September, 2021

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How to Build Strong Reseller Networks

Wiser

How do you get your products into the hands of excited customers? Through a strong reseller network. A reseller network is your collection of partner retailers who will stock your products—they could be brick-and-mortar stores, eCommerce sites, or a mix of both. No matter which resellers you have, there’s always a level of risk in choosing the best partners for you.

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Formula 1 engineering helps improve convenience store fridges

Talking Retail

Southern Co-op is installing motor-racing technology to help cut the loss of cold air from the fridges in its stores, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The regional co-operative is putting the technology in 96 stores and using it to reduce cold air being lost into the aisles. The technology, developed by motor racing engineer Wirth Research, This story continues at Formula 1 engineering helps improve convenience store fridges.

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What do Macy's and the Toys R Us brand have to offer each other?

Retail Dive

The two retail names are betting on each other in a shop-in-shop rollout, but branding alone won't make their partnership work.

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Aussies to spend $11 billion this Christmas – almost half online

Inside Retail

Retailers have 11 billion reasons to look forward to this Christmas period, according to the Australian Retailers Association. Aussies are expected to spend an average of $726 each, with most (79 per cent) preparing to spend the same or more than they did last year, according to joint research by the ARA and Roy Morgan. This is compared to last year’s expectations, which saw Aussies wanting to spend around $500 each.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

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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Carhartt Teams with Metallica Foundation to Recruit and Train Skilled Workers

Retail TouchPoints

Workwear brand Carhartt is recognizing the importance and value of labor by teaming up with heavy metal band Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation, with the goal of training a new generation of skilled workers. Carhartt will donate all online sales on Labor Day 2021 to the foundation’s Metallica Scholars workforce education program, which connects students to hands-on learning and provides support to 23 schools via the American Association of Community Colleges.

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Creative Retail Awards Shortlist 2021

Retail Focus

After an exciting process of reviewing a record amount of entries, the shortlist for the third Creative Retail Awards has been revealed. The Awards recognise and reward innovation and excellence in retail design and experience from around the world. The winners and highly commended entries will be announced at a unique awards ceremony to be held at Proud Embankment on 14th October 2021.

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Artificial Christmas trees are in short supply

Retail Wire

Supply chain disruptions have hit the artificial Christmas tree business and that is forcing prices of available inventory higher. The artificial market generates over $1 billion in annual sales. Eighty-five percent of American homes used fake trees in their homes last Christmas.

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6 Retail Trends That Will Dominate the 2021 Holiday Shopping Season

Intelligence Node

Table of Contents Gearing Up for the 2021 Holiday Shopping Season While it feels like just yesterday brands and retailers were navigating their first holiday shopping season since the onset of COVID-19, here we are again, preparing for the second holiday season amidst the pandemic. While most countries have opened up for business again and […].

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Adore Beauty founder Kate Morris co-creates purpose-led private equity firm

Inside Retail

Kate Morris has co-founded a new private equity firm in an effort to knock down the walls she faced as a female founder raising capital for Adore Beauty. The new venture, Glow Capital Partners, aims to help purpose-led founders make a positive impact through business, according to Morris. “My experience as a woman founder trying to raise capital was one of walking into rooms full of men in suits,” said Morris.

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Chewy Puts Pets in the Center of the AR Action

Retail TouchPoints

Augmented reality is no longer just for humans — online pet supply retailer Chewy is bringing one of the web’s hottest trends to our four-legged friends with the new “Fur-tual Boutique” virtual try-on experience. The AR tool lets dogs and cats virtually try out seven of Chewy’s most popular Halloween costumes from Frisco, including Cowboy, Killer Doll, Granny and Superhero.

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Humans + Agents = Rethinking Enterprise Commerce with AI

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

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The ETUDE HOUSE flagship is an experiential playground of cosmetic retail

Retail Focus

Following on from the successful House of Colour Play store concept launch in 2017, ETUDE wanted to revisit the sweet and playful aesthetic of the brands roots with a renewed retail identity. To appeal to today’s more digitally native customers Design4Retail (d4r) were asked to transform the retail store environment focusing on the experience and introducing digital content from the brands online world.

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Sustainability in retail: trend or necessity?

Tokinomo

Grocery stores and other retail shops focused on hygiene and safety during the Pandemic, which was expected. However, sustainability in retail remains a key priority for customers. How can retailers adapt and offer sustainable alternatives if they have more pressing problems, like the supply chain ?

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Target giving more hours to current associates, reducing seasonal hires for the holidays

Retail Wire

Target said it plans to focus on providing five million more hours to its current employees throughout the holiday season and reduce the number of new hires it brings on. “We have worked to provide our team members with more consistent schedules, which means more consistent paychecks and a more consistent way to manage their life,” said Melissa Kremer, Target’s chief human resources officer. “Additionally, we are offering more hours to team members who want them and conti

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Rebranding Intelligence Node: What This Means for our Customers & Partners

Intelligence Node

We are excited to announce that we have completed a rebranding exercise that aligns our products and services with the evolving eCommerce landscape. Intelligence Node, a product intelligence platform that empowers online businesses to win customers and grow margins, is now positioned to better communicate our breadth of expertise and the total value of our […].

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5 Tips for a Winning Category Management Strategy in 2025

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.

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Most Australians still see ‘shopping’ as in-store, not online: Shopify

Inside Retail

Almost half of Australian shoppers now use online search and websites to discover new brands, and one in ten do so through social media, according to a new report by Shopify. Online shopping habits have changed a lot in the last few years, with the acceleration caused by the Covid-19 crisis shifting the way consumers view the channel. In Shopify’s ‘This is a store’ survey, 83 per cent of all shoppers said it is crucial that a brand now have an online presence, while 7 per cent said it only matte

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TikTok Goes ‘All in’ on Social Commerce with Robust Suite of New Shopping Features

Retail TouchPoints

Shopping has been happening organically on TikTok for a while. Case in point — #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt , which has entered the cultural lexicon and boasts more than 4.6 billion views and counting. What hasn’t been happening much on TikTok is actual buying, until now that is. This week, the social media platform introduced a sweeping set of new tools and advertising products — including product links , live shopping and even a full-service commerce solution — all aimed at expanding TikTok’s reach from

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Immersive Queen store opens on Carnaby Street

Retail Focus

In celebration of five decades in music, one of the world’s most iconic bands, Queen, will feature in a dedicated experiential pop-up shop at 57 Carnaby Street that opens tomorrow, Tuesday 28th September. The store opens to the public tomorrow morning at 11am with an exclusive launch of a limited edition vinyl of Queen The Greatest Hits. Marked with tomorrow’s date and Carnaby Street for this special occasion, only 1,000 of these limited edition vinyls have been produced.

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Inclusion and segregation in retail: The ethnic food aisle

Tokinomo

You go to the grocery store prepared to shop for the whole week. However, on your shopping list, you have various ingredients, including a bag of spaghetti. Of course, you go to the aisle where you can find pasta and rice. However, a few decades ago, spaghetti was considered an ethnic food and it had a place on the ethnic aisle, along with German hot dogs.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

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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Gopuff opening a retail and delivery store in Pennsylvania

Retail Wire

Gopuff, the third-party delivery service, is planning on opening a 23,700-square-foot store in Ardmore, PA, at the site of a former local hardware store. The startup has opened other locations but those were for delivery only, which would make the new location the first to also operate a retail business. Gopuff delivers groceries and other everyday essentials in more than 1,000 cities in the U.S. and Europe.

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Avery Dennison Acquires Labeling Solution Provider for $1.45 Billion

Retail TouchPoints

Avery Dennison has signed an agreement to acquire Vestcom , a privately held pricing and branded labeling solution provider, for $1.45 billion in a cash transaction subject to certain closing and post-closing adjustments. Vestcom uses data management capabilities to synthesize and streamline store-level data and deliver item-specific, price-integrated messaging at the shopper’s point of decision.

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Social Commerce: Retailers (and Platforms) Struggle to Catch up With Consumers’ Enthusiasm

Retail TouchPoints

Seemingly every day there’s another announcement about a new feature enabling purchases on one social platform or another. In the last two months alone, TikTok has rolled out dedicated “Shopping Tabs” for Shopify merchants, Twitter began a pilot of its “Shop Module,” and Pinterest made it possible for creators to “control the shopability of their content” by tagging products.

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Understanding and Fighting AI Bias

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers are adopting artificial intelligence almost twice as much as other industries. Once out of reach for everyone but the largest retailers, AI is now readily available for ecommerce merchants and powering everything from attracting customers to understanding their needs and delivering frictionless experiences. . As organizations gobble up data and AI becomes more mainstream, the retail industry is asking new questions about bias in AI results.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

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.

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Whole Foods Adds $10 Fee to Amazon Prime Members’ Deliveries

Retail TouchPoints

In a nod to rising last mile costs, Whole Foods is ending free delivery for Amazon Prime members on Oct. 25, 2021. Orders placed through Amazon Prime will include a $9.95 delivery charge designed to help cover operating costs, a Whole Foods spokesperson told CNN Business. Whole Foods delivered three times as many orders in 2020 as it did in 2019, causing the costs associated with equipment and technology to rise.

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Connecting CX and Marketing: How to Create Customer-Centric Experiences That Deliver Business Results

Retail TouchPoints

In every organization, marketing plays an important role in defining, socializing and managing the customer experience (CX). However, the relationship between the customer experience and the marketing teams is often disconnected. This disconnect can be particularly harmful, as Forrester’s research shows that today’s consumers do not differentiate between the brand experience and the customer experience.

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Nordstrom NYC Flagship Gives a Home to Home Products

Retail TouchPoints

Nordstrom has introduced a two-story Nordstrom Home retail space at its NYC flagship location in Midtown Manhattan with an emphasis on city living featuring products such as compact appliances, small furniture and suitcase-friendly items for tourists. The move coincides with the debut of Nordstrom Home, a newly expanded merchandise assortment concept that includes kitchen and tabletop, home textiles and home décor.

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The Future of Ecommerce? Stores will Actually Play a Major Role

Retail TouchPoints

Many industry experts commented on the speed with which retailers — even those that had been slow to embrace online sales, such as grocers — pivoted their operations in the suddenly ecommerce-heavy environment of 2020. The agility they displayed was remarkable, but it was made possible by the existence of technologies that had been waiting for their moment to shine.

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SEO vs. PPC: Which Strategy Is Best for Your Business?

When it comes to driving traffic and growing your online presence, businesses often ask: SEO or PPC—what’s the better choice? This guide breaks down the key differences between search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, highlighting their pros, cons, and best use cases. Whether you’re looking for long-term organic growth or immediate visibility through paid ads, we’ll help you determine which strategy—or combination of both—is right for your business.

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5 Tips for Maximizing Influencer Marketing’s Impact

Retail TouchPoints

A retailX panel of social media and influencer experts had a candid conversation about how influencers are driving the maturity of social commerce, which is expected to reach $36.09 billion in the U.S. this year — a 35% increase over 2020 — according to Insider Intelligence. The speakers represented all facets of the “influencer marketing machine,” from strategy firms and agencies to brand executives and independent content creators.

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How the Subscription Economy Is Reimagining Every Industry

Retail TouchPoints

Over the past few years, the subscription economy has grown to new heights. While subscriptions have been an option for consumers in a number of retail environments — from apparel and pet supplies to media consumption — the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of subscriptions in a variety of industries that turned to payment technology to adapt their business.

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Walmart and Meredith Cook Up Wide-Ranging Shoppable Content Partnership

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart has teamed up with media company Meredith for a cross-platform partnership designed to help customers plan and prepare meals faster and more easily through AI-powered meal planning, shoppable recipes, visual search, chatbots and more. Under the new partnership, customers will be able to shop for Walmart products across content from Meredith’s portfolio of publications, including Allrecipes , Better Homes & Gardens , PARENTS , EatingWell and REAL SIMPLE.

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Beyond the Transaction: How to Make Your Ecommerce Site an Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Back in the heyday of the shopping mall, retailers attracted and retained customers with their in-store experience. Free samples, beautiful displays and attentive salespeople made shopping an immersive experience. Combine that with a trip to the food court, and going shopping was an event you looked forward to — and were prepared to drop serious cash for.

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Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains

Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon

This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia