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

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Shopping is about more than just a transaction, as evidenced by our inaugural global feature on the ‘Most desirable shopping precincts’. Home to Apple’s London Campus, a 2229sqm food hall and a glass chimney lift, Battersea Power Station also has housing and hundreds of shops located in its historic turbine halls.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Research from Google indicates that this holiday season will be more omnichannel in nature than any before it, with 64% of consumers saying that they plan to shop both online and in-store. New local customers are finding us and giving us very positive feedback on the convenience of buying online and picking up at one of our locations.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Touchwood Shopping Centre in Solihull has continued to expand its leading offer with the arrival of Spanish fashion retailer Mango. Ardent UK acquired Touchwood in summer 2021, the first major shopping centre acquisition since the onset of the pandemic, in a deal that effectively called the retail investment market.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Westfield Century City is centrally located in Los Angeles, making it a retail Mecca of sorts for locals and tourists alike. Closing the Online Discovery Gap Calpak has seen consistent growth online, but the “focused and funneled” nature of the online shopping experience meant many customers missed discovering the brand’s diverse product set.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2021

As we all know, people window shop to see what’s new, for entertainment or to decide what to buy,” said Yulie Kwon Kim, Director of Product Management Commerce at Facebook in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. A big piece of this is that it’s like a ‘Choose your own shopping adventure.’

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

flagship following its 2018 bankruptcy, just in time for the holiday shopping rush. The launch of the UK websites coincide with the rollout of Toys ‘R’ Us shops at Macy’s across the U.S., locations four years ago. The launch of the UK websites coincide with the rollout of Toys ‘R’ Us shops at Macy’s across the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

Mint House Shop Your Stay page for its NYC location. Founded by Jet.com and Walmart veteran Marc Hostovsky in 2019, Minoan is looking to enable an entirely new kind of retail — native commerce. A room at the Mint House 70 Pine location in NYC. But at Mint House the shopping happens in the real world — just not in a store.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

Embracing AI Walmart’s goal is to make shopping experiences effortless, engaging and personalised. There is also a new AR feature called ‘Shop With Friends’. InHome replenishment Back in 2019, Walmart launched the ‘InHome’ service for pickup and delivery options for customers.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 31, 2022

Icon Outlet at The O2, the London outlet shopping destination, developed by AEG and Crosstree Real Estate Partners, has announced the opening of Superdry, the premium apparel brand. Icon Outlet at The O2 is the perfect location to expand Superdry’s UK outlet store collection, as well as increasing our presence within the capital.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Located in the Campania region, it joins Hamleys’ existing stores in Rome, Milan, and Bergamo, all of which opened earlier this summer. This exciting new location, with its comprehensive lifestyle offering, perfectly reflects our commitment to creating unforgettable experiences for children and families around the world.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

Glossier will return to brick-and-mortar with three permanent locations scheduled to open this year. 20, followed by a new Los Angeles store in the fall and a London location in the winter. The retailer’s physical locations drew more than 1 million visitors in 2019 with an average conversion rate of 50%.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Sundays was founded in November 2019 by Barbora Samieian, Noah Morse, Sara Samieian, and Moe Samieian Jr., But it was the stress Barbora Samieian felt while shopping for furniture after the birth of her first child that made her think there was an opportunity to completely rethink furniture design and merchandising.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The stores reportedly were never the same even after they reopened, according to media reports; b8ta’s Houston location averaged 1,000 shoppers on a typical weekend before the pandemic, but dropped to 40 customers during the first weekend of May 2020, according to Protocol. The Austin store saw a similar 98% drop in foot traffic.

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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

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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Retail Focus

APRIL 21, 2023

The O 2, which is owned and operated by AEG and Crosstree Real Estate Partners, has reported a stellar trading period throughout Q1 and Easter half term, with sales throughout the destination surpassing 2019 results. Icon Outlet at The O2 dealt direct. Lunson Mitchenall represented WHSmith.

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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

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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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2025

While data-driven insights are crucial, the excessive flow of information is keeping store leaders tethered to their back-office screens instead of being present on the shop floor where they can make the most impact. Since 2019, the turnover rate has increased 3.5 Adding to the challenge is the high turnover among store managers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Children’s apparel retailer Carter’s plans to close at least 200 of its locations — about 25% of its store fleet — by taking advantage of expiring leases and kickout provisions. The planned closures are located in declining shopping centers and are “less likely to support our focus on high-value omnichannel customers,” Casey said.

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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. In 2019, 7-Eleven Australia removed physical checkout from the store at its head office in Melbourne.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The retailer will bring the outdoors inside with a 30-foot rock wall, along with an in-store gear repair and rental department and specialized in-store shops dedicated to outdoor activities including biking, camping, fishing, paddling, skiing, climbing, running and hiking. rise compared to Q2 2019. and Knoxville, Tenn.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The store is slated for the Jingjiang Impression City shopping center in Taizhou, a city located near Shanghai. Forever 21 then opened a store on Alibaba ’s Tmall and has begun advertising its offerings for the 618 mid-year shopping festival. Forever 21 first entered China in 2008 but left the country a year later.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2024

Photo credit: KPF) Located at the intersection of the Plaza and Grand Central Districts, 570 Fifth Avenue will be a 1,000,000 -square-foot mixed-use commercial building and marks the largest development on Fifth Avenue in more than 60 years. Rendering of 570 Fifth Avenue, which will feature an office tower and ground-level Ikea.

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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

MARCH 27, 2025

We feel strongly about providing our customers with the full, premium Tumi experience wherever they shop, Maroulis told Inside Retail. That is why our focus has been and will continue to be on creating new, larger stores in prominent locations, and upgrading and expanding current key locations to reflect our premium lifestyle positioning.

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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

JULY 1, 2020

However, nearly all locations have reopened since the quarter ended on May 2, and results at these locations have exceeded expectations. We are meeting our customers how and where they are shopping and have enhanced our fulfillment options and health precautions to ensure a safe and welcoming shopping experience.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

IKEA will expand options for urban customers on the West Coast with two planning studios in the Los Angeles area set to open in spring 2022: one in Long Beach and a second in a yet-to-be-determined location. Shoppers will be able to book appointments with design specialists to help with both planning and ordering home furnishings.

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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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Since its entry online in 2019, the company says US sales have made up the majority of its revenue. Established in 2005 by husband-and-wife team Wez and Eirin Bryett, the Gold Coast brand sells on-trend women’s clothing for predominantly Gen Z consumers.

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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. Schiller and Robinovitz are certainly no exception to this rule.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Toys ‘R’ Us will open the doors of a new two-level , 20,000-square-foot flagship store at American Dream , just in time for the last few weeks of holiday shopping, and Geoffrey the Giraffe will be in residence. flagship follows on a previous announcement that Toys ‘R’ Us shop-in-shops will open in 400 Macy’s locations in 2022.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Online florist Meg’s Flowers has to pay $1 million in penalties after the Federal Court found the company falsified claims that it was a local florist located in multiple towns, suburbs, or localities that it posted on its websites. The misrepresentations were found to be in breach of the Australian Consumer Law.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2025

Easyplant New York City When it comes to buying plants or anything greenery-related, the first place that comes to mind is probably a humble nursery or small mom-and-pop shop, rather than a chic boutique. Easyplant aims to change that. This store is more than a retail space; its an immersive experience that blends innovation with nature.

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