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JANUARY 23, 2025

which operates more than 520 stores under various banners, and the 166- store supermarket retailer The Fresh Market have each named new leaders. Current Fresh Market COO Brian Johnson will become that retailers President and CEO, also on Feb. Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. Potter succeeds Eric Lindberg Jr.,

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2025

The Reject Shop has entered an acquisition agreement with Canadian convenience chain Dollarama. The Reject Shop Board unanimously recommends that shareholders vote in favour of the scheme, with the acquisition price of $6.68 cash per share representing a 112 per cent premium to the closing share price of $3.15 on March 26.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Fresh Market will deploy solutions from VusionGroup across all 166 grocery stores in its fleet next year, adding electronic shelf labels (ESLs), improved inventory management technology and analytics designed to better support in-store merchandising decisions, timing of out-of-stocks and prioritizing waste reduction.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

According to a report by Emarketer , commerce media spending is projected to reach nearly $68 billion in 2025, underscoring its critical role in modern marketing. This dual approach allows marketers to serve ads that are not only contextually appropriate but also aligned with the likely preferences and behaviors of their customers.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Since entering the market, Parachute has raised over $47 million in venture capital. How Parachute popped off Like many other successful DTC brands in the market, the concept for Parachute came from a personal place of need and interest from the founder.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

Stop & Shop will deploy Savings Station kiosks in half its stores this month and complete a chainwide rollout to all 350+ supermarkets by the end of January 2025. Shoppers can scan their GO Rewards loyalty card or enter their phone number to load their digital coupons and activate personal offers based on their shopping history.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

. “We’re very excited to launch Amazon Live’s first collaboration with TalkShopLive,” said Wayne Purboo, VP of Amazon Shopping Video in a statement. “TalkShopLive and Amazon Live both lead video commerce in the U.S.,

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Panthera Group is set to sell the Terrace Central Shopping Centre in the Hunter Valley, hoping to attract bids from private, syndicate and institutional investors. The post Terrace Central Shopping Centre in Hunter Valley listed for sale appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. Expressions of Interest close will close next month.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

But in a market where Mecca already sets the bar for in-store shopping experiences, is there room for another Australian-founded beauty retail empire? per cent of the Australian beauty and personal care market, meaning it is not currently reaching 87.5 per cent of the addressable market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Differentiating The bricks-and-mortar beauty retail market in Australia is becoming crowded, with Wesfarmers’ new beauty offering Atomica joining Chemist Warehouse’s Ultra Beauty, homegrown cult-favourite Mecca and international import Sephora. .”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Uncertainty about the ultimate fate of TikTok has been somewhat lost among the clouds surrounding other T things (tariffs and trade deals), but a lot of retail marketers will be very unhappy if some kind of solution isnt eventually found. Now, TikTok is showing that it can support both ends of the marketing funnel, he noted.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Pinterest has unveiled its most extensive holiday shopping experience yet this year, with more than 1,000 shoppable gift guides from celebrities, brands and publishers as well as a range of new shopping tools.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The in-store grocery shopping experience has held on to its appeal, even as supermarket retailers have realized that they also need to offer customers simple, yet personalized, digital commerce options. But supermarkets can no longer rely on simply providing a top-notch store experience for success.

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Retail Wire

MAY 20, 2025

When it comes to live online shopping, TikTok Live has now taken the top spot when it comes to customer engagement. This makes the platform the leader in live social shopping, driving significant consumer engagement and purchases. market is projected to reach $68 billion by 2026, accounting for 5% of total e-commerce sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A number of local and independent grocers — including Bowman’s Market , Maurer’s Market IGA , Neiman’s Family Market , Queen’s Price Chopper and Soelbergs Market — are adopting Instacart ‘s AI-powered smart Caper Carts. At the end of their trip, customers check out directly from the cart.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Were in the early stages of what you might call the Great Shopping Migration: almost 60% of online customers recently polled confirmed that they were likely to use social media platforms to shop. As mentioned, though, these shops are making improvements in standard-setting with higher-caliber merchants operating on them.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In particular, generative AI is revolutionizing the shopping landscape to create more personalized and memorable experiences for consumers. In the traditional shopping experience, a customer uses a search or navigation menu on a site to view, for example, sunscreen options. The user can filter by price, shade, brand, style, etc.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Just in time for peak holiday shopping, Target is joining Linktree Shops, the company’s social commerce marketplace, which already features 35+ brands including Nike , Fanatics and Savage x Fenty. The retailer has a collective 8.4 For example, @targetdoesitagain, a “source for all things cool found at Target,” has 1.3

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This year promises to be no exception, with the average American shopper projected to spend $902 USD on gifts, food, and other seasonal items, making it potentially one of the busiest and most profitable holiday shopping seasons on record. RMNs provide access to high-converting audience segments through first-party data.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With retail sales bouncing around as the UK economy chugs along, marketers in the sector are seeking the best way to keep their customers happy and prevent them from spending their money in another store. According to a study by UC Today , 90% of consumers expect to have an omnichannel retail experience when we shop.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Our real-time insights show that consumers are comfortably in the gift-giving spirit as price reductions and deals occur across sectors, supporting budgets for holiday shopping.” AI Shopping Assistants Make a Big Entrance Both Salesforce and Adobe also noted the emerging influence of generative AI-powered chatbots.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2025

Thailand’s malls are more than just shopping centres; they are also lifestyle attractions. It also hosts Songkran (Thai New Year) celebrations and offers an indoor floating market. Luxury shopping destination Emsphere opened in 2023. trillion ($84 billion) to Thailand’s GDP, accounting for about 15.17 per cent of the total GDP.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

In many ways, this show was a big coming out for the company, which also unveiled the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for retail shopping assistants , a generative AI reference workflow designed to help developers create AI-powered digital assistants that work with and support human workers online and in stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Its clear that the retail landscape has undergone a seismic shift, with platforms like Temu, alongside Shein, Wish and TikTok Shop, promising extremely discounted goods that cut out the middleman and the markup. In the first half of 2024, we tracked that order volume grew for both TikTok Shop (35%) and Shein (63%).

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2025

CoreRivet aims to combine Coresight Researchs expertise in market intelligence and digital strategy with NextRivets track record in digital innovation and implementation to provide executives with a holistic approach that bridges strategy and execution.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2024

WHP Global has partnered with Cotton Candy International to bring both Toys R Us and Babies R Us brick-and-mortar stores to Latin American and Caribbean markets, beginning with flagship stores in Panama that are scheduled to open next year. The initial U.S. flagship location had opened in New Jerseys American Dream mall in December 2021.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

In the age of omnichannel retail and ever-expanding social media channels, retail marketing has never been more complex than it is today. Effective techniques to drive loyalty in 2025 Over the past few years, True Religion has grown exponentially, and marketing has played a pivotal role in the brands transformation, DArcy explained.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2024

They’ve been shaped/scarred by not one but two global economic traumas — the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and the COVID pandemic — and they’ve grown up with social media playing an increasingly large (and loud) role in shaping culture, including how these consumers shop, research and purchase products and services. Now it’s the inversion.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

increase in online shopping. At the same time , in-person shopping and spending also saw gains , with Mastercard remarking on what it called consumers balanced basket: restaurant spending grew 6.3% One of the biggest recipients of all that IRL shopping this year was malls. last year). 21 in 2024) increased a whopping 177.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 27, 2024

But reaching them requires more than flashy social campaigns or discounts theyre more resilient to being marketed to as well as ham-fisted attempts to study them. Retailers must reflect this diversity in their marketing. Make Convenience Your First Priority Above all else, Gen Z values convenience when shopping.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 25, 2025

The solution ensures that the supply is accurately tuned to the shopping preferences of consumers. ” The post Nedap selected for largest ever RFID deployment in Benelux market appeared first on Retail Focus Magazine - Retail Design. It is the largest roll-out of RFID technology in the Benelux to date. With platform !D

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 23, 2025

Hyper-Personalization Tests to Try Now Retailers at nearly any state of personalization maturity can try the following hyper-personalization tests: Leverage one insight: Retailers should consider which data point they have that defines something important in the customer journey and also is readily available to use for marketing.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

There have been rumors of the move for months, and now the new shop is officially rolling out in beta. Amazon customers when they next update their Amazon Shopping app. It will be available to U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

Now, as new marketing and advertising formats venture further into the store, store teams must work more thoughtfully to ensure these touch points are intentionally integrated into their designs. This presents an opportunity for in-store media to influence customers brand preferences as they shop.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

That is why Carters, the baby and childrens retailer behind Carters, OshKosh BGosh, Little Planet and Skip Hop , recently implemented a fresh direction and approach that spans marketing, product development and even store design. Reimagined marketing creative and campaigns that authentically demonstrate the new realities of modern parenthood.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2024

It has been seven years since Amazon acquired the American grocery chain Whole Foods Market, but from its perspective, it is still only scratching the surface of the grocery sector. In the average month, you might shop at a half dozen different places for groceries and everyday essentials, like personal and household goods,” shared Hoggett.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2025

These follow a host of previous rollouts including Buy with Prime , expansions in the capabilities of the Alexa voice assistant and the rollout of the in-app shopping assistant Rufus all of which aim to make Amazon an easy-to-access, easy-to-use resource for any shopping need.

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