Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2025

By offering participants a chance to win a fun prize through this type of consumer promotion, you can create excitement for your brand, attract new customers and keep existing consumers coming back for more. But to plan a successful sweepstakes, youll need more than just an enticing prize. Choose how you will promote the sweepstakes.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 27, 2024

Convenience store retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard will promote current COO Alex Miller to CEO and President, effective Sept. The board and I have been planning for an orderly and seamless succession for several years, and we have carefully assessed the process and possible candidates.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Through the strategic partnership, nearly 900 stores will use RFMN’s dynamic Digital Window Signs to promote weekly sales programs, special events, promotional ads and other ad messages, powered by Save A Lot’s retail media network.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2025

In 2023, Foot Locker CEO and president Mary Dillon announced the launch of Foot Lockers multi-tiered revival plan, Lace Up. Our ‘Lace Up’ plan will create pathways for growth in both our areas of historic strength and our opportunity areas for the future, said Dillon. Even though Q4 sales were down by 5.8 per cent. .

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 10, 2024

Pet Valu will deploy solutions from Relex to enhance pricing and promotions planning processes in its 780+ retail locations across Canada as well as its digital channels. Consumers’ needs for their four-legged family members are continually changing, and Relex can help Pet Valu understand and plan for those demand shifts.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2025

This has prompted the beauty retailer to present a cautious 2025 outlook and add new details to the Ulta Beauty Unleashed transition plan, including an online marketplace. Despite a solid Q4 and FY 2024 overall, the company saw net sales drop slightly in Q4, which ended Feb. Net sales were down 1.9% in Q4 to $3.5 billion, compared to $3.6

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

” The new store offers exclusive promotions, including gifts with purchases and complimentary beverages during the opening week. Further reading: Inside Incu’s digital relaunch plans for APC and Rag & Bone The post Rag & Bone opens Sydney flagship store appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Wiser

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Promotional compliance is a critical driver of in-store success, yet many brands struggle to accurately track whether their promotions are executed as planned—or fail to track them at all. Issues like missing promotional signage, misplaced products, or incorrect pricing can severely impact a campaign’s effectiveness.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2024

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has blocked a Bakers Delight plan to install a new product price tiering system for a range of promotional products in its new point-of-sale system. Bakers Delight’s new PoS system will not allow for product or price modification of discount promotions.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2025

Supplement Existing Price Promotions Service providers can add a digital incentive to an existing discount promotion to get even more traction with customers. A salon, for example, might open a promotional window to offer extra points on its points-to-rewards punch card that customers can then exchange for a gift card.

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Wiser

MAY 12, 2025

In the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry, seasonal retail displays are planned months in advanceoften 8 to 9 months before they hit store floors. Brands like Haribo, General Mills, and Nestl lock in Halloween promotions in Q1, ship mid-summer, and expect execution by late summer. Competing displays disrupt original plans.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Regardless of whether your goal is to drive sales for a specific season or boost footfall at a one-off event, you can plan a calendar of initiatives to suit your schedule. Take every opportunity to persuade consumers who come to your event to share their personal information and offer the promise of follow-up promotions.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Customer journey mapping (CJM) is widely used in retail to analyze and plan touch points before, during and after purchase. Theyre feeling overwhelmed and impatient hardly the right moment to pitch a promotion or upsell. To illustrate, imagine a frustrated customer searching for a hard-to-find spice in a cluttered aisle.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

Michelle Wlazlo, formerly the Chief Merchandising and Supply Chain Officer of JCPenney, has been promoted to Brand CEO of JCPenney. Former JCPenney CEO Marc Rosen has been named CEO of Catalyst Brands, with three brand CEOs overseeing the new companys portfolio reporting to him.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2025

According to the company, the key initiatives of its three-year strategy include improving the quality of earnings through promotional events, accelerated growth of owned brands, and operating cost and working capital efficiencies. The company plans to open four to six additional locations later this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In his new position, Nicholson will be responsible for merchandising strategy, category management, promotional planning and execution and pricing at the retailer, which operates more than 350 supermarkets in New England and the mid-Atlantic. Nicholsons career also has included stints at Walmart, SuperValu and Winn-Dixie.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 10, 2025

This holistic approach sets us apart from competitors concentrating solely on sports retail, establishing us as a leader in promoting overall wellness, Baker said. The post How GMG plans to win Southeast Asias sports retail market appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2024

Former Walmart exec and Jet.com founder Marc Lore and his newest company Wonder Group have raised $700 million from various investors to support its Vision, Capital and People (VCP) plan , which is designed to support the business’ execution and scale, Lore revealed in a LinkedIn post. both of which are scheduled to open this year.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Under Rebecca’s direction, the brand is planning an ambitious expansion in the US, with multiple shop openings planned for major areas this year. Camilla entered Heinemann Australia’s duty-free store at Sydney Airport in 2023 as part of a pop-up promotion.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

Read on to take a look at the issues we plan to watch and cover onRetail TouchPoints. In terms of consumer acceptance of AI, there are strong indications that many consumers are unaware that AI is already sharpening the product recommendations they receive or has planned a faster delivery route so that their package arrives on time.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

Bringing science into the art of selling Enter Macys Bold New Chapter, a multi- layered plan that involves refreshing its product assortment with a slew of new brands, such as the recently launched menswear brand Mode of One, and reshaping the companys entire brick-and-mortar presence. By last year, Macys global net sales amounted to $23.1

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

However you look at it, healthy people are at the center of any successful sustainability plan. Establishing a solid economic foundation for team members enables a stable organization that is capable of executing our work plans. Integrating corporate wellness into sustainability plans is just good business.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 5, 2025

Woolworths fared the worst of the two, starting 2024 with a controversial decision not to promote Australia Day merchandise and ending the year with a distribution centre employee strike costing tens of millions of dollars and ravaging supermarket shelves. billion, but booked provisions worth $1.6

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2024

The platform plans to soon announce a partnership to bring “the most successful crowdfunding projects to physical locations.” To promote its new expanded service, Indiegogo is also lowering its platform fees to 4% for crowdfunding campaigns through the rest of 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

In January 2024 Nike announced plans to cut $2 billion in costs in the coming three years and warned of layoffs as it looks to combat heightened competition and slackening sales. Nike also underwent a major C-suite shakeup in November 2023 , naming new executives to the top jobs in marketing, design, innovation and technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2025

K-VA-T Food Stores , the parent company of Food City , has implemented SymphonyAI s CINDE Connected Retail platform to deepen its customer insights across all key business functions, including supply chain, merchandising, shelf planning, assortment and promotion optimization.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

Incremental price increases on inelastic goods can protect margins, while promotions on elastic goods can sustain demand. Promotional campaigns including strategic discounts and bundles can offset consumer price sensitivity and clear inventory.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Instacart also is planning to extend pick-to-light to its Caper Carts smart carts, which will enable customers to have shelf labels flash for items — whether from their shopping list or an ad or coupon they see — directly from their cart.

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

22 percent of respondents are planning to buy themselves Christmas gifts this year – a figure that climbs to 3 percent % among Gen Z and just 8 percent among Boomers. Nearly half (47 percent) of consumers plan to use AI to help them purchase gifts this year. All I want for Christmas is… to choose our own gifts?

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Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2025

The most common aids, according to research commissioned by Shopfully, include promotion hunting, product searching, or price comparison. Not just promotions, but the personally-driven data While value-driven marketing is no longer optional, 84 per cent of shoppers said that promotion is the dominant factor in their loyalty and spending.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2024

Under Armour announced plans for a restructuring following disappointing results in its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024 (ended March 31, 2024), as well as the expectation that revenues will continue to decline anywhere from 15% to 17% in North America in the coming year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2024

That’s why retailers must find ways to optimize their cloud resource planning strategies ahead of a time of demand. Scalability Is Key One key aspect of effective cloud resource planning is being able to dynamically scale infrastructure. Here are three key components of a well-managed ecommerce cloud strategy. So Who’s Doing It Well?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

Nike has laid out a plan to cut up to $2 billion in costs over the next three years in a bid to “accelerate future growth while building a faster, more efficient” organization, executives shared during the company’s fiscal 2024 Q2 earnings call. dollar that has negatively impacted second-half reported revenue versus 90 days ago.”

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Thats especially important when todays media-savvy consumer understands the difference between paid-for promotions and editorial reviews. Weve used data points to get beauty brands over 100 pieces of coverage with SEO benefit in a few weeks, in the likes of Glamour and Grazia , without a single promotional deal or sample circulated.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2025

Asda chair Allan Leighton has laid down his game plan for turning around the UK’s third biggest grocer and “ regaining customers trust” The supermarket chain saw its like-for-like sales slide 3.4% last year as consumers headed elsewhere for their weekly grocery shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

And this is just the first of in a series of shopping events Wish has planned for 2023. Retail TouchPoints: What’s your plan to bring Wish back to the forefront, especially with so many new competitors in the space now? Joe Yan, CEO, Wish Central to Wish’s turnaround effort has also been a drawn-out reshuffling of its C-suite.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2024

We plan to really shake up Sydney’s beverage scene,” he said. Nie views activations and promotions to celebrate new store openings as a way to give back to fans of the brand that have built it into the successful business it is today. “We “We introduced cheese tea to change the perception of tea for the younger generation,” Nie said.

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