Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

Wonder, which was founded by Jet.com entrepreneur Marc Lore in 2018, purchased meal kit company Blue Apron in October 2023 for $103 million and in November 2024 acquired Grubhub for $650 million. Walmart in February 2024 , and in March 2024 Wonder raised $700 million and announced plans to operate 90 physical locations by the end of 2025.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“We are strongly committed to supporting the community pharmacy model including pharmacy ownership and location rules to ensure pharmacies are well represented in all communities, especially in regional and remote parts of Australia.”. The post Woolies blocks Wesfarmers’ plans for API with $872 million bid appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“We are strongly committed to supporting the community pharmacy model including pharmacy ownership and location rules to ensure pharmacies are well represented in all communities, especially in regional and remote parts of Australia.”. The post Woolies blocks Wesfarmers’ plans for API with $872 million bid appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

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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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. Closer to home, Amazon is reportedly planning to open department stores in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The alliance, which is made up of 165,000 businesses across the grocery supply chain, is calling for a ‘national food security plan’ to minimise future price increases due to further disruption. The post How Invertigro, Urban Plant Growers plan to shorten the food supply chain appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2021

Customers have missed the experience of shopping in-store, and we’ve seen strong support across our suburban stores, with improvement in CBD locations in recent months. In the past year, one of our proudest initiatives has been formalising our commitment to Reconciliation through our first Reconciliation Action Plan.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2025

The launch of Deliveroo Express builds on the success of the companys grocery business, which has partnered with major UK supermarkets including Morrisons , Co-op, Sainsburys, Waitrose, and others since 2018. With more grocers and retailers entering on-demand, we are adeptly placed to support them in reaching more customers in less time.

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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. The logistics for us, on the East Coast and West Coast, [means] it takes time to get stock over to those locations. Key markets include Miami; Glendale, Calif.;

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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.

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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! 2022, we coming in HOT!,”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2021

Aetna members can access the service with a $0 co-pay for virtual visits and certain in-person services at MinuteClinic and CVS HealthHUB locations, once their deductible is met on qualified high-deductible health plans. The retailer made the acquisition for $78 billion in November 2018 to broaden its healthcare offerings.

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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

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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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The company aims to strengthen its market position by expanding e-commerce services and opening new 2nd Street locations in Japan and overseas, focusing on achieving sustainable growth and improved profitability. Entering the US in 2018, 2nd Street had 43 stores in the country at the end of November. billion yen (US$5.4

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Say ‘Hello’ to the New BuyBuy Baby Now those 11 stores, which are located along the East Coast, from Massachusetts to Maryland, will reopen in November as part of the brand’s initial relaunch under its new owners. The BuyBuy Baby IP, digital properties and 11 store leases were acquired by Dream on Me in late July 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Located in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood, this first-ever Reddy store features curated Reddy merchandise and a range of pet-centric experiences. Petco plans to release new products that will be exclusive to the store in coming months. Petco has opened a new concept flagship centered on Reddy , its premium private label pet brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Slated to open in mid-December, the new mall-based flagship follows on a 2019 attempt to revive the toy store chain via smaller mall locations that was thwarted by the pandemic. . stores in 2018, the Toys ‘R’ Us brand passed through a number of hands before being acquired by brand management firm WHP Global in March 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2024

After opening the brand’s first brick-and-mortar location since its 2018 bankruptcy in July 2023, the company has now announced plans to bring Babies ‘R’ Us shop-in-shops to 200 Kohl’s locations this year. WHP Global is following a familiar playbook for its relaunch of Babies ‘R’ Us.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2024

But the lack of a systematic approach to assortment and order prioritization meant that individual stores were shipping items to too many far-away locations. The retailer also is planning to launch a pick substitution functionality later this year, which will identify a substitute item for BOPIS orders if the requested items can’t be found.

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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. The retailer’s products are available on Amazon and at Ulta and Ulta Beauty at Target stores, as well as its own Hair Color Bars.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

The retailer originally had announced plans for the new HQ in 2016, and construction began in 2018 for an intended midsummer 2020 move-in date. REI executives believe that selling the campus, located in the Spring District of Bellevue, Wash.,

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Signet Jewelers has entered into an agreement to acquire Diamonds Direct USA , an off-mall jeweler with 22 locations, in a $490 million all-cash transaction. Signet plans to drive operating synergies by leveraging its scale in purchasing, targeted marketing, connected commerce and jewelry services to enhance Diamonds Direct.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

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.”. Walmart has been working with Brain Corp and Tennant, which produces the robots themselves, since the retail giant started rolling out the floor-scrubbing robots in 2018.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2025

billion is our [FY]26 plan, which we are currently ahead of schedule, with the intent to remain ahead of schedule. SE: So when you think about the future, obviously you are still thinking about expansion in categories and locations. But we’ve definitely accelerated our store expansion plan in the last five years.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2024

After opening its first global duty-free popup at Singapore’s Changi Airport last month, Decathlon has recently unveiled its strategic plan to expand to 37 “2-hour Click & Collect” locations islandwide by 2026. Two new Click & Collect stores are slated to open at Lot 1 next month and Jurong Point in October. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

Apple is reportedly planning to boost starting pay for U.S. The increase would make starting salaries 45% higher than they were in 2018 as the retailer faces the challenges of a tight labor market and a unionization push. store associates to $22 per hour, and even higher in certain markets, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

billion since the DSP program, which subcontracts with third-party firms for the ecommerce platform’s expansive delivery needs, began in 2018. “To We anticipate that our investment will help DSPs increase driver pay to a national average of nearly $22 per hour, depending on their location, which is a 7% increase over last year.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2024

She added that Brun has significantly contributed across various locations and roles, starting at Officeworks Ringwood, where she worked for 24 years, followed by Officeworks Ferntree Gully. Brun is now part of the Officeworks Bayswater team in Perth.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

Across the country, Aldi plans to open 120 new stores this year , adding to the 139 locations it opened or remodeled in 2022 and bringing its U.S. ” Southeastern Grocers emerged from bankruptcy in 2018 , shuttering 94 stores to free up capital for a revitalization of its business.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

According to Cooler Screens’ account, all was going well in the initial years of the arrangement, which included a successful three -month pilot in 2018 at six locations, followed by plans to expand to 2,500 stores. It also is paying $4.95

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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. Are there any plans in the works to open another store soon? If so, what locations are in mind?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2023

this summer with the opening of its first flagship location since the brand’s 2018 bankruptcy. The store will be located at the American Dream mall in New Jersey, alongside the flagship of sister brand Toys ‘R’ Us , which opened there in December 2021. Babies ‘R’ Us will return to brick-and-mortar retail in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2022

Amazon is planning to shut all 68 of its physical bookstores, Amazon 4-star, and Pop up stores across the US and UK, shifting its focus to the groceries businesses and new retail concepts, the company told Reuters. The cost base of the stores is reasonably high because most are located in premium malls where rental costs are high.”.

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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. and ultimately scale our marketing efforts for specific channels and locations.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 24, 2024

Brazilian restaurant chain Oakberry entered the Australian market in 2018 after ANZ CEO Renan Fretes-Pinto identified a gap in the market for healthy fast food. Renan Fretes Pinto: We opened the first international store in Bondi in December 2018. People are saying sometimes that acai is the new bacon-and-egg roll for example.”

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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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