Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2022

Shopify will acquire fulfillment solution provider Deliverr for $2.1 billion , the largest acquisition in Shopify’s history, as the retail industry continues to struggle with supply chain and last mile challenges. With the Deliverr acquisition and integration of its 6 River Systems ’ warehouse automation technology, the ecommerce platform plans to fortify its Shopify Fulfillment Network (SFN).

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Retail Wire

MAY 6, 2022

Best Buy is adding beauty gadgets and outdoor furniture to its list of products for sale. The retailer is looking to move into categories including fitness/wellness and furniture to continue building on its growth achieved during the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2022

Data is a critical foundation in today’s retail strategies, enabling organizations to make smart analytics-based business decisions, from refining personalized marketing efforts to improving logistics operations. The rise of ecommerce and other technological advances have made the retail sector an increasingly data-rich environment. However, even armed with this data, the continued impacts of the pandemic, uncertain global economic conditions and supply chain constraints are putting retail busin

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Cisco Retail

MAY 6, 2022

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, or Continuous Deployment, pipelines have been used in the software development industry for years. For most teams, the days of manually taking source code and manifest files and compiling them to create binaries or executable files and then manually distributing and installing those applications are long gone.

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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

MAY 6, 2022

Just five months after the opening its first brick-and-mortar store in Las Vegas, size-inclusive lingerie brand Savage x Fenty is planning to more than double its physical footprint, from five locations to 11. The brand’s Las Vegas debut in January was quickly followed by four additional locations, in Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia and the Washington, D.C. metro area.

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Cisco Retail

MAY 6, 2022

This blog is a collaboration between Meenakshi Kaushik, Product Manager, Engineering Cloud & Co-Authored byMansi Garg, Engineering Product Manager and Praveen Banoth , Engineering Technical Leader. Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS) is a turn-key SaaS solution for managing consistent, production-grade Kubernetes both on-premises and in the public cloud.

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Cisco Retail

MAY 6, 2022

Co-authored by Vaughn Suazo. The digital transformation in this decade is demanding more from the network. Multi-cloud, edge, telework, 5G, and IoT are creating an evolved connectivity ecosystem characterized by highly distributed elements needing to communicate with one another in a complex, multi-domain, many-to-many fashion. The world of north-south, east-west traffic flows is quickly disappearing.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2022

Urban concept store SHOWFIELDS is known for being a retail playground centered on innovation and experience, both in terms of the brands it showcases and the way they are presented. But this particular playground hadn’t previously done much to cater to one extremely innovation-hungry audience — parents. That has been remedied in SHOWFIELD NoHo’s latest curation, which includes a new section themed “The Future of Parenting.

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Retail Wire

MAY 6, 2022

Target’s chief marketer, Cara Sylvester, is adding a new responsibility to her role after being named the retailer’s chief guest experience officer. Ms. Sylvester will focus on customer personalization and driving more customers to Target’s stores and app. Brett Craig has been named as chief information officer from senior vice president of digital.

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 6, 2022

Google recently announced that they will be giving every U.S. business up to 500 Google Career Certificate scholarships to upskill employees, which could be worth as much as $100,000 of workforce training to any one American company. Google Offering Up to $100,000 in Career Certificate Scholarships to Every Small Business in the US. The Google Career Certificates enable job seekers to study part-time for 3-6 months to gain the skills required to fill roles within in-demand fields, with no degree

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Retail Wire

MAY 6, 2022

U.S. ports are racing to unload cargo and move it out before China’s relaxation of its COVID-19 related lockdowns bring a surge of products heading westward. “I can’t say whether we will go back to a 100 ships queuing up to dock, but we really need to get the existing cargo out of the port and out of Southern California,” said Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles.

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 6, 2022

Marketing and sales have continued improving over the years. In the past decade, digital infrastructure has grown significantly. Digital marketing has stepped in front of marketing platforms and started to take over. Email marketing has proved to be one of the strongest elements of digital marketing with 30% of E-commerce revenue coming from email marketing.

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Retail Wire

MAY 6, 2022

Employers in the U.S. added 428,000 jobs, according to the Labor Department. The national unemployment rate remains at 3.6 percent, the lowest point since the start of the pandemic. “This has been an extraordinary jobs recovery, but this kind of growth can’t last forever, especially now that the unemployment level is as low as it is,” said Scott Anderson, chief economist for Bank of the West.

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Retail Dive

MAY 6, 2022

The new deal makes Foot Locker the "lead partner" for Adidas' basketball offerings and is expected to generate $2 billion in sales by 2025.

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Retail Wire

MAY 6, 2022

DoorDash’s order volume increased 23 percent to 404 million in the first quarter. The delivery service said that it attracted more new customers in the first three months of the year than in any quarter over the past year.

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Retail Dive

MAY 6, 2022

Maggie Gauger is taking on the new role at Nike, while Petco collaborated with the specialty outdoors retailer to create an exclusive collection of pet gear.

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Retail Wire

MAY 6, 2022

Kohl’s has agreed to pay $2.5 million and Walmart will pay $3 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice suit claiming that the two companies deceptively marketed products made with bamboo that included other materials.

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Mass Relators

MAY 6, 2022

PURCHASE, N.Y. — Monthly retail sales growth continued to be strong in April, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which reported that total retail sales (excluding auto) for the month were up 7.2% year-over-year. Mastercard SpendingPulse, which measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment, also found that April sales increased 15.3% compared to pre-pandemic spending (2019), not adjusted for inflation.

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Retail Wire

MAY 6, 2022

Employees at an Apple store in Towson, MD, have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold a union election. Members of the union called AppleCORE (Coalition of Organized Retail Employees) are operating with support from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The store joins another Apple location at the Grand Central Terminal in New York in seeking a union vote.

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 6, 2022

This article, " Do You Need Glasses to See Your Future in Business? " was first published on Small Business Trends.

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Retail Wire

MAY 6, 2022

Foot Locker is seeking to triple its sales of Adidas’ sneakers and other items over the next three years to help offset a reduction in the number of Nike items it carries.

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Retail Dive

MAY 6, 2022

The DTC swimwear brand enlisted activists, entrepreneurs and other well-known women to front its “Every Body is a Summersalt Body” campaign.

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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.

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LS Retail

MAY 6, 2022

©iStock/Nattakorn Maneerat Finding global brand desirability, according to Lisa Shiqi Yu, Genlab CEO and former digital transformation head of L’Oreal China and Elijah Whaley, VP of Marketing at Gainfluence, comes from combining superior product quality with defining your brand purpose, delivered through extraordinary customer experiences. When it comes to long-term brand building, the local beauty brands can learn a lot from foreign brands.

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Retail Dive

MAY 6, 2022

The sportswear brand has been strategically canceling orders as COVID-19 disrupts China and delays and capacity shortfalls persist.

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Retail Times

MAY 6, 2022

Retail Express’ CEO, Barry Grange, looks at retail digital transformation, intelligent merchandising and a data-driven approach to profitability with leaner times ahead.

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Hyken

MAY 6, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Aamir Baloch, one of the Co-Founders at Odondo , where he obsesses over the details to deliver a strong and compelling proposition for each of his clients. He shares how you can improve your customer service strategy and team to take advantage of the benefits an exceptional customer service function has to offer. Before customer service outsourcing , there was once a time when customer service was largely limited to one-on-one phone calls.

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365 Retail

MAY 6, 2022

It goes without saying that recent macro-economic events and their disruptive forces have taken their toll on the retail sector. Certainly, the combined effects of supply chain disruption as a result of Brexit; the sharper growth in digital-purchasing patterns across all categories as a consequence of lockdowns; and a rising cost base with inflation running at a 30-year high exacerbated by geo-political tensions, will have far-reaching consequences for the industry.

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A1 Retail

MAY 6, 2022

Photo caption: Artisan food and craft fayre at Lakeside Village. An artisan food and craft fayre is set to make a welcome return to Lakeside Village Outlet Shopping on Saturday May 7. Following the success of the market at Easter it will now be held on the first Saturday of each month at the centre. Di Mellis, centre manager at Lakeside Village, said: “We are thrilled to be hosting this fabulous artisan and craft fayre again, our customers really loved it.

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Retail Times

MAY 6, 2022

Following the news that McColl’s has fallen into administration; Honor Strachan, food & grocery analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view: “McColl’s move to start selling fresh produce was implemented too late for the retailer to capitalize on consumers’ shift to local shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stores stocked with Morrisons’ fresh produce reportedly performed well, but the rollout was not fast enough to secure footfall, as consumers turned to

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A1 Retail

MAY 6, 2022

Evans Cycles , a UK specialist bike shop, has announced a brand new store opening in Aberdeen. As its sixth store opening this year, Evans Cycles is thrilled to bring an accessible, friendly cycling store and workshop to another community in the UK. To celebrate the opening, they will be running a limited offer of 20% off selected bikes in store. The new Evans Cycles store can be found on Union Street, Aberdeen’s main shopping street in the city centre.

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