Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

history, with 40 state attorneys general regarding allegations that it misled users into thinking they had location tracking turned off while still collecting their information. Under the terms of the settlement, Google will make its location tracking disclosures clearer beginning in 2023. Google has agreed to a $391.5

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Circuit City also will support the partnerships with its customer service, private label products and white-glove consumer electronics experience. The integrations are slated to begin online and in select locations this year, with a more expansive rollout planned for 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2022

Pop star Rihanna’s size-inclusive lingerie brand Savage X Fenty will open its first brick-and-mortar retail location in Las Vegas later in January, and four additional stores will follow early this year in Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. 2022, we coming in HOT!,” said Rihanna in an Instagram post announcing the news.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2025

Princess Polly positions itself right in the center of the Gen Z zeitgeist, and its newest physical location also has surrounded itself with young brands. it found that consumers were about a year or two behind the trend cycles in Australia, which gave Princess Polly the perfect edge to not just predict but lead in key fashion trends.

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Retail TouchPoints

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. metro area. Now six new stores are in the works, destined for Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, St. Louis, Long Island, N.Y. and Newark, Del.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Both domestic and international sales of 2nd Street stores showed robust growth, particularly in luxury secondhand merchandise, amid rising consumer inflation and expansion of the resale market. Entering the US in 2018, 2nd Street had 43 stores in the country at the end of November. million impressions.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

compared to the same period in 2019, showing significant growth since its exited from bankruptcy in 2018. The retailer is seeking to complete its turnaround by zeroing in on its appeal to Gen Z consumers, among whom the brand is already well-known. In its filing, the retailer noted that it achieved total net sales growth of 93.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

Simon and Brookfield are aiming to “identify a leader that is focused on modern retail, the consumer experience and the goal of creating a sustainable and enduring JCPenney.” Soltau joined JCPenney in October 2018 with the goal of spearheading a turnaround at the struggling retailer.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2021

CVS Health has introduced Aetna Virtual Primary Care, connecting consumers with physicians and specialists anytime and anywhere. The ecommerce titan entered pharmaceuticals with the acquisition of PillPack in 2018 and has since focused on building off this base.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2024

The partners have been working together since 2018 to bring Century 21’s constantly evolving slate of off-price designer merchandise to online shoppers, via weekly live shopping events on the ShopShops app and Century 21’s Instagram. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

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. The Kent location is the first of these stores outside the U.S.; We may also look at some city center locations.”.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

After experiencing a shaky series of starts and stops, the brand closed down in 2018 and experienced a total re-birth after being acquired by Europerfumes in 2019. The elemental, atypical and inclusive nature of the brand is really resonating with consumers. If so, what locations are in mind?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“As a result of COVID, we made the strategic decision to pivot our store strategy to new locations and platforms that have better traffic,” said a Tru Kids spokesperson in a statement. The original Toys ‘R’ Us was liquidated in 2018 , but Tru Kids acquired its intellectual property and resurrected the retailer in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The partners piloted the program in select geographies this fall and are now expanding to offer nationwide delivery from more than 900 of Kroger’s sushi locations and 1,600 floral locations in under one hour. Then, in 2018, the retailer launched its own internal delivery service featuring nearly 55,000 items. The Kroger Co.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2022

The company plans to end 2022 with 80 Bars, up from its current total of 65 locations. Lande-Shannon brings two decades of experience guiding brands through successful marketing strategies while also driving culture and leadership initiatives.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

The FreedomPay Next Level Commerce platform is designed to provide secure contactless payments and data solutions through transactions that FreedomPay President Chris Kronenthal said give a “fast, frictionless and innovative consumer experience.”.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For example, the 2022 Optus data breach exposed information from customers who had previously held accounts with the telco back in 2018. Many senior consumers and those with a disability dont use digital banking services. The storage of personal information is a contested issue. However, the use of digital banking is not universal.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2024

What started in 2019 as a six-month pop-up shop that welcomed 3000 visitors on opening day has quickly turned into a full-blown retail operation with multiple bricks-and-mortar locations, a wide range of SKUs, and several intriguing collaborations. It was also during this quiet period that they were able to raise US$5.8

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

“By adding Inventory Scan to our current fleet of robotic scrubbers, we obtain critical inventory data that previously was time-consuming to obtain. Inventory Scan assures items are available and easy to locate in the club, freeing up time for our associates to focus on members and the shopping experience they deserve.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

an hour in some locations — as well as full benefits for full-time employees and the company’s latest incentive, paid college tuition for frontline workers. Sign-on bonuses of up to $3,000 are also being offered in some locations. retailers to boost its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all employees, back in 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Instrument maker Fender , for example, wanted to find a way to keep consumers engaged despite its dealer network being disrupted by store closures. Initially capping the giveaway to the first 1,000 consumers, “we extended the offer to 500,000 a few days later and ultimately had 930,000 players using Fender Play,” he noted.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

In 2018, one of his agency’s clients was the Korean sunglasses brand Gentle Monster. Around 2019, my design team and I started to look around to see if there were any opportunities to create our own consumer brand,” he said. So, in that case, Documents…is not a big consumer brand in China.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

This can be done through the effective use of granular data, which will in turn help retailers maintain customer loyalty and keep their revenues steadier, regardless of fluctuations in national consumer spending rates. With stubborn inflation squeezing the American consumer, times are certainly tough for the consumer.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2023

When Inside Retail spoke with current CEO Craig King back in 2018 it was established that the company was scouting for CBD locations in both Melbourne and Sydney. Until then, it’s time to relax at the Beach House and take a look at the brand’s new kids’ collection.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Located in its birthplace of Eugene, Ore. The stores would include integrated online-to-offline capabilities as part of a digitally empowered phase of Nike’s Consumer Direct strategy , the Consumer Direct Acceleration. In 2018, Nike tested the neighborhood-centric Live pilot in Los Angeles.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

With more than 800 stores and another 250 to 300 pop-up locations during its Halloween high season, as well as a strong DTC site, Party City has a pretty solid presence on the U.S. Nevertheless, in 2018 the party goods retailer went a step further and began selling on Amazon as well. Meeting Consumers ‘Where They Are’.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2021

When Amazon Go launched in 2018, critics claimed that it would take more than a decade for autonomous retail to catch on. Simultaneously, data and analytics were at the forefront of retailers’ minds as stores sought to anticipate their consumers’ needs.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2021

The store format, which is customised for each location, features a range of gourmet produce from local suppliers including speciality growers, bakers, producers and cafes. The Coles Local concept was first introduced in Melbourne’s Surrey Hills in 2018 before expanding the concept to locations at St Kilda, Glenferrie and Fitzroy.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2021

But while blending of in-store and online provides consumers with significantly more flexible shopping, it also creates operational challenges. Consumers’ new shopping habits picked up during the pandemic show no sign of waning. Online : Consumers also love the convenience online shopping provides. billion in 2020, up 32.4%

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

Thanks to its core product — stylishly packaged, “beauty forward” hand sanitizers crafted in partnership with the well-known Givaudan perfume house — the brand achieved a $60+ average order value (AOV) from its inception in 2018. After six months of B2C sales in the U.S., This is the key to growth.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2020

In a 2018 study, the consulting firm A.T. Now, coronavirus has opened the floodgates and forced businesses and consumers alike to consider domestic suppliers out of sheer necessity, despite higher costs in many cases. Between 2010 and 2018, 749,000 jobs were brought back to the U.S. Businesses are taking notice.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It started in the runup to the 2018 midterm elections: Hundreds of companies, including many retailers, joined nonpartisan efforts to encourage voter participation through a business-led coalition called Time to Vote. Studies show that consumers are more loyal to brands that take a clear stance on issues they care about. Starting Sept.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

For most types of consumer retail stores, the pandemic scared regulars away, diminished traffic from visitors, altered consumer preferences, snapped formerly reliable supply chains and required dramatic shifts in the way stores serve their clientele. But that’s only part of the story.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2021

Cooped-up consumers are longing for the in-store shopping experience that goes beyond the action of buying. A July 2020 survey from Criteo, an internet advertising company, found that around the world, consumers feel most comfortable going back to shopping malls (53%) and eating at restaurants (46%) this month.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The International Longevity Centre notes that “retailers could thrive, not just survive, if they innovate to adapt to more older consumers”. Retail brands could then grant variable discounts and rates, rewarding consumers for the right behaviour. Connected sustainability. Data management meets emotional intelligence.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Aldi, which only recently introduced self-serve checkout in Australia , announced last week that it would open its first checkout-free store on a trial basis, at a location in London that is yet to be confirmed. Woolworths introduced it in supermarkets in 2018, as a trial at its store in Sydney’s Double Bay. A new direction for Aldi.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2021

What began as a trend to “go green” is now making real differences in profitability and the way consumers see brands. Lowe’s signed a renewable energy agreement in November 2018 that will provide for enough energy to power all of its 143 stores in Texas. A Crisis at Traditional Retail. Today’s customer continues to reward them for it.

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