Small Biz Trends
MAY 2, 2022
All small businesses must track their cash flow and develop financial reports to increase profitability. However, it’s not always possible or sensible to hire an entire accounting team. Luckily, there are outsourced and online accounting services available to fill these needs for you. Here’s a guide for small businesses. What is an Accounting Service?
Retail Focus
MAY 3, 2022
Many people today aspire to have extra income. Some people choose to open a retail shop, which could be the start of something bigger later. While retailers in the UK still face many challenges, there are plenty of opportunities for those who wish to start small. Fortunately, they can get small business relief, so they can continue their operations. .
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Retail TouchPoints
MAY 2, 2022
It’s no surprise that ecommerce has practically taken over the global economy. Annual online sales worldwide are expected to climb to a staggering $6.5 trillion by 2023. But alongside that dizzying sales growth, we’ve also witnessed a growing consciousness about how damaging all of those online sales are to the environment, and throughout the product lifecycle, from manufacturing to delivery to eventual disposal.
Inside Retail
MAY 4, 2022
When Covid hit and physical stores closed, many retailers were left floundering, trying to work out how to maintain their relationships with customers and remain relevant in their hearts and minds. Enter the acceleration of social commerce. “The role of social media is changing. It is now both the megaphone and the marketplace for brands. It is the new search, the new storefront and the new helpdesk,” observes Etienne Mérineau, senior director of marketing at Hootsuite.
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.
Tokinomo
MAY 4, 2022
Millennials have been shopping in stores for many years and they have shaped the way retailers market their products. Now, Gen Z shoppers are starting to make their own money and they want to spend it in style!
Retail Wire
MAY 4, 2022
A record 4.5 million workers in the U.S. quit their jobs in March, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “As employers require workers to return to offices, quits are ticking upwards. A major reason for quitting is to find a remote opportunity,” wrote Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter. The number of available jobs rose to 11.5 million in March.
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Inside Retail
MAY 2, 2022
Booktopia CEO Tony Nash is to step aside to take up a new position within the company focused solely on growth as the company struggles in a “volatile and unpredictable” market. Nash, the online book retailer’s co-founder, will stay on the company’s board and remain fully involved with the business. He will continue in the CEO role while the board searches for his replacement.
Tokinomo
MAY 2, 2022
Campaign scoop. Paying tribute in an annoying way. Pringles takes an irritating walk down memory lane. In its latest social media campaign, Pringles celebrated the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Spectrum ZX. In this video , the “mind popping” snack brand wanted to show how the world was before NFTs and the Metaverse. Please watch it on mute or low volume.
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.
Retail TouchPoints
MAY 4, 2022
It’s no secret that in-person shopping is a multi-sensory experience. How a retail space makes someone feel in terms of comfortability has a surprising effect on how much they will likely spend. While most know that it’s important to make a store visually appealing, including proper lighting and designing an interior layout that’s easy to navigate, many often forget the other senses that play a key role in the overall shopping experience — like sound.
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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
Inside Retail
MAY 5, 2022
A grocery delivery app that was founded in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic has collapsed into voluntary administration. Send offered grocery deliveries in under 10 minutes to 46,000 registered users, with an estimated 300 employees working for the company from 13 sties and several dark grocery stores in Sydney and Melbourne. The company entered voluntary administration on Tuesday, May 3, with administrators Matthew Kucianski and Matthew Jess of Worrells appointed to the company.
Retail Focus
MAY 5, 2022
Imagine being able to play the very best in video gaming, with state of the art technology, whenever you want, solo or in a party, learn tips and techniques from gaming experts, experience gaming challenges and then take home the top rated tech and accessories from leading brands. Now you can, as Hamleys Regent Street unveil its newest retail space dedicated to Gaming.
Dezeen
MAY 5, 2022
A pink furry fashion boutique, a cosmetics store styled like a 1970s office and a streetwear outlet adorned with a chandelier of Nike trainers feature in this roundup of weird and wonderful retail interiors. The past year has seen a growing trend for over-the-top shop interiors, from stores containing surreal sculptures and installations to those masquerading as something else entirely.
Retail TouchPoints
MAY 4, 2022
Macy’s will be bringing more Reebok apparel to its customers beginning in 2023 through a partnership with brand development firm Authentic Brands Group. This expansion will see Macy’s will expand its assortment of Reebok men’s, women’s and children’s sportswear and activewear in stores, on macys.com and within the Macy’s app. While the Reebok Design Group will serve as the design and development source for products, through the partnership Macy’s also will develop exclusive product offerings.
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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.
Inside Retail
MAY 3, 2022
Australian retail sales surged 9.4 per cent in March compared with the same month last year as the impact of Omicron on consumer shopping behaviour wore off. Month on month, sales were up 1.6 per cent. March saw the highest growth rate since April last year when sales surged 24 per cent against April 2020 when lockdowns devastated the retail trade. And the volume of retail sales reached a record $33.6 billion in stores and online in March, eclipsing the previous record of $33.3 billion set in No
Retail Focus
MAY 3, 2022
Quintessentially British furniture and home accessories brand, The Cotswold Company, has just opened a new store in Canterbury. The Canterbury location is the brand’s eighth store and fourth experiential site. It is the third to have launched in the past year, following launches in Tunbridge Wells and Leamington Spa. Canterbury is world famous for its 3 UNESCO world heritage sites, which include the Canterbury Cathedral.
Cisco Retail
MAY 5, 2022
Customers globally are requesting – and often requiring – SaaS providers to demonstrate their commitment to security, availability, confidentiality, and privacy. While attaining global security certifications has become table-stakes for many to do business, it’s no easy feat. Many organizations struggle to keep pace with this resource- and time-intensive process.
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
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.
Inside Retail
MAY 4, 2022
South Korea’s Lotte Duty Free is ramping up its Asia Pacific expansion with the launch of a three-level boutique in the heart of downtown Sydney. Located on the corner of Sydney’s Pitt and Market Streets, and spanning 3000sqm, the store features interiors designed by architecture firm Bates Smart, featuring a fresh and contemporary style yet integrating the latest technology to enhance the customer shopping experience. .
Small Biz Trends
MAY 4, 2022
Recent numbers tell the story of data breaches and SMBs. The Allianz Risk Barometer says global businesses are more worried about cyber risks than even the pandemic. So what does an enterprise do? How do they protect their hard-earned assets from a cyber attack? Or a data breach that costs? Here are some more small business data breach statistics to consider.
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.
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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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.
Inside Retail
MAY 1, 2022
Trans-Tasman apparel retailer Mosaic Brands says it had a tough run in its third quarter due to the ongoing Omicron outbreak and inflationary pressure in the retail environment. In a trading update for the quarter ended March 27, the company recorded an operating cash outflow of $37.8 million. Online sales (excluding EziBuy) grew 40 per cent and is up 24 per cent year to date. .
Dezeen
APRIL 30, 2022
Brooklyn-based Ringo Studio has created a pastel "playground" as the first retail space for fitness brand Bala in New York City , which includes scaled-up versions of its products. Founded by Natalie Holloway and Max Kislevitz, who appeared on reality TV show Shark Tank, Bala sells weights, bands and other fitness equipment in a range of candy colours.
Cisco Retail
MAY 3, 2022
In early 2020, Enterprises had to switch to remote work almost overnight. As lockdowns stretched, employees faced huge changes to their daily lives, and managers had to be flexible about when and where teams got their jobs done; in some cases, parents changed their hours and found ways to work. Two years on, the majority of employees have “work desk” set-ups at home that keep them productive outside traditional, in-office working patterns.
Retail TouchPoints
MAY 4, 2022
Starbucks will invest more in its associates and stores to increase pay, modernize training and collaboration and advance store innovation. The retailer has now invested nearly $1 billion in these operations during 2022 alone as it seeks to counter a growing push for unionization. Starbucks already had committed to setting its starting pay to $15 per hour beginning Aug. 1, 2022, which will bring the retailer’s average national pay to $17 per hour.
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Late deliveries. Split shipments. Spiraling freight costs. For home, furniture, and DIY brands, fulfillment has never been more complex—or more critical. This report outlines how a smarter, AI-ready order management system (OMS) helps you reduce shipping costs, streamline project-based fulfillment, and ensure accurate inventory across every channel.
Inside Retail
MAY 3, 2022
Over the last two years a series of unexpected events has scrambled global supply chains. Coronavirus, war in Ukraine, Brexit and a container ship wedged in the Suez Canal have combined to delay deliveries of everything from bicycles to pet food. In response, a growing group of startups and established logistics firms has created a multi-billion dollar industry applying the latest technology to help businesses minimize the disruption.
Small Biz Trends
MAY 4, 2022
It’s too late to apply for a new Covid 19 EIDL loan. But if you’d like to increase the amount of an existing loan, or request consideration, you better hurry. The deadline is May 6. EIDL Loan Deadline Approaching. How much money a small business can borrow with an EIDL loan varies. The Small Business Administration will review your paperwork to make the determination.
Cisco Retail
MAY 4, 2022
Overview. In this episode of our ongoing DNA Center Automation Series , our focus is on using multiple dynamic approaches to automating the network. We have previously, in the series, concentrated our efforts on specific concepts concerning automation. Still, in this Self-Paced Standalone Lab, we will start to combine various ideas to give you a more in-depth look at what is possible through automation provided by DNA Center.
Retail TouchPoints
MAY 6, 2022
Wayfair has named Kate Gulliver to the role of CFO and Chief Administrative Officer, effective November 2022, following the retirement of current CFO Michael Fleisher. The retailer also reported disappointing Q1 2022 results, including a 13.9% year-over-year revenue drop and the loss of 23.4% of its active customers. Gulliver currently serves as VP, Chief People Officer at Wayfair.
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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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