Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

To support its operations and manage continued growth across its ecommerce platforms, Backcountry has partnered with software developer 3Pillar Global (3Pillar). The consumer-facing brands that have managed to thrive during this challenging year are those that were already embracing or quickly pivoted to digital customer engagement.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2024

Traditional shopping malls are poised for a dynamic transformation, presenting attractive real estate opportunities as more spaces become vacant and accessible. In any effort to adaptively reuse or reposition a shopping mall, a significant challenge lies in dispelling the perception of a suburban mall atmosphere.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Great product diversity, changing consumer demands, and the expansion of e-commerce have turned inventory management into a major pain point for retailers. Poor inventory management results in overstocking and under-stocking, impaired cash flow, and losses from theft and spoilage. Here are some reasons why: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Retail marketers stand to gain much-needed support and time from AI in a sector fueled by creativity and innovation. At a time when innovation and quick decision-making are business imperatives, marketers need to make their AI investments count. We know that AI can help build more meaningful connections between people and content.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The UK arm of the The Body Shop has entered administration, the British version of bankruptcy protection, according to Reuters and other media reports, but it will continue to operate online and via its 199 UK brick-and-mortar stores for the time being. Now, FRP Advisory has been brought in to manage the restructuring process.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

As rival TikTok ramps up its shopping initiatives , Meta is streamlining its own commerce strategy to drive more in-platform shopping on Instagram and Facebook. A shift toward a new dynamic for Instagram and Facebook Shops will require companies to enable in-app checkout in order to offer a Shop on both sites.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When customers aren’t actively searching and shopping for gifts, they are spending an elevated amount of time watching their favorite TV shows and movies — especially holiday classics like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Elf. In many ways, the same trends we see in consumers’ Q4 shopping behaviors mirror their TV viewership.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2024

Newmark Capital has put up the Brandon Park shopping centre in Melbourne for sale. Aside from Coles and Aldi, the shopping centre also serves as home to five mini-majors and 86 specialty tenancies and kiosks. The post Melbourne’s Brandon Park shopping centre up for sale appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Nordstrom is sponsoring and helping to launch a new Product Management course track at Atlanta-based Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Morehouse College as part of its ongoing investments in Black talent. It’s critical that our product managers reflect the diverse group of customers we serve.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Having found out that “traditional” management tools have become less relevant, brands were forced to rethink their processes to survive, stay relevant and true to their audiences. . In addition to perfecting each brand touchpoint’s management, it is the liaisons that matter the most in an omnichannel context.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Delivery management platform, Scurri , today reported an increase in the total gross merchandising value (GMV) of goods processed through its platform, which totalled over €12 billion in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

TikTok will reportedly enter a partnership with TalkShopLive to launch its live shopping platform in North America, two people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times. TikTok’s live shopping platform is already operational in Asian markets including Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam as well as the U.K.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2022

Channel management platform Productsup has raised more than $70 million in Series B funding to advance its product development and M&A activity as it continues to expand globally. We’re in a new era of commerce where outdated approaches are no longer effective.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

As retailers gear up for the 2023 holiday shopping season, predicted to be another big year, expect generative AI to influence consumer shopping and buying decisions. In fact, seven out of 10 marketers in the U.S. It’s being used to generate marketing content including social media posts, videos and images.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

Back in the 1950’s his grandfather, Stanley Whitman, decided to open a luxury shopping mall in Florida that would rival Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. Taking advantage of the balmy Florida weather, Bal Harbour Shops pioneered the idea of an open-air shopping mall. Matthew Whitman Lazenby and his family have never dreamed small.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2021

retail sales surged 9.8% , thanks to a third stimulus check and the gradual relaunch of in-store shopping. But don’t expect consumers to abandon the digital shopping experiences they relied on during the pandemic. 4 Solutions for Digitizing the In-Store Shopping Experience. In March 2021, U.S. Implement local inventory ads.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2023

As a result, customer flow management is more important than ever as leaders seek to empower the customer, improve the employee experience and collect actionable data to potentially scale their business. A good virtual queue system will include a centralized management dashboard, robust reporting and a customizable interface.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2023

Consumers are enjoying the benefits of a hands-free, voice-activated application to help cook a recipe or shop online. Typically, conversational consumers use voice-activated texts and make inquiries on mobile devices, as well as shop and seek product recommendations with smart tools. The app recommends a new product.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

Mint House Shop Your Stay page for its NYC location. But at Mint House the shopping happens in the real world — just not in a store. It’s great for brands, because they get the benefit of having these properties as marketing partners with showrooms that essentially act as free retail space.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Feed management platform Channable can help retailers manage their product listings and orders across thousands of online marketplaces, affiliate networks and price comparison sites. The company’s solutions are designed to optimize product and service go-to-market strategies and online advertising.

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Cisco Retail

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I recently had to shop for a new dishwasher for the first time in six years. The same shift is happening in IT and there is no better way to get an outcome than with a managed service. For managed services, this is our market to win, together. Wow, how the experience has changed. We are just getting started.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2023

The senior management team of Franchise Group , led by the company’s CEO Brian Kahn along with a consortium of financial partners that includes B. Under the proposal, Franchise Group common stockholders other than the management group will receive $30 in cash for each share of common stock they hold, representing a premium of 31.9%

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Home Furnishings Management Location Shopping 278

Wiser

APRIL 16, 2024

Category management in retail has evolved significantly over the past two decades, reflecting broader changes in technology, consumer behavior, and market dynamics. Ten to 20 years ago, category management was primarily focused on optimizing the assortment, shelf placement, and stock levels of products within physical stores.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2024

A recent report by Euromonitor International shed light on the normalisation of secondhand shopping and the revival of repair culture, finding that the trend is particularly pronounced in the Asia-Pacific region, where consumers exhibit a strong inclination towards repairing and recycling goods.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

Armadale’s High Street has become one of the most expensive shopping destinations in Melbourne and the row of retailers is essentially a who’s who of Australian fashion. All the connotations that come with high street shopping carry through to Armadale’s High Street with its pedestrian walkways lined with shops.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2021

The Michaels Companies (Michaels) and funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management Inc. Apollo) have entered into a definitive merger agreement through which investment funds managed by affiliates of Apollo will acquire the company. The transaction values Michaels at an equity value of approximately $3.3

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Malls were once the nucleus of “shopping culture.” But many shopping malls have endured an identity crisis. The key is to think beyond direct brand alignment within a shopping mall or center. Librarians were the age-old, quite static and inflexible owners that collected rent, rented shops and cleaned spaces,” Ibrahim explained.

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VMS

JULY 29, 2021

SmartWork Media and SHOP! Association have agreed to a formal management relationship beginning September 1, 2021. SmartWork Media will support SHOP!, Murray Kasmenn, SmartWork Media vice president and group brand director, will serve as SHOP! The retail environment is my passion and SHOP! ” SHOP!

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 11, 2023

Generative AI in Search Shopping will be one of the key test cases for Google’s new Search Generative Experience (SGE), which uses generative AI to make more complex search tasks “simpler and smarter.” SGE is built on Google’s existing AI-powered Shopping Graph , which includes 35 billion product listings, 1.8 ”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2022

JCPenney is celebrating its 120 th anniversary with a fresh campaign centered on retail’s return: “Shopping is Back!” JCPenney also is launching a cross-country “Shopping is Back!” JCPenney is transforming itself with innovation and imagination and is ready to get back to connecting with our customers through shopping.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

In 2022, a National Retail Federation/Prosper Insights and Analytics survey indicated that 56% of consumers had started their BTS shopping by early July, with 81% planning to shop sales the week of July 11. Want to Expand Back-to-School Shopping Baskets? in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “I

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Yet many believe that video content is too expensive to produce, can weigh down web or mobile performance and is too cumbersome to host, manage and distribute. Thus, most brands don’t believe they can afford video, or continue to carve out only a bite-sized portion of their marketing plans for video.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The quality of a shopping mall gets expressed through a broad menu of attributes: tenant mix, mall design, navigability, ease of access and egress, parking spaces, safety, how clean the toilets are, and so on. Like Platinum Fashion Mall, Central World is an icon on the Ratchadamri strip and The Market Bangkok is almost directly opposite.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Bed Bath & Beyond has appointed Bart Sichel as EVP, Chief Marketing and Customer Officer as the troubled retailer rebuilds its executive leadership following a number of departures in 2022, including former SVP of Marketing James Reath.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

RedMart by Lazada, Singapore’s first fully digital grocer, recently released the findings of its latest research into Singaporean grocery shopping and restocking habits. Among the highlights, it revealed that eight out of 10 Singaporeans still prefer shopping online for groceries, even in post-pandemic times. Others may follow.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Despite an increase in the number of households with smart TVs and the growing number of shoppable ad formats, the shopping cart remains stubbornly elusive for many brands and retailers. With brands looking to bring direct marketing into the 21 st century at last, linking TV ads and ecommerce is critical. Make the user experience easy.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Just weeks after confirming a new entertainment zone and dining area, Melbourne’s Chadstone Shopping Centre has now revealed plans to add a fresh food precinct and office tower as part of another $485 million development project. The Market Pavillion. Image source: Supplied. One Middle Road. Image Source: Supplied.

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