A1 Retail

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Christmas late night shopping turnover has proved particularly strong. Giving everyone what they want with a perfect shopping experience set in an uplifting healthy green environment. Record sales results at the outlet as Springfields continues to be a hugely popular destination in the heart of England Week 50 saw record sales up £83.8K

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2022

The USDA Food and Nutrition Service is accepting applications for a $5 million grant, funded by the American Rescue Plan , to increase the number of retailers offering online shopping for customers who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern) on Sept.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The store is slated for the Jingjiang Impression City shopping center in Taizhou, a city located near Shanghai. Forever 21 then opened a store on Alibaba ’s Tmall and has begun advertising its offerings for the 618 mid-year shopping festival. Forever 21 first entered China in 2008 but left the country a year later.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

ChaseDesign just finished our annual study of 1,000 shoppers to see what the latest insights are around online grocery shopping, specifically focused on which delivery methods are winning out pre, during and now post-COVID times. In 2011, less than 1% of grocery shopping was done online. COVID obviously changed that, almost overnight.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

billion in Q2 2021, the highest second-quarter sales in over a decade, up 29% year-over-year and 5% compared to 2019 pre-COVID levels. Online sales in particular grew 65% over 2019 levels and represented 33% of the total business, offsetting an 11% brick-and-mortar decline compared to its pre-COVID performance.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This would raise around US$260 million with shares selling at US$17 to US$19 each, but the business yesterday revised its offer to sell around 10 million shares at US$11 to US$13 each – signaling a massive 52 per cent drop in its expected worth, according to Renaissance Capital.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In another sign that Black Friday, and to some extent the entire extended Thanksgiving weekend, has ceded its position as a truly peak shopping period, Black Friday 2021 was a mixed bag for retailers. higher than 2020’s, although it was not yet back up to 2019 levels (Black Friday 2021 was down 28.3% Store traffic was 47.5%

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Inside Retail

MAY 11, 2022

Australians are returning to shopping malls as Covid fears subside with Scentre Group reporting customer visitations up 12 per cent on 2021 levels during the first quarter. per cent in March compared to the same month in 2019, pre-Covid, and for the quarter were up by 7.1 per cent to 90.4

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A1 Retail

MAY 15, 2021

VIA Outlets has moved quickly to reopen all centres in its 11-strong portfolio, with Zweibrücken Fashion Outlet in Germany the final centre reopening its doors today. This certification will further reinforce the message to our guests that we have taken every step to ensure the safest possible shopping experience.”.

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A1 Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Survey of 2,000 consumers reveals shift in consumer behaviour with 48% buying the majority of their goods online this year, up from 40% in 2019. Most significant rise seen amongst the oldest and youngest age groups: 18-24s will do 42% of their shopping online (34% in 2019) and 41% of 65+ (33% in 2019). .

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VMS

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

eBay (San Jose, CA) will open three temporary storefronts called “Hard to Find” gift shops as part of its holiday promotional strategy, Chain Store Age reports. The pop-up shops will open in Detroit, Houston and Miami, with each focusing on a different holiday category, the article says. Read more at Chain Store Age.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

US-based retailer Showfields, the self-described “most interesting store in the world”, filed for bankruptcy this month and will be restructuring through a form of Chapter 11 bankruptcy created during Covid to help small businesses continue operations, reorganise, and maintain control of finances without creditors taking over.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 6, 2022

If you are curious about the eCommerce market in China then consider these 11 facts about its size, competition and trends. While online shopping definitely accelerated in 2020 [in China], saying physical retail is more or less obsolete is not true,” said Nishtha Mehta, a China-based corporate innovation coach. “In

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Beauty brand Avon will be sold in high street shops for the first time from October 11 following a new partnership with Superdrug. Avon, which was bought by The Body Shop owner Natura back in 2019, said the move will help it “embrace a wider customer base” as it seeks to transform into “a truly omnichannel beauty company”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2020

Shoppers making online purchases in new categories are valuable targets, but the search advertising space was growing increasingly crowded even before the pandemic caused a surge in online shopping, according to Sidecar’s 2020 Benchmarks Report: Google Ads in Retail. However, Google Shopping clicks still rose 11%.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Global Shopping Festival, also known as Singles’ Day, has once again broken its own sales records. billion in 2020, and total sales across all platforms (including Alibaba rival JD.com ) for the 11-day campaign topped $139 billion. extended across 11 days instead of just one — from Nov. The 13 th annual 11.11 billion ( U.S.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On the back of the latest Springboard data which revealed a nationwide drop in shopper footfall on high streets, shopping centres and retail parks, a Northern Irish outlet is bucking this UK and Ireland-wide trend reporting that shoppers continued to visit The Boulevard in large numbers resulting in an 11% increase in sales growth on 2021.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 18, 2022

New York-headquartered Tiger specialises in the digital sector and was a key investor in the Australian consumer marketplace platform Catch, which was sold to Wesfarmers in 2019. Buyers must pre-register and have an ABN to shop on the site. This is a game-changer, especially with Covid still restricting retail business activity.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

And yet, a recent study from LeaseQuery , which compares the number and value of retail leases from 2019 to 2022, tells a slightly different story. According to the study, the average number of retail building leases is down 11% in 2022 from 2019, and the average retail lease liability has decreased 45% in that same timeframe.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Retailers have made a last-ditch attempt to persuade Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to axe the UK’s tourist tax in the upcoming Budget, with new evidence suggesting that reintroducing tax-free shopping will spark a £2.8bn tourism boom. “So it is good news that both the Treasury and the OBR are examining these forecasts in light of the new data.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

With travel curtailed, home-bound, experience-starved consumers flocked to luxury shopping to lift their spirits and spend some of their discretionary funds accruing thanks to Covid-19 government assistance, stimulus checks, tax relief, suspended student debt payments and the pandemic-induced restrictions. What a difference a year makes.

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Rangeme

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

These platforms are growing as destinations for social shopping, which marries social media and online shopping, due to their tech prowess and massive user bases. Let’s see how the rise in social shopping shapes how brands reach always-on shoppers. Online shopping gets social. billion in 2019. billion in 2019.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Icon Outlet, which is anchored by adidas, Calvin Klein, Nike, Superdry, Ted Baker, Tommy Hilfiger, and more, is celebrating strong performance figures with a robust increase of 11% on 2019 half term sales and 25% increase on like-for-like October sales.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He raised prices, limited distribution to its own shops and high-end department stores and cut discounting. The company’s former chief executive Marco Gobbetti set out a plan in 2018 to reposition the brand, known for its camel, red and black check, firmly in the luxury segment.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2021

With 11 lockdowns over the course of the financial year, Coles chief executive Steven Cain said shopping behaviours were starting to normalise to pre-Covid levels in the fourth quarter, before the latest round of lockdowns hit. per cent and in 2019 it was 3.4 per cent compared to liquor which rose 6.6 per cent on 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2021

11 through Dec. While last-minute shopping was lower than usual, post-season shopping trips can expect strong tailwinds. There were fewer last-minute shoppers in 2020 compared to 2019,” said Hilding Anderson, Senior Director of Strategy & Consulting at Publicis Sapient in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

You have to make sure you’re still listening to them, seeing what they’re going through and how they’re changing their shopping behaviors because we’re not done yet.”. Consumers Want Retailers to Catch Up With Their Omnichannel Shopping Behaviors. Hoyler noted that: 94% of U.S. households possess a passenger vehicle; 32% of U.S.

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A1 Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Sales for the Black Friday week exceeded those for the same period in 2019 in the run up to Christmas . compared to same period in 2019 . Total sales across London’s premium fashion outlet between Sunday 20 and Saturday 26 November this year rose to £2,462,278 from the £2,460,535 during the same week in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2021

retail industry, as many consumers now solely rely on online shopping. As retailers are engineering a COVID-friendly shopping strategy to serve the increasing number of individuals reliant upon digital connectivity, making sure digital content is accessible to everyone should also be a top priority.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 16, 2021

UK retailers are gearing up for a strong back-to-school shopping season in the coming weeks as “brick and mortar browsing” regains momentum, research suggests. UK retailers are gearing up for a strong back-to-school shopping season, according to Mastercard (Mike Egerton/PA). Year-on-year, sales are expected to grow by 6.7%

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2021

In fact, in the three weeks following the ARP’s passage on March 11, 2021, U.S. In 2020, Adobe reports that Americans spent $183 billion more online than they did in 2019, for a total of $813 billion , a 42% increase YoY. In February 2021, consumers shopping for baby and toddler products saw 3.2X Grocery was not far behind at 3.1X

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

billion USD ) in Q3 2020, a period that included the annual Singles’ Day online shopping bonanza, generating a year-over-year increase of 37%. One driver of this growth was increased penetration in less developed areas, led by Alibaba’s discount shopping app Taobao Deals. Global Shopping Festival — a.k.a. The 12th annual 11.11

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2021

Many bricks-and-mortar stores, especially in the US, are taking a high-end, design-forward approach to cannabis retail, with noteworthy and creative examples including shops within shops, hybrid retail formats and shipping containers. Sean Byrne is group director for retail and commercial, and associate at ThomsonAdsett.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Alibaba is expanding its membership-driven hypermarket chain Store X, bringing together its best practices from online and offline shopping, as it seeks to capitalise on China’s burgeoning middle class. In China, shopping is part of leisure, and it is also a family-oriented concept. It is a consumption upgrade in many ways,” he said.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In 2019, it brought in 233.5 The Japan Tourism Corporation states that, in 2019, more than 30 million people visited Japan. Shopping accounted for about one-third of the money that tourists splashed in the country, on average. But a better reference point is the corresponding period of 2019. billion yen, or about $2.5

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Notable among these is the highly anticipated Lord of the Rings television series The Rings of Power, which is projected to be the most expensive TV show ever made , and the company’s new 11-year agreement with the National Football League to become the exclusive home of Thursday Night Football. Since 2018 in the U.S., Since 2018 in the U.S.,

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Theatro

APRIL 5, 2022

The Exchange serves 33 million active-duty service members, Veterans, military retirees, and families worldwide with tax-free shopping and military-exclusive pricing. After a successful three-store implementation, the Exchange deployed Theatro at 11 additional facilities in North America in 2019.

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