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DECEMBER 2, 2021

The off-price retailer announced plans for 1,050 new store openings, 1,750 store remodels and 100 store relocations; the launch of 1,000 pOpshelf locations by fiscal 2025; and the company’s entrance into Mexico with 10 stores in fiscal 2022. Dollar General’s Mexican locations will operate on a similar strategy to U.S.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

A Pea in the Pod parent company Destination Maternity closed all its banners in late 2019 following bankruptcy proceedings. The retailer was acquired by Marquee Brands for approximately $50 million in December 2019 with plans to emphasize “ecommerce, select wholesale partnerships and strategic marketing relationships.”.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Shopko Optical has partnered with SiteSeer Technologies to harness its suite of analytic tools, with plans to use them for site selection during an upcoming brick-and-mortar expansion phase.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Westfield Century City is centrally located in Los Angeles, making it a retail Mecca of sorts for locals and tourists alike. In 2019, Calpak tested its store hypothesis even further by opening a pop-up in New York City. Calpak undoubtedly tapped into the learnings from its pop-up to better plan for the LA store’s opening.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

We are emerging from the pandemic a much stronger, more profitable company than we were at the time of our IPO in 2019,” said the company’s President and CEO Chip Bergh in a statement. “We To hit the $10 billion mark in the next five years, the company plans to increase DTC revenues from their current 36% of the total to 55%.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

As the troubled department store retailer tries to reight-size its portfolio in the wake of consumers moving online to shop, Myer said the Blacktown store closure was the fifth under its Customer First Plan launched in January 2019. The post Myer to close Blacktown store as downsizing plan continues appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Party City is hiring 20,000 temporary workers for the holiday season — 80% of its 25,000 seasonal hires in 2019 — even though the retailer is drastically reducing the number of Halloween City pop-up stores it will open this year. The National Retail Federation projects that Halloween spending will dip only 8% from 2019, topping $8 billion.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

Luxury home brand Brooklinen is planning to triple its brick-and-mortar retail presence, first with the addition of four stores in new markets in 2022 and plans to reach 25 to 30 locations by the end of 2024. At that time its stated goal was reaching the 30 -store mark by 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

million nonfatal workplace violence incidents between 2015 and 2019. Despite these statistics, many retailers still don’t have functional workplace violence plans. If they do have a plan, it’s likely that it hasn’t been recently updated, and many employees may not know it exists. A 2022 U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 17, 2025

This distinct self-identification has become increasingly important now that Starboard Group is moving onto dry land, with plans to support resort boutiques at a Westgate Resort s property in Las Vegas beginning next month. A second store at another Westgate property is slated to follow later in 2025.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

These facilities are significantly smaller than traditional fulfillment centers but are designed to prepare items for immediate delivery — and Amazon is poised to expand from 45 same-day sites (as of 2019) to at least 150 in the next several years, according to MWPVL International. for orders under $25.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2020

GNC Holdings has filed a “prepackaged” Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan that will speed up the closure of at least 800 to 1,200 stores. will acquire the retailer for $760 million as part of the plan, which has backing from 90% of GNC’s creditors. Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Holding Co.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2021

Paper Source already has begun closing 11 of its underperforming locations but will keep the remaining 147 stores and its ecommerce site open throughout the bankruptcy proceedings. million reported in 2019. The retailer has received a stalking horse bid from its current lenders, led by MidCap Financial, that would provide $16.5

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Dollar Tree plans to open 600 new stores and to renovate 1,250 Family Dollar stores in fiscal 2021, which runs through the end of January 2022. The new stores are expected to consist of 400 Dollar Tree stores and 200 Family Dollar stores; the latter group will be comprised of H2 and Combination Store formats, based upon market locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2020

Payless, which has dropped the “ShoeSource” from its name, plans to open 300 to 500 freestanding stores across North America over the next five years, beginning with the opening of a prototype store this fall in Miami. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal , Margolis said “starting from scratch puts us in a good position.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2021

Shares of American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) were up today following the retailer’s 2021 investor meeting, where the company outlined plans to close at least 200 largely mall-based American Eagle locations while at the same time expanding its Aerie brand. billion , up more than $400 million from 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

GameStop is accelerating store closure plans as part of its “de-densification” strategy. The retailer plans to shutter 400 to 450 stores worldwide in fiscal 2020, which ends in February 2021. GameStop already has closed 388 locations this year; the retailer currently operates more than 5,100 stores around the world.

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Retail TouchPoints

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. and New York’s Times Square.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2022

Coco Republic is to launch two flagship stores in California ahead of a progressive rollout in selected US markets and other global locations, the company has announced. It follows the success of a partnership with Restoration Hardware and the launch of an outdoor collection at an HD Buttercup store in Los Angeles in 2019.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There is now a clear distinction between the retail of 2019 and that of 2025. Located on a site that has remained unused for over 20 years, the operator has a historic opportunity to deliver a highly anticipated project. Nhood showcased its Alverca project, located 20 minutes from Lisbon.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

After liquidation and the sale of its trademarks and intellectual property in August 2019, the Charming Charlie brand has returned with the opening of its first physical store at the Cumberland Mall in Atlanta. The openings had originally been planned for March 2020 but were delayed due to the COVID-19 crisis.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

The company’s warehouse in Florida received an additional citation for struck-by hazards , and three similar investigations are ongoing at locations in Aurora, Colo., Amazon facilities in Deltona, Fla., Waukegan, Ill. and New Windsor, N.Y. all received hazard alert letters on Jan. 17, 2022 for exposing workers to ergonomic hazards.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Scheduled for late November or early December, the store be located in Darling Square, expanding a network that is currently confined to Queensland and Melbourne. Cinnabon plans to open a second Sydney location by the end of next year and add 15 additional locations to NSW over the next five years. .

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Tru Kids has closed the two Toys ‘R’ Us outlets it opened in 2019, according to Bloomberg. 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.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

The Memo will launch two locations in Melbourne to expand its footprint in the premium baby retail market. The company will open the doors to its Fitzroy location on May 31, while the second store, which is also the largest, will be unveiled on June 22 at Highpoint Shopping Centre in Maribyrnong.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 29, 2022

DICK’S will pilot the program at DICK’S Sporting Goods locations in Pittsburgh and Lakewood, Colo. Public Lands location. The program launched April 29 at the Public Lands location and will go live at the DICK’S stores in the next few weeks. and its Cranberry Township, Pa. Pendleton , Roxy and Spyder.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

with plans to reach more than 95 locations by the end of 2021. The brand posted a 56% net sales gain versus 2019 in Q1 2021, which ended May 1. Comparable sales grew 27% year-over-year and 46% versus 2019, with digital growth soaring 113% compared to Q1 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

Beck’s planned departure was first announced in September 2019, at the time when fellow Co-founder and COO Barry Beck left the company. Macy’s updated its “Polaris” growth strategy in late February 2021 as it announced better-than-expected Q4 2020 results, marking a return to profitability for the department store chain.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Home discount retailer Big Lots is returning to expansion mode after more than a decade of flat store growth, with plans to open as many as 500 new stores in the next six to seven years. The off-price chain plans to open approximately 50 net new stores this year, and ramp up the pace of expansion to about 80 stores per year thereafter.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, had piloted a cashierless customer experience at this store using its own technology in 2019. The company plans to equip two of its Whole Foods stores with cashierless solutions in 2022. for its Ame Go convenience stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

The brand already operates nearly 40 stores and three local-language websites in France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, but Spain will be the first new European country lululemon has moved into since 2019.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 6, 2021

General Plants said it will accelerate its store opening plan together with store refurbishments in Queensland, WA and Victoria in the next few months. In the past 12 months, the brand has opened eight new outlets, three of which are located in New Zealand. “In Besides the expansion plan, General Pants Co.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Women’s apparel and fashion accessories retailer Charming Charlie continues its coast-to-coast expansion, with plans to open approximately 14 new locations in the coming months. The first store will open March 12 in Houston, followed by the other 13 locations throughout March and April.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

year-on-year through September 2020, boosting ecommerce’s share of its total sales from 33% in 2019 to 59% during this period. And while the retailer actually increased its net store count by 49 locations, online sales have remained high despite the opening of additional brick-and-mortar locations. “As year-on-year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2021

Menswear retailer Psycho Bunny will open its first East Coast location on March 31. The brand opened its first stores in fall 2019 with locations in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Hollywood, Fla., The brand opened its first stores in fall 2019 with locations in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Hollywood, Fla.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

“Maly is a champion for diversity in leadership, people development and data-based insight, and she will leverage the values of the brand to build community and experiences in its neighborhood locations.”. The retailer peaked at 187 stores in 2019, but has since downsized to 160 locations as Macy’s works to right-size its footprint.

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