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Beyond Inc. Brings in Slate of Retail Heavyweights for C-Suite

Retail TouchPoints

New additions and promotions at Beyond include: Guncha Mehta joins as Chief Digital and Information Officer. She has 25+ years of prior merchandising experience running multi-billion-dollar businesses for Target ; Steph Whitacrehas been promoted to SVP and General Manager of Zulily from her previous role as VP, Merchandising.

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Realizing the Potential Business-Specific Analytics in Specialty Retail (2021)

Retalon

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.

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Suburban shopping strips are struggling, but they still have time to evolve

Inside Retail

The fall in retail vacancy levels from late 2022 and March of this year, after the Covid lockdowns were lifted, are likely to creep up again in the prevailing economic conditions, and vacancy rates in CBD retail precincts continue to be impacted by low office occupancy.

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Three Lessons Grocers can Learn from Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

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.

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Continuing Omnichannel Success Post-Holiday Season

Retail TouchPoints

Additionally, there will be a wave of returns that will need to be properly managed and tracked in a way that promotes profitability and customer satisfaction. Finally, the first half of January brings an additional peak season for retailers as customers make their way online or into stores for gift card redemptions.

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From triathlons to trimesters: ex-2XU colleagues launch new maternity brand

Inside Retail

So far, TheRY has spread mostly through word-of-mouth, but now the co-founders are now looking to leverage medical endorsements and increase their distribution through specialty retailers to raise awareness and reach new customers. “We’re We don’t really want to pay someone to speak about our product.

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Catalina’s new Digital Circular Personalizer drives strong incremental sales for retailers

Mass Relators

For decades, the average family has received a plethora of paper circulars in their mailbox or newspaper every week from multiple grocery, mass, and specialty retailers, each broadly touting a mix of promotions and coupons for a wide range of brands. weather.com, usatoday.com, allrecipes.com, etc.).