Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

Five Guys hit the Australian market in 2021. Mark Wahlbergs brand Wahlburgers launched in Sydney at Circular Quay in 2021. With plans to open 15 outlets, so far it has expanded to Manly and Sydneys west, as well as Byron Bay and Surfers Paradise. Today it has just two Sydney sites and two locations in Melbourne.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

In addition to this Southern California store, the retailer has new shops planned for Illinois, Rhode Island, Nevada, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida and Puerto Rico. Forever 21 plans to celebrate each new store with a grand opening featuring special promotions, giveaways, gifts with purchase and food.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The parent company announced plans to roll out brick-and-mortar Toys R Us flagship stores in September 2023 in a partnership with Go! flagship location had opened in New Jerseys American Dream mall in December 2021. Retail Group , including a store in the Mall of America. The initial U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

DoorDash also has introduced a one-year discounted DashPass plan for SNAP/EBT recipients for $4.99 Additionally, the platform has improved its DoubleDash offering; since its introduction in 2021, shoppers have been able to add items from an additional store after checking out without incurring an additional delivery fee.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 10, 2025

Since entering the region in 2021, GMG has grown to more than 200 stores, with a target of reaching 400 within the next five years. The post How GMG plans to win Southeast Asias sports retail market appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. Further reading: How Dubai sportswear giant GMG aims to crack the Southeast Asia market.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2022

The company — which operates 650 locations under the DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and The Shoe Company banners —announced plans to nearly double sales of its owned brands, from 19% of the business to one-third by fiscal 2026 (the fiscal year ending January 30, 2027).

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Bed Bath & Beyond reportedly plans more layoffs and will eliminate the Chief Transformation Officer role currently held by Anu Gupta, according to an internal memo from CEO Sue Gove seen by CNBC. The retailer had approximately 32,000 employees as of Feb. 26, 2022, according to a company filing.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The grand reopening of Z Gallerie (as Karat Home is framing it) includes an enhanced online shopping experience as well as plans to reestablish the brands physical presence and the launch of a membership program. Plans for limited-edition collections also are in the works.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2022

FedEx is planning to cut an additional $1 billion in costs, citing weak demand that led to a disappointing profit for Q2 2023, which ended Nov. The reductions will add to cost-cutting measures announced in September to bring FedEx’s total fiscal savings plan for 2023 to $3.7 FedEx had expected revenue of $23.7

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Saks Fifth Avenue’s parent company, HBC , announced its plans to acquire competing luxury department store Neiman Marcus in July 2024 for $2.65 In 2021 and 2022, Saks Fifth Avenue was a winner of Retail TouchPoints’ sister publication Design:Retail ’s Winning Windows Awards. Saks Continues Other Holiday Traditions on Fifth Ave.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

brick-and-mortar retailing in late 2021 with a 20,000-square-foot flagship store at New Jersey’s American Dream mall , followed by 452 Toys ‘R’ Us shop-in-shops at Macy’s in 2022. No information about the number of planned stores or their opening dates was available. Toys ‘R’ Us marked its initial return to U.S.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2024

A group of investors, including Edison Growth Fund Accent Group, Accent Group CEO Daniel Agostinelli, and billionaire businessman Brett Blundy, purchased a share in the company for an undisclosed price, after Oz Hair and Beauty generated $2 million per month and it was expected to treble its revenue to $40 million by 2021.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Lego has scrapped its plans to make its bricks from recycled bottles after discovering the method does not reduce emissions and, when adopted at scale, would leave a higher carbon footprint. The post Lego scraps plans to make bricks from recycled bottles appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2025

Kimbell became CEO of Ulta Beauty in 2021 after serving in executive roles with the company since 2014. Late last year, the retailer outlined a series of aggressive growth strategies to continue its current momentum, including plans to accelerate new store openings in order to reach a total of more than 1,800 locations across the U.S.

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JANUARY 2, 2025

billion Kroger-Albertsons tie-up as well as the November 2024 end of a planned Capri Holdings and Tapestry merger. After moving aggressively into direct sales in 2020 and 2021, Nike had to begin rekindling wholesale relationships with retailers including DSW and Macys in late 2023. Walgreens Agrees to $192.5M

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2023

billion generated in Q4 2021. The plan to do that — dubbed “Lace Up” — will include simplifying operations and investing in “core banners and capabilities.” Other plans include a reset of the retailer’s loyalty program and the development of an enhanced omnichannel experience. 28, 2023, with sales down 0.3% billion from the $2.34

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

And this is just the first of in a series of shopping events Wish has planned for 2023. A former CFO for Shutterfly and Lexmark , she joined as Wish’s CFO in November 2021 and added COO to her title in late 2022. “In Joe Yan, CEO, Wish Central to Wish’s turnaround effort has also been a drawn-out reshuffling of its C-suite.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 26, 2023

Performance apparel brand Canada Goose is continuing its retail expansion across the West Coast with plans for its first Los Angeles store, a permanent presence east of Seattle in Bellevue, Wash. The three new stores are part of the company’s plan, announced earlier this year , to more than double its current global store count by 2028.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The retailer aims to create a consumer-driven demand engine by growing its ecommerce operations while adjusting its global operations, including halting a planned expansion into Japan. 18 call with investors. Having a stronger backbone and technology enablers will be a key priority for us going forward.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2023

The largest increase took place from 2021 to 2022 when shoplifting complaints increased 44% year-over-year to reach almost 64,000 , many of which were committed by organized theft rings , according to New York State Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In late 2021, the company helped Walmart add embedded shoppable videos across Walmart.com, multiple media outlets, brand and talent sites and social platforms. TikTok’s live shopping platform is already operational in Asian markets including Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam as well as the U.K. TalkShopLive has previously worked with U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

Nike has laid out a plan to cut up to $2 billion in costs over the next three years in a bid to “accelerate future growth while building a faster, more efficient” organization, executives shared during the company’s fiscal 2024 Q2 earnings call. dollar that has negatively impacted second-half reported revenue versus 90 days ago.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2024

When ThredUp acquired Remix in July 2021 , it believed the move would be a growth driver for its business, but under continued financial pressure the company announced in August 2024 that it was planning to exit Europe and become “a U.S.-only only business again.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

The company is planning to open 50 net new stores this year, and 30 to 35 will be international, with the majority located in China. The company’s worldwide expansion is part of the “Power of Three x2” growth plan, which has goals including tripling international revenue from 2021 levels by the end of 2026.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 20, 2025

Tighe, who joined Tailored Brands in May 2021 as EVP and Chief Customer Officer, will replace Peter Sachse, who will become Executive Chairman of the company’s board. In March 2022 Tailored Brands named Sachse and Bob Hill Co-CEOs, positions they had held on an interim basis since the March 2021 departure of CEO Dinesh Lathi.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2024

That’s why retailers must find ways to optimize their cloud resource planning strategies ahead of a time of demand. Scalability Is Key One key aspect of effective cloud resource planning is being able to dynamically scale infrastructure. Here are three key components of a well-managed ecommerce cloud strategy. So Who’s Doing It Well?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 25, 2025

Walmart is in the process of deploying AI-powered tools to meet key store associate requirements, including a task management solution that has reduced shift planning times from 90 to 30 minutes. Walmart plans to expand the tech to additional stores in the future. and Canada locations later this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

SHEIN has officially launched its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in Dublin City Centre, Ireland and is planning to host approximately 30 pop-up store events across the region this year to boost its profile with customers. The news comes as fellow Asia-based discount shopping app Temu picks up steam in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

HATCH weathered the depths of the pandemic without any layoffs and achieved 70% growth in 2021 and 30% in 2022, and Goldman expects further growth in the 25% to 30% range for 2023, despite the economic headwinds facing retail overall. The concept quickly found an audience, which helped it stay strong even during difficult times.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2024

RTFKT , the Web3 sneaker brand that Nike acquired in 2021 , will wind down operations by the end of January 2025, transitioning into an archived site to showcase the designs created for the platform. That’s the true RTFKT legacy: showing the world that when you dare to imagine differently, you can transform culture itself.

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A1 Retail

MARCH 14, 2025

Screwfix, the omnichannel retailer, has announced plans to open up to 35 new stores across the UK and Ireland by the end of January 2026, creating more than 400 jobs in local communities. Screwfix opened seven City stores in FY24 (1 st Feb 2024 31 st Jan 2025), with plans for this to form the majority of new openings in FY25.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Incorporating customer LTV into CX planning is crucial for prioritizing and optimizing customer interactions. Ultimately, leveraging LTV in CX planning ensures a more focused, efficient and impactful approach to customer relationship management. But more than that, they can help businesses keep customers happy over the long term.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2023

Over the last several months we’ve demonstrated the extent to which we work every day to mitigate risk and protect our people, and our publicly available data show we’ve reduced injury rates nearly 15% between 2019 and 2021. What’s more, the vast majority of our employees tell us they feel our workplace is safe. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

million people plan to shop between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday in 2022, representing 69% of all holiday shoppers, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Analytics. This would be nearly 8 million more people than in 2021 and the highest estimate since NRF began tracking the data in 2017.

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Inside Retail

MAY 20, 2025

Brett Blundys BBRC was reported to violate US laws with its purchases of shares in lingerie giant Victorias Secret during the past three years, resulting in the target adopting a ‘poison pill’ plan as a response. BBRC is currently preparing to launch a new lingerie chain called Leays which is plans to grow into a global brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 25, 2025

billion in 2021 to $40.88 Of those businesses that improved their data quality in 2021, 75% exceeded their annual objectives in some way. MDM should be part of your plan for 2025. Many vendors are now launching retail-specific data management solutions in response to this demand. Red Wing Shoe Company provides a common example.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Younger generations, especially millennials, increasingly rely on their digital wallet alone, with 28% (up from 25% in 2022 and 22% in 2021) planning to pay for gift purchases in 2024 using digital wallets. Mobile wallets provide the convenience shoppers have come to expect.

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