Retail Wire

MAY 6, 2025

ALDI is gearing up to grow.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2025

After May 2, ultra-fast fashion will be slightly more expensive. The human cost, however, remains astronomical. For years, ultra-cheap, ultra-fast fashion has rewired where and how Americans shop. Led by Chinese-founded online retailers Shein and Temu, ultra-fast fashion has succeeded in part by driving prices for trendy clothes as low as possible. Now that model is starting to fray.

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Retail Wire

MAY 2, 2025

In a RetailWire exclusive, Brittain Ladd claims Kohl's was warned about its ex-CEO's behavior.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2025

With nearly 90 per cent of businesses already having developed an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, its safe to say the technology is about to permeate every corner of the global retail industry. That figure was included in a report by Qualtrics, Unlock the potential of AI-enabled CX , a practical playbook supporting organisations like retailers that want to deploy AI in customer experience to create a competitive advantage.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Retail Focus

MAY 2, 2025

French fashion eyewear brand bloobloom opens a brand new 615 sq ft store in East London’s thriving shopping destination Spitalfields on 2nd May 2025. Located at 41 Brushfield Street, this marks blooblooms seventh opening in London, joining its growing line-up of London stores in Canary Wharf, Carnaby, Covent Garden, Kings Road, Marylebone and White City.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

Google has made headlines once again by announcing a significant shift to its approach to digital privacy. Rather than eliminating online cookies or offering users an opt-out option in Chrome, the tech giant has committed to maintaining cookies as a core part of its browser functionality. Since Google introduced the Privacy Sandbox initiative in 2019, the digital marketing landscape has undergone a significant transformation.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2025

The big two supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, shared their third-quarter results, exceeding expectations, but confirming that the grocery price war is far from over. Woolworths supermarket sales grew by 3.4 per cent while Coles supermarket sales grew by 3.7 per cent over the same quarter. These results reflect the continued investments we are making in value and in improving the shopping experience for our customers both in store and online, Leah Weckert, Coles Group CEO, said in a statement.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 2, 2025

M&S boss Stuart Machin has urged shoppers to visit its stores to shop in person over the bank holiday weekend. In a post on the food and fashion retailer’s LinkedIn, the CEO explained that the business was “really sorry that we’ve not been able to offer you the service you expect from M&S over the last week” “We are working day and night to manage the current cyber incident and get things back to normal for you as quickly as possible,” he continued.

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Retail Dive

MAY 6, 2025

As small businesses brace for tariff impacts, Walmart is pairing them with mentors and showcasing their products as part of its new initiative.

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Retail Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Skechers is set to be acquired by 3G Capital for $9.4 billion.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2025

Payment providers are banking on the fact that millions of people will soo n rely on AI to find the perfect sweater, research a new vacation spot or handle their weekly grocery shopping and they want in on the action. While the idea of AI handling these kinds of complicated tasks autonomously might sound like something out of a science fiction novel, agentic AI is rapidly moving toward this reality.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2025

Australian retail sales rose by 4.3 per cent year on year in March, continuing a positive improvement in recent months. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data showed a rise of 0.3 per cent from February to March. While the steady growth is heartening, cost-of-living pressures and economic uncertainty continue to impact consumer behaviour,” said Australian Retailers Association chief industry affairs officer, Fleur Brown.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 6, 2025

Co-op has warned customers of ongoing product shortages across its store network as the retailer continues to battle a sustained cyber attack that has forced it to shut down some of its delivery systems. The retailer said the attack on its systems, which began last week, has caused serious disruption to store availability, particularly in fresh categories such as fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy.

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Retail Dive

MAY 2, 2025

The retailer’s location in Texas, which is its first “Store of the Future” in the U.S., is focused on innovation and caters offerings to regional customers.

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Retail Wire

MAY 2, 2025

Apple is shifting production of many U.S.-bound iPhones from China to India.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

Nike has made significant structural and personnel changes at the top of its organization. The footwear companys Consumer, Product and Brand leadership, formerly under the direction of President Heidi ONeill, will now be divided into three distinct areas: Consumer and Sport, Marketing, and Product Creation, inclusive of Innovation and Design. All these roles will report to Nike President and CEO Elliott Hill, who took this position in September 2024.

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A1 Retail

MAY 6, 2025

Nespresso has opened its London flagship location in Covent Garden, offering a unique haven to touch, taste and explore the wonderful world of Nespresso coffee. Located at 34 Henrietta Street, spanning 1,345 sq ft, overlooking Covent Gardens iconic West Piazza, the boutique encapsulates the Nespresso brand values whilst celebrating the beautiful architecture and history of the old bank building in the thriving heart of London.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 2, 2025

Harrods has become the latest retailer to fall victim to a cyber attack, following attacks at M&S and Co-op. The luxury department store has been engaged in efforts to defend itself against a cyber attack, Sky News reported. Although further details of the apparent attack were unknown on Thursday afternoon, one shopper told the news service that he had not been able to pay for a purchase earlier that day.

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Retail Dive

MAY 2, 2025

The e-commerce giant is “pretty maniacally focused” on keeping prices low, CEO Andy Jassy told analysts Thursday.

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Retail Wire

MAY 2, 2025

7-Eleven and Green Day are just the latest celebrity-based collaboration.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2025

Theres no shortage of talk about technology thats going to redefine, dominate, or transform retail this year. Much of this language boils down to marketing speech, and often, true industry disruption fails to materialize. There is no shortage of tech hyperbole in retail. But then theres the occasional exception a technology that genuinely does redefine and transform a way of doing business.

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Retail Customer Experience

MAY 2, 2025

Lowes is leveraging Vibenomics in-store digital technology to deliver brand-led messages to DIY customers and Pro customers.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 6, 2025

Asda has named Morrisons’ marketing director Rachel Eyre as its new chief customer officer. Eyre previously served as chief customer and marketing officer for Morrisons, where she was in charge of the rival grocer’s customer service, brand, marketing, digital and PR activities. Prior to joining Morrisons in 2021, Eyre held various senior marketing and commercial roles with Sainsburys and Barclays.

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Retail Dive

MAY 7, 2025

OpenAI wants to make it easier for shoppers to find, compare and buy products as more customers turn to generative AI for purchases.

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Retail Wire

MAY 2, 2025

Panera will close all its remiaining fresh dough facilities in the next two years.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

For the second time in the past 18 months, struggling pharmacy retailer Rite Aid has commenced Chapter 11 proceedings, and this time the retailer appears to be preparing for a sale. Rite Aid has secured commitments from some of its existing lenders for $1.94 billion in new financing which, along with cash from its operations, is expected to provide sufficient funding during the sale and court-supervised process, according to a company statement , and Rite Aid intends to divest or monetize any as

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A1 Retail

MAY 7, 2025

With anticipation building since the February announcement of its first bricks and mortar store, digitally native active-inspired brand TALA now confirms its flagship store on 3-4 Carnaby Street willopen on Saturday 24th May 2025 at 1pm BST. Visitors eager for a first look are encouraged to join the virtual queue with details to be released via TALAs site.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 7, 2025

John Lewis chair Jason Tarry is in line to receive more than 1.3m this year, significantly above the pay package of his predecessor Dame Sharon White. The former Tesco executive, who joined last September, took home a 415,000 pay check in his first four and a half months. The retail giant said Tarry agreed a base pay of 990,000 on appointment as chair, but that this has been adjusted upwards so that it equalised to the amount paid to the chief executive officer to reflect the recalibration of th

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