Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2025

Looking to increase brand engagement, boost awareness and grow customer loyalty? It might be time to run a brand sweepstakes! By offering participants a chance to win a fun prize through this type of consumer promotion, you can create excitement for your brand, attract new customers and keep existing consumers coming back for more. But to plan a successful sweepstakes, youll need more than just an enticing prize.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

The digitalisation of media has seen advertising budgets diverted towards social media campaigns and search engine marketing in Australia, 70 per cent of digital advertising spend goes to Meta and Google. For many retailers, these platforms have grown to consume the whole marketing funnel and their templated options have become the default. Metas advertising revenue in 2024 grew year-on-year, with ad impressions up 6 per cent across all platforms, however, price per ad increased by 14 per cent

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2025

Lowes has a new sales associate Mylow , a conversational AI agent available anywhere, anytime for MyLowes loyalty members. Mylow is designed to help customers navigate the many questions that come with owning a home, from project planning to how-to advice to product searches. Developed in collaboration with OpenAI and leveraging Lowe’s expert advice, Mylow provides customers with clear steps and practical solutions for home projects ranging from lawn care to home renovations and maintenan

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

Victorian-based Town & Country Pizza & Pasta has unveiled its first interstate location, in the Margaret River area of Western Australian. Joe Rossi, managing director and son of the founder, said it was a strategic decision to secure a site in the tourist region. A low-key introduction for the restaurant brands first interstate location was also deliberate, Rossi told Franchise Executives.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2025

Q1 is always a whirlwind for the retail space. Once New Years Day is behind us, analysts and industry experts get busy analyzing holiday sales results to set their predictions for the year ahead. Simultaneously, retail executives and practitioners ramp up their travel plans, venturing to major events like the NRF Big Show and Shoptalk, to generate buzz around their major plans and priorities.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

For an all too brief period, the Alceon investment house achieved its ambition to be the largest womens fashion specialty retailer in Australia. The only problem was the nine retail brands trading from around 1350 stores were a house of cards with a flawed investment play without retail smarts. Alceon and the investors it brought to the table for the 2014 acquisition of a struggling Noni B might well blame the current situation on flat retail conditions or the Covid pandemic, but the real proble

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

Debenhams is back. Well, at least that’s what Boohoo Group CEO Dan Finley hailed this morning after unveiling its bold rebranding. After acquiring the distressed department store in 2022, Boohoo Group has pivoted the once-beloved high street favourite into a new direction, reintroducing it as what it claims to be Britains leading online department store with a marketplace model.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2025

Over the next year, CVS will open a dozen small-format stores in locations throughout the U.S. that will include full-service pharmacies but very limited selections of non-healthcare retail, according to the Wall Street Journal. The stores will average less than 5,000 square feet not even half as large as a typical CVS store. These stores will stock health-related products such as first aid and over-the-counter cough and pain medications but none of the groceries, cosmetics and greeting cards t

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

Italian luxury stationery brand Moleskine is navigating the complexities of a digital-first world while staying rooted in its legacy of analogue expression. Under the leadership of CEO Christophe Archaimbault, the brand is executing a multi-faceted strategy to ensure relevance, drive international expansion and deepen its technological integration, all while maintaining its commitment to sustainability.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2025

Lowes has a new sales associate Mylow , a conversational AI agent available anywhere, anytime for MyLowes loyalty members. Mylow is designed to help customers navigate the many questions that come with owning a home, from project planning to how-to advice to product searches. Developed in collaboration with OpenAI and leveraging Lowe’s expert advice, Mylow provides customers with clear steps and practical solutions for home projects ranging from lawn care to home renovations and maintenan

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

Iceland is preparing to introduce thousands of digital screens across its store estate as part of a major push into retail media. The frozen food specialist has promoted category trading manager Adam Smith to head of retail media, who will head up the retailers first dedicated in-house team, The Grocer reported. The department will be responsible for all elements of the retailers retail media, including screens, online advertising and traditional PoS across Iceland and Food Warehouse.

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Wiser

MARCH 11, 2025

Essential Knowledge to Optimize Your Retail Audit Process A well-executed retail audit provides critical visibility into everything from shelf conditions and associate performance to customer sentiment and promotional effectiveness. However, each channel presents its own challengesboth operationally and in terms of data access. Below, well explore seven major retailer types, the unique hurdles they pose, and how you can leverage crowd-based or third-party audits to stay ahead.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

Boohoo Group boss Dan Finley has unveiled his turnaround plan for the fashion giant as he looks to shift the entire business to a marketplace model. Finley, who was named group chief executive in November, has spent the last three years leading the transformation of the companys Debenhams brand into a very profitable and highly cash generative marketplace-led business model.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Stop & Shop workers who were part of the Teamsters union were threatening to strike.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

Waitrose has launched a 500,000 fund to support British farmers transition to its net zero emission standards. The net zero farm scheme will finance projects,by farmers and suppliers, that will reduce the carbon emissions associated with the products supplied to Waitrose. It will also help to boost resilience to combat the effects of climate change.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Auntie Anne's Pretzelria Delivery Service will be coming to the major pizza capitals in the U.S.

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365 Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

Real estate investment firm Tristan Capital Partners announces the availability of 12 commercial units on Sicilian Avenue, an iconic, Grade II listed pedestrianised street found in the heart of Bloomsbury, 90 seconds from Holborn station – Londons 11th busiest tube station out of 272. The units vary in size, from 485 sq ft to 2,357 sq ft, for a mix of food and beverage and retail occupiers.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Young adults often use Facebook Marketplace to find and buy goods.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 11, 2025

The pharmacy sector is undergoing substantial expansion, creating considerable prospects for both business owners and medical experts. According to Statista, the global pharmacy market is projected to reach an impressive USD 1.52 trillion in revenue by 2025. This growth trajectory is further emphasized by an anticipated annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.11% from 2025 to 2029.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

CVS has a plan to improve the pharmacy experience with small, dedicated stores for filling prescriptions.

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Retail Times

MARCH 11, 2025

Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! British sweet maker Swizzels has revealed new, limited-edition Squashies Drumchick. Ahead of Easter, Swizzels has given its popular treats a seasonal twist, inspired by the success of Squashies the No.1 sugar confectionery brand in the market*.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Pizza Hut has offered stuffed crust pizza for a while.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

Seasalt chief information officer Mel Wilcox has stepped down after less than two years. Wilcox, who joined the lifestyle brand in the newly created role in June 2023, has left to seek new challenges and opportunities, Drapers reported. Wilcox had previously spent four years at Specsavers, first as its director of technology portfolio management and then as its technology director.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

Weve loosened the tie with many brands, following a society-wide trend towards being more casual. How did we get here? Perhaps the shift traces back to the year 2005, when laptops first outsold PCs in the US, and the word wifi was added to the English dictionary. This was the beginning of the end of the traditional workplace. Years of start-up culture, the gig economy and hoodies in the office shortly followed.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Wingstop fans can't do without their beloved ranch dressing.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

With industrys need to hone efficiency to keep competitive, warehouse automation systems have been a game changer for companies specialising in retail, food and beverage, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, e-commerce, e-grocery, spare parts, and a broad range of industrial applications. Whether its a smaller picking automation solution or a large-scale fully automated warehouse, maximising the return on investment in these systems is always top of mind.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Firehouse Subs is turning up the heat via a Hot Ones collaboration.

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Retail Times

MARCH 11, 2025

Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! Bonmarch is excited to announce the opening of a new store in High Wycombe’s Eden Centre. The store will officially open at 9:30 am on Thursday, 20th March 2025, with TV personality and brand ambassador Lorraine Kelly making a special appearance on Friday, 28th March.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Dick's Sporting Goods is expecting soft profits in 2025.

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Retail Times

MARCH 11, 2025

Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! Waitrose is today (Tuesday 11 March) launching a 500,000 fund to support its British farmers in their transition to net zero emissions. Part of WaitrosesFarming For Natureprogramme, the net zero farm fund will finance projects, by farmers and suppliers, that will support the adoption of low carbon farming practices.

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