Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

The online versus offline debate remains a hot topic in retail. It’s department stores, shopping centers and hypermarkets I’m most concerned for — not really big enough to sell “everything” anymore when you can get “anything from anywhere” online.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Here are five key trends for retailers to pay attention to as they strategize for the months and years ahead: Retail Media Networks (RMNs): One of the most important topics of the past 18 months, RMNs offer the opportunity for many grocers to expand their revenue by monetizing their data and scaling their on-site and off-site audience activation.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The shopping mall’s identity crisis has been an oft-discussed topic in the retail industry. Traditionally, department stores (and in turn malls) haven’t focused on creating this type of deeper, more meaningful connection. These consumers also have a desire to create connections with their favorite brands.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2022

Department stores. “On On [previous trips to the US], we would always make the department stores a really big ticket item on the trip agenda, but we don’t anymore because we’re not seeing enough innovation from them,” Lattouf said. One category that didn’t make the cut?

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Independent Retailer

JULY 28, 2022

Declines in apparel and department store spending indicate that consumers are tightening their belts in some areas. ” Inflation has been the most talked about topic of 2022, and the buzz is not expected to go away anytime soon. . Table Topics www.tabletopics.com/wholesale .

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Here are a few of the latest stores to check out from around the globe. Upmarket department store Nordstrom has introduced a two-storey ‘Home’ space at its Manhattan flagship location as part of the launch of the Nordstrom Home collection nationwide. Luxury nesting with Nordstrom.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

Matt Moorut, principal analyst at Gartner for Marketers , recently explored the topic of livestreaming and offered practical advice for how retailers can get the most out of it. Retail TouchPoints (RTP) : Why are consumers flocking to livestream shopping? What makes this latest iteration different from the past versions (i.e.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 25, 2024

This year, online (35%) remains the most popular shopping destination, followed by department stores (32%), specialty stores (29%) and local or small businesses (25%). Consumers also plan to spend more on special outings than they have in the past.”

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 24, 2023

The move to become an MP makes sense as Walker, a regular on BBC Question Time, has long taken a stand on political issues and has not shied away of topics such as tax to the deportation of asylum seekers. He claimed that advisers to the department store should be jailed.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2022

Living wage is a common topic not only in Australia, but globally, which wasn’t the case before,” the organisation’s economic justice strategic lead Nayeem Emran told Inside Retail. . When I first started having this conversation with brands, they asked me what a living wage is and how you define it.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

he decidedly unsexy topic of supply chains and what a mess they’re in has become a top story in retail in recent months. It is setting up more than 3,000 locations inside department stores, petrol stations, and other retail locations to sell ‘affordable’ products.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

On the topic of ‘Muji Renovation’, Onishi said that the Singapore market has a uniquely high rate of home ownership at approximately 90 per cent, which is why the brand wanted to provide an end-to-end transformation space for homeowners.

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Mass Relators

MAY 6, 2022

pre-pandemic) and Department Stores (+15.7% Warm weather wardrobe: Consumers refreshing their wardrobes for potential summer travel and the warmer months ahead contributed to continued growth for Apparel (+10.8% YOY / +8.4% YOY / +22.3% pre-pandemic), though rates have started to soften from the peaks earlier this year. YOY and +25.7%

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As part of the initiative, Retail Drinks has developed an online toolkit with comprehensive resources that includes information on essential topics like working with local police and improving security measures, and will teach staff within the industry how to apply de-escalation principles.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2022

This mindset extends to the whole layout of shopping centers, strip malls and the like, as retail destinations that used to have major department store anchors like Sears and Macy’s have shifted. These traditional retail anchors are being replaced in order to enhance and personalize the shopping experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The new Nordstrom podcast, The Nordy Pod , is hosted by company President Pete Nordstrom and is all about the legendary department store and its reputation for stellar customer service. You can measure how your audience interacts with your brand and thinks about the topics that you’re bringing up over time.

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Mass Relators

JULY 19, 2021

While online shopping remains a top destination for back-to-school shopping, families are much more comfortable shopping in store this year than last year during the peak of the pandemic.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2022

We’ve also got the Lego store in Dreamworld, which we operate through Ardent Leisure. And we operate in the hypermarket channels, so we have listings in Kmart, Target, Big W, and department stores such as Myer and David Jones. The specialty-toy channel is also very important to us.

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Cisco Retail

APRIL 13, 2021

For example in department stores, restaurants, cafés, at the train station and airport or in the football stadium. The advantages of a digital POS are clear: the customer is made curious in a playful way and introduced to the topic. But to do this, they have to achieve this first.

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Mastercard SpendingPulse identifies overarching trends to watch: Early season’s greetings: With potential supply chain and labor supply issues impacting the season, retailers are expected to offer omnichannel promotions early on – particularly in the heavily gifted electronics, apparel and department store categories.

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Mass Relators

MAY 25, 2021

Dad’s loved ones will look for gifts at a variety of locations, including online (40 percent), department stores (33 percent) and specialty stores (22 percent). “Many are planning to take Dad out for a special meal or experience this Father’s Day, which wasn’t an option last year during the shutdowns.”.

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Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The top destinations for Thanksgiving weekend shoppers were online (42%), department stores (42%), grocery stores and supermarkets (40%), clothing and accessories stores (36%) and discount stores (32%). Similar to last year, 77 million people shopped online on Cyber Monday. Consumers spent an average of $325.44

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2020

With the rise of ecommerce, traditional tenants like department stores and apparel stores were struggling, and consumers were increasingly craving experiences in their shopping trips,” said Cody in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Hyken

MAY 1, 2023

My Comment: Convenience is one of my favorite topics – so much so I wrote a book about it ( The Convenience Revolution ). My Comment: Another one of my favorite topics is customer loyalty. Making customers’ lives easier can lead to greater loyalty, enhanced customer satisfaction, and ultimately, improved business results.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JANUARY 12, 2023

Much has been written on this topic and one day when the movie comes out about the fall of an icon I’ll be sure to watch it. But it has managed to be the second largest clothing retailer in the United States, behind Amazon, another retailer that doesn’t have the best assortment in clothing, a key department store staple.

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V Count

JANUARY 9, 2023

The event is home to numerous retailers such as department stores, technology companies, chain restaurants, grocery stores, multi-level marketing companies, and independent retailers. – NRF stands for The National Retail Federation, and it’s the world’s largest retail trade association and expo. EuroShop 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 19, 2023

With buying patterns changing quickly, retailers need to get the right goods into the right stores. Here we’ll look into the study findings on a sunnier topic for physical retailers: impulse spending. Prime members impulse purchase 30% more at department stores than non-Prime members, our study showed.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 20, 2021

In episode 272 we break down the US Dept of Commerce July retail data, and Q2 E-Com data, look at Q2 earnings from Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowes, and discuss a potential Amazon Department store concept. WSJ wrote Amazon Plans to Open Large Retail Locations Akin to Department Stores. We discuss. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 31, 2023

20:54] Okay so now if you play that out you think about the coming decade think about the traditional department store that organizes themselves by here’s the men’s department and here’s the women’s Department. Believe that they’ll change their gender identity once in their lifetime. [20:54]

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Retail Geek

APRIL 21, 2021

I feel like that’s probably I mean I didn’t have the US Direct us UK comparison, clearly like us department stores in things a bit in long-term decline but I don’t think the u.s. 11:00] Yeah I’m not sure if that was consciously a reference or not but there’s certainly a connection in there somewhere.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2023

Regrettably, reliable, high-quality information about this topic is scarce, as Professor Adrian Beck (University of Leicester, UK) recently observed. Therefore, management and LP teams must determine what level and type of loss they will tolerate while preserving the intended customer experience.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

Jason: [13:57] And so one of the things that I’ve gotten a lot of feedback on is we, you know, every year we’ve always done a handful of these deep dives on particular topics.

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Retail Assist

JANUARY 12, 2023

Tune in over the next couple of weeks as we look at some of these topics in more detail and how Merret Pro is geared to deliver and overcome retail challenges in 2023. Merret Pro is our award-winning omnichannel supply chain solution, designed and developed for the demands of modern retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2022

Yet like many topics, segmenting customers isn’t quite as simple as the textbooks make it seem. We walked through one of the major discount department stores and by chance saw the boys’ section first. In fact, it can be quite challenging to group consumers into segments that are both accurate and valuable.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

percent from December so month-over-month, department stores had their first increase in about 15 years and clothing which would has been decimated the last year was up five percent, um but again to me. [7:14] 7:14] Month-over-month trans aren’t very relevant and especially in the middle of a holiday period and.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 16, 2021

The Chinese were proud to see their own national brand making it in New York and its popularity has been propelled ever since, and it’s now stocked at the trendiest upscale department stores around the world, from Selfridges to SSense. Today Li-Ning is valued at US$7 billion, chasing the top American and German sportswear giants.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

In addition to standalone Macy’s Backstage locations, the retailer also relies on a store-in-store model selling discounted goods only steps away from its full-price items. Putting Backstage stores within stores offers our customers the ‘treasure hunting’ of off-price shopping without having to leave the store.

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