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Asic orders Urban Rampage stores to end Centrepay credit arrangements

Inside Retail

Clothing and homewares retailer Urban Rampage has been ordered by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (Asic) to stop offering Centrepay credit arrangements at its stores. Coral Coast targeted First Nations consumers who received Centrelink payments.

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Container Store, Sam Edelman Join Rush to Resale

Retail TouchPoints

The Container Store has debuted its Closet Clean Out resale program for apparel and accessories, powered by the ThredUp Resale-as-a-Service solution. Known for its closets and organizational solutions, The Container Store’s program is unusual in accepting products for resale from categories that it doesn’t sell. “We

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Ten competitive strategies for retail success

I Vend

Optimising store operations – When it comes to store operations, one of the things that all successful retailers have in common is optimised processes and efficiency. Things change and before you know it, customers want new services, new products, new ways of interacting.

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Retail Lessons From China: Innovation, Resilience And Recovery

Retail TouchPoints

This applies not just to consumers but to workers returning to retail stores as well. From payments to delivery, processes have been scrutinised to reduce the need to touch people, products and PIN pads. As a result, retailers are focused on removing unnecessary contact from the shopping journey.

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Smaller Spaces, Bigger Tech and Optimized CX

Retail TouchPoints

Appointments for high-end fashion brand shopping have been a long-time standard, but they’ve begun to trickle down to fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara too. Customers book an appointment online and then shop in-store, creating a more curated feel while making life easier for associates to manage. AR and the Metaverse.

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Digital Is Turning Retail Into An On-Demand Model

Retail TouchPoints

To accomplish this, operational models need to be adapted quickly. Predicting what’s to come isn’t easy, but having a robust network infrastructure in place would allow retailers to deploy new services rapidly when they’re ready to add them — regardless of where stores are located, or how long they’ve been established.

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Payless Relaunches E-Commerce Business, Plans To Open 300-500 Stores

Retail TouchPoints

We’re back and bringing more community responsibility, fashion-forward footwear, and on-trend partnerships,” Margolis added. On the community service front, Payless is launching a “Powered by Payless” initiative for the coming fall season to help communities affected by the pandemic.

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