Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2024

Even though the Lunar New Year officially begins on February 10, and festivities will last through February 24, US retailers and eager consumers have already begun celebrating in earnest. For brands landing dedicated ranges, products embedded with nostalgia traditionally experience success for the holiday,” she explained.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In the book, Meltzer, a New York-based journalist and author who has been covering the beauty and fashion industry for almost two decades, explores the origin and evolution of the viral beauty brand. thousand searches per month on Google, up from 802.4 per cent in search volume compared to the year prior.

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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. Retailers must manage stock across multiple channels, from bricks-and-mortar stores to online storefronts and third-party marketplaces. Here are some reasons why: 1.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amazon.com has begun rolling out a new artificial intelligence assistant that is meant to address shoppers’ product questions, but the feature raises as many questions as it answers. The FTC accused Amazon of “biasing Amazon’s search results to preference Amazon’s own products over ones that Amazon knows are of better quality.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2022

In a statement made May 23, 2022, Starbucks’ CEO Kevin Johnson noted that the company will support its nearly 2,000 associates in Russia with six months of pay and job search assistance. Starbucks entered the Russian market in 2007 and its franchises in the country are operated by Kuwait-based Alshaya Group. “As TJX , which owns T.J.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2022

“The goal of SHEIN Exchange is to make resale just as easy and convenient as buying something brand new, while also igniting a cultural movement of circularity within our own SHEIN community. By harnessing the reach and the influence of our growing community, we believe that shopping resale can become the new normal in our industry.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2021

As retailers prepare for the holiday shopping season ahead, many may be thinking that now is the time to start preparing, wondering if we are gearing up for another extended, ecommerce-driven season. The Delta variant is presumed to be stronger and spreading faster, and retailers are already being affected in fundamental areas.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This is evidenced by a recent SEO report that shows beauty publishers like Allure and Byrdie (a company that doesn’t even sell beauty products) now own the majority of organic beauty search market share, beating out traditional brands such as Sephora and Ulta Beauty. This could be a pivotal tipping point in the space.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

If it’s true that we live in an attention economy (wait just a sec, I’m getting an email/text/Slack/LinkedIn alert…okay, I’m back), then retailers — both online and brick-and-mortar — need new tools to not just attract customers but also to keep them engaged. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How do you define customer engagement?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

PayPal is reportedly in talks to acquire Pinterest , according to media outlets including The New York Times , Financial Times , Bloomberg and CNBC. Adding social media capabilities could further enhance PayPal’s offerings for retailers. “We The payments platform acquired deal-finding platform Honey Science Corp.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2023

“We’re trying to keep that customer over 40, but we’re trying to go back to our younger customer as well,” Preis said during her session at CommerceNext’s Ecommerce Growth Show , held June 20-21 in New York City. We think of it as a way to deepen the relationship with our customers and get them into new categories.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In fact, the NPD group has identified a phenomenon called the “ beauty index ,” which proposes that when consumer sentiment is low (as it is right now), the desire to treat oneself goes up — and what better way to do that than with the relatively small purchase of a new lipstick or nail polish?

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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?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2023

Businesses must adopt new marketing strategies to distinguish their ads from the rest. New problems call for new tools — machine learning and other new technologies can systematize methods for businesses to reclaim consumer attention. He is now based out of New York City.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The search for that perfect Christmas gift turns out a fun journey when it starts approaching the season. Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience: Explore a new dimension of science fiction drama with the latest revolutionary theatre production that reimagines Jeff Wayne’s renowned saga.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Design and furnishings retailer Herman Miller has opened its first experiential retail concept store at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles, with a second location to follow at The Shops at Hudson Yards in New York on Nov. The retailer plans to open additional locations across the country in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The retail industry has experienced a great deal of change over the last 2½ years with the accelerated growth of online sales, the introduction of new safety protocols, the expansion of experiential retail concepts and the integration of new technologies. Implementing Food and Beverage Design.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While Australian retail’s annual peak season may have dawned, “a perfect storm of challenges” has created an extremely difficult time for retailers who are facing higher overheads and falling spending as consumers adapt to the cost of living crisis. It is important to remember that crises drive innovation,” he told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Everyone in the retail industry knows January means two things: lots of holiday returns and the venerable NRF Big Show , running Jan. New to this year’s event is the Consumer Product Showcase , offering SMB brands the opportunity to show off innovative customer-facing products. 16 keynote from 3:15-3:45 p.m.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

The CEO saga at DTC luggage and travel accessories retailer Away continues. Haselden will remain on the Board of Directors and lead the search for his replacement alongside co-founder and President Jen Rubio, who will take over as interim CEO in the meantime. The company announced on Jan. All of us said, ‘It’s not right.’”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

retail scene. Nevertheless, in 2018 the party goods retailer went a step further and began selling on Amazon as well. Our core goal when we originally launched with our pilot on Amazon, was to reach customers who are increasingly gravitating toward shopping online,” he said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2023

During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the retail industry saw a major spike in sales of sweatpants and other forms of comfortable wardrobe items. erasoutfit has over 69 million TikTok views in the United States to date,” Venetia Fryzer, fashion and retail analyst at retail intelligence company Edited, told Inside Retail. “As

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2023

In the world of fashion, it has been speculated that it could be possible that future designs on the runways of London, Milan, New York and Paris, could come from generative artificial intelligence programs. The post Fashion and retail are ripe for disruption: The promise of generative AI appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2021

Mobile devices will drive over 72% of all searches and over 56% of all online sales. For retail marketers and consumers alike, hope and optimism are not just on the horizon, but on the rise. Bose recognized the potential of search marketing as an essential advertising channel in 2004. Udayan Bose is Founder and CEO of NetElixir.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Booktopia appoints Peter George as its new chairman. Peter George has been appointed as the new chairman of the board and non-executive director of pureplay online book retailer Booktopia. He has been executive chairman of Retail Food Group since 2018, a role he will continue to hold simultaneously.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2022

Many people in finance and retail considered 2021 the “year of the cryptocurrency.” In November, the mayor-elect of New York City, Eric Adams, sent a tweet saying he wants his first three paychecks to be paid in Bitcoin. Retailers also need to ensure that their machines are findable via searches.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

GameStop names billionaire Ryan Cohen as CEO in turnaround push By Aditya Soni of Reuters GameStop on Thursday named billionaire Ryan Cohen as its CEO and chairman, tightening the activist investor’s grip on the ailing video game retailer that he intends to turn around. billion in 2017. They were trading 2% lower on Thursday.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

GameStop names billionaire Ryan Cohen as CEO in turnaround push By Aditya Soni of Reuters GameStop on Thursday named billionaire Ryan Cohen as its CEO and chairman, tightening the activist investor’s grip on the ailing video game retailer that he intends to turn around. billion in 2017. They were trading 2% lower on Thursday.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Lids has adapted its LidsHatDrop.com online concept of selling limited-edition goods into a brick-and-mortar store, returning to the 29-year-old company’s roots in brick-and-mortar retail. The retailer’s new store in the Queens, N.Y. said Britten Maughan, President of Lids in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We

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Inside Retail

JULY 4, 2023

A new consumer behaviour trend has taken over social media that, ironically, is the complete antithesis of a trend. On Google, searches for quiet luxury have increased more than 614 per cent in the past year, and amassed more than 36 billion views on TikTok. But the quiet luxury trend is really nothing new.

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A1 Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

Co-op aims to create a ‘buzz’ amongst innovative and smaller-scale food and drink businesses as applications open to join its Apiary programme, an accelerated support scheme giving suppliers the opportunity to work towards a listing on the convenience retailer’s shelves.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2022

The ecommerce surge generated by COVID-19 fueled a long-standing debate within the retail industry regarding the role of brick-and-mortar. Retailers today are searching for the perfect blend of brick-and-mortar retail and ecommerce synergies, yet this formula is different for every brand, location and customer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2021

The past six months have been tough, even punishing, for many retailers, but there was good news this past holiday season. And in the ecommerce world, that can only mean one thing: online retail giants such as Amazon continue to dominate the market. The influence of consumer confidence on retail sales cannot be overstated.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Based on search data, consumers conduct more online searches around Black Friday than Cyber Monday. Retailers were cautiously optimistic going into Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year. Despite this, retailers still saw success from the big shopping weekend, as purchases were higher this year than in 2021.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Booktopia boardroom spill clears the way for new CEO, says founder. A boardroom spill at online book retailer Booktopia has seen chairman Chris Beare and three fellow independent directors resign. This is the start of a new journey [for me],” Lamb said on Linkedin. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2020

The company will begin a search for a permanent CEO that will include internal and external candidates. Citing a source familiar with the matter, the New York Times reported that Tapestry had hired the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson to investigate Zeitlin’s conduct.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Every day , 1,797 new sellers join the Amazon marketplace. With similar growth trends for the many other online marketplaces now available, one begins to wonder how any new brand could break through. That’s what allows us to be disruptive in the marketplace,” he said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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