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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

When it debuted back in 2010, Wish was the only game in town as far as manufacturer-direct discount shopping apps went. But times have changed dramatically in the 13 intervening years: Temu , which debuted just last September, is now the top shopping app in the U.S., Reducing shopping and shipping friction.

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How Constellation Brands is Using DTC Tactics to Take its Wholesale Business Omnichannel

Retail TouchPoints

Key to our strategy is being consumer obsessed — building a direct relationship with our consumers, meeting them where they are shopping and engaging today, and pushing beyond to meet their evolving preferences well into the future,” said Bill Newlands, President and CEO of Constellation Brands in a statement announcing the acquisition.

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How Gucci and Ikea are using AR to drive sales

Inside Retail

Snap Inc is positioning itself as a platform for AR shopping with the recent acquisition of Vertebrae , a tech business that creates 3D models of products for customers to interact with. Once they had tried the sneakers, Snapchatters could then go straight to the product page and make a purchase via the “shop now” button.

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‘Indecision is the hardest part’: Retailers react to Sydney lockdown 2.0

Inside Retail

For retailers with stores and offices in Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Wollongong and the Central Coast of New South Wales, the two-week lockdown announced on Saturday has meant a return to stockpiling behaviour, remote working and potential supply chain disruptions. A lot of people pulled back media spend,” Makejev told Inside Retail.

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Can Superdry’s restructuring plan save the business?

Retail Gazette

The ailing fashion retailer’s last-ditch attempt to stay afloat includes gaining rent reductions across 39 of its 94 UK stores, a £10m equity raise underwritten by Dunkerton, and delisting from the stock market. He also says that Superdry has not been at “the leading edge of fashion trends” for some time.

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Are You Being Served? The Importance of Customer Experience

Retail Assist

Last week I made the most of retail and outdoor hospitality reopening, took a day off and hit the shops on Leeds high street. In visiting the shops, we saw that there were the usual queues outside Zara and Primark, we also paid a visit to one of our clients, Harvey Nichols. How was this different (or not) to pre-pandemic?

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(Some of) the Technology that is Empowering the Customer Channel in Physical Retail

Retail Next

Today, retailers and brands need to support their customers how, when and where they want to shop. Retailers and brands need to support, allow and empower their customers to engage with – and shop – them as the customer wants. Virtual shopping. Again, Nordstrom with their new Nordstrom Live virtual shopping experiences.