article thumbnail

The Post-COVID Store: How to Tap the Pent-Up Need for Interaction Without Sacrificing Safety

Retail TouchPoints

The return to brick-and-mortar will be a slow, steady process, and preparing stores for the great return will be as much about making shoppers comfortable as it will be about enticing them back. You look at ULTA Beauty or DICK’S Sporting Goods during the pandemic and they crushed it. Look at some of the sporting goods retailers.

article thumbnail

6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers have gotten better about thinking about simple things like power accessibility or creating WiFi shadows around fixtures and things like that, but there are still far too many unintended consequences that come out of store design because they did not think through tech requirements up front.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

5G in Retail: Creating the WOW factor

Retail TouchPoints

Dick’s Sporting Goods , one of the largest sporting goods retailers, recently unveiled its House of Sports store with a running track, rock wall, batting cages and outdoor turf field. Now imagine people coming to this lounge and they do not have access to the Internet.

article thumbnail

Retailers Join Efforts To Maximize Voter Participation

Retail TouchPoints

More than 300 companies , including Patagonia , The Gap , DICK’S Sporting Goods and Walmart committed to removing some of the logistical barriers that often keep workers from voting. Nordstrom stores and operations centers will remain open on Nov.

article thumbnail

Target Extends Pickup and Same-Day Delivery Deadlines to Christmas Eve

Retail TouchPoints

A number of major retailers have enhanced their same-day delivery capabilities for this ecommerce-heavy holiday season: Bed Bath & Beyond began offering same-day delivery via Shipt in late September, and has encouraged BOPIS orders by offering a 20% discount from Dec.

article thumbnail

7 Stories that Shaped 2023 — and What They Foretell for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

The perception that retail was suffering from a rampant crime wave was bolstered by statements from executives ad Dick’s Sporting Goods, Target and Lowe’s , all blaming shrink as one of the factors negatively affecting not just their financial results but the safety of employees and customers. billion in retail shrink was due to ORC.

article thumbnail

Jason & Scot Show Episode 300 – Goodwill Finds CEO Matt Kaness

Retail Geek

We cover many of the tactical challenges (onboarding SKUs, product content, fulfillment, and curation), as well as the opportunities of this new “CircularCommerce” space. Goodwillfinds.com is an e-commerce site, which sells previously owned merchandise, which has been donated to Goodwill.