Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It comes as the brand plans to open new stores in Sydney and Melbourne in early 2024. Ksubi’s return to operating stand-alone stores in Australia has been a long time coming. The post Ksubi’s return to Australian shores with Bondi Beach House and what’s next appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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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 company opened its first Combination Store in late 2019, followed by two additional test stores in early 2020. Enterprise same-store sales increased 4.9%

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2025

trillion in 2019 to nearly US$4.29 I started experimenting with candy formulations, and one thing led to another I quit my job in 2019 to pursue Funday full time. In what ways has it returned to “normal”? Whats returned to normal is peoples appetite for fun and joy; they just want it in a better-for-you format.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Microsoft is gearing up to take a bigger piece of the growing retail media pie with the debut of a suite of new capabilities through its PromoteIQ marketing platform, which the company acquired in 2019.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2021

In fact, the impacts of the most unique holiday in decades are still being felt: retailers should plan for continued shipping delays in the short term, and also continue to refine their omnichannel operations as they prepare for the rest of 2021. 3 shopping day in 2019. Contactless Services Can Soothe the Bite of Remote Returns.

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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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In 2019, VF Corp spun off the Wrangler and Lee brands to a new publicly traded company set up as Kontoor Brands. Scott Baxter, President, CEO, and chairman of Kontoor Brands, emphasised the strategic alignment of the purchase with plans to scale the business globally.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Returned children’s goods retailer Toys ‘R’ Us Australia has signed a long-term exclusive licence agreement to facilitate the return of the Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us brands to the United Kingdom.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

True Classic ’s use of the ParcelLab post-purchase experience and returns management solution has helped the T-shirt and activewear brand boost its email click-through rate (CTR) and open rate by 1.87% and 6.55% respectively compared to the brand’s previous provider.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

billion in Q2 2021, the highest second-quarter sales in over a decade, up 29% year-over-year and 5% compared to 2019 pre-COVID levels. Online sales in particular grew 65% over 2019 levels and represented 33% of the total business, offsetting an 11% brick-and-mortar decline compared to its pre-COVID performance.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

compared to 2019 for the six weeks from Nov. 22, a 10% increase over last year, and retailers need to prepare themselves for the share of shoppers who prefer to make their returns at a brick-and-mortar store. The rise in traffic compared to 2020 showed that shoppers are starting to return to stores. Overall sales were up 8.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2024

Under Armour revealed in November 2019 that it had been the subject of a federal investigation into its accounting practices since 2017, with the Wall Street Journal reporting at the time that both the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission were looking at the retailer’s financial reporting. 16, 2015 and Nov.

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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 Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since 2019 Ikea has opened shops in major cities such as Tokyo, Madrid, Moscow, Paris and New York to grow its presence on busy high streets. It now plans to open Ikea Oxford Street in autumn 2023, following the planned launch of its Hammersmith store later this winter.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In 2019, Hanna Andersson shifted to a fully DTC model , closing all its stores and ending its wholesale business. With no plans to return to brick-and-mortar, the company’s new loyalty program offers the brand another avenue to maintain contact with its consumers.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Over the last five years as CEO, King has been enacting his ‘customer-first plan’ which has re-established Myer as Australia’s 8th most trusted brand, according to Roy Morgan. The customer-first plan was introduced back in 2019 and remains the centrepiece of the company’s strategy to deliver for all its interested parties.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Bank , “has severely underperformed against the financial projections upon which its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization was based,” according to court documents. Tailored Brands plans to use the money to help execute its strategic plan, a Tailored Brands spokesperson told Bloomberg.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S. in the next five years and also has its sights set on international expansion, with plans to launch omnichannel operations in key markets in Western Europe and Asia Pacific next year as well as an innovation center in Taiwan. Listen to the full episode here.].

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It was our best month online since December 2019. IR: Speaking of those ups and downs, do you attribute that to Covid, or more to the previous rebrand in 2019 not really turning out as planned? But in the next year or two, we will have a really aggressive approach to what our plans are for growth online.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2022

Walmart is planning to scale its InHome delivery service to reach 30 million households by the end of the year, up from the 6 million homes that already have access to the service. To facilitate this expansion the company plans to hire more than 3,000 associate delivery drivers this year and equip them with a fleet of electric delivery vans.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2023

David’s Bridal has been struggling with changing consumer habits — weddings fell to their lowest level in 121 years in 2020, which is unsurprising, and they have yet to return to previous levels. million weddings were held in the U.S. in 2022, compared to an average of 2.2

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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.

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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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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. Since the beginning of fiscal 2019, we have fundamentally transformed our business across all functions,” the company wrote in the S-1. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

To accomplish this, the partners plan to leverage Authentic’s expertise in brand licensing alongside Saks Global’s ecommerce experience and store fleet. Additional plans for Barneys also include an enhanced presence at Saks Fifth Avenue, a strengthened retail footprint and a dedicated ecommerce platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

the former New York City flagship will become a drop-off site for returning items. On March 27, Rent the Runway laid off its entire retail staff during a Zoom call, offering no assurance that the jobs would return, according to a report in The Verge. “We We have no visibility into when or if we will be able to reopen our stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2021

In London, as shoppers return to storied Oxford and Spencer streets after long COVID-19 lockdowns, they’re being greeted by the sight of boarded-up windows and a $23.4 retailers pay for failed deliveries, or the $309 billion the industry paid in 2019 (about 20% of ecommerce sales) on returns, according to an Appriss Retail research report.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Michael Buckley, True Religion’s president from 2006 to 2010 and its CEO as of 2019, has previously stated, “This consumer wants a deal. As D’Arcy told Inside Retail , “There was a realisation, especially in 2019 when Michael Buckley came back, that we can and should be a lifestyle brand.” They’re not paying full price.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2021

“The refinance of the FILO provides an added layer of liquidity that gives us more flexibility to execute against our strategic plan.”. million profit during the same period in 2019. The retailer saw a net loss of $5.1 million in Q4 2020, down from a $2.4 Its annual net loss for 2020 was $64.5 million compared to a $7.8

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2020

According to 2019 research by Edelman, 62% of consumers say they are loyal to brands they can trust. How many times have your operations plans changed over the past few months? Build onboarding and reboarding plans that focus on essential job knowledge and start before an associate (re)enters the workplace. Build Resilience.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Scentre Group CEO and MD Peter Allen is to step down from the role on September 30 as part of a succession plan, before retiring next year. . Rusanow joined Scentre Group as CFO in 2019 after 20 years with Westfield Group where he worked in senior roles in the UK, the US and Australia. He is currently the group’s CFO.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The company’s retail revenue rose 52% , with strong in-store sales offsetting an 18% decline in digital sales as shoppers returned to brick-and-mortar. Wholesale revenue soared 157% despite the company’s plans to exit between 2,000 and 3,000 wholesale partnerships.

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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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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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