Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Rockefeller Center has launched a new retail initiative, RC Capsule, bringing together retail, real estate and technology in a program that offers independent brands the ability to test brick-and-mortar concepts with pop-up spaces. The initiative allows brands to lease turnkey, pre-wired spaces for six-month terms and to work with Rockefeller Center on creating unique retail experiences.

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Boutique Fashion Shopping Management 272

Wiser

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Growth is the name of the game in retail and it is only possible by experimenting over time to match your offerings with evolving customer needs. There are two distinct ways of branching out: line extension and brand extension. They have different benefits and risks, but they both help brands offer new products to new and existing customers. Below we define both marketing concepts, compare and contrast them, and break down ways that you can get the data you need to move forward with these strate

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Francesca’s plans to close approximately 140 stores by Jan. 30, 2021, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result of the closures, Francesca’s expects to incur total impairment charges of $29 million to $33 million. The apparel and accessories retailer also is evaluating various alternatives to improve its liquidity and financial position such as further lease concessions and deferrals, further reductions of operating and capital expenditures and raising additi

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Medallion Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s hard to believe that our lives have been almost entirely digitized for eight months. Waking hours are spent in the same place (preferably in sweatpants), in front of the same screen, and a once-welcome routine now begs for change. The post Reaching Today’s Digitally Burned-Out Consumer appeared first on Medallion Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Amazon has launched Amazon Pharmacy , a prescription delivery service that lets shoppers complete an entire pharmacy transaction through the Amazon App and includes special discounts and unlimited two-day delivery for Prime members. Amazon Pharmacy offers Prime members up to 80% off generics and 40% off brand-name medications when they pay without insurance.

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Fulfillment Management Consumer ATS 187

Nelson Blackley

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With a population of 127 million, an extremely high per capita income and still one of the world’s largest economies, Japan has been an attractive overseas market for retailers since the 1990’s. However, Walmart has now become the latest foreign retailer to retreat from Japan. Walmart Inc. is selling most of Japanese retailer Seiyu to KKR & Co. and Rakuten Inc. in a deal that values the supermarket chain at 172.5 billion yen ($1.6 billion), as the U.S. giant retreats from its two-decade atte

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Retail Technology Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With a second national lockdown forcing shoppers online this winter, compliance authority Bureau Veritas is reiterating to retailers and logistics firms extending their e-commerce capacity to put in place the extra health, safety and hygiene measures this inevitably requires.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Musical instrument retailer Guitar Center has entered a Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA) with its key stakeholders that the company expects will include a voluntary filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Supermajorities of the company’s noteholder groups have committed to vote in favor of the RSA plan, which Guitar Center forecasts will be completed before the end of 2020.

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