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MAY 6, 2024

The company first filed for bankruptcy in 2002 , then again in 2017. After emerging from its 2017 bankruptcy, Rue21 made a concerted effort to adapt to today’s shoppers, with a new loyalty program and revamped executive team that included a new CEO and CIO , both of whom joined from GNC in 2023.

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MARCH 20, 2025

In addition to rapid advances in AI that have brought the technology into the mainstream, Stitch Fix also has struggled to maintain its first-mover advantage in the world of subscription fashion, with a host of new entrants pulling away clients and market share. But share prices continued to slide and they remain low.

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JULY 20, 2023

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. We are always looking for new ways to delight our customers and improve the shopping experience,” said Leandro Balbinot, CTO at Whole Foods Market in a statement. Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7

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JUNE 12, 2023

Renowned Australian footwear business Munro Footwear Group (MFG) recently acquired the popular but beleaguered New Zealand kids’ footwear brand Bobux, as part of a plan to consolidate its presence in the children’s market. The long-term plan is still being finalised,” he said. The initial focus is on stabilisation.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

After emerging in January from its second stint in bankruptcy since 2017, Payless “is back,” the retailer trumpets on its newly launched e-Commerce site. Margolis plans to rein in costs with such strategies as negotiating leases that use a percentage of store revenue to pay a share of the rent rather than a fixed payment.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Customer experience LSKD has ‘audacious’ growth plans for the next few years and Shaughnessy is expected to play a key role in helping the brand create a unique in-store experience and ensuring the right products are stocked in each store. LSKD was recently named ‘Business of the Year’ in the 2024 Telstra Best of Business Awards.

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MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Current Chief Marketing Officer Lisa Roath will take over Gomez’s previous role, handling the merchandising of food, essentials and beauty in early 2025, but she will remain as CMO until her successor is found. Gomez joined Target in 2013 and was named to the leadership team in 2017. Both appointments are effective July 7.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Aldi began working with Instacart in 2017 and in June 2023 debuted Aldi Express, a virtual convenience store offering nearly 2,000 of its most-shopped items for delivery. “By Schnuck Markets began using Caper Carts last month. In March 2024 Aldi laid out plans to add 800 U.S. in a statement. In the U.S., stores by 2028.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Parade was founded by Columbia University dropout Cami Téllez in 2019, with a purpose to disrupt the market and champion inclusivity, body positivity and sustainable manufacturing. Businesses like Brava are championing change through inclusivity and representation for formerly marginalised individuals represented in the market.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

But the pharmacy chain has plans that far exceed Australias border, launching into New Zealand in 2017 with its first store and growing its footprint there to a total of 48 stores quickly. Now, Chemist Warehouse has stores internationally across New Zealand, Ireland, China and most recently Dubai.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

“The announcement of Alibaba’s CFO transition today is the culmination of extensive preparation over many years and a part of Alibaba’s leadership succession planning,” said Wu in a statement. The markets will always have ups and downs, but Alibaba has ambitious long-term goals. com , AliExpress and Taobao Deals.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

MINISO , a Japanese-inspired lifestyle retailer, has set its sights on brick-and-mortar growth and is accelerating its plans during the holiday season. The company revealed its plans to double its store fleet by the end of 2021, reaching 53 locations in the U.S. in April 2017, MINISO has forged a unique place in the market.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

When we talked to [merchants] in 2016 and 2017, the immediate response was, Why on earth would I make returns easier? Retail TouchPoints) Those robots are central to how Happy Returns plans to continue to scale its business. The company plans to continue to incorporate more automation into its operations this year and beyond.

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APRIL 19, 2024

The department store retailer previously tried to go private in 2017 in a deal that ultimately fell apart, according to CNBC. Nordstrom’s current plans to explore going private were first reported by Reuters in March 2024.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

Cosmetique, an Australian national cosmetic and injectables chain, has announced plans for a $17.5 With new clinic sites already slated for 2025, the expansion will involve opening four new clinics in New South Wales and Victoria initially, with more planned for following years. million ASX listing of parent company Stormeur.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

The company has been profitable since 2017. The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S. The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S.

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APRIL 25, 2023

Canada Goose has named Matt Blonder as its first-ever Chief Digital Officer (CDO), one of five key appointments designed to drive the retailer’s five-year strategic growth plan. Blonder brings 20 years’ experience in omnichannel DTC and digital marketing, most recently as President of Global Ecommerce at Wolverine Worldwide.

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JUNE 24, 2024

The lawsuit, filed in 2017, alleged that Founder and then-CEO Kevin Plank knowingly or recklessly misrepresented facts regarding consumer demand for Under Armour’s products as well as the company’s financial and operating results, according to the Wall Street Journal. 16, 2015 and Nov. billion revolving credit facility.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Mattress Firm has publicly filed for an IPO that will return the furniture retailer to the public markets six years after South Africa’s Steinhoff International took the company private. In 2017, Mattress Firm filed for bankruptcy to facilitate a prepackaged restructuring that included the closure of 700 underperforming stores.

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JULY 12, 2021

The new funding is a major vote of confidence in the potential of digital commerce in India, still a relatively nascent market. Brick-and-mortar dominates the retail scene, with ecommerce projected to account for just 7% of sales this year, up from 3% in 2017. billion population, but still with plenty of room for growth.

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MAY 6, 2022

Just five months after the opening its first brick-and-mortar store in Las Vegas, size-inclusive lingerie brand Savage x Fenty is planning to more than double its physical footprint, from five locations to 11. and UK retailers, according to market intelligence platform Edited. metro area.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Online furniture brand Brosa is ramping up its marketing activities and expanding into adjacent product categories, such as outdoor furniture and home decor, as it seeks to capitalise on the rapid increase in online shopping during Covid-19. We’ve always taken a curated approach.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

The group plans to use the proceeds to further invest in its Australian rural outfitting brand RB Sellars, with more stores expected to open across Australia and New Zealand. It acquired Driza-Bone in 2017 and Rossi Boots in 2020. Family-owned Propel Group is an Australian entity inspired by the landscape with community at its core.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In that role he was responsible for operational planning and prioritization, partner operations, M&A integration and process improvement initiatives across supply chain, stores and properties. Shipt was acquired by Target in late 2017 and is run independently in Birmingham, Ala. division of Yum!

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

It appears the ecommerce giant is using these brick-and-mortar locations primarily for consumer and market testing purposes, but Amazon has released little data about plans or timetables for additional openings. Closer to home, Amazon is reportedly planning to open department stores in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The retailer instated the delivery fees to avoid raising prices of the groceries themselves, starting with pilots in six markets during the summer of 2021: Portland, Maine; Providence, R.I.; Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 and introduced a free two-hour delivery option in 2018 as it steadily expanded the grocer’s delivery footprint.

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JULY 3, 2023

Anchored by Coles, Woolworths and Aldi supermarkets along with Kmart and Big W, the mall underwent an $80 million redevelopment in 2017 when a dining and entertainment precinct, an eight-screen Event Cinemas and a bowling alley were added.

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APRIL 20, 2021

From 2013 to 2017, he also chaired the Financial Executives Council of the National Retail Federation. Prior to joining BJ’s, Eddy served multinational manufacturing, technology, retail and consumer products companies as a member of the audit and business advisory practice of PwC.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The deal, which was negotiated by CBRE, represents the largest CBD shopping centre transaction since 2017, when Vicinity Centres acquired its 50 per cent interest in the same centres. Assets of this scale, quality and reputation are rarely sold,” said CBRE’s Head of Retail Capital Markets – Pacific, Simon Rooney.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Melbourne-based business has announced plans to expand its fledgling vegan pizza chain further across its home city and into Sydney, Brisbane and Byron Bay. Founders Michael Craig and Shelley Scott opened Red Sparrow Pizza’s first outlet in 2017 in Collingwood and have since added a Chapel Street store and a food truck.

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MARCH 3, 2022

Even as Amazon continues to open fashion, grocery and convenience brick-and-mortar stores, the ecommerce giant announced planned closures of all 68 of its 4-star , Books and Pop-up locations — 66 stores in the U.S. Amazon is not abandoning its Amazon Go cashierless convenience stores, with plans to open locations in Mill Creek, Wash.

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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. While the pandemic-prompted ecommerce boom certainly played heavily into these results, Florin also credits the deployment of email marketing tools from Omnisend.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Noni B appeared to fare better under Alceon and Scott Evans who was appointed as CEO following the on-market takeover, but its financial results were flattered by the 2017 acquisition of the Pretty Girl Group and the 2018 purchase of five retail chains from Specialty Fashion Group.

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JULY 21, 2023

Schnuck Markets has extended its partnership with Instacart to introduce Caper Carts, which use AI and computer vision to automatically identify items shoppers put into them, allowing shoppers to then skip the line and check out using the cart technology. Louis Schnucks stores this fall, with a broader rollout planned for later this year.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

However, due to factors like the rise of e-commerce, the increased availability of cheaper, “dupe” denim brands and an outdated aesthetic at a time when athleisure reigned supreme, True Religion fell off the retail grid and filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy not once but twice in 2017 and 2020.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Founded by Michael Pratt in 2017, the digitally native brand is known for its patented design, which allows the wearer to slip the shoes on and off hands-free. What makes Kizik stand out in an oversaturated footwear market Recent years have seen several disruptors in the footwear market, such as Hoka, Allbirds, and On. “At

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