Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this kind of shopping environment, how should retailers align their promotions and markdowns for the greatest impact? Keeping in mind as well the need to optimize their supply chain fulfillment to meet consumer delivery expectations while managing parcel carrier costs?

Markdowns 278

Markdowns Retailing Pricing Promotions Fulfillment 278

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2024

To put these numbers into perspective, that is more than double what US consumers spent online on Black Friday 2017, which drove US$5.03 There was sales growth over last year, although most of this was generated online rather than in stores,” Neil Saunders, managing director and retail analyst at GlobalData, observed.

Consumer 130

Consumer Shopping Marketing Retail Trends 130

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The appointment of Amanda Bardwell as Woolworths Group’s next managing director and CEO, effective September 1, marks a historic moment for the parent company of Woolworths Supermarkets and Big W, which reported nearly $65 billion in sales last financial year. She took on her most recent role, as the managing director of WooliesX, in 2017.

Supermarket 264

Supermarket Promotions Management Accounting 264

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Earlier this year, Amazon ran a series of promotions to try to boost One Medical membership, including offering Prime members a reduced price for their first year ($144 ). However, today’s announcement marks the debut of One Medical as a permanent discounted offering for Prime members.

Promotions 264

Promotions Management Planning ATS 264

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

I started doing it back in 2017, when I would just buy great bags for my sister on The RealReal.”. Resale can provide a differentiator on top of the usual Black Friday sales and other promotional activities, giving brands and retailers an edge when trying to drive sales from cost-conscious consumers.

Promotions 276

Promotions Shopping Returns Marketing 276

Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2021

BWX is going after this opportunity with the formation of a new business unit where Flora & Fauna will operate alongside Nourished Life, a leading toxin-free online retailer the company acquired for $20 million in 2017. . “We

Beauty and Health 237

Beauty and Health Promotions Consumer Customer Experience 237

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Instead, a series of recent diversifications, including the launch of a direct-to-consumer site in 2017, meant the brand was poised to roll with the pandemic punches. At that point email marketing was being managed by the team at TAC, which also owns and operates From You Flowers , Eve’s Addiction and Brook & York , among other brands.

Wholesale 264

Wholesale Marketing Accounting Outdoor 264

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

Customers also can choose to share additional information such as their style, fit and other preferences in order to receive more refined recommendations, and they’ll receive notifications of in-store promotions curated to their preferences. There will be humans working the store too.

Payment Services 263

Payment Services Apparel Inventory Management Department Stores 263

Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2023

Back in time The story starts in 2017, when then-CEO and managing director John Humble went on a bit of a buying spree. Towards the end of 2017, BWX told investors it was finished with its round of acquisitions and would focus on building out the offer it had assembled. It’s a long story. That was ultimately the problem.

Beauty and Health 244

Beauty and Health Management Shipping Promotions 244

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2021

One of the benefits of D2C brands having full control of their content is that it’s easier to manage via an agile content development workflow and robust content management system. Iuiga (which started as a purely online store in 2017) has opened shops so consumers can see key products and purchase certain products in-store.

Beauty and Health 306

Beauty and Health Consumer Marketing Management 306

Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2021

To close this gap, 44 per cent of retail and consumer goods marketers say they are now leading customer experience initiatives across their organisations (versus just 24 per cent in 2017), and metrics are being shared. Driving real-time omnichannel engagement. Today, retailers have more data at their disposal than ever before.

Customer Experience 221

Customer Experience Customer Retention Payment Services Advertising 221

Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

A complicated scene According to Dr Seshan Ramaswami, associate professor of marketing education at Singapore Management University, the Indian retail industry is complicated, as indeed India’s overall market. It will complement the current offering at the mall with a set of young, exciting designer brands across multiple categories.

Department Stores 261

Department Stores Consumer Marketing Accounting 261

Retail Gazette

JANUARY 24, 2025

M&S has promoted social media lead Charlotte Tonry to head of social media at the business. Tonry joined the high street retailer in April 2017 from former Marie Claire publisher Time Inc as assistant social media manager. Her promotion comes as M&S reported “another strong Christmas” after sales rose 5.6%

Promotions 52

Promotions Management ATS Fashion 52

Mass Relators

AUGUST 30, 2022

on August 30 announced new leadership promotions and roles for nine officers. Zak Brining has been promoted to senior vice president of corporate store operations. Donny Lau has been promoted to senior vice president and chief strategy officer. Dan Connow has been promoted to vice president of store operations.

Promotions 52

Promotions Store Operations Management Accounting 52

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

In 2017, Coles quietly teamed up with Airtasker , encouraging shoppers to put their grocery list up for auction and have gig workers bid each other down to win the job. Demand for online grocery shopping has also accelerated Coles and Woolworths’ development of fully or semi-automated warehouses coordinated by “smart” management systems.

Supermarket 246

Supermarket Fulfillment Shopping Management 246

Retail Gazette

JANUARY 6, 2025

McKoy joined the bootmaker in January 2015 as global category manager for footwear, before being promoted to global product and merchandising director in 2017. Prior to Dr Martens, Mckoy held a range of product manager and category roles at VF Corp, Adidas, Mamas & Papas and Asics.

Wholesale 98

Wholesale Promotions Management ATS 98

Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2024

Partnering with popular brands Scrub Daddy and Branch Basics provided ample opportunity for cross-promotion and showed visitors how easy it is to restore their Béis products to look brand new. Founded in 2017 by Eugene Cheng and Chase Maccini, it caters to consumers who want to keep their much-loved kicks clean.

Marketing 246

Marketing Consumer Location Promotions 246

Inside Retail

JANUARY 20, 2022

The plan is to approach each platform in an “organic” way, rather than putting the same message across multiple channels to create greater brand trust and uptake on each platform, said marketing manager Matt Iozzi. “We However, while Facebook saw 17 million active monthly users in Australia as of December last year, WeChat landed at 2.9

Promotions 130

Promotions Advertising Fashion Marketing 130

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

An ex-cop turned cafe owner, Gunes originally created the posts with the aim of promoting his business Evil Eye Cafe. Over time, he has managed to gain 45.1k I wanted to bring joy and entertainment to people while promoting my business. followers with 532.1k likes on TikTok, and 14.3k followers on Instagram. “I

Promotions 130

Promotions Marketing Management 130

Wiser

AUGUST 17, 2018

Big companies such as TOMS and Chipotle have seen a lot of success with BOGO promotions. In a report from AMG , 66 percent of shoppers say that they like BOGO the most out of all discount promotions. They also found that 93 percent of shoppers report that they have taken advantage of BOGO promotions at least once.

Advertising 112

Advertising Promotions Visual Merchandising Store Layout 112

Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It launched its first UK store on London’s Kings Road, Chelsea, in 2017, and has since opened three further delicatessens in chic London boroughs, including Notting Hill and Wimbledon, as well as London’s food mecca, Borough Market.

Store Operations 147

Store Operations Marketing Promotions Management 147

Independent Retailer

JULY 7, 2022

Take, for example, Grubhub’s latest food promotion disaster. Back in May 2022, Grubhub launched a promotional campaign in New York City, offering “free lunch” via a promotion code, which was valid between certain time frames. Are you trying to promote a new product? Are you looking to promote your website?

Marketing 137

Marketing Advertising Promotions Consumer 137

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2017, she founded Obsess , where she serves as CEO, to do just that. Our ultimate goal is to create a completely different way for customers to engage with and shop American Girl online,” said Stacy Carpenter, User Experience Senior Manager at American Girl in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “ Her solution?

Jewelry 299

Jewelry Shopping Location Promotions 299

Inside Retail

AUGUST 26, 2021

On Friday, JB Hi-Fi Group CEO Richard Murray officially left the consumer electronics company, where he has held various roles for the past 18 years, to lead Solomon Lew’s Premier Retail business; Terry Smart, previously managing director of The Good Guys and CEO of JB Hi-Fi, took over the top position.

Fashion 130

Fashion Management Advertising Promotions 130

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Wesfarmers, which counts about 3 per cent of its 120,000 employees as Indigenous and gave money to the “Yes” campaign, already ran programmes to educate, recruit and promote Indigenous people and develop Indigenous businesses, and “we must seize on this momentum”, added Scott. billion under management.

Department Stores 130

Department Stores Management Promotions ATS 130

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Disruption — I hate that word; you don’t want to disrupt,” he said at an event hosted by retail management platform Trax in January 2023. “No Then in 2017, both brands were acquired by S. But whatever you do, don’t call him a disrupter. No one ever says, ‘Honey, we’re out of toothpaste. Johnson & Son.

Consumer 277

Consumer Marketing Promotions Wholesale 277

Store Growers

OCTOBER 5, 2017

And even those very modest promotional efforts resulted in the first sale coming in. In this post I’d like to show you how I’ve been improving and promoting my store during September. During September I found 9 events to cover, but I managed to get only 7 posts out there. What’s missing?

Accounting 43

Accounting Promotions Shipping Marketing 43

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Previously, Campbell served as the head of the company’s UK operations, and was promoted to the global role in January 2022. However, Campbell is understood to have exited the business in November, according to a report in Retail Week.

Fashion 130

Fashion Wholesale Shopping Promotions 130

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Previously, Campbell served as the head of the company’s UK operations, and was promoted to the global role in January 2022. However, Campbell is understood to have exited the business in November, according to a report in Retail Week.

Fashion 130

Fashion Wholesale Shopping Promotions 130

Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

7-Eleven names new general manager of channel. Fiona Hayes (pictured) has been appointed 7-Eleven’s general manager of channel, following almost three decades at Telstra. Du Retail joined L’Oreal France in 1996 and has worked in a variety of fields, including management, operations, finance, and e-commerce.

Finance 130

Finance Management Marketing Planning 130

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Commenting on the demise of Matches earlier this year, co-founder Tom Chapman noted the rise of “promotional activity” after he and his wife, and fellow co-founder, Ruth Chapman, sold the business to private equity firm, Apax, in 2017. Harrolds Group’s managing director Ross Poulakis spoke openly about his experience of the process.

Department Stores 130

Department Stores Marketing Promotions Fashion 130

365 Retail

JANUARY 30, 2025

It follows Lidl having already raised 10 million for the NSPCC since the partnership began in 2017. Thanks to the incredible generosity of our colleagues and customers, weve managed to raise an astonishing 10 million for the NSPCC to date, but we want that figure to keep growing.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Supermarket Promotions ATS 59

Retail Focus

APRIL 14, 2021

Most of us have enjoyed finished projects from Inplas whether it is their work for blockbuster films, high end glazing displays for museum artefacts or retail promotions for leading brands. Installation venues included Samsung’s flagship stores and a promotional display at Selfridges in London.

Promotions 130

Promotions Accounting Returns Marketing 130

Wiser

DECEMBER 11, 2018

When Toys ‘R’ Us filed for bankruptcy in September 2017, it did so with the hope that nearly $65 million would be invested back into its stores. Consumers still like the in-store shopping experience as well as the ability to browse for deals and promotions that are not available online.

Management 68

Management Discount Store Store Operations Checkout 68

Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2023

McLay formerly worked at Australian supermarket chain Woolworths, serving as general manager of a number of divisions, including replenishment, cost focus, and business development, as well as operations manager for logistics. “I At this time, it is business as usual.

Outdoor 130

Outdoor Finance Management Fulfillment 130

Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

The trend was evident well before then but gathered pace in the last three years as businesses promoted card-only and contactless payments in response to lockdowns and infection concerns. In the 2021 financial year, the number of payments on card rose to 12 billion, a 22 per cent increase on 2019 and up by more than 4 billion since 2017.

Merchant Services 130

Merchant Services Payment Services Customer Experience Point of Sale 130

Retail Focus

APRIL 4, 2024

Expert Manager at Univers Retail | Ephemeral Retailing Specialist | Published Author | Speaker In the dynamic and ever-evolving landscape of contemporary business, the concept of digital transformation has emerged as a pivotal force shaping industries and strategies at an unprecedented pace. Ghalia BOUSTANI.

Clienteling 147

Clienteling Supply Chain Management Customer Experience Consumer 147