Retail TouchPoints
JULY 26, 2022
Walmart has adjusted its Q2 and full year 2022 profit outlook, as the retail giant expects shoppers to cut back on extraneous spending in favor of staples like groceries. This potential bellwether for retail as a whole caused share prices to drop at multiple leading companies, including Walmart, Amazon and Target , as investors prepared for a slower second half of the year.
Inside Retail
JULY 26, 2022
After a period of instability and supply chain challenges, Revlon recently filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States. For the 90-year-old beauty giant, the filing represents a final lifeline, as it attempts to rectify debt with creditors by borrowing over $370million. Under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company is able to continue trading whilst it attempts to correct crippling fractures in its supply chain, in a desperate move to retain some of its once sizable, indeed, domin
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Retail TouchPoints
JULY 26, 2022
In 2014, fashion veteran Christopher Molnar decided to go after a white space he felt was being overlooked by the big fashion houses — premium essentials. A $68 T-shirt might seem like a tough sell, but eight years on, Molnar’s brand Goodlife C l othing has a host of top-tier wholesale partners, a booming DTC business and, most importantly, a cult following of customers that keep coming back.
Inside Retail
JULY 26, 2022
We recently launched our first Rising Stars of Retail report in the May issue of Inside Retail Australia’s quarterly magazine, a special feature highlighting some of the great under-the-radar talent in the industry from a wide range of departments. Each week, we will publish interviews with the inspiring people listed in the feature, where they reveal what motivates them, the work that they’re most proud of and the challenges that they’ve overcome.
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 TouchPoints
JULY 26, 2022
Eddie Bauer will move into resale beginning in August, when the outdoors retailer will begin accepting Eddie Bauer-branded apparel, footwear, accessories and gear, according to reporting in WWD and other media outlets. Customers who send gently worn items to Eddie Bauer partner ThredUP under its resale-as-a-service program will receive store credit, with the amount depending on the item’s condition.
Mike Anthony
JULY 26, 2022
As e-commerce sales eat into physical retail numbers, questions about the viability of offline retail abound. Is this ‘Retail Armageddon’? No – but it is a significant shock to the retail ecosystem. A shock that has implications for retailers and brands alike. There is talk that stores must become ‘experiential’ – but what does that mean? Most shoppers, most of the time, don’t want ‘an experience’ when they shop!
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Inside Retail
JULY 26, 2022
Widely known as Japan’s most beautiful bookstore, Tsutaya has recently dipped its toe into Southeast Asia with the launch of its store in Malaysia in shopping centre Pavilion Bukit Jalil. The 31,000 square feet Tsutaya Books in Pavilion Bukit Jalil features floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and over 240,000 specially curated books, stationery and decorative goods.
Retail TouchPoints
JULY 26, 2022
Photo courtesy of Lids U. Photo courtesy of Lids U. Photo courtesy of Lids U. Photo courtesy of Lids U. Image Source: Instagram. Lids Sports Group has introduced its new Lids U mall- and outlet-based concept in three stores, with plans for eight more brick-and-mortar locations in 2022. Lids is choosing sites in key college markets and offering an assortment of NCAA products such as headwear, apparel and accessories from local, regional and national university and collegiate teams.
Tokinomo
JULY 26, 2022
Campaign corner. La dolce vita. It’s time to live your best life. At least that’s what Velveeta is preaching in their commercial. Short, funny, and exuberant. These words can describe both the campaign and the lifestyle “recommended” by Velveeta.
Retail TouchPoints
JULY 26, 2022
David’s Bridal has already reached more than 16 million consumers through a new shoppable video campaign on TikTok , created in partnership with its digital agency January Digital and digital advertising platform KERV Interactive. Launched in June 2022, the campaign integrates commerce-driven content into TikTok’s Collection Ads format, which allows users to view and shop products directly on the social platform.
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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
Inside Retail
JULY 26, 2022
Melbourne’s Burger Road is gearing up to expand interstate this financial year. Since opening the first store in 2017, the brand has built a network of three corporate and four franchisee-owned locations in Victoria. A new store opened in Watsonia last week and restaurants in Ashburton and Mernda are to due to open in August and October. Now the founders, husband and wife team Ishu Singh and Anna Dewan, are looking further afield, with new outlets planned for South Australia, Sydney and Queensla
Retail TouchPoints
JULY 26, 2022
In a letter to employees published to the company’s site, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke revealed that the ecommerce platform would lay off 10% of its staff — approximately 1,000 jobs — effective July 26, 2022. Departments including recruiting, support, and sales will be the most affected by the reductions, in addition to jobs that Lütke identified as “over-specialized and duplicate roles, as well as some groups that were convenient to have but too far removed from building products.”.
Inside Retail
JULY 26, 2022
The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) is the oldest, largest and most diverse national retail body, which represents over 100,000 shopfronts or online stores nationwide and almost two-thirds of Australia’s $360 billion sector. The ARA unifies independent, national and international retail businesses under a shared vision and purpose, advancing the interests of Australia’s largest private sector employer.
Retail TouchPoints
JULY 26, 2022
Worldwide pandemics and, more recently, military conflicts in Eastern Europe are continuing to cause significant disruption to global commerce, supply chains and consumers. However, in an unexpected turn of fortune, these very same events present an opportunity to rethink many of the approaches that have facilitated rampant consumerism and exacerbated the climate crisis.
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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.
Cisco Retail
JULY 26, 2022
Cisco and AWS demonstrate shared responsibility that identifies Security “of” the Cloud versus Security “in” the Cloud. Shared responsibility remains central to every cloud initiative and defines how cloud providers and customers work together to achieve maximum security across all aspects of the cloud. While shared responsibility is a common term, surprisingly few people understand the model and fewer still have implemented it correctly.
Retail Dive
JULY 26, 2022
The e-commerce juggernaut said it’s offering a new digital wallet service to its sellers and planning to roll it out more broadly over the “next few months.
Cisco Retail
JULY 26, 2022
In the nearly ten years since Cisco’s acquisition of Meraki, one thing has been very clear: IT admins want to be able to leverage the Meraki Dashboard and their other Cisco technologies together more fluidly, especially when it comes to their network infrastructure. Last month at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, we announced that Cisco has taken a massive step forward on this front by bringing Catalyst 9000 switching and wireless platforms into the Meraki Dashboard for the first time.
Small Biz Trends
JULY 26, 2022
Zoho is celebrating 38% year-over-year growth. The company made that announcement today as it kicked of ZohoDay 2022, its annual analysts conference in Austin, Texas. Milestone investments, research and development and growth were the hot topics at Zoho’s summit. Zoho Celebrates Growth at Annual Analysts Conference in Austin. ZohoDay will wrap up on Wednesday in the company’s home city of Austin.
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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.
Cisco Retail
JULY 26, 2022
One of the strongest components of the Meraki platform is the consistent and simplified operational management of the network. The modern API, as an extension to the cloud managed service, makes it amazingly simple to programmatically control and manage all aspects of your network. There are customers that fully automate the onboarding of devices via the Meraki portal using routine automation scripts.
Retail Dive
JULY 26, 2022
But inflation is stoking sales in consumables, leading the retail giant to raise its expectations for revenue and comps for the quarter and the year.
Cisco Retail
JULY 26, 2022
We’ve all seen the headlines like “race to the cloud” and “cloud-first.” These articles and publications are true, more and more customers have adopted cloud strategies, but there is more to the story. In these customer conversations, cloud security and network security are often discussed in unison. Why is that? . Customers desire freedom and choice when establishing resilience across every aspect of their business, and this requires both the ability to remain agile, and maintain control of
Inside Retail
JULY 26, 2022
For the past three weeks, we’ve been exploring what retail will look like in one , five and 10 years’ time as part of our Fast Forwar d series on the future of retail. . Through conversations with industry experts and futurists, we’ve identified the technologies and trends that are still in their infancy today, but have the capacity to dramatically alter the landscape in the years ahead.
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
Cisco Retail
JULY 26, 2022
It’s Blockbuster Night! Say that to any Gen-Xer and it should bring a smile and recollection of days gone by. Netflix took Blockbuster by storm and grew from mail order DVDs to the streaming behemoth they are today. One day, will we reminisce about brick and mortar financial services companies being replaced by digital-first financial services companies like Alipay, Block, Grab, Klarna and Paypal?
Inside Retail
JULY 26, 2022
A new partnership between Woolworths Group and Pact will use 18,000 tonnes of recycled plastics in the packaging of the retailer’s own-brand products. Pact Group Holdings provides specialty packaging and recycling solutions to commercial and industrial sectors. Through this collaboration, Woolworths’ product range such as milk bottles, meat trays and beverage bottles will be made with recycled plastic taken from household recycling and container deposit schemes.
Cisco Retail
JULY 26, 2022
At Cisco Live 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada (June 12-16), there were many announcements about our newest innovations to power the new era of hybrid workspace, distributed network environments and the customers journey to the cloud. Among the revelations was our strategy to accelerate our customers transition to a cloud-managed networking experience. Our customers asked, and we answered: Cisco announced that Catalyst customers can choose the operational model that best fits their needs: Cloud Managem
Retail Wire
JULY 26, 2022
Global food prices spiked in the wake of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but prices more recently have begun to drop. The United Nations’ FAO Food Price Index has fallen for three consecutive months. Where it goes from here remains to be seen. “The factors that drove global prices high in the first place are still at play, especially a strong global demand, adverse weather in some major countries, high production and transportation costs and supply chain disruptions due to Covid-19
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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.
Cisco Retail
JULY 26, 2022
Episode 28 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 28. Optics for hyperscale data centers, with Ron Horan. Part 4 of 4. The rise of hyperscale data centers has upended computing and networking equipment business models over the past several years. The pluggable optics industry is no exception and has been impacted significantly.
Retail Wire
JULY 26, 2022
Walmart lowered its profit outlook for the year, saying that customers have shifted a greater percentage of dollars to buying necessities while reducing electronics and other discretionary items. Markdowns to move merchandise are also serving as a drag on profitability.
Inside Retail
JULY 26, 2022
Online retailer Home Appliances Plus is facing investigation in two states after a raft of consumer complaints about undelivered goods. AConsumer Victoria and NSW’s Fair Trading office have received some 70 complaints from patrons, related to the trader’s failed delivery promises. Home Appliances Plus sells discounted household items, children’s toys, outdoor and sporting equipment, and pet goods.
Retail Dive
JULY 26, 2022
In its first retail partnership, the DTC brand will be sold in the beauty retailer’s U.S. and Canadian stores, as well as on its website and app.
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