Retail Gazette

APRIL 22, 2025

The new leadership team sees store bosses Darren MacDonald and Olivia McLoughlin head up the retailers retail operations in the UK and Ireland. Related Story What does Barry Williams’ return mean for Poundland?

Returns

Inside Retail

MARCH 9, 2025

The retail marketing landscape is more dynamic than ever, so understanding which trends are worth pursuing both from the consumers and the businesss perspective and which ones are just noise, will be critical to achieving growth in the year ahead.

Marketing

Retail Gazette

MAY 18, 2025

A spokesperson for Pepco Group said: As announced at the capital markets day on March 6, Pepco Group is moving away from fast-moving consumer goods to create a simpler business focused on higher-margin clothing and general merchandise and is actively exploring separation options for Poundland, including a potential sale, from the group.

ATS

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The US luxury retail market was worth US$134.6 billion last year, retail analyst and GlobalData managing director Neil Saunders told Inside Retail. Experiential retail at its highest,” Driscoll noted, “is a strategy employed by many purveyors of luxury products.”

Apparel

Retail Bound

JANUARY 7, 2025

For major retailers, physical stores serve as hubs for customer engagement, offering services like in-store pickups and returns. Challenges Facing Physical Retail Brick-and-mortar stores face challenges, including high operational costs, the need to maintain inventories, and the pressure to innovate constantly.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2025

To support the new wholesale push, Nike is in the process of hiring retail marketing, visual merchandising and account management employees with the goal of having elevated presentations, better consumer connections and increased sell-throughs. Hill also changed 11 of his 15 direct reports.

Wholesale

Small Biz Trends

JULY 5, 2025

Overview of Amazon Startups Amazon startups offer a unique opportunity for small businesses to penetrate the expansive retail market. Familiarize yourself with rules regarding product listings, shipping, and returns. How can I learn more about managing an Amazon startup?

Payment Services

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Japanese retailer Uniqlo is investing heavily in radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to accelerate supply chain efficiencies, with an ambition to embed RFID into its global product range, facilitating improved inventory management and the customer self-checkout experience. So, our take?

Payment Services

I Vend

JUNE 27, 2025

Cloud POS is winning: 5 retail shifts that make on-prem obsolete If you’re a mid-size to large retailer with on-premise POS, you’ve almost certainly considered whether you should move to Cloud POS. Here we explain 5 key shifts in the retail market that you can’t afford to ignore as you make your decision.

Marketing

Retail Bound

JANUARY 21, 2025

These agencies bring expertise, established relationships, and credibility to help your brand penetrate retail markets. Sometimes, the very agency you trusted to drive your retail success may start holding your business back. If possible, personally inform key retail partners about your plans and reassure them about continuity.

Wholesale

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A growing retail and ecommerce business can turn an efficient process into a multi-step nightmare with inaccurate purchasing, order fulfillment and returns processes. Hence the undeniable need for robust warehouse management technologies that are future-focused and effortlessly scalable. Sophisticated Automation.

Management

Inside Retail

AUGUST 10, 2021

Identifying meaningful insights from retail partner apps – Woolworths Compass and Coles Portal and actioning in real time increases availability and prioritises key stores to target. Genuine return on investment modelling. Increasing return on investment for clients is a key focus for Strikeforce. Predictive scenarios.

Retail Marketing

Retail Focus

APRIL 9, 2021

UK supply chains certainly have their own challenges in managing a lack of warehousing availability, which is driving supply chain costs upward. The ramifications of BREXIT are also now being felt and interestingly, a lack of capacity in the UK returnable transit packaging (RTP) manufacturing sector is on the horizon too. .

Returns

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2023

On the other hand, an advertisement that promotes the return of a shopper’s favorite seasonal dessert or provides a promotion for their favorite chip brand will earn their attention and draw them into the store. If the advertisements and promotions are not adequately tailored to the shopper, they won’t stand out amongst the noise.

Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2022

FedEx will launch FedEx Consolidated Returns, a solution designed to provide an easy ecommerce returns option that retailers can make available to shoppers, in early 2023. FedEx Consolidated Returns will be facilitated through supply chain services offered by FedEx Logistics and FedEx Office. of all U.S.

Returns

Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

Inside Retail connected with retail experts Nikki Baird, the vice president of strategy and product at Aptos, a retail technology company, and Neil Saunders, managing director and retail analyst at GlobalData, to gather their thoughts about the potential “Great Mall Resurgence” and what retailers should keep in mind.

Retail Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

Now Google has debuted its Last Mile Fleet Solution for companies that directly manage or own their own delivery fleets. The technology builds on the Google On-demand Rides & Deliveries solution used by ride-hailing and on-demand delivery operators around the world.

Fulfillment

Retail Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Akeneo , the product experience company, is pleased to announce that it has been recognised by Ventana Research , an independent market research and technology advisory services firm, as a Value Index Leader in the 2023 Product Experience Management (PXM) Value Index. To learn more about Akeneo, please visit www.akeneo.com.

Management

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

With our Editor’s Perspectives column, you’ll get insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. Indeed, retail is one of the least consolidated industries in the U.S. Even in the marketplace segment, Amazon isn’t a monopoly.

Advertising

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Townsend says forward-thinking retailers today are looking for much more than a list of services and a price list: they are looking at transparent working relationships with suppliers so that both parties can see the returns on the money they are investing. Embrace the opportunity.

Marketing

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Retailers are integrating AI with bricks-and-mortar shops and online platforms to give the shopping experience a remarkable transformation, enhancing both customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. Personalised recommendations: You can tailor marketing and product suggestions based on purchase history and browsing behaviour.

Loss Prevention

Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2021

Nike will start collecting and cleaning some of the sneakers that are returned by customers and reselling them at a discount in stores as part of its Nike Refurbished program, which launched on Monday. . A number of different products and tools are used to return them to as close to new condition as possible, according to Nike.

Fast Fashion

365 Retail

JUNE 28, 2022

Opti-channel marketing shows a brand or retailer how a shopper responds to specific media channels so it is able to improve its focus on ad spending across those that deliver the best return on investment (ROI). With the growth of Retail Media networks, this is becoming more and more accessible for brands.

Retail Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Most retailers have heeded their digitally savvy consumers’ demands, embedding connected technology into their storefronts to varying degrees. By 2030, the smart retail market will be worth $91.36 Pros and Cons of Smart Stores Smart retail storefronts have had varied success across segments and companies.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In today’s competitive and connected retail market, one mistake or delay can result in losing ground to a competitor. One of the most powerful tools you should implement to ensure your long-term success is a retail Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. What is a Retail ERP System? That is not all.

Supply Chain Management

365 Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Every year the Christmas retail marketing blitz seems to start earlier and earlier, and in Britain, we love nothing more than a good grumble about it. We sigh when online sales and email marketing campaigns start targeting us months before we’ve pulled together our shopping lists. Choosing the right software?to

Management

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

With our Editors Perspectives columns, you’ll get insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. If a cashier “sweethearts” for his friends and family, how many people need to be involved for it to be classified as “organized retail crime”?

Sporting Goods

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The NRF reported that 122 million people visited retail stores over Thanksgiving weekend last year, a 17% YoY increase during this five-day period. This is a promising sign, as Forbes found that not only has in-store shopping returned to pre-pandemic norms, but ecommerce also grew at the same time. billion online!

Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

One silver lining though all of this has been the emergence of zero-party data in retail’s marketing arsenal. Think about how best to manage engagement and monitor to make certain you’re providing value. Sabina Klein is VP – Retail Marketing at Jun Group , where she leads shopper marketing sales and strategy.

Kiosk

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The convenience of in-store returns or in-store pickup of online orders provides extra opportunities for making a positive impression, brand engagement and additional in-store purchases. A worst-case scenario for retailers occurs when shoppers leave their stores disappointed or frustrated because they may not return.

Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2021

The consumer buying behaviors retail marketers all once knew to be true experienced a seismic shift. The question now is: what do these new “pandemic personas” look like, and how can retail marketers cater to their new needs to set benchmarks for a successful 2021? Newly-Online Nelly.

Consumer

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But as ecommerce has become a more prominent contributor to retailers’ bottom lines, and the cost of doing business online gets more expensive (think rising shipping costs and increasing returns), the mere existence of an ecommerce operation is no longer enough — retailers now have to find a way to make money online.

Merchant Services

Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2025

A customer searching for a new pair of shoes can start by browsing personalised recommendations on the retailers website, continue their engagement through a synchronised mobile app with push notifications and inventory checks, and receive personalised assistance in store.

Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the retail sector in dramatic ways over the last year — from fluctuating product demand and availability and rapidly changing consumer behaviors and expectations to ever-evolving health and safety requirements.

Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon can display larger items, on which return rates are high, and which can benefit from such showrooming. Similarly, smaller retailers will have to become sellers on Amazon’s platform to avail themselves of the attention from a large number of customers to increase their revenues. So are all these developments good for consumers?

Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2021

currently Amazon captures just 1% of the worldwide retail market. Despite all the talk of the rise of ecommerce, most retail in the U.S. At the Accelerate event, the company made it clear that it wants to do the same for cross-border retail. Amazon estimates that more than 6 million products currently offered by its U.S.

Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Marketing is often first on the chopping block during a recession, and with GDP contracting two quarters in a row, retail marketers are working hard to determine how to make each dollar go further. Many organizations will cut marketing spend in a bid to preserve margins.

Marketing