Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

It wasn’t so long ago that the debut of new digital-first brands was a near-daily occurrence. Successful “challenger” offerings in just about every category under the sun rose to unprecedented heights, almost solely on the backs of social media and good branding. pointed out.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Retail media vs. Commerce media Why is there so much excitement about retail media? Why is retail media growing so fast? Why is retail media growing so fast? Why are so many retailers launching retail media networks? Read on to learn: What is retail media? What is a retail media network? 10, 2023 What is retail media?

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Retail Focus

MAY 8, 2024

True Fit , the AI-driven platform that decodes size and fit for shoppers and fashion retailers, has announced that, following its launch in Shopify at the end of 2023, it is now driving a 14% average GMV growth for fashion brands on the platform, giving rise to the next generation of scaling fashion retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The site, aimed at bringing off-price inventory from Simon’s malls online, now features more than 300 brands and as of last September, sales were up 100% year over year. We look at ourselves as more of a shop-in-shop than a marketplace , and the reason I say that is we collaborate with brands more than most other marketplaces.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Sigma Healthcare is a full-line wholesale and distribution business with a pharmaceutical network consisting of over 1200 branded and independent retailers including Amcal, Discount Drug Stores, Guardian pharmacies and PharmaSave. Today, it has over 500 stores globally.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

Brands haven’t been able to ignore this trend, and now it is more common than ever to see well-known companies selling on third-party marketplaces like Amazon, something that was anathema to many just a few years back. “Be of online business happening in marketplaces, why fight it?? shoppers begin their product searches.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 13, 2023

As consumers actively seek out more experiential retail engagement, brands are increasingly looking for ways to integrate digital signage in stores. In-store digital signage is equally impactful in driving increased sales and reducing store overheads for retailers.” “In

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2023

Two new entrants into the world of resale, Carhartt and Hanna Andersson , serve very different consumer segments, but both are highlighting the same brand attribute with their resale programs — their products’ durability. The program will gather inventory from consumer trade-ins, customer returns and imperfect inventory.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

Why would the owners of Selfridges, generally considered to be the world’s best department store, decide to sell the business? To a far greater extent than most other department stores, Selfridges has embraced an experiential retail strategy that many industry leaders see as key to the sector’s survival. Shift to digital.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In a move that marks the beginning of a new era while paying homage to almost a century of collaboration, Rolex, the Swiss luxury watchmaking giant, recently announced its acquisition of Bucherer, the illustrious multi-brand watch retailer. Birch thinks the ‘distribution’ factor may have been a key driver for the acquisition.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But now, it has its sights on changing the world of in-store shopping. In fact, according to a Forrester Consulting study sponsored by Shopify, 40% of brands say offering experiential retail will be a top priority for them in the next year. Why is experiential retail having a moment?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2023

Many brands are getting so caught up with trends like AI or the latest social media platform, they’re overlooking the importance of the customer experience, contends an expert in experiential retail. He cites as an example Canon Cameras, which Preezie built an in-store guided shopping experience for.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

That means he studies culture and how we as humans live, interact and respond emotionally and physically to the world around us in order to help brands shape their physical experiences. But that didn’t happen because, although that kid they catered to met the brand when they went off to college, they also are from a suburb.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When asked the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of CVS , chances are good that many people will say the receipts. In 2016, then President of CVS Pharmacy Helena Foulkes made a surprise appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to unveil the option for digital receipts, for those who wanted them.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 11, 2024

Steiff’s rich legacy, spanning over 140 years, traces back to Margarete Steiff’s humble beginnings in 1877, when she founded a felt clothing shop and inadvertently birthed the world’s first child-friendly toy – the “Filzelefäntle.” Steiff recognises the enormous potential of the Chinese market, especially in high-quality toys and gift items.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

This trend involves brands reselling previously owned products at a discount — and it’s caught on quickly. Why the strong growth, particularly during a time of economic upheaval? For brands, recommerce expands the lifecycle of existing products and supply chains. Recommerce checks many boxes for both consumers and businesses.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

These consumers are using digital channels and experiences to discover and engage with once out-of-reach luxury brands. Macroeconomic forces — from inflation to corporate layoffs and the unknown impacts of a recession — are creating uncertainty throughout the retail industry. Will Luxury’s Biggest Market Rebound?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

A $68 T-shirt might seem like a tough sell, but eight years on, Molnar’s brand Goodlife C l othing has a host of top-tier wholesale partners, a booming DTC business and, most importantly, a cult following of customers that keep coming back. We’ve done many, many, many multiples of that in sales now.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2023

Earlier this month, popular US-based intimates brand Parade was acquired by Ariela & Associates International (AAI), a global manufacturer of branded and private-label apparel. But whether the company will be able to maintain Parade’s cult status and loyal fanbase remains to be seen.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In 2016, it became the first national British newspaper to move fully online , and now it is among the first publishing outlets to employ a new technology that turns its articles into commerce vehicles. British newspaper The Independent has always been a bit of a rebel. Social Commerce Meets Affiliate Marketing.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

At first, the obvious question was, ‘Why so much fanfare over a shoe just 88 people would be able to buy (and at that price, most likely rarely wear)?’ This shoe is our first step towards gaining relevancy with the Asian consumer, especially younger consumers,” explained Geox’s Roberto Lobetti Bodoni, global chief marketing officer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

For example, almost all businesses will need to have a marketplace strategy, according to the CEO of BigCommerce, who previously worked at eBay and PayPal: “My philosophy when it comes to marketplaces, for brands and even some retailers, is that you’re unwise to think of them as the competition. The NRF Big Show , held in NYC Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

It’s the reason why he started 16 businesses by the time he was 16 , whether he was doing magic tricks at birthday parties or selling candy in school hallways. Over the past two decades, Earle has built Johnny Cupcakes into a beloved brand awash in silliness. Lesson 1: Embrace all the senses to bring your brand to life.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2022

This platform, with its humble beginnings selling used books, has gone on to power the careers and fortunes of countless small businesses. So if the first phase of that is a marketplace, what is the second phase?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2023

These markets offer a level playing field where digital commerce is everything, most major players are relative unknowns and companies will need to develop new strategies to succeed, according to The Next Billion Consumers: A Fast Growing Opportunity for Digital Commerce report from Accenture. No one ever visited a bank branch.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After years of lockdowns and digital-driven behaviors, consumers’ actions have shown how crucial the store experience is to how they shop and interact with brands. Retail TouchPoints asked experts across the store design, experience and technology realms to share the trends they believe will drive brick-and-mortar innovation.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Consumers shopping in physical stores are seeking a more personalised and relevant engagement with retailers today, based on their needs and desires – they want more than conversations with sales associates merely trying to sell them something. It is from people walking into stores. We all get the need to be online.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2022

If the first quarter of this year was consumed with existential questioning — What exactly is the metaverse? Brands Clearly Think Roblox Rules. Gap also chose Roblox as the venue for its first virtual experience — a digital boutique geared toward teens in the user-generated world Club Roblox.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 26, 2022

Most digital stores are built on ecommerce engines that provide both the product offering and processing engine, which is directly integrated with the website, and storefront. Why Do This? The first question to come to mind is, why would anyone want to do this? Free your brand team from design constraints!

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

With tracking cookies departing and consumer data privacy concerns rising, first-party data — information that companies collect directly from their customers — represents a much-needed gold mine for retailers and brands. The enormity of this missed opportunity is one of the key messages of the IAB Brand Disruption 2022 report.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2023

Since the industry-altering impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, retailers have been working to empower their e-commerce offer and connect it more thoroughly to the in-store experience. However, according to omnichannel tech firm New Store, only 33 per cent of retail businesses operate their own mobile app. Research from Data.ai

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Right now, we’re seeing a once-in-a-generation shift that is opening the doors to a major new advertising opportunity for retailers and brands,” explains Troy Townsend, co-founder and chief innovation officer at The Pistol , a leader in marketing technologies and services. Embrace the opportunity.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

Covent Garden was humming and even Tottenham Road was overtaken by a digital open art gallery. People were wandering the streets, browsing stores, enjoying the sunshine and the community. Its store design pays homage to the industrial history of Battersea and is inspired by mid-century sci-fi films.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2022

Australian streetwear retailer Culture Kings is set to open its first bricks-and-mortar store in the US later this year. Located at The Forum Shops at Caesars Las Vegas, the store will be twice the size of the retailer’s biggest store in Australia and feature a DJ stage, basketball court and countless other experiential elements.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2023

Founded in 2016, luxe-for-less beauty brand MCoBeauty has seen massive growth over the past several years, and is expecting revenue growth of up to 90 per cent in 2023. With international expansion on the horizon, we sat down with founder and CEO Shelley Sullivan to talk through the brand’s journey, as well as what makes it tick.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

When the mobile game “Pokémon GO” made a splash in 2016, global audiences got their first taste of just how engaging augmented reality experiences could be — and brands took notice. From a marketer’s perspective, this gives you the opportunity to blur the lines between native content and branded advertisements.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2023

While activity may be coming back to pre-pandemic levels, there remains a strong market appetite to buy good retailers that have adapted to the new normal and are future-fit, with strong digital DNA and clearly defined brand identities. Know and understand your target audience and why they buy your brand.

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