Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Amazon is rolling out new AI-powered technology across its warehouses to detect damaged goods in a bid to decrease the number of damaged items sent to customers and speed up the fulfillment process, The Wall Street Journal reports. The AI is 3X more effective at identifying damage than warehouse workers, to whom the task currently falls, Christoph Schwerdtfeger, a software development manager at Amazon, told WSJ.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2023

Good360 and the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) have established an innovative program to speed the transition to a circular economy and address the cost of living challenge. Good360 Inner Circle – which requires Inner Circle partners to demonstrate a commitment to sustainability and social impact – tackles two common concerns of Australians: sustainability and the pressures brought by the rising cost of living.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Lululemon is looking to continue strong global growth after a 60% international sales increase boosted the retailer’s revenue growth to 24% in Q1 2023, which ended April 30, bringing total sales to $2 billion for the quarter. The company is planning to open 50 net new stores this year, and 30 to 35 will be international, with the majority located in China.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Most retailers that have drawn the attention of anti-LGBTQ groups have chosen to conduct business as usual and ignore the vitriolic language and threats of violence associated with these movements. Those such as Anheuser-Busch and Target that have sought a middle ground have found it only encourages the people threatening their workers.

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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

JUNE 5, 2023

Bed Bath & Beyond has reportedly received interest in BuyBuy Baby from at least two bidders, according to CNBC. DTC baby registry website Babylist is looking at the retailer’s trademark and domain, while an unnamed bidder is looking at BuyBuy Baby as a going concern and has expressed interest in keeping 75% of stores open. The size of the unnamed bidder’s offer is also unknown, but correspondence seen by CNBC noted that the company was seeking an additional $50 million in capital to shore up

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2023

Good360 and the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) have established an innovative program to speed the transition to a circular economy and address the cost of living challenge. Good360 Inner Circle – which requires Inner Circle partners to demonstrate a commitment to sustainability and social impact – tackles two common concerns of Australians: sustainability and the pressures brought by the rising cost of living.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2023

Eric Morris has stepped down as Brand Collective CEO but will continue to work with the company in non-executive and advisory roles, and sit on its board. David Thomas – who has previously run Country Road Group and David Jones – has been appointed as the new CEO of the business. Morris was appointed CEO when Brand Collective merged with the PAS Group in March last year and has been with the company for 18 years.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Powered by Instacart , Aldi will offer nearly 2,000 of its most-shopped items for delivery in as fast as 30 minutes. The Aldi Express service is now available from more than 2,100 Aldi supermarket locations across the U.S. “We know our customers live hectic lives, and sometimes that means they don’t have time to make it to the grocery store — even for a quick trip,” said Scott Patton, VP of National Buying at Aldi in a statement.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Bed Bath & Beyond has received interest from two bidders in its Buy Buy Baby business. One unnamed buyer plans to keep about 75 percent of the chain’s stores open should it be successful in acquiring it. The other, Babylist, is also interested but seeking to acquire only the Buy Buy Baby trademark and domain.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Getting older is hard — humans know it, and so do brands. But unlike humans, brands don’t have an innate shelf life. The ones that leverage the benefits of age — experience, name recognition, emotional connection — can survive, but only as long as they are able to evolve. And that is exactly what American furniture brand La-Z-Boy plans to do. “This is a 96-year-old , iconic brand,” said Jorge Calvachi, La-Z-Boy’s Director of Consumer Insights in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Employers added 339,000 jobs in May, weakening the prospects that a recession will hit the U.S. in 2023. “We’re running out of time for a 2023 recession,” said Justin Wolfers, an economics professor at the University of Michigan. “We’ve never had a recession when the labor market was running this hot.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 5, 2023

Braehead, one of the UK’s most popular retail and leisure destinations, owned by property company SGS and asset managed by Global Mutual in conjunction with Savills as property managers, is excited to announce that leading jewellery retailer, Pandora , has opened a new store at the centre. The store has a modern look and feel, and is designed to be more intuitive to the customer journey, allowing shoppers to browse and interact with products more easily.

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Wiser

JUNE 5, 2023

As a small business owner, managing supply chain issues is nothing new. Because smaller retailers cannot always order in bulk or far in advance like many larger retailers do, any supply chain disruptions are often felt faster and stronger by small businesses. It’s important to get it right, as any hiccups in the process can have serious consequences for your business.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2023

Thailand’s HomePro is strengthening its market leadership in the country’s DIY/home improvement industry in the first half of 2023. Home improvement in Thailand is a big deal. According to Statista Market Insights, the DIY and Hardware market was worth US$14.21 billion (A$21.5 billion) in 2022, and this figure probably understates the true size of the pie.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Some retailers are laying off workers in distribution and fulfillment centers. Others are closing warehouses or delaying plans to open new facilities.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2023

The Apple Vision Pro unveiled overnight marks the “true start of an era in which augmented reality devices will become a more mainstream part of consumer and retail markets,” according to one retail analyst. The Apple Vision Pro, described as the world’s first spatial operating system, will join a nascent AR headset race – but at a launch price of US$3499 is unlikely to find a market beyond core Apple fans and corporate buyers once it hits the market early next year, says Neil Saunders, MD at Gl

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Retail Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

The retailer is also on track to convert 400 stores to its higher-priced Five Beyond format before the end of the year.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2023

In May, Emirati sports retailer, Sun & Sand Sports (SSS), opened its first flagship store in Southeast Asia, in Singapore’s Raffles City. The 11,000 sq ft store features products from well-known fitness and lifestyle brands and a 3D foot scanner that customers can use to help them find the right fit. According to Mohammad A. Baker, deputy chairman and CEO of GMG, the global well-being company that owns SSS, “the Asian market is extremely strong and the company is very confident in the region

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Retail Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Twitter owner Elon Musk has maintained that most of the advertisers that left the social media site have returned and ad revenues are rebounding. The numbers tell a different story with ad sales for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May down 59 percent year-over-year.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2023

The impact of inflation and the rising cost of living has radically changed the way Australians are shopping, and is creating a turbulent outlook for retailers as shoppers tighten their purse strings. With customers implementing more cost-cutting measures than ever, retailers need to quickly adapt to better meet their demands with shopping experiences that add value.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

The mass retailer remains quiet after pulling Pride merchandise from some stores out of safety concerns. LGBTQ+ groups, human rights advocates and marketers say that sends the wrong message.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2023

The Australian economy has proven remarkably resilient. We’ve endured fires, floods and pandemics, fractured supply chains and soaring inflation. Despite the doom-and-gloom predictions and strain on the family budget for the average Australian, we’ve held up pretty well. The longtail impact of Covid stimulus and historically low interest rates has been even longer than most predicted.

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Finance

Retail Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

By channel, the BarkBox and Super Chewer parent company saw DTC revenue fall 1.5% year over year, while wholesale revenue fell 9.3%.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2023

Retailers have responded swiftly to the Reserve Bank’s decision to raise interest rates yet again on Tuesday – by another 25 basis points to 4.1 per cent. The move comes just days after a 5.75 per cent increase in the minimum wage which will cost employers more than $50 a week for all affected staff. National Retail Association CEO Greg Griffith urged the Reserve Bank “to wake up and change direction” saying Australian business owners needed a break to assess the latest economic impacts before a

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Retail Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

The brand conglomerate said the deal was part of an effort to diversify its portfolio outside of the U.S.

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JUNE 5, 2023

International apparel brand Lululemon has partnered with Australian environmental startup Samsara Eco, as part of an initiative to tackle textile waste. The multi-year collaboration will see Lululemon harness Samsara Eco’s circularity technology to create new recycled nylon plastics and polyester from apparel waste. It has been described by the company as the world’s first “infinitely recycled” project using nylon 66 and polyester materials.

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Marketing

Retail Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

To fully realize the rewards of selling on a marketplace, sellers must be able to carve a unique niche for their business.

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JUNE 5, 2023

US-based outdoor apparel brand Halfdays has launched in Australia and New Zealand selling trans-seasonal apparel made from recycled materials. Established in 2020 by Olympic freestyle aerial skier Kiley McKinnon and recreational skier Ariana Ferwerda, the direct-to-consumer skiwear brand sells functional cold-weather active wear. “I’ve competed alongside Australian athletes and spent some time in beautiful Australia myself – I knew expanding our brand to a place so immersed in the outdoors would

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Retail Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

Columbia Sportswear Company announced that Mark Nenow stepped down from the footwear brand after about eight years in the position.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Luxury fashion house Armani Group has started an experimental agroforestry plantation in southern Italy to test new ways to produce cotton sustainably, it said on Monday. Armani said cotton planting started last month over one hectare of land – to be expanded to five hectares – in the southern region of Apulia. Agroforestry is a land-use system that plants trees in and around crop and pastureland.

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