Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2021

Similarly, customers of specialty retailer Claire’s not only earn rewards points for every purchase, but also for social engagement on particular platforms and for downloading the Claire’s app. They also earn added rewards such as free shipping twice a year, birthday surprises, and personalized deals and perks.

Customer Experience 165

Customer Experience Specialty Retailers Marketing Spend Management 165

VMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

There, specialty retailer Filson (Seattle) – a 124-year-old maker and seller of men’s and women’s outdoor clothing, accessories and luggage – opened a flagship store whose interior incorporates major structural elements of a rustic barn.

Visual Merchandising 105

Visual Merchandising Specialty Retailers Advertising Outdoor 105

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Some wineries offer consumers free shipping for “lockdown packs”. And the “nolo” movement has thrown up some new specialty retailers such as Sans Drinks and Craftzero. Diageo’s Gordon’s Gin very recently introduced its first alcohol-free product in Australia. So what is likely to stick?

Specialty Retailers 130

Specialty Retailers Accounting Consumer Outdoor 130

Mass Relators

MARCH 21, 2022

This patience bodes well for retailers.”. This study includes six retail industries — online retail, department and discount stores, specialty retail stores, drug stores, supermarkets and gas stations — as well as consumer shipping and the U.S. Postal Service.

Grocer 52

Grocer Discount Store Supermarket Wholesale 52

Mass Relators

MARCH 1, 2022

This patience bodes well for retailers.”. This study includes six retail industries – online retail, department and discount stores, specialty retail stores, drugstores, supermarkets, and gas stations – as well as consumer shipping and the U.S. Postal Service.

Wholesale 52

Wholesale Grocer Discount Store Supermarket 52

Rangeme

APRIL 27, 2022

Barnacle Foods debuted six years ago and ships its products across the country, to consumers and specialty retailers. “A lot of students have been eating seaweed their whole lives and care about the impact their food choices have and kelp being carbon-negative is a huge win,” Croft points out.

Specialty Retailers 52

Specialty Retailers Specialty Store Consumer Shipping 52

Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Although clothing is a department store staple retailers like Sears or specialty retailers like Gap couldn’t keep up with a more nimble fast fashion retailer like Forever 21. Shein, another ultra fast fashion retailer, adds between 500 to 2,000 new items on its website every day.

Fast Fashion 98

Fast Fashion Fashion Apparel Department Stores 98

VMS

APRIL 23, 2021

(PRESS RELEASE) SARASOTA, FL – All Point, a specialty retail IT solutions company, has announced its Managed Retail Commerce offering, a new service that helps maximize the potential of unified commerce for retailers.

Management 52

Management Visual Merchandising Specialty Retailers Checkout 52

Retalon

JULY 27, 2021

Let’s take a look at a retailer with many unique business considerations that massively benefited from implementing Retalon’s analytics. The Paper Store is an American gift-shop retailer with more than 80 locations. Unsurprisingly, this is all thanks to a much more accurate and reliable forecast built for specialty retail.

Specialty Retailers 41

Specialty Retailers Accounting Jewelry Location 41

Retail Geek

MAY 5, 2025

I’m I’m very skeptical that there’s a lot of incremental ad dollars for a regional grosser with no third-party Marketplace or a specialty retailer in home furnishings with like. Scot [45:47]The shipping notifications were actually very clean uh everything was double communicated so I I got a you know so Amazon.

Merchant Services 52

Merchant Services Payment Services Drop-Shipping Shipping 52

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Going forward there are only going to be more things needing batteries, not less — electric vehicles, solar and renewable energy, all of these things require batteries,” said Detenber in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. So we have a little bit of an Amazon moat, which is difficult for many retailers.

Consumer 237

Consumer Marketing Specialty Retailers Shipping 237

Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

Best & Less sees itself as a hybrid between a discount department store (DDS) and specialty retailer. “We We are a value retailer, like DDS participants, but we approach it with a specialty mindset. On being everyday low cost. For us, quality and value must go hand in hand,” Orrock said. “We

Planning 130

Planning Department Stores Shipping Specialty Retailers 130

Retail Geek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

That helps somewhat but the biggest cargo ships can’t even fit in these ports right so I Long Beach the one of the most advanced Sports we have certainly the most advanced on the West Coast, um. [37:27] Space on these boats that are coming over because of some of the rest of the supply chain that will talk about so. [27:46]

Drop-Shipping 64

Drop-Shipping Shipping Consumer Fulfillment 64

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Retailers such as Best Buy and Apple were two of the first to implement the model at scale, showing the value for businesses outside of luxury and specialty retail. Count appointment-based selling as another existing trend that was supercharged by COVID-19.

Beauty and Health 311

Beauty and Health Consumer Shopping Clienteling 311

Retail Geek

MARCH 31, 2021

Given how Shoppers tend to buy the same item in multiple sizes when they order online, Macy’s can use it stores to handle returns which lowers the shipping cost and offers a chance to win some sales while those customers are in there are stores. Jason: [30:06] I wonder how many of those chips are on boats in the Suez Canal.

Beauty and Health 59

Beauty and Health Apparel Merchant Services Marketing 59

Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Jason: [3:15] The biggest retailers that are, you know, best at really being highly efficient and low cost. They’ll have lower margins and a bunch of specialty retailers and big box retailers and people that aren’t quite as efficient are going to have a really hard time. They’ll outperform the market.

Advertising 52

Advertising Fulfillment Checkout Payment Services 52

Retail Geek

MAY 9, 2023

And this is all about getting more efficiency so the idea is you know in the old model you placed an order and you know they ship from whatever Warehouse fulfillment center had the goods in stock so often that.

Fulfillment 52

Fulfillment Dead-Stock Consumer Drop-Shipping 52

Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping. Shein successful IPO.

Drop-Shipping 59

Drop-Shipping Apparel Shipping Fast Fashion 59