Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Geo Holding, the parent company of secondhand clothing retailer 2nd Street, is now looking to more than double its store count in the US to 100 by 2028, according to Nikkei Asia. Entering the US in 2018, 2nd Street had 43 stores in the country at the end of November.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 13, 2025

Related Story Issa Brothers eye $14bn float for EG Group 30/12/2024 x 8:34 AM It is understood that the petrol giant would float under the name of Cumberland Farms, an American c-store operator that it purchased six years ago. The Issas have also built up their EG empire across the pond to operate across 30 states.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“At Starbucks, we have challenged ourselves to imagine what’s possible when we take a closer look at the many ways our partners and customers interact with us and experience our stores every day,” said Katie Young, SVP of Store Operations at Starbucks in a statement.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

While 63% of the company’s business is derived through direct-to-consumer channels and 26% is credited to digital commerce, Ralph Lauren has “reduced brand dilution distribution” since 2018, according to Patrice Louvet, President and CEO of the company. The brand has exited two-thirds of its department store presence in the U.S.

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MAY 20, 2024

Boosting BOPIS Speed and Performance Michaels, which has used a range of Manhattan solutions since 2018, also leveraged Manhattan Active Omni to improve the efficiency of its buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) offering, which comprised 70% of all omnichannel orders in 2023.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

The department store chain also has been steadily shrinking its property holdings since it filed for bankruptcy in late 2018 before being rescued by former CEO Eddie Lampert’s Transformco in early 2019.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2025

This deal marks the end of Nordstroms years-long efforts to go private, which the company attempted previously in 2018. On behalf of my family, we look forward to working with our teams to ensure Nordstrom thrives long into the future. However, long-term success for Nordstrom wont come without further changes.

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MARCH 25, 2025

A Connected Grocery Shopping Experience In February 2024 Hy-Vee began leveraging Instacarts Fulfillment-as-a-Service to integrate same-day delivery fulfillment capabilities into its owned and operated websites. Hy-Vee first partnered with Instacart for deliveries in 2018.

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JULY 16, 2024

Reid noted that the retailer has completed more than 190 store remodels since 2018 and that these stores are outperforming non-remodeled Stop & Shop locations. This means we’ll be focused on delivering lower everyday prices, as well as even more savings for our customers through strong promotions.”

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AUGUST 19, 2021

since it closed its domestic doors in 2018 , the brand has continued to thrive abroad, with more than 900 branded stores in over 25 countriesgenerating more than $2 billion in sales. This isn’t the first store-in-a-store concept for Toys ‘R’ Us: the brand opened pop-ups at Kroger locations during the 2018 holiday season.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After it closed its last brick-and-mortar retail store in 2009, Circuit City launched a comeback in 2018 with an experiential ecommerce site. 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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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Parent company Walmart already had been working with Brain Corp , which created the AI-powered core technology, since 2018. The warehouse club retailer began testing the inventory scanning functionality in October 2020 and started this chainwide rollout in January 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

At that time Olympia closed the approximately 75 stores that were not part of the acquisition. Currently, the retailer sells exclusively through its remaining physical stores following a late entry into the ecommerce space that began in 2018 and ended in April 2022.

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JUNE 3, 2024

“By leveraging Algolia’s cutting-edge AI technology, we aim to provide our customers with a seamless and personalized shopping experience, whether they engage with us online, in one of our 3,400+ stores or through other channels.” market with its March 2018 purchase of Finish Line for $558 million. The retailer had entered the U.S.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Walmart has been working with Brain Corp since 2018, when it started deploying floor-scrubbing robots at its flagship stores. The data will be used to verify pricing accuracy, confirm planogram compliance and ensure product availability to make it easier for shoppers to find the products they’re looking for.

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MAY 24, 2021

In 2018, the brand partnered with Salesfloor to deploy a new mobile platform for associates — known as StyleConnect — combining clienteling and mobile checkout with a customer-facing interface embedded on the retailer’s ecommerce site. In 2020, we significantly beat our StyleConnect sales plan with strong double-digit growth,” she added.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

and similar events through the Pop-Ups For Good program since its launch in 2018. Approximately 60,000 families, or 7.4 out of every 10,000 in the country, are in crisis shelters on any given night. CS Hudson has been hosting Live.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Stripes and Laredo Taco Company have been a great addition to our family of brands since they initially joined us back in 2018,” said Joe DePinto, CEO of 7-Eleven in a statement. We’re excited to welcome the remaining Stripes stores and Laredo Taco Company restaurants to the family.” No information on the purchase price was available.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hy-Vee will leverage Instacart ’s Fulfillment as a Service (FaaS) to integrate same-day delivery fulfillment capabilities into its owned and operated websites and apps.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

During his tenure, Narasimhan supported Starbucks’ supply chain innovation, helped store operations and improved the partner (employee) experience, according to a company statement. However, it recently has leaned heavily into store formats that focus on speed and efficiency. Although he was named incoming CEO on Sept.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Soltau joined JCPenney in October 2018 with the goal of spearheading a turnaround at the struggling retailer. However, the effort was slowed by multiple executive shakeups , and completely stalled when the coronavirus pandemic forced the retailer to temporarily close its stores, leading to the permanent closure of 154 locations.

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APRIL 9, 2025

distribution center back in 2018, it has a lot of data to work with. Princess Pollys leadership team will tap into the incredible volume of data it has from its online business to determine where the brand should land next. And because the brand initially opened its first U.S.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Ward has been with Neiman Marcus since 2018, most recently as SVP, Customer Engagement. Nabil Aliffi, previously Global Chief Creative Officer at Soho House , will join the retailer in the brand position, and Stefanie Tsen Ward will be promoted to the retail leadership spot.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

The retailer had been struggling even before COVID-19 forced closures of its brick-and-mortar stores: for fiscal 2019, which ended Feb. compared to fiscal 2018. 1, 2020, net sales decreased 3% compared to the previous year, to $1.2 billion , with comp sales dipping 1.4%

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MAY 10, 2021

Chang has been President of PacSun since 2018 and has served in multiple senior positions since joining the company in 2006. Chang, Relich and Olson will assume their new positions on June 1, 2021, following the expected completion of the sale of PSEB’s sale of Eddie Bauer to Authentic Brands Group and SPARC group.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

compared to the same period in 2019, showing significant growth since its exited from bankruptcy in 2018. In its filing, the retailer noted that it achieved total net sales growth of 93.1% compared to the same period in 2020 and 3.4%

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JUNE 5, 2023

Aldi first began offering delivery services via Instacart in 2017, and the service now delivers from more than 2,200 Aldi stores, as well as powering pickup from 1,500+ Aldi stores nationwide.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Macy’s is a pop-up shop veteran: in 2018, the department retailer acquired concept shop retailer STORY , launched its own pop-up venture with The Market @ Macy’s and took a minority stake in b8ta. The retailer also collaborated with Facebook to create pop-up space for more than 100 e-Commerce SMBs across nine Macy’s stores.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Wozny, who joined Madison Reed in March 2018 as SVP of Digital, has been responsible for new digital experiences designed to strengthen client interactions, including consumer mobile apps and proprietary SaaS software that fuels operations at the Hair Color Bars.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Lampert exited the CEO role when Sears entered bankruptcy in October 2018 and stepped down as Chairman in February 2019. The litigation has been ongoing since 2019, when Sears accused Lampert and others of “asset stripping and ‘rank’ self-dealing.”. billion.

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MAY 10, 2023

The retailer was acquired by South African holding company Steinhoff International in August 2016, then filed for bankruptcy protection as part of a reorganization in October 2018. Following to close of the acquisition by Tempur Sealy, Mattress Firm will continue to operate as a separate business unit within the company.

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JUNE 23, 2023

The Seattle store, which closed June 16, was Amazon’s second in the city when it opened in August 2018. Amazon didn’t provide a specific reason for the closure, and the company still operates four other Amazon Go locations within the city.

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JUNE 20, 2023

REI has offered used outdoor gear to co-op members for more than 60 years through “garage sale” events at its stores. “As a member-owned co-op, we have a responsibility to preserve the long-term health of the planet,” said Bob Cagle, Regional Director at REI in a statement.

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JULY 31, 2024

The JWO technology, launched in 2018 and now in 170 third-party retail locations, had previously analyzed shoppers’ behavior — their movement and location in the store, what they picked up and the quantity of each item — sequentially.

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JULY 22, 2021

Lately, the company has been opening several grocery stores in major U.S. billion back in 2018. This move gave them access to over retail 460 stores, making Amazon a heavyweight in the space almost instantly. In 2018, over 3 out of every 100 retail workers suffered an injury or illness, requiring time off.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

with stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, Southeastern Grocers emerged from bankruptcy in 2018 , shuttering 94 stores to free up capital for a revitalization of its business. One of the largest conventional supermarket companies in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Their first store opened in the Wall Street business district near the southern tip of Manhattan a decade before the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, which were destroyed on 9/11, rose up to dominate the skyline and attract tourists. Business remained slow for a few years as lower Manhattan recovered.”.

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