Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As we emerge from the upheaval of the past year, brands face a daunting challenge: forging meaningful connections with customers in a volatile and shifting consumer environment. Traditional tactics like mass media campaigns and siloed digital ads are losing their effectiveness as attention spans shrink and consumer trust declines. To drive sustainable growth, brands must shift from isolated transactions to lasting customer relationships.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Richard Prices departure from M&S marks the end of a transformative chapter for the retailers clothing and home division. When he took over the reins as managing director in 2019, M&S was at a crossroads. Its clothing arm had long been tarnished by outdated designs and an overwhelming product range, struggling to capture the attention of a broader range of shoppers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The B2B buying journey has historically been both high-touch and highly complex. But the ease and personalization found on consumer-facing ecommerce sites, especially robust marketplaces like Amazon and Walmart , are simply too good to ignore. As a result, B2B buyers are increasingly demand B2C-level experiences for their business needs, a need that is driving organizations to level up their digital experiences.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Burger King is offering love on a budget.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For brands, the Super Bowl has become more than just an annual sporting event the Big Game is now a big moment for brands to make a splash and connect with consumers. A game-day ad is the traditional method, but increasingly, brands are thinking outside the 30 -second ad spot with activations that lean into the cultural moment surrounding footballs big face-off.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Quiksilver, Billabong, and Volcom are shuttering their U.S. retail stores.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

7-Eleven has some sweet surprises in store for its customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Some 10,000 grocery workers in the greater Denver area went on strike against 77 of the regions 121 King Soopers stores on Feb. 6, according to the AP and other media outlets. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 union voted last week by 96% to authorize a strike against the Kroger- owned supermarket, protesting what the union has called unfair labor practices that include: illegally interrogating and surveilling union members; refusing to provide information the unio

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Cracker Barrel is taking a jab at Waffle House's egg surcharge.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Mall owner Simon has partnered with ecommerce platform Shopify and physical retail platform Leap to help ecommerce brands launch or expand their brick-and-mortar presence. The three companies will offer a suite of solutions to help digital brands quickly open new stores across Simons real estate portfolio as well as at other locations. Mens apparel brand True Classic and fine jewelry brand Ring Concierge are among the first companies to take advantage of the new offering.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Amazon saw a sales uplift during its fourth quarter results, despite shares in the business dropping. The ecommerce giant saw sales rise 10% to 150.9bn for its fourth quarter ended 31 December. International sales were up 8% to 34.8bn, while US revenues increased 10% to 92.75bn for the period. Sales in its cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services jumped 19% to 23.11bn.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Liberated Brands , which manages operations for multiple well-known surf and outdoor brands, filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware earlier this week, according to reporting in Shop Eat Surf and other publications. Closing sales at all 122 store locations have begun, managed by Gordon Brothers. The brands themselves, including RVCA, Volcom and Billabong , are still owned by Authentic Brands Group , and they will be moving to new wholesale licensees in Nort

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

EuroCIS 2025 from 18th to 20th February 2025 is shaping up to be the biggest yet. Retail industry experts can expect to see the latest developments in retail technology as well as a full programme of presentations and special forums on the topics driving retail technology. Visitors from the fields of retail and wholesale, hospitality, food service & catering, leisure as well as financial services and banks will again gather information on the latest developments in retail technology.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The best Super Bowl commercials throughout the years have been cultural touchstones.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Largest single-site F&B and entertainment venue in a UK city centre The award-winning Manchester-born brand is delighted to be arriving in Newcastle Game-changing leasing deal continues a period of ambitious development and transformation for Newcastles premium shopping, dining and leisure destination Freight Island, a huge, innovative entertainment and dining destination, is set to arrive at Eldon Square in autumn 2025.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Lidl is kicking off the new year with an ambitious expansion, opening nine new stores in just one month. With locations launching across the UK, this growth brings hundreds of new jobs and increases access to Lidls award-winning combination of high-quality and affordable products. New and expanded Lidl stores across the UK The expansion includes brand-new Lidl stores in Canning Town, Preston, Walsall, and Wombourne, giving more communities access to the supermarkets low prices and fresh produce.

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Cisco Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Fragrance Shop has announced the grand reopening of its Eldon Square store in Newcastle, following a major refurbishment. The store, which now spans 1,200 sq ft, features a modernised shopfront, interactive fragrance technology, and digital displays, aligning with the retailers latest store format. Upgraded shopping experience with digital innovation Located in one of the busiest retail hubs in the North East, the Eldon Square store has been redesigned to enhance the customer experience.

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Secure Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

IKEA has received 3,730 job applications in just six days for its highly anticipated Oxford Street store , marking the largest-ever response to a recruitment drive by the retailer in the UK. With only 150 positions available, demand has significantly exceeded expectations, leading IKEA to close the application process early. Strong interest in new central London roles The new Oxford Street store is expected to be one of IKEAs most innovative locations, blending traditional retail with new digita

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

What will Walmart do with a mall? Here are the details.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

FatFace has opened a new store in Westport, marking the lifestyle brands first location on the West Coast of Ireland. The 1,571 sq ft store offers customers the opportunity to explore FatFaces latest collections, alongside iconic pieces from its core range. A key milestone in FatFaces Irish expansion The Westport store represents an important step in FatFaces ongoing growth in Ireland.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Just ahead of Super Bowl LIX, Dunkin' has debuted the ultimate DunKings tracksuit by Juicy Couture.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Unless you’re extremely disciplined or have committed to a life without the internet, there’s a good chance you spend at least a few minutes a day on social media. Over the past couple of decades, social media has become the place where a good chunk of the world goes for its news, to keep up with friends, and to learn about the latest happenings in just about every topic of interest.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

To rely less on Chinese sellers, Temu is pushing customers toward "local" purchases.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

IKEA is giving singles a unique way to celebrate Valentines Day by matching them based on sleep compatibility for a first date in bed at an IKEA store. Taking place on 14th February, the event will see nine lucky couples in London, Manchester, and Edinburgh enjoy a romantic dinner in bed within a cosy IKEA showroom setting. Mikael Buck/IKEA Sleep compatibility at the heart of Ikea dating event IKEA has partnered with dating app Breeze to create this one-of-a-kind dating experience.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Amazon saw significant growth in the fourth quarter.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! Kantar, the worlds leading marketing data and analytics company, has unveiled LaunchEvaluate, an agile post-launch evaluation tool designed to maximise the success of new and future product and service launches.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Super Bowl LIX is shaping up to be a major incentive for wing-lovers to chow down.

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Retail Dive

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The two home retailers finalized their investment deal, while Build-A-Bear expanded its long-running “After Dark” collection.

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