Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

Footwear and accessories brand Novo Shoes has returned to Canberra, opening two locations in Woden and Belconnen. Six years after it left the market, the brand debuted its Woden store last month and will open its second location this Friday.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2021

Lord & Taylor will return from bankruptcy as a digital-first retailer in April under its new owner Saadia Group, according to multiple sources. for $100 million in August 2019, but Le Tote itself went bankrupt just a year later in August 2020. Known as the oldest department store in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

Toys ‘R’ Us will make its latest attempted return to brick-and-mortar with 400 store-in-store shops at Macy’s locations and online at macys.com/toysrus, slated to roll out in 2022. 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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Inside Retail

MAY 11, 2022

Australians are returning to shopping malls as Covid fears subside with Scentre Group reporting customer visitations up 12 per cent on 2021 levels during the first quarter. Excluding CBD-located centres, mall foot traffic is up by 16 per cent. “We Comparable sales of major retailers and specialty stores were up by 11.2

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ksubi’s return to operating stand-alone stores in Australia has been a long time coming. 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. It comes as the brand plans to open new stores in Sydney and Melbourne in early 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

Consumer-friendly and flexible return policies can be the difference between getting a new customer and losing a sale. According to proprietary research conducted by Forter, 23% of shoppers will abandon their carts if returns options are poor. Returns Abuse And Customer Expectations. This is amplified in some industries.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Located in its birthplace of Eugene, Ore. The new strategy came as no surprise; the company already had pulled its products off Amazon in late 2019 as part of an ongoing pivot to focus on growth via its own channels, paring back the number of retailers it partners with and investing more in its own stores, website and mobile apps.

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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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The deal marks Australia’s largest single regional asset transaction since December 2019. Located in Perth’s fast-growing north-eastern metropolitan corridor, Midland Gate has a gross lettable area of 68,600sqm, anchored by Coles, Woolworths and Aldi, in addition to Kmart, Big W and Target.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The move could mean H&M returning to areas where it closed in recent years. Since the start of the Covid pandemic, the retailer has shut over 56 shops in locations including Hartlepool, Burton and Maidenhead in efforts to reduce costs.

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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. However, the brand has yet to return to profitability despite its growth. Claire’s has filed for an IPO that would value the company at $100 million. In its filing, the retailer noted that it achieved total net sales growth of 93.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

retail executives whose stores offered at least one method of store-based online order fulfillment — revealed that the pandemic triggered a 5X increase in ecommerce volume in 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. A frictionless return experience is critical. The survey found that returning an item ranked as the No.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There is now a clear distinction between the retail of 2019 and that of 2025. Investors are returning to the market with growing volumes, particularly in Southeast Europe and the UK, adopting an opportunistic strategy centred around winning concepts. Nhood showcased its Alverca project, located 20 minutes from Lisbon.

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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

APRIL 12, 2021

Touted as part of its “Move to Zero” sustainability efforts, Nike Refurbished will take like-new, gently worn or cosmetically flawed shoes that have been returned within the company’s 60-day “wear test” window, and fix them up to be resold at Nike stores. All Nike Refurbished shoes also will be eligible for the 60-day wear test offering.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

While the company is leaving its locations in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., the former New York City flagship will become a drop-off site for returning items. Founded as an e-Commerce business in 2009, Rent the Runway did not open its first retail location until 2014.

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Retail TouchPoints

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. Today, the retailer operates 2,353 locations and said in its filing that “we are nearly twice the size of our next largest competitor (based on U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2020

in Q1 compared to the same period in 2019. and Canadian field management and stores associates were temporarily furloughed until they could safely return to their positions. Even though approximately 95%. of the company’s U.S. stores in late April, more than doubling its daily shipping capacity. Overall net sales decreased 38.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

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. The company opened its first Combination Store in late 2019, followed by two additional test stores in early 2020.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2021

” Australian retail expert and QUT professor of marketing Gary Mortimer believes that while local stores have shown promise throughout the pandemic, location is critical to success. The challenge is CBDs will not return to pre-COVID levels for many years. Local concept grows in the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Just in time for New York Fashion Week, the iconic, now defunct luxury department store Barneys New York has made its return to fashion, albeit not in a way that many of the brand’s devotees would have imagined. Barneys filed for bankruptcy in August 2019 and was bought by Authentic three months later for $271.4

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2021

Prior to closing all its locations due to the pandemic, Glossier operated flagships in New York and Los Angeles as well as a host of pop-ups in cities including Seattle, Boston and London. In 2019 alone, the brand welcomed more than 1 million people into its permanent and temporary stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Our investments in digital innovation continued to pay off in the quarter, with digital sales up 21% from 2019. 22 Macy’s announced plans to close 45 stores by mid-2021, according to CNBC , part of a previously announced plan to close 125 locations by 2023. billion and no revolver borrowings.”.

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VMS

MAY 18, 2021

shoppers are returning to shopping malls, according to a report by Placer.ai, published by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Foot traffic at Class A malls is showing steady growth over the past few months when compared to the same time period in 2019. The post Foot Traffic Returns to U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

Over a four-week period, Build-A-Bear turned its store locations into micro-fulfillment centers so it could maintain store operations, keep associates working and create a bright spot for consumers navigating uncertainty and stress.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 9, 2021

of total retail sales in the UK in 2019 1 , climbing to over 38% in the first lockdown, and estimated to have settled in the region of 28-30% subsequently, retailers are now accepting that larger online capability is not just necessary but expected. With e-commerce sales reaching 21.8%

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Inside Retail

MAY 11, 2021

The last time Aje hit the runway was in 2019, when it opened up for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at picturesque Campbell Cove by Sydney Harbour. We always have a healthy eye on locations we feel are significant, so we very much look forward to reintroducing Aje at Karrinyup with a permanent site.

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2023

Target US is making shopping easier for customers with the option to make product returns right from their cars at no extra cost. The new returns service is already available at over 500 stores across the US and is expected to reach all 2000 Target locations in the next few months. she questioned.

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Inside Retail

MAY 28, 2024

Am I simply reading some archived stories from more than a decade ago and as recently as 2019 when merger proposals were abandoned ? Great news but, again, we have been here before as recently as 2019 when the NRA walked away from amalgamation plans claiming it was not in the interests of small retailers. Or are they?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Founded in 2019, Coolmate quickly became popular for its products and services catering to male customers and has consistently topped menswear’s e-commerce sales in major online marketplaces in Vietnam. Its customer-centric approach is highlighted by a 60-day, no-questions-asked return policy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

The deal may eventually include Shein shop-in-shops at some of Forever 21’s 540 brick-and-mortar stores, which are heavily concentrated in malls, as well as offering consumers the ability to return Shein items at Forever 21 locations.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The streaming platform, which launched in late 2019, feeds behavioural data into AI algorithms to serve personalised viewing suggestions to its 118 million global paid subscribers. With a relevant set of rewards and benefits woven into the retail model, customers have plenty of reasons to keep returning. .

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Western Australian pearl and fine jewellery brand Kailis has opened a pop-up shop at Westfield Miranda, a shopping centre located approximately 30 kilometres south of the Sydney CBD. This year has also seen the return of the European summer as well, so people are choosing whether to travel or purchase locally,” she said.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. Harness the Power of Location to Deliver Contextual Shopping Experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Following the opening of 100 Ulta Beauty at Target shop-in-shops in 2021, Target will open more than 250 new locations by the end of 2022, with ambitious plans to eventually reach at least 800 locations. “We see substantial opportunities to build on our core capabilities to drive deeper guest engagement and long-term growth.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2020

Net income was $838 million compared to $906 million in Q1 2019, dragged down by $283 million in wage increases and sanitation-related costs. Nordstrom, like many other department stores, had a much weaker quarter: overall sales fell 40% , with full-price locations dropping 36% and the off-price division declining 45%.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Led by founder Steve Grocutt, after a year like no other, sales at The Cornish Bakery are in impressive double-digit growth as the ‘independent chain’ prepares to take over £20 million through its tills in 48 UK-wide locations, and meet a target of ten new openings across the UK in 2021/22. Cornish Bakery Chichester.

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