Retail Focus
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Lladró has announced the opening of a new store in New York, the first in the US with the brand’s new concept. This new retail concept is dedicated to showcasing Lladró’s most innovative and groundbreaking creative designs and collaborations. The interior design of the store is a collaboration between Valencia-based Carmen Baselga Taller de Proyectos and Lladró’s store engineering team.
Retail TouchPoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Nike and Tiffany & Co. are collaborating on several products, including a pair of sneakers and silver shoe accessories, that will launch March 7. The sneaker will be an all-black pair of Nike Air Force 1 sneakers , also known as 1837s, featuring the Nike swoosh in Tiffany blue and a sterling silver adornment. The sneakers will retail for $400 , a significantly higher price tag than the approximately $100 for standard Air Force 1 sneakers.
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Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
American fashion brand Brooks Brothers has relaunched in the Australian market with its new Autumn/ Winter 2023 collection. In a joint venture with Oroton Group, the first Brooks Brothers store in Australia opened its doors in 2014 at Melbourne’s The Emporium and with a 2293sqft store. But after two years of collaboration expanding to 13 storefronts and a local online store, Oroton Group exited the joint venture Brooks Brothers Australia and sold its whole interest to the US parent firm
Retail TouchPoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Giant Eagle will upgrade its category management capabilities across its 216 supermarkets and 274 GetGo convenience stores, allowing the retailer to make more informed decisions about which products are placed where within its stores. The retailer is working with Plantensive to move to the Blue Yonder Category Management suite, which offers new features including spatially analyzing macro and micro space and tracking product allocation at the store (and even shelf-space) levels.
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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.
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Wesfarmers has laid off 100 staff in its e-commerce division Catch Group this week, with key departments impacted including marketing, product and technology, and finance. “Like many e-commerce brands, Catch has made the difficult decision to reduce its workforce as the business adjusts to changes in online demand that has occurred following the Covid period,” a spokesperson told Inside Retail.
Retail TouchPoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Retail companies have invested billions in data analytics and infrastructure, seeking competitive advantage through deeper, more granular visibility into consumer behavior, business operations, supply chains and more. They’ve also embraced tools that enable them to understand and help predict customer behavior through real-time data analysis. Yet while retailers may be awash in data, that doesn’t mean data is embedded into the daily decision-making process across the organization.
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Retail TouchPoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Unclaimed Baggage , which sells luggage that airlines haven’t been able to reunite with its original owners, will host a “ Love Luggage ” event in its Scottsboro, Ala. store on Feb. 11. Customers will be invited to hand-paint suitcases with “works of heart” destined for children moving to new foster homes. “Throughout the year, Unclaimed Baggage takes suitcases to schools, charities, social and business groups to be hand-painted for children moving to new foster homes,” said Jennifer Kritner, VP
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
In today’s digital landscape, consumers have quickly become the driving force of how businesses conduct their marketing and customer-facing operations. As such, it is essential that brands stay abreast of consumer expectations in order to keep up with the changing times. To help marketers navigate consumers’ changing viewpoints, Marigold – the newly relaunched global relationship marketing pioneer ( formerly CM Group ) – recently released new research that uncovers what consumers expect from the
Retail TouchPoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Siman Group , which operates 15 large department stores across Central America, has deployed an item-level RFID solution that has raised its inventory accuracy levels from the 65% to 70% range up to 95%. Following a 2020 consultation period and pilot with solution provider SML in its El Salvador store, the retailer rolled out SML’s Inspire RFID tags and Clarity enterprise software chainwide.
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Apple on Thursday forecast that revenue would fall for a second quarter in a row but that iPhone sales were likely to improve as production had returned to normal in China after Covid-related shutdowns. While striking an optimistic tone on sales of services and iPhones, CEO Tim Cook said an uncertain economy is expected to hurt categories like gaming and digital advertising.
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Retail TouchPoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
ThredUP is teaming up with TikToker Nava Rose to launch the Dump Fast Fashion Shop, an online secondhand storefront to help consumers thrift for Valentine’s Day and beyond. The company also continues to grow its resale-as-a-service offering, with specialty retailer Francesca’s tapping ThredUP to power its new resale offering. The Dump Fast Fashion Shop was inspired by ThredUP’s Wardrobe Resolutions Survey, which found that more than one in three consumers ( 36% ) are resolving to quit fast fashi
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The MLB brand recently opened its first store in Malaysia in partnership with local distributor, Valiram Group, and Mukesh Valiram, the executive director of Valiram Group, is excited about the opportunities ahead. “2023 is off to a great start with the success of the MLB store opening in Malaysia this month,” he told Inside Retail. Valiram has partnered with the MLB brand to launch in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
Retail TouchPoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Sensormatic Solutions and Zliide have entered a collaboration aimed at enabling self-checkout experiences that eliminate register queues and streamline the shopper experience. The combined solutions will work to reduce shrink while making self-checkout simpler for customers. As the relationship progresses, data from the Zliide system will be integrated into the Sensormatic IQ ecosystem.
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
After almost a year of consecutive increases, the retail industry saw a 3.9 per cent decline in month-to-month spending between November and December 2022. While food retailing saw a slight increase, most industries saw turnover fall between the two months. The biggest swing occurred in department store spending, which saw a 14.3 per cent drop over the two month period.
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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 TouchPoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Fanatics has hired former Google and Snap executive Nick Bell to serve as CEO of a new livestreaming division, Fanatics Live, according to multiple reports. Fanatics Live will launch as a standalone app with a corresponding website in the second half of 2023. The new division will focus on live commerce, starting with the Fanatics Collectibles business, according to Sports Business Journal.
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Last week, Endeavour Group’s BWS tried its hand at a new frontier: serving piping hot coffee for its Devonport, Tasmania customers. The business’ Gateway Drive store is the first in BWS’ new Double Shot drive-thru sites, created in partnership with local coffee firm Oasis Griffiths Group, and aims to take advantage of the store’s four-lane drive-thru facilities.
Retail Wire
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Fanatics is launching a live-streaming service to enable collectors to purchase sports memorabilia. The company has hired former Snap executive Nick Lead to lead Fanatics Live.
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Much has been said about Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ 6000-word essay, published earlier this week in The Monthly , which outlined a concerted push from the Government to foster ‘values-based capitalism’ in Australia’s business sector. Built on the tenets of an orderly transition to renewable energy, a more adaptable and resilient economy, and a focus on equality and equal opportunity for all Australians, Chalmers’ assertion is that while there will always be naysayers to such progress, the
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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 Wire
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
A man carrying an AR-15-style rifle and 13 loaded ammunition magazines was fatally shot by police after he entered a Target in Omaha, NE. Police said they encountered the man in the store after responding to dozens of 911 calls. The unidentified man fired multiple shots as he entered the store. It is not clear if those shots were directed at any individuals.
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
David Jones has teamed with Australian brand Frenchie to sell sexual wellness products at a Valentine’s Day pop-up at the retailer’s flagship Sydney CBD store from February 10-14. David Jones’ category manager of beauty, Ben James Mitchell, said the rapid growth of the sexual wellness industry over the past few years has resulted in a growing demand for personal pleasure products from within the beauty and self-care space.
Retail Wire
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Cathie Wood, CEO and chief investment officer at Ark Invest, thinks that robots will outnumber humans working at Amazon.com facilities in the near future. “Amazon is adding about a thousand robots a day. … If you compare the number of robots Amazon has to the number of employees, it’s about a third. And we believe that by the year 2030 Amazon can have more robots than employees,” said Ms.
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Asian fashion brands are getting into the metaverse in a big way, thanks to a recent joint venture between Singaporean platform aggregator 1MetaWorld and Seoul-based Fame Universe. The aim of the partnership, dubbed 1Fame , is to help fashion designers and digital creators create, launch, sell and produce their own digital fashion non fungible tokens (NFTs) in connection with physical garments and real-world experiences.
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Retail Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The e-commerce platform, which invested in Notable Live, wants to offer experiences, digital tokens and athletic merchandise to sports fans.
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Best and Less, The Reject Shop CEOs depart By Rakshnna Pattabiraman The CEOs of two discount retail chains — The Reject Shop and Best & Less Group — have stepped down with immediate effect today citing personal reasons. Phil Bishop, the CEO of The Reject Shop, will leave the business after just six months in the role , while Best & Less Group CEO Rodney Orrock has stepped down to continue his recovery from cancer.
Retail Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Analysts think the retailer is out of time and money. Meanwhile, the company closed a distribution center in Texas, impacting hundreds of employees.
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
While millennials aren’t a generation who are, by default, programmed for the traditional notions of workplace hierarchy (i.e., the corporate ladder) there still exists a pressure, so to speak, of adhering to this social construct of ‘progression’. (And I say ‘progression’ because this of itself, is a term that means different things). While workplaces have shifted over the years when it comes to offering pathways for progression and satisfying the needs for growth and development – particularly
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Retail Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The job cuts, which amount to 8% of its corporate workforce, come as the retailer attempts to return to profitability.
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Zeller, one of Australia’s fastest-growing companies, has announced new financial services products that mean any Australian business can now use the company’s products, including a free, standalone transaction account and debit card that replace the outdated solutions provided by Australia’s traditional business banks. Zeller has established itself as a leader in payments, signing up over 30,000 businesses in less than two years.
Retail Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The brand joins other direct-to-consumer companies that have turned to staff cuts in recent months in light of macroeconomic conditions.
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FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The FTC unanimously approved a consent order this week requiring Credit Karma, LLC to pay $3 million dollars for allegedly advertising to consumers that they were “pre-approved” for credit card offers, when in reality, the customers were not pre-approved, and in fact, were frequently rejected. Credit Karma’s advertising—which purportedly took place over three years between February 2018 and April 2021—consisted largely of emails and webpages telling consumers they were “pre-approved” for various
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