Tue.Oct 26, 2021

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Allbirds IPO to Value Retailer at $2.2 Billion

Retail TouchPoints

Allbirds has filed for an IPO, with plans to sell 19.2 million shares of its stock at $12 to $14 per share. At the higher price, the sustainable footwear and apparel company could achieve a valuation as high as $2.2 billion. The company has not yet set a date for the IPO. The retailer, founded in 2015 as an internet-only seller of wool footwear, expanded into apparel in August 2019 with the addition of sustainably manufactured socks and added an activewear category in August 2021.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Australia to head up UK revival

Inside Retail

Returned children’s goods retailer Toys ‘R’ Us Australia has signed a long-term exclusive licence agreement to facilitate the return of the Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us brands to the United Kingdom. The deal, which covers both physical and digital retail, will see the business return to the UK after three years, having exited all 100 of its UK stores in 2018: resulting in the loss of more than 3,000 jobs, according to The Guardian.

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Old Navy Merchandising Exec: BODEQUALITY Has ‘Changed the Way We Work…Top to Bottom’

Retail TouchPoints

In 2018, Edelman research saw the rise of “belief-driven buyers” — people who said they would buy or boycott a brand solely because of its position on a social or political issue. Now, three years later and 20 months into a global pandemic, the firm has seen an even bigger shift from “Me to We.” Additionally, nearly two-thirds of consumers say they’re more attracted to brands that focus on making the world a better place.

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Luxury Escapes overwhelmed by ‘revenge travel’ bookings

Inside Retail

Close to two years on from the closure of Australia’s borders with the rest of the world, airlines are preparing to resume flights from certain states next week and Australians are excitedly booking overseas trips. Some are jetting out to see dearly-missed family and friends in far flung parts of the world, others are simply looking to relax in a foreign place and overindulge on enough pastries and piña coladas to eradicate the memories of Zoom parties and homeschooling.

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Smart Tools & Strong Teams: A People-First Approach to AI in Sales

Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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Zuckerberg Emphasizes Marketplaces and the Metaverse as he Pivots Facebook to a Younger Audience

Retail TouchPoints

Facebook will pivot to target a younger audience going forward, with an emphasis on bringing more 18- to 39-year-olds into the social media platform’s ecosystem, according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In a post that followed the company’s latest earnings report, Zuckerberg announced three main priorities for the company as it continues developing its services: creators , commerce and building the next computing platform.

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Coles to stock rapid antigen testing kits next week

Inside Retail

Coles and Woolworths are set to stock consumer-grade rapid antigen testing kits for sale, with Coles to stock the kits as soon as next week. According to Coles the packs will be available online and at the supermarket’s service desk in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, the ACT and Tasmania, and are approved for at-home use in Australia.

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Target CEO expects strong holidays despite supply chain issues

Retail Wire

Target CEO Brian Cornell expects the retailer to put up strong numbers for the holiday selling season even if he doesn’t see a short term resolution for the current supply chain issues affecting retailers everywhere.

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JCPenney Names Former Levi’s, Walmart Ecommerce Specialist as CEO

Retail TouchPoints

In a strong signal that it will emphasize ecommerce to drive its rebound from a pandemic-forced bankruptcy, JCPenney has appointed Marc Rosen as its CEO, effective Nov. 1. Rosen brings more than 25 years of retail and ecommerce experience to this new role, most recently serving as EVP and President of Levi Strauss Americas at Levi Strauss & Co. As leader of the company’s Digital Enterprise Office, he drove digital strategy for one of the world’s largest brand-name apparel companies.

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Eclectic and surprising: Australia’s 20 coolest retailers revealed

Inside Retail

Australia’s 20 Coolest Retailers report was brought to you by Inside Retail and our valued partner, Shopify. It’s time to roll out the virtual red carpet and celebrate the release of our annual 20 Coolest Retailers in Australia list. Now in its third year, the latest list of homegrown heroes extends across categories from luxury activewear, gourmet pastries and Indigenous-led fashion to telehealth fertility, adult toys and zero waste household products.

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6 Ways to Increase Impulse Buys: Online and In-Store

Wiser

Do you want your shoppers to spend more when they visit your stores? Which retailer doesn’t? One effective way to increase those basket sizes is through impulse buys—the act of making an unplanned purchase once already inside a store or browsing online. There’s a fair chunk of change to be earned through impulse buying, too. A survey commissioned by social shopping platform Slickdeals found that U.S. consumers spend an average of $276 per month on impulse buys.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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3 Reasons to use PoE Lighting

Cisco Retail

The demands of hybrid work require secure connectivity, flexibility, sustainability, and environmental health and wellness. All at once. Now this may seem daunting at first blush, but with the right network infrastructure and the right partners, you can unleash your building “super-power” to handle it all. And that super-power gets its energy with a network infrastructure powered by 90W Power over Ethernet or 90W PoE. 90W PoE opens the doors to a vast array of connected and interconnected device

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Hasbro hit by supply chain woes as $100M in orders go unfilled

Retail Dive

Shipping costs and delays weighed on the toy maker, but revenue rises elsewhere in the business more than made up for the disruption.

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Cisco and IBM Commit to Seamless Automation for 5G Networks

Cisco Retail

Many communication service providers are embarking on a network transformation journey in both architecture and operations. Legacy networks are too complicated and struggle to meet the demands of 5G and beyond. Complexity prevents speed and agility and makes networks much too expensive to operate at massive scales. The future demands simplicity. Cisco enables our customers to transform how they operate their networks with a comprehensive automation portfolio, Cisco Crosswork.

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Target adds new features to same-day services

Retail Dive

The changes allow consumers to list backup grocery items and add missing products to their original order, among other things.

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New Research-Backed Strategies to Empower Managers as Culture & Engagement Leaders

Speaker: Beth Sunshine, SVP, Up Your Culture

When culture isn’t consistently lived out across the organization, engagement suffers—and it often starts with a disconnect at the top. In this session, Beth Sunshine, SVP of Up Your Culture at The Center for Sales Strategy, will reveal how HR and executive leaders can close the gap between vision and execution by equipping frontline and mid-level managers to become culture carriers.

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Cisco SD-Access and Cisco SD-WAN Multi-Domain Integration

Cisco Retail

Co-authored by Justin Buchanan : Director of Product Management, Security Policy and Access. In this digital era, Enterprise IT Operations are beset with challenges such as security, seamless end-to-end connectivity and policy consistency. Dealing with campus environment itself is challenging because of the very nature of users bringing in their own devices as well as IoT requirements entering the network space.

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Consumers are wise to ‘woke washing’ – so where does that leave you?

Inside Retail

With brands increasingly engaging in social change campaigns and leveraging their influence to be “purpose-led”, the time has come to ask a couple of big questions: is this a viable strategy, and how sceptical should we be of so-called “ brand activism ”? In recent weeks alone, Ben & Jerry’s has launched a new ice-cream flavour called “Change is Brewing” to support Black-owned businesses and raise awareness of the People’s Response Act , proposed legislation to establish a new public safety

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Driving down IT OPEX with a Webex bot

Cisco Retail

Every IT organization strives for excellence by continuously driving down their operating expenses (OPEX) while providing the best-in-class experience to their user base. Several factors affect OPEX, such as increasing IT cases that require more resources to address recurring requests. Having a focused approach to reduce cases can significantly optimize on cost and improve the efficiency of IT Operations teams.

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Analysis: Should retailers depend on gig workers to deliver?

Inside Retail

With recent lockdowns driving exponential growth in online sales, Australia’s last-mile supply chains have been struggling to keep pace with consumer demand. As consumers continue to opt for convenience and with Christmas just around the corner, Australian retailers are mirroring the behaviour of US, UK and European grocery giants like Albertsons, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Carrefour by establishing last-mile delivery partnerships with gig economy players such as Uber and DoorDash.

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

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.

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Amazon warehouse workers file petition to hold union election

Retail Wire

Workers at four Amazon.com warehouses in Staten Island, NY, filed a petition to form a union with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Thirty percent of 7,000 workers at the facilities must submit authorization cards in order for the NLRB to approve the vote.

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Cashback goes premium: Stylerunner sisters reunite to launch Her Black Book

Inside Retail

Her Black Book is a new mobile shopping app that aims to attract price-focused Gen Z and Millennial shoppers with cashback offers, coupon codes and flash sales for premium brands across fashion, sport, accessories, beauty, homewares, kids and travel. Created by twin sisters Sali Sasi and Julie Stevanja, who co-founded activewear retailer Stylerunner together 10 years ago, the app is set to launch in November with around 500 brands, including Zimmermann, Alice McCall, Sass & Bide, Carla Zampa

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Ninety-six percent of Tyson workers have gotten COVID vaccinations

Retail Wire

Tyson Foods announced in August that it would require all its workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 1. The company now says that 96 percent of its workforce is vaccinated with days to go to the deadline. “This is an incredible result,” wrote Tyson CEO Donnie King in a memo, “not only for our company, but for your families and our communities across the country.”.

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Rustlers moves into ‘meat mimicking’

Talking Retail

Rustlers is set to launch a “meat mimicking” burger to “tap into the booming plant-based market”. Rustlers Meatless Maverick will be available from November in One Stop stores and the Booker Group, retailing at £2. The burger is made from pea protein and seeks to mimic the brand’s Quarter Pounder variant, complete with Rustlers “signature. This story continues at Rustlers moves into ‘meat mimicking’ Or just read more coverage at Talking Retail.

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Humans + Agents = Rethinking Enterprise Commerce with AI

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

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Gap pays tribute to love, kindness and The Beatles in holiday push

Retail Dive

"All Together Now" stars musician Katy Perry and builds on the brand's year-old philosophy of "modern American optimism.

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Balenciaga debuts "raw architecture" store aesthetic at Sloane Street flagship

Dezeen

Fashion brand Balenciaga has renovated its flagship store in London , which features aged and distressed surfaces and exposed construction elements. Located on Sloane Street, a luxury shopping destination in West London, the flagship store debuts Balenciaga 's new concept for its retail locations. Top: Balenciaga has reopened its flagship store on Sloane Street in London.

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6 charts show the effects of Vietnam's lockdowns on supply chains

Retail Dive

Brands with high exposure to Vietnam are seeing port delays, canceled orders and slow capacity recovery after months of COVID-19 related restrictions.

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Ipro targets convenience sector with wellness partnership

Talking Retail

Wellness drinks range Ipro has kicked off a six-year partnership with community fitness group Parkrun. The move underpins Ipro’s plans to target the convenience channel; the brand is already stocked in Spar and some forecourts, but it is now targeting independent retailers and convenience stores, alongside more forecourts foodservice, cost-sector catering, wholesale and cash & This story continues at Ipro targets convenience sector with wellness partnership.

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5 Tips for a Winning Category Management Strategy in 2025

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.

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Walmart steps up delivery, online alcohol availability as holidays near

Retail Dive

The company is extending its delivery hours until 10 p.m., two hours later than it normally offers the service.

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Florette joins forces with social media star this winter

Talking Retail

Bagged salad brand Florette is partnering with a social media personality to launch a winter campaign. Michelin-trained chef Poppy O’Toole, known as Poppy Cooks online, will support the brand by creating a series of recipes and videos using Florette’s products, as well as competitions and excusive content, in a move designed to “inspire shoppers to.

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J.C. Penney taps Levi's executive as CEO

Retail Dive

Marc Rosen has more than 25 years of retail experience, mostly in e-commerce and that bane of department stores, direct-to-consumer sales.

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Cisco Partner Summit 2021 – Make Everything Possible with Customer Experience (CX)!

Cisco Retail

Co-authored by Denzil Samuels. What is possible? Everything! Cisco Partner Summit 2021 starts on November 9, 2021. All registered Cisco partners can participate and enjoy the executive insights, rich content, and special guests that are the hallmarks of our premier partner event. If you have not already done so, please register for Cisco Partner Summit 2021 and encourage your teams to do the same.

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Cut Costs & Complexity: Smarter Fulfillment for Home, Furniture & DIY Brands

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.