Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2025

During the opening weeks of Eggslut, there were queues of people who wanted to try it because it was the hot new restaurant that drew strong social media buzz, Dr Guy Llewellyn, assistant professor at EHL Singapore Campus, told Inside Retail. However, sustaining that momentum is a different challenge altogether.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2022

Amazon has named 17-year company veteran Doug Herrington to the renamed role of CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, filling the position left vacant by former CEO of the Worldwide Consumer Dave Clark. Since 2015, Herrington has served as Amazon’s SVP of the North America Consumer.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Department store chain Myer delivered its highest full-year sales since 2005 this year but remains cautious as consumer spending declines due to unfavourable economic conditions. per cent of total sales – and a 10 per cent increase in productivity gains at physical stores. Myer’s total sales grew 12.2 per cent to $3.36

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

Up to 70% of business-to-consumer marketers believe that content marketing has become more important to their business over the past year, and 77% have successfully used this content to build credibility and trust among their consumers, according to the Content Marketing Institute.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

“The wine industry is a very old-school business, and it’s a distributor-driven business because of the 21st Amendment, which basically gave all the power to the states to regulate and manage alcohol sales,” explained Jessica Kogan, Chief Growth and Experience Officer at Vintage Wine Estates in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2022

Between difficult compliance requirements and the public’s general reluctance to shop in person at the beginning of the pandemic, many business owners have had to suspend plans for expansion, limit their operations or even shut down entirely. Consumer Behavior has Changed.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It’s not just possible but inevitable that retailers can thrive on Amazon and compete with it at the same time. Amazon: the Consumer-First Platform. Amazon has completely upleveled what a high quality ecommerce experience looks like for consumers. The purchasing power of $79 in 2005 equals about $109.90

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2022

In development since 2005, Fontainebleau Las Vegas is inspired by the brand’s Miami property, which was designed by famed architect Morris Lapidus. Building upon Lapidus’ vision is design and branding expert Peter Arnell, who is leading the artistic direction of the Fontainebleau Las Vegas to align the brand with the city’s luxury consumer.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2024

history, according to Reuters , and if it receives court approval it would resolve most of the ongoing claims against Visa and Mastercard, which began in 2005. The antitrust settlement is one of the largest in U.S. Swipe fees typically include small, fixed fees plus a percentage of the total sale amounts and average about 1.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The bulk of the statement was spent touting the larger benefits of Prime membership and how those benefits have expanded since the offering first debuted in 2005. Indeed, the news likely will be received with a bit of consternation, although probably not surprise, from consumers. The ad-free option will cost an additional $2.99

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

Today, it is possible to stimulate all consumer senses online. Sensory Enabling Technologies (SETs) enable consumers to feel textures, smell and even perceive the taste of a product. Key takeaways: SETs enable brands to craft exemplary customer experiences online by appealing to consumers’ multisensory perception. 74% of U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2021

Despite early struggles by traditional grocery retailers to meet the surge in demand for online goods and services, the imprint on consumers of ecommerce as a source for grocery products is now permanent. He has been analyzing consumer promotions for more than 20 years. Hybrid Shopping is Here to Stay. Only more so.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It’s clear that there is a consumer-driven need for more flexible finance and smarter buying power. . This trend follows changes in the retail sector, which has recently seen a shift toward an omnichannel approach and subsequent changes in how consumers spend. With UK borrowing on credit cards growing at an annual rate of 12.9%

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2023

At least two significant forces are reshaping how and where consumers shop and their expectations of brands. At the intersection of these sits the circular economy, an antidote to consumption and waste. Encouragingly, consumers are ready to increase participation in the circular economy. Circular initiatives in action.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At first, conversation around the technology would have led you to believe its inventors had cured all of society’s ills. Or, at the very least, its inefficiencies. In fact, in a recent SAP Emarsys study we found that nearly half of 10,000 surveyed global consumers (46%) were wary of the role AI plays in their retail experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

He also has held top positions at Clorox, including COO from January 2013 through November 2014 and as CEO from November 2014 to September 2020. Prior to joining Clorox in 2005, he worked for Procter & Gamble in various marketing and sales roles. “VF Dorer will take the reins at VF as the retailer prepares for a challenging 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

According to a recent study, a whopping 72% of American consumers acknowledge that product packaging design directly influences their purchasing decisions. However, more sustainable options like recycled paperboard are becoming increasingly popular with environmentally conscious consumers.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2021

Nikita Sernack, the Australian designer behind cult evening brand Nookie, recently debuted her new fashion brand, Rumer, at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week earlier this month to a full house of industry professionals. She was only involved for the first few years as the label’s aesthetic was taking form and then it was me at the helm.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

grocery shoppers, 78% of consumers have experienced out-of-stock products in-store over the last 12 months, and 68% have experienced the same issue online. Traditional methods of manual audits and gap scans are time-intensive and only provide a picture of your availability at that given moment in time. Tackling this problem is complex.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2023

The FTC accused the e-commerce giant of duping “millions of consumers” into purchasing subscriptions for Prime services. Amazon, which launched Prime in 2005 and has around 170 million subscribers in the US, said it is willing to defend itself in court. or more, according to the complaint. The retailer reached a $2.35

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Inside Retail

JULY 23, 2023

Customers are increasingly expecting businesses to take charge of the lifecycle of their products and ensure that they aren’t ending up in landfill at their end of life. Take ownership The key to making the circular economy work, Voyce said, is in a shift away from putting the onus of recycling and reusing on consumers.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 16, 2021

As the quality of living and workers’ wages reached new heights, Western brands spotted a golden opportunity and raced to set up shop in the East to reach China’s 1 billion consumers (and counting). Today Li-Ning is valued at US$7 billion, chasing the top American and German sportswear giants. Chinese sportswear company Li-Ning.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2021

We come from a direct marketing background,” said Justin French, VP of Marketing at FastGrowingTrees in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We 2020 was a banner year in general, as FastGrowingTrees found itself at the epicenter of a number of major consumer trends — an ecommerce boom , the stay-at-home economy and a shift to the suburbs.

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365 Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

Founded in 2005, tectake sells a wide range of affordable furniture, home accessories, pet supplies, and outdoor equipment across Europe, including the UK, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, and Switzerland. Manually managing data for 2000 products was extremely time-consuming and errors were unfortunately inevitable.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 21, 2024

Consumer confidence levels over the next 18 months will be crucial to the future of financially embroiled and not-so-financially embroiled businesses within the retail industry. This week Guzman Y Gomez shares debuted on the ASX at $30, which represents a 36 per cent gain from its IPO. per share, which equated to approximately $1.8

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2021

Despite early struggles by traditional grocery retailers to meet the surge in demand for online goods and services, the imprint on consumers of ecommerce as a source for grocery products is now permanent. He has been analyzing consumer promotions for more than 20 years. Hybrid Shopping is Here to Stay. Only more so.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2021

To effectively reach consumers and support publishers, marketers should be concerned about the quality of the publisher’s brand and the sentiment of the information their ads appear next to, instead of the generalized context. Work with companies that deeply understand audiences and check that they are not just looking at context (i.e.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

Murali Gokki, a Managing Director in the retail practice at AlixPartners — the consulting firm that has become retailers’ go-to as they consider ecommerce spinoffs — has a more nuanced take: “The broader pressure is about transforming [these businesses] to a digital-first mindset,” he said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 26, 2024

LVMH-owned beauty giant Sephora is reportedly carrying out a significant workforce reduction in China, a move aimed at mitigating financial losses in the challenging market. For instance, why would a customer choose to buy a Dior lipstick at Sephora when they can easily purchase it directly from the brand’s official Tmall store?”

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

Paul Zahra: You’ve been at Bunnings for 16 years and held various roles since becoming managing director in 2016. I think if my memory serves me correctly, Paul, we both spent a bit of time at Target! So) I answered an ad in the newspaper for a job at a retail bank. People put down roots and grow at Bunnings.

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Cisco Retail

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

I remember publishing our first annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report in 2005. In 2020, we looked at how we could integrate sustainability into our social impact programs that focused on critical human needs, access to education, and economic empowerment. The impact of environment on society. C … will be beyond reach.”.

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LS Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Christine Lantinen purchased the company in 2005, when it had $100,000 in sales. Today, sales at the privately-held company are up to $45 million. ©iStock/vchal The Plymouth candy company Maud Borup has been around for more than 100 years. The problem is there is no magic solution. Robinson, a global logistics firm.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Its formation brought the season even closer to the record of 28 named storms set in 2005. Left in the storm’s path were many types of debris, including a massive amount of episodic hazardous waste at retail locations. In late October, Hurricane Zeta became the 27th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Following stints at drinks giant Anheuser-Busch InBev and music retailer HMV, he is now president of APAC & China for Alpargatas S.A, Robert Esser: I was a graduate student in China in the early ‘90s, which was a somewhat unusual thing to do at that time. Direct-to-consumer is now about two-thirds of our total business.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2023

The Apple Vision Pro unveiled overnight marks the “true start of an era in which augmented reality devices will become a more mainstream part of consumer and retail markets,” according to one retail analyst. To most consumers, this is uninteresting and gimmicky and, as such, selling devices has been hard,” said Saunders. “By

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

The brand recently opened its first Mainland China store in Shanghai, and it is just the start of its goal to further capture high-spending Chinese consumers in the region. Founded in 2005 in Marseilles, American Vintage draws inspiration from the United States and is known for its T-shirts, knits, denim, and fleece.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

When I launched Appliances Online in 2005, online shopping wasn’t commonplace, let alone shopping for a big and bulky item. At that time, just over half of households in Australia had internet access, there were very few smartphone options on the market and Facebook had only just launched,” Winning told Inside Retail. “We

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