Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2024

It will come as no surprise to anybody in retail that achieving growth in 2024 is going to be challenging, as increased costs of living, higher mortgage interest repayments and unemployment risks negatively affect discretionary income and non-grocery retail spending. The 2024 Australian Retail Outlook is out now.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The acquisition is expected to be finalized in Q1 2024, subject to customary closing conditions and approvals, and the agreement includes a 30-day “go shop” period that will allow Chico’s to solicit alternative acquisition proposals through Oct.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

Too many major retailers are investing in digital technology solutions that they lack the resources to deploy properly, effectively squandering an opportunity to win competitive advantage, says a 25-year veteran of the technology space. As with any tech, the solution and implementation are only as good as the raw information fed into it.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While Luxury Stores established Amazon as a resource for the latest in luxury collections from some of the world’s most venerated fashion designers, the WGACA partnership allows the company to carve out a space as a trusted resource for high-end resale, a category that has been plagued by counterfeiting.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2024

Google said it will lay off hundreds at its Voice Assistant unit, while a few hundred roles are being eliminated in the hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit, with the majority of people in the augmented reality (AR) team being let go. Google bought health and fitness tracking company Fitbit for US$2.1

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

million of debtor-in-possession financing to support ongoing operations during the 2023 proceedings — which led to Invictus opposing its plan to go out of business entirely. The off-price retailer also obtained a commitment from Invictus Global Management to provide $51.5

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

While the ARES division is going away, the company will continue to support CameraKit — a service that allows developers to integrate Snapchat camera features like lenses into their own apps — as well as build new AR experiences for its own platforms.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2023

To combat retail theft, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, alongside other city and state leaders, announced a comprehensive plan on May 17, 2023 that will bring together increased law enforcement efforts and enhanced social service programming and resources to prevent shoplifting across the city.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

We’re in an environment now where they can get resources quickly, and if they want to try something they can spin up a new environment easily.”. Instead of having someone get paged after hours and then they have to go figure out what’s wrong and fix it, this is naturally built into the system.”.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Zalora decided to go for Shopback PayLater (formerly Hoolah) as its BNPL provider. With constraints on how many tech resources it could deploy for the integration, and without the firepower to do the heavy lifting and launch in just two weeks, the company partnered with BridgerPay, said Rajaratnam. . What Were the Results?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We take immense pride in being the go-to source for both local and global retail news and insights,” explains Larter. “We With a proven track record of providing valuable industry knowledge and analysis across the Apac region, Inside Retail is poised to become an invaluable resource for retailers, professionals, and consumers in the US.”

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

For example, Thailand’s Central Retail gained access by buying the Big C hypermarket chain and subsequently rebranding it as ‘Go!’ Other retailers have stuck to mall locations but in some parts of the country where there is high demand for quality space, such as Hanoi, there still isn’t enough of it to go around.

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LS Retail

JANUARY 11, 2024

©iStock/siraanamwong A resource I shared during my " Laurel Delaney's Global Trade Trends Report 2024 ," which you can watch now free of charge, is called Perplexity.ai. And let us not forget about other up and coming AI resources: Anthropic , the AI startup behind the chatbot Claude. Make sure you have an AI strategy in 2024.

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Retail Minded

APRIL 8, 2023

Resources are important in helping you meet your customers’ needs efficiently. These are broad and include human, financial, intellectual, and physical resources. As a business owner, you aim to have the resources bring you returns matching the money you invested in acquiring them. How do you maximize your business resources?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2024

Competitive stock monitoring provides opportunities to optimize your marketing resources. For many companies, the resources needed would defeat the purpose of digital shelf optimization efforts, even if they had the technical knowledge to achieve it. Developing such infrastructure in-house would send the costs through the roof.

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LS Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

SMEs are successfully integrating digital tools into their operations in order to gain competitive edge, improve efficiency, reach a wider customer base, and most importantly in order to go global more effectively.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The AFC is working with the Australian Retailers Association, the National Retail Association, the Australian Council of Recycling and Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association Australia to ensure all perspectives are heard. But that’s so challenging, and it’s not going to happen for five to 10 years.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Going forward, TikTok, Tokopedia and GoTo will work to “transform Indonesia’s ecommerce sector, creating millions of new job opportunities over the next five years.” The first campaign of the pilot will be a Beli Lokal initiative that will launch on Dec.

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LS Retail

MARCH 1, 2024

As the world becomes more connected, small business owners should look for ways to expand their reach overseas to find new customers, follow this blog , access resources like this one and Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®. Go for global growth. You have one shot at life. Give it your best. Reach for the stars.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Whether it be a new product or a campaign doing it all in-house and not having to outsource resources is so incredibly fulfilling. No one will spoon-feed you the information or skills you need so it’s up to you to seek out information and give things a go. IR: Where do you go for career advice? RV: Teach yourself everything.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2023

The layoff decisions, which Amazon will communicate starting January 18, will largely impact the company’s e-commerce and human-resources organizations, he said. It began letting staff go in November from its devices division, with a source telling Reuters at the time it was targeting 10,000 job cuts.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

“We want to set standards as an employer,” said Amanda Rajkumar, the Adidas Executive Board Member responsible for human resources, people and culture in a statement. “We We go above and beyond every day to create an attractive working environment for our employees.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2022

This ease of order management can help reduce wasted resources that are byproducts of returns and discarding unused, expired goods that can accumulate due to poor subscription management. Lily’s Kitchen was able to integrate the Ordergroove subscription tools into its existing ecommerce platform.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2023

JB: Managing a team and executing plans were the hardest challenges I had to face, especially when time and resources are limited. IR: Where do you go for career advice? These resources provide valuable insights and information that help me make informed decisions about my career.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2022

Leveraging high millennial homeownership rates and this group’s affinity for do-it-yourself projects, Lowe’s has introduced DIY-U by Lowe’s , a new home improvement platform that features live and on-demand educational resources for both kids and adults.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

In October 2021, upscale resale marketplace The RealReal launched a Circular ReSource Lab in partnership with luxury fashion site Mytheresa. The RealReal’s ReCollection upcycling program, which creates new items from damaged pieces, is led through the Circular ReSource Lab. Retail labs aren’t limited to brick-and-mortar companies.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2023

As savvy customers pull back the curtain on the carbon footprints of their go-to retailers, credibility in sustainable performance has emerged as a top requirement for brands competition. Energy, water, waste and carbon are key focus areas and all can contribute to reductions in resource use and operating costs.

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Inside Retail

MAY 6, 2021

Through] working with Outland, a brand which exists to eliminate exploitation while also using less natural resources and chemicals in its Cambodian facilities, we’ve been introduced to an entirely new standard of supply chain transparency and responsibility.”. Moving forward, Outland will produce future denim designs for Spell.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As such, charities are asking for more Government support in order to give them the resources they need to help Australians stay above water. But [with] interest rates going up, the everyday person is in a tough position.” That extra stock has, in some cases, ended up going to a charity such as Good360.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

But beyond simply steering consumers toward the right retailer, Kimberly-Clark’s digital products also serve as crucial resources for customers that help the company build relationships with the people who buy its brands. Ideally, we’d like mom to go buy the box of Huggies diapers as well.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

There’s going to be sales, procurement, executive buy-in, culture and for some reason, they’re all going to be challenges or impediments. Those hurdles are: motivational, political, cognitive or resource limitations. Resource Hurdles seem pretty straightforward: not enough time, budget or personnel. Lack of Time.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

Do you have an LGBTQ+ employee resource group? But if you’re going to do it, do it. Also, I would ask if they are prepared for any backlash: Have you thought about what your response is going to be if there’s a negative article or protests at your stores? Fielding: First, do that fearless self-inventory.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Nike did not provide additional information regarding the specific job titles being let go, but CEO John Donahoe previously described the layoffs as part of an overall strategy to streamline the company as it puts more emphasis on direct-to-consumer channels. Reductions are not being done for cost savings.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Retail Monitor heralds a new era of retail intelligence, where data isn’t just a resource — it’s a roadmap to understanding and engaging with the modern consumer,” said Jonathan Silver, CEO and Founder of Affinity Solutions in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

They allow brands to go further, faster when creating a multi-vendor digital commerce solution, but any breakdown in these integrations can disrupt the entire system. Instead of delivering experiences that delight, brands find themselves forced to direct disproportionate resources to simply holding things together on the backend.

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