Medallion Retail

APRIL 5, 2025

These guidelines will help you create impactful and effective in-store signage for your brand or retail location. But you don’t need to know all the ins and outs of retail marketing to achieve your marketing goals. Medallion Retail understands the strategy, design and logistics involved in successful signage and displays.

Beauty and Health

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JUNE 25, 2025

Smart Retail Pricing Strategies to Stay Profitable During Inflation Here are five effective retail pricing strategies to tackle inflation in 2025: 1. Dynamic Pricing Using AI Leverage real-time data to adjust prices based on demand, location, competitor activity, and inventory.

Retailing Pricing

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JUNE 9, 2025

Overstock leads to: Higher storage costs Product obsolescence or spoilage More frequent discounts Reduced cash flow for new inventory As a result, this impacts specialty retailers and wholesalers alike, especially in fashion and seasonal categories where trends shift fast. However, in reality, it’s a silent drain.

Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

China-based specialty retailer Pop Mart is built around this fervor, selling collectible designer toys primarily in a blind-box format, meaning people dont know exactly which toy in a series they are getting when they buy it. locations, and more are on the way this year in key cultural hubs across the country.

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2025

retail sales growth. At the same time, specialty retailers like Party City and Joann faced challenges. How can retailers survive the current shift and optimize their physical stores to better connect with customers? Customers are now searching for convenience above anything else.

Social Commerce

I Vend

APRIL 2, 2025

Networks are pretty reliable these days, but they are not 100% guaranteed, particularly in remote locations. iVend recognises this and our retail management software uses what is called a hybrid cloud approach, which is the perfect solution for retail 1. Lose the network and you lose access to your software.

Management

Retail Dive

JUNE 20, 2025

The specialty retailer has some 39,000 employees globally , according to its 2024 annual report, filed in March. The downsizing follows an operations review that led the athleisure brand “to evolve some aspects of our organizational structure to operate with more agility and further invest in our growth,” the spokesperson said.

Department Stores

Retail Wire

JUNE 4, 2025

Leading seasonal retailer, Spirit Halloween , has cancelled its annual opening event in New Jersey due to supply chain delays. ” The specialty retailer stopped short of blaming tariffs for the cancellation of its celebration, instead attributing the decision to international disruptions.

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2023

L.L.Bean , a retailer specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment, holds its associates, or “Store Guides,” to high standards — tasking them with sharing their knowledge of the outdoors with customers and upholding merchandise presentation standards, promoting company programs and handling day-to-day operations.

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

DICK’S Sporting Goods will open four new locations of its outdoor specialty retail brand Public Lands this fall, including its first locations in the Southeast and Northwestern U.S. Additionally, the retailer offers in-store gear repair and a rental department. 14; Melville, N.Y. 21; Kennesaw, Ga.

Sporting Goods

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Container Store has opened its 100 th brick-and-mortar location in Princeton, NJ — a small-format concept designed to boost employee productivity and optimize the customer journey. This is the sixth small-format location the Container Store has opened to date.

Location

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

brick-and-mortar retailing in late 2021 with a 20,000-square-foot flagship store at New Jersey’s American Dream mall , followed by 452 Toys ‘R’ Us shop-in-shops at Macy’s in 2022. The new stores will open in prime locations that complement the existing Macy’s retail footprint, according to the company.

Planning

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2021

Specialty retailer rue21 continues to invest in its size-inclusive product offering, extending its plus-size fashion to an additional 36 stores. This move makes its XS-4X clothing now available in 444 stores, or more than 65% of its brick-and-mortar locations. “We

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

Today, the retailer operates 2,353 locations and said in its filing that “we are nearly twice the size of our next largest competitor (based on U.S. retail mattress sales) and eight times larger than the next largest multi-branded mattress specialty retailer in the United States (based on store count).”.

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2022

In its 32 locations across 12 states, outdoor specialty retailer Sun & Ski Sports can easily share customer-facing content that’s specific to the season and its stores’ individual regions, via a partnership with Carousel Digital Signage. Approximately 95% of Sun & Ski Sports’ content runs on consumer-facing displays. “A

Sporting Goods

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

The outdoor goods retailer also will add Dillard’s and Moosejaw to its key U.S. wholesale accounts, along with 10 independent specialty retailers in the southeastern U.S. We’re grateful to be in a position to expand our retail presence and build new wholesale relationships in order to serve more customers.”

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2020

Robling is offering COVID-19 store reopening analytics for both essential and specialty retailers. The tools are designed to help retailers navigate operations during the pandemic with the environment’s special considerations in mind. Specialty retailers can use the dashboard to keep an eye on operations and inventory.

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Cole Haan operates 90+ retail stores in the U.S. and Canada and more than 300 international store locations and also sells via department store and specialty retail partners.

Point of Sale

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Specialty retailer rue21 plans to open 15 stores in 2021, following the recent openings of three new brick-and-mortar stores. The retailer, which operates nearly 700 locations in 45 states, also has refinanced its existing term loan, increased available liquidity and lowered its cost of capital. .

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2024

Theft is still a problem, but the rise in violent incidents has made retail environments much more dangerous. This trend isn’t uniform across the board — stores selling everyday goods in high-traffic urban locations are generally at higher risk than specialty retailers and those situated in suburban shopping centers.

Loss Prevention

Retail Dive

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The specialty retailer is opening 10 Spirit Christmas pop-up locations in the Northeast this fall.

Specialty Retailers

Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

It wanted to create synergy between its bricks-and-mortar locations and digital storefront. By consolidating the systems into a central order management hub, Eileen Fisher empowered sales associates to locate any item in a specific size or colour and arrange for shipping from the nearest store or warehouse to a customer’s home.

Inventory Management

Retail Focus

JANUARY 5, 2022

A Pea in the Pod, the well-known designer and specialty retailer of luxe maternity apparel and accessories, is returning to its retail roots with the opening of two new concept stores located in Chicago and New York City.

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Workwear and safety equipment retailer Work World is deploying a suite of tools from SiteSeer Technologies to select new retail sites as it doubles its footprint over the next three years through acquisition and the addition of new locations.

Specialty Retailers

Inside Retail

MARCH 16, 2023

Australian fashion boutique Princess Polly has teamed up with specialty retailer Pacsun to expand its offering into the US. The brand – which previously sold in pop-up locations – will now be stocked in 15 Pacsun retail stores and online.

Specialty Retailers

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Glebe Hill Village, located in Tasmania’s Howrah growth corridor on Hobart’s eastern shore, is for sale. It has a GLA of 6000sqm and 260 parking spots. The centre represents an asset of unparalleled quality, a level of craftsmanship unseen in the neighbourhood sector,” said JLL’s Stuart Taylor. “We

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It has all but erased consistency from retailers’ and restaurants’ schedules. Googling for a location’s hours is no longer a tried-and-true method, as many stores’ hours are erratic and changing on a day-by-day, employee-by-employee basis.

Fulfillment

VMS

JUNE 16, 2021

Last-mile logistics company DoorDash (San Francisco) and specialty retailer PetSmart (Phoenix) have announced a partnetship to facilitate on-demand delivery of pet supplies and accessories across almost 1500 PetSmart locations in the U.S., according to a press release.

Visual Merchandising

Retalon

JULY 9, 2021

Business Specific Analytics and AI for Specialty Retail. The word “retail” gets used interchangeably as if all retailers are all the same. That’s why specialty retail analytics software needs to be flexible and powerful enough to work with unique business cases and considerations. Not that much.

Specialty Retailers

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Anchored by two supermarkets – Coles and Aldi – and discount department store Kmart, the centre also has 31 specialty retailers and other mini-major chain tenants, including Chemist Warehouse, The Reject Shop and Best & Less. Colliers, acting as agent, expects the property to fetch in excess of $70 million.

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2024

But many luxury retailers are actually considering larger spaces, and in combination with the greater frequency of luxury retail renovations, high-end brands and retailers need to take a data-driven, more agile approach to store design and experience. And when Tiffany & Co.

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The apparel and accessories retailer is seeking to sell both its brick-and-mortar locations and its ecommerce holdings. The retailer previously announced plans to close 140 stores and renegotiate a number of leases at other locations. As of the filing, Francesca’s still operated 558 locations.

Boutique

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2020

At the beginning of 2020, Hudson kicked off its deployment of the Flooid platform to provide a new backbone for all transactions across its 1,010 travel convenience stores and specialty retail, which includes proprietary book and tech stores, duty-free shops and food and beverage concessions.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Taking a ‘Neighborhood Store’ Approach to Brick-and-Mortar Expansion Inside the Boisson Upper West Side location. Now we can distribute to them.” Boisson’s curated approach to discovery is a differentiator for its blossoming wholesale business. Photo credit: Boisson Boisson’s big advantage for wholesale growth?

Wholesale

VMS

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Our Place, which describes itself as a mission-driven kitchenware brand, has opened its first-ever retail store in the brand’s hometown of Los Angeles. The specialty retailer also said it plans to open a second locale in the city by year-end but did not disclose specifics on its timing or location.

Specialty Retailers

Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

We strategically targeted high-potential locations to establish new Venchi boutiques, in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore knowing that our excellent products would position us for success when the market conditions improved,” said Galimberti. “The This steadfast commitment to growth has positioned the company favourably. “We

Boutique

Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

SM Prime is not just a developer and operator of garden-variety malls: it develops whole ‘lifestyle cities’ with residential, office, hotel, convention and entertainment uses integrated with enclosed malls, markets and retail high streets. The specialty retail group, consisting of 1660 stores, has experienced a same-store sales increase of 6.0

Supermarket