Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 10, 2021
The pandemic has been a challenging time for shopping centers, and even as vaccination rates climb and shoppers return to old habits, retailers are finding that many of their shopping preferences have permanently shifted. As the new year approaches, retailers need to think about what their expansion plans will look like and how their stores can best serve customers.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Following another year of turbulence, it’s no surprise there is still a great deal of uncertainty in the retail industry. Supply chain issues and pandemic-related shortages continue to impact retailers worldwide, while the ever-accelerating shift to online shopping has left gaps in the high street – with House of Fraser the latest big name to announce it is closing its Oxford Street store in January. .
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Inside Retail
DECEMBER 9, 2021
The Australian Retailers’ Association is expecting Aussies’ pent-up demand for shopping to continue beyond Christmas, divining that a record $21 billion will be spent in stores and online in the period between Boxing Day and January 15. ARA chief executive Paul Zahra said Boxing Day sales are always a key part of the retail calendar, but that that momentum will continue into the new year.
Tokinomo
DECEMBER 7, 2021
The retail industry has changed a lot in the last few years, especially due to the Pandemic. It’s important for brands managers and retail representatives to keep up with the latest trends and find the best solutions for their shoppers.
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Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Supply chain challenges are nothing new, but they are newly in the spotlight as massive consumer delays and shortages affect the shopping public. Impacted by everything from container shortages to port congestion to loss of labor and COVID-related shutdowns, supply chains everywhere are facing disruptions exacerbated by the bullwhip effect: the amplified response to atypical demand that creates ripples throughout the chain.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Icon Outlet at The O2 is celebrating the achievement of three milestones, with its latest store launches, strong performance and the appointment of new leasing director, Louisa Dalgleish. Leading the news is the opening of Clarins, the French cosmetics and beauty brand. The 1,500 sq ft boutique stocks a wide range of the brand’s skincare and make up products for women and men.
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Intelligence Node
DECEMBER 8, 2021
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Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Kohl’s has become the latest retailer to attract the attention of an activist investor seeking the separation of its digital and brick-and-mortar businesses. Engine Capital, which owns an approximately 1% stake in Kohl’s, believes the standalone ecommerce business could be “conservatively valued at $12.4 billion or more.” In comparison, Kohl’s total operation is currently valued at about $7.3 billion.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Railpen, the investment manager for the £35bn Railways Pension Scheme, has announced Police, the Italian fashion accessories brand, has opened a new location in Caledonia Park, Scotland’s premier designer village. Adjacent to Hugo BOSS and Radley, Police’s new 1,500 sq ft store features Police’s full range of lifestyle and apparel products. This includes its latest collaborations, such as the Police x Lewis Hamilton eyewear range, designed in partnership with the F1 racing driver.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 8, 2021
The Australian Government has launched a national campaign to incentivise Australians to recycle more, as well as to buy more products manufactured with recycled content. The ‘ReMade in Australia’ campaign signals a shift in how the country deals with its waste, according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and makes recycling one of six national manufacturing priorities moving into an election year.
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Retail Wire
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert has said that there is “a special place in hell” for companies that are not actively seeking to turn back climate change. “Our biggest contribution has not been the money we’ve given away. It’s not individual issues that we’ve advocated for. It’s not scaling grass-roots environmental activism through different levels of support,” he said. “It’s operating from the bowels of business and proving that businesses can exist to do more than maximize the wea
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Australia-based tech platform Marketplacer , which helps brands, retailers and other businesses create their own online marketplaces, has received $38 million in fresh funding to build out its product suite, grow its partner program and continue its expansion in the U.S. With this new funding, Marketplacer has raised more than $85 million to date and now has more than 100 marketplaces on its platform globally, including major Australian supermarket chain Woolworths , lifestyle brand SurfStitch a
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Shaftesbury has announced the official opening of a debut pop-up store in Seven Dials for Rowing Blazers, the cult American clothing brand most well-known for their irreverent take on preppy clothing. Located on 16 Earlham Street, and spanning 872 sq ft, Rowing Blazers Seven Dials represents the brand’s first bricks-and-mortar British store which offers an edit of product from their A/W’21 collection fronted by Pete Davidson and Ziwe Fumudoh.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Global fashion retailer Kookai has cut inventory counts from a few days to 30 minutes as a result of implementing radio frequency identification (RFID), from Avery Dennison at its manufacturing facilities in Fiji and Sri Lanka. The project is at the heart of Kookai’s omnichannel strategy: ultimately, all clothing and stores will be equipped with RFID enabling it to precisely track all items within its supply chain, speed up check out times, enable online orders to be fulfilled from local s
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Retail Wire
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Retailers have continued to test drone deliveries but have not yet made the decision to roll out air service broadly. The companies behind the technology say they are ready to go but retailers have still not given them the all clear.
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 6, 2021
New York City has become a testing ground for ultra-fast grocery delivery, with orders delivered in 15 minutes or less. In the last year, startups such as Jokr , Gorillas and GoPuff have left legacy delivery services like Uber Eats and Instacart scrambling to keep up in the speed wars. Now, Instacart is reportedly planning a p i lot of 15-minute grocery deliveries, and DoorDash just announced that it is introducing a speed delivery service in NYC beginning with its convenience store network Dash
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 10, 2021
The Cotswold Company, known for its high-quality, master-crafted furniture and home accessories, has today opened a brand-new store in Leamington Spa. The brand’s sixth store, the new Leamington Spa location will be the first of The Cotswold Company’s physical destinations to embody its revised brand ethos, following a company rebrand in April this year.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 8, 2021
McDonald’s is facing a class action over the company’s alleged failure to provide its employees with paid?10-minute?rest breaks. The McDonald’s staff class action filed in the Federal Court by Shine Lawyers follows a 2020 finding that former employee Chiara Staines was not provided with paid 10-minute rest breaks when working shifts four hours or longer.
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Dezeen
DECEMBER 8, 2021
As part of our ongoing review of 2021 , Dezeen rounds up the top 10 most remarkable and intriguing shop interiors of the year – from a cannabis dispensary made to look like an old-fashioned grocery store to a makeup boutique arranged around a large, mossy mound. Apple Via del Corso, Italy, by Foster + Partners. UK architecture firm Foster + Partners refurbished and converted Rome's historic Palazzo Marignoli into the largest Apple Store in Europe.
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Despite supply chain disruptions, inflation and the new COVID-19 Omicron variant, the National Retail Federation is now saying that 2021 holiday sales increases could actually beat original forecasts. The NRF originally projected that holiday sales would increase by 8.5% to 10.5% compared to 2020, but Jack Kleinhenz, Chief Economist at NRF, said he now thinks that number could go as high as 11.5%.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 8, 2021
The UK’s cost of living squeeze is making Millennials and younger demographics more sensitive to pricing and promotions, the latest research from antuit.ai , the leader in SaaS Artificial Intelligence (AI) demand forecasting solutions, reveals. With increasing numbers of retailers passing on rising production costs – prompted by supply chain tension and labour market shortages – to the consumer, the CBI warns shoppers face the biggest price rises in 30 years this Christmas.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Mexican restaurant chain, Mad Mex, has acquired back the 50 per cent ownership from its Singapore-based venture partner, 4Fingers International, shifting focus to its home market. The recent acquisition also means the end of Mad Mex’s ambitious expansion plan in Asia , which was announced two years ago before the pandemic forced it to change the strategy. .
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Cisco Retail
DECEMBER 8, 2021
This blog is a joint collaboration between Cisco’s Ravi Balakrishnan and F5’s Patrick Campbell. Over the past 2 years, we’ve been working on enabling F5 ADC services within the Cisco ACI fabric using the F5 ServiceCenter App. This App is an agile development effort. driven by field and user input and has evolved in multiple releases which are available from Cisco’s DC App Center.
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Haute couture brand Elie Saab has its sights set on a new generation of digital-first luxury shoppers with the launch of its new direct-to-consumer (DTC) website. Built on Shopify Plus and developed in partnership with Astound Commerce , the new Elie Saab site aims to re-create the in-store customer journey with a content-rich, immersive digital experience.
Small Biz Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Uber Eats has become one of the most popular online food ordering and delivery platforms. The secret to uber eats’ success comes from increased demand for delivery companies to provide pick-up and drop-off services for food. Uber offers gig workers a way of making money online while offering more choices of restaurant meals for customers while at the same time helping participating restaurants increase their pool of potential customers they can reach.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Australia will create a licencing framework for cryptocurrency exchanges and consider launching a retail central bank digital currency as part of the biggest overhaul of its payments industry in a quarter of a century. The country will also broaden its payment laws to cover online transaction providers like Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google as well as buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) providers like Afterpay Ltd, ending their run of operating without direct supervision. “If we do not reform
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Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib
Cisco Retail
DECEMBER 10, 2021
It’s a great holiday season for Cisco UCS X-Series – receives TWO awards from CRN! The CRN Tech Innovators Awards are meant to “.showcase offerings that bring significant advances in technology as well as partner growth opportunities…” 1 In November, Cisco won the Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure award. It recognizes the need for transforming both your operating model while preparing your infrastructure for future technologies.
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Alibaba Group has reorganized its consumer and wholesale commerce divisions and named current Deputy CFO Toby Xu to succeed Maggie Wu as CFO in April 2022. The announcements mark the first major management shifts since Alibaba was fined a record-setting $2.75 billion for monopolistic practices earlier this year. When she steps down as CFO next year, Wu will continue as a partner in the Alibaba Partnership and serve as an Executive Director on the Alibaba board.
Nvidia
DECEMBER 7, 2021
AI can design chips no human could, said Bill Dally in a virtual keynote today at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), one of the world’s largest gatherings of semiconductor engineers. The chief scientist of NVIDIA discussed research in accelerated computing and machine learning that’s making chips smaller, faster and better. “Our work shows you can achieve orders-of-magnitude improvements in chip design using GPU-accelerated systems.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Retail and fast-food workers across Australia have seen their working hours and job security fall over the course of the pandemic, alongside an uptick in customer aggression , according to a joint report by the Australian National University and the University of Sydney. The ‘Pandemic Pressures’ report found that 49 per cent of retail workers reported their job security had fallen – worse among women and Australians who speak a different language at home – throughout Covid-19, as well as 51 per
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