which grew 15 per cent and household goods, up by 8.1 per cent.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2022

True Religion plans to transform itself into a “digital-first DTC brand.” To lead the charge, the denim brand has hired ecommerce veteran Scott McCabe as its new SVP of Ecommerce. An ecommerce veteran with 25 years of experience McCabe has held leadership roles at Banana Republic, GAP , Macy’s , and Tailored Brands. “Scott’s incredible track record of growth, profitability and innovation will help propel True Religion’s rapidly expanding digital commerce business,” said Michael Buckley, CEO of T

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Uber and BP have announced a global delivery partnership in an attempt to expand delivery services to everyday convenience. BP becomes the first major convenience retailer to team up with Uber on such a scale, and will connect more than 3000 retail locations with Uber Eats by 2025. . The partnership will cover retail sites in Australia, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, the US and the UK with plans to expand operations to European markets from next year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2022

Professional wrestling organization WWE has teamed up with online sports destination Fanatics in a comprehensive new deal that covers ecommerce and licensed merchandise, as well as physical, digital and non-fungible token (NFT) trading cards. This summer, Fanatics will exclusively launch a new ecommerce destination for the brand — WWE Shop — featuring a leading assortment of WWE merchandise across all categories, including apparel and hard goods, such as title belts, headwear, accessories and mo

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Fashion and lifestyle platform The Iconic has launched its first beauty campaign “I am Iconic” to celebrate diversity in the beauty category. . Featuring a range of faces representing beauty across gender, age groups, ethnicity and culture, and star, the campaign aims to strengthen the brand’s beauty offering and its online market. The brand says it wants to celebrate beauty in all its forms and the new campaign introduces its definition of beauty. .

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Retail Focus

MARCH 29, 2022

Keeping pace with consumer trends and changing behaviours is key to the success of retail operations, particularly when managing the impact of current global events on supply chains to ensure they’re able to consistently meet demand. . According to the latest CBI quarterly Distributive Trades Survey, consumer confidence is growing as retail sales volumes were 16% higher than seasonal norms in February.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2022

Consumer packaged goods companies in the market today need an improved way of seeing their customers. They want to deeply transform engagement and have more personalized relationships, gain the ability to measure at each point of contact, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their campaigns and create long-term customer loyalty. The only way to improve customer satisfaction and deliver better experiences is through data, but a first-party data strategy alone isn’t enough.

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Tokinomo

MARCH 29, 2022

Brick and mortar retailers have a lot of challenges to deal with after two years of pandemic and a rapid online shopping habit adoption. Apart from having to provide an amazing experience in-store to attract the attention of shoppers, they also need to make sure that they have the products shoppers are looking for.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 29, 2022

Shaftesbury has today announced that the sustainable women’s performance wear brand, Dai, has opened its debut permanent space on 35-37 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials. Alongside the launch of two vintage activations, these recent openings boost Seven Dials’ diverse community of ethically driven retailers, solidifying it as London’s go-to destination for the conscious consumer. .

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Fashion retailer Ralph Lauren opened an e-commerce store in Australia today, offering its labels Polo Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Home, kids wear and its latest collections. . The e-store features a virtual fitting platform called Virtusize designed to help shoppers compare sizes, try items virtually and create an online wardrobe. It also offers a gifting service that includes a personalised message wrapped in silk paper arranged in a Ralph Lauren box and tied with a ribbon. .

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Retail Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Nike has given new meaning to the term sneaker drop. The athletic wear giant and JD Sports selected customers to receive a free pair of Nike Air Max shoes, which were delivered by drones.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

It is assumed that when people move from a ‘doing’ role to a ‘managing’ role, they will know what they need to do and that they will ‘pick up’ how to lead as they go along. However, leading a team requires a new set of skills that are difficult to just ‘pick up’. Are you new to managing a team, and wondering why it’s harder than you expected? The relationships with your team can change.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

The Chinese government has locked down Shanghai as part of its zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19 cases. Manufacturing plants in the city have had to close for several days, threatening to further disrupt global supply chains.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Telstra has appointed Vicki Brady as its new CEO today, replacing Andrew Penn, who announced his retirement from the company after seven years in the position. . Brady joined the company in 2016 and has worked in a range of roles across finance, commercial and strategy before moving to leadership positions. She is also the company’s CFO and the group executive responsible for strategy.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

New Balance has opened a new manufacturing plant in Massachusetts, its fifth in the U.S. “It’s part of our overall mantra of controlling our destiny, which has really come into play in the last couple of years with with Covid,” said Joe Preston, New Balance president and CEO. “The supply constraints have certainly impacted our business, but we were still able to grow [revenue] over 30% in 2021.”.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Phil Knight, the co-founder of Nike, famously once said he hates advertising. Dan Wieden, co-founder of Wieden+Kennedy, Nike’s ad agency since 1982, clarified this further when he said, “Phil Knight didn’t want to sell you something – he wanted to help you be something.” At the time, Phil was breaking the mould. Today, that’s what good brands do – help their audience be better.

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Wiser

MARCH 29, 2022

Pricing strategy is one of the hottest topics in the retail world, and rightly so. Having the right strategy keeps companies competitive and profitable. But, with so much information on price optimization floating around out there, and countless tips on increasing your profit margins, it can be difficult to know which strategies will actually help your bottom line.

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

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Fitness and technology platform Peloton has expanded its operations aggressively since launching in Australia last year – from opening showrooms around the country, to the release of its gaming-inspired workout experience, Lanebreak. And earlier this month, the business launched its commercial operations Down Under, with its range of smart stationary bikes appearing in hundreds of venues along the east coast of Australia.

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Cisco Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Cisco’s rich history of innovations in networking is grounded on a commitment to Continuous Learning throughout our engineering teams. Continuous Learning is central to our belief that the development of employees at all levels of expertise promotes creativity and engagement which in turn creates best-in-class networking solutions. Cisco is unique among our technology peers in that we own the entire breadth and depth of the network.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Women’s fashion brand Sheike has announced plans to open its first store in South Australia off the back of strong online engagement in the state. Located in the City Cross arcade on Rundle Mall in Adelaide, the store is expected to launch in the middle of this year. It will be Sheike’s first location outside of a shopping centre and one of the first to feature the brand’s new design concept, which rolled out in the brand’s Karrinyup and Robina stores last year, and includes marble and brass fin

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Retail Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Jose Cuervo is opening its first virtual distillery, which include non-fungible tokens. “Cuervo is no stranger to bringing tequila to places it’s never gone before — we were given the first license to distill in Tequila, Jalisco where the Cuervo family created the national spirit over 260 years ago, and still produces it today in Latin America’s oldest distillery,” said Lander Otegui, senior vice president of marketing at Proximo Spirits.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Pre-Covid, augmented reality, the metaverse and livestream shopping were distant concepts for many mainstream retailers. Fast-forward just a couple of years later, and Target is experimenting with AR and even McDonald’s in the US is joining the metaverse. “We are at the forefront of innovation with social commerce, enhanced retailing and emerging retailing.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

People in the UK purchased more private label goods and did more of their shopping at discounters as grocery inflation rose 5.2 percent for the four weeks ending March 20. Aldi and Lidl saw the biggest sales increases (3.6 percent) during the period, according to Kantar.

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Mulesoft

MARCH 29, 2022

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MARCH 29, 2022

Save Mart Companies, which includes Save Mart, Lucky California and FoodMaxx grocery stores, has been acquired by Kingswood Capital Management. The private equity firm bought Cost Plus World Market in 2021 and owns shares of Bed Bath & Beyond.

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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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Cisco Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s evident that digital investments made prior to 2020 helped many financial institutions respond quickly to a rapidly changing operational environment. The “shift to digital”, necessitated by these changes, was largely confirmation of what institutions already understood about the future of customer engagement. Instead, the most useful insight is likely the remarkable agility demonstrated by the industry and how it changed executives’ perspectives of prior and future transformation strategies

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Retail Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

A California law that requires pigs to be housed in spaces that enable them to move around freely is being contested in the nation’s highest court. The National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation are asking the court to set aside the law claiming that its interferes with interstate commerce. “Almost no sow farmers in the country satisfy Proposition 12’s sow housing requirements, and most believe that those requirements would harm their animals, employees a

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Retail Dive

MARCH 29, 2022

Workplace safety is important in every industry. For this reason, retailers are increasingly incorporating the power of safety management systems (SMS).

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Retail Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Younger women are paid as much or more than their male counterparts in 22 metropolitan areas around the U.S., according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. Nationwide, however, women 30 and younger earns 93 cents for every dollar made by men in the same age bracket.

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