Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zulily Group has engaged the advisory firm Gordon Brothers to sell off more than $85 million of inventory and the assets of its two fulfillment centers following the online retailer’s decision late last year to shut down. Screenshot of the Zulily website from December 2023 highlighting the going-out-of-business sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Irish apparel retailer Primark is continuing its brick-and-mortar expansion in the Southwest U.S. with the opening of its first Texas store next month and plans for four more locations in the state. Primark also signed a contract to open a flagship store in midtown NYC’s Penn District last month. location.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Direct-to-consumer health care apparel and lifestyle brand Figs has opened its first permanent physical retail space in LA’s Century City Mall. Figs plans to take a disciplined approach to physical retail expansion by choosing markets with a high density of health care professionals.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

The transaction excludes all of Zulily’s liabilities, liens and debts, as well as the company’s remaining inventory and two fulfillment centers, which advisory firm Gordon Brothers was engaged to sell off in late January 2024. plans to relaunch Overstock.com as a standalone site later this month. Beyond paid $4.5 Now Beyond, Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2022

billion , but the retailer’s plan to ride its momentum by diversifying suppliers and shifting efforts toward DTC have some investors spooked; and Nordstrom was one of the quarter’s success stories, with net sales up 23% — and a new push into retail media may help the retailer keep that momentum going by growing this existing revenue stream.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

While the name Burton is almost synonymous with the snowboards the company began making in 1977, Burton has diversified over the years into new categories — including surfboards, apparel, goggles/optics and other sports gear — as well as expanding beyond manufacturing into direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail, both physical and digital.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

The brand will continue its current efforts in wholesale and DTC channels this year with a full relaunch planned for 2024. Focused categories include sweats, tees and tanks, intimates, dresses and loungewear, and its styles have been seen on celebrities including Miley Cyrus, Suki Waterhouse and Jessica Alba. million.

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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

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. We also can create branded logo apparel and giftable items for a cruise line or a resort.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2022

This expansion of its omnichannel offerings reflects growth plans that the retailer outlined in January 2022, when it revealed its goal of increasing annual sales to $8 billion to $10 billion and, over the next six to seven years, adding 500 new stores to its existing roster of more than 1,400 locations. through a new partnership with Shipt.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

Current COO John Mulligan announced his retirement plans in October 2023. As COO, Fiddelke will oversee Target’s nearly 2,000 stores, its global supply chain network, fulfillment services, network capacity planning, enterprise operations and the teams responsible for building and remodeling Target stores and facilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

Children’s specialty retailer Carter’s plans to open more than 50 new stores across the U.S. Nearly 70% of children’s apparel is purchased in stores,” said Casey on the call. “We this year as it aims to hit the 1,000 -store mark by 2027, Chairman and CEO Michael Casey said on the company’s Q1 2023 earnings call.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

The retailer carries apparel, footwear, sports and camping equipment from brand names including Nike , Carhartt and L.L.Bean , as well as private label brands such as Magellan Outdoors, Freely, H2OX and Mosaic.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2023

Yoga, running and training apparel and accessories will be sold in 12 countries via the Zalando Partner Program, with orders fulfilled by Zalando Shipment Solutions. Lululemon has made its products available to European consumers on the Zalando online fashion and lifestyle platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Macy’s has joined a number of other major retailers — including Walmart , Kohl’s and JCPenney — in the Fanatics club after announcing a new partnership with the online sports merchandise retailer to increase its own online assortment of fan apparel 20X , according to multiple sources.

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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

JULY 21, 2020

Walmart Canada is planning a $3.5 The retailer will invest in features such as advanced notification for customers, improvements in fulfillment center operations to increase speed and trackability and a pilot of micro fulfillment centers located in the backrooms of supercenters. The equivalent in U.S. dollars is $2.58

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Target’s Store-Based Fulfillment Model Drives Convenience. The secret to Target’s success is the retailer’s expertise at utilizing its stores for fulfillment, whether as a staging ground for last mile delivery or an efficient curbside pickup hub. Target’s physical comparable sales grew 8.9% Foot Locker managed solid 6.9%

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

The final shopping lists that are created and shared by teachers will present “information that could reflect schools’ reopening plans and affect how much consumers actually spend,” the NRF reported in a press release. The move from school supplies and apparel to hardware and computers wasn’t at all surprising to us,” Sides explained.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Consumers demand grocers and mass merchants in particular provide these last-mile services, and it’s not without challenges, as over 40% of grocery consumers cite delivery and fulfillment services as key attributes while deciding where to shop in the past year.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Pain Point #1: Selling Apparel Items in a Cashierless Store Amazon has deployed its Just Walk Out (JWO) cashierless technology in a range of sports venues, providing friction-free checkout for customers and faster transactions for retailers. But these systems’ reliance on computer vision technology made it a poor fit for apparel sales. “At

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2023

However, planned spending among those consumers is down slightly from 2022, with the average Prime Day shopper planning to spend $250 this year (both at Amazon and other retailers’ simultaneous sales events), down from $388 in 2022 and from $594 in 2021. RetailMeNot’s survey of 1,000 U.S. What Will be Different for Prime Day 2023?

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Retail Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

For example, a fashion store may sell winter clothing in the Northern Hemisphere while offering summer apparel to customers in the South. Elements of a Good Cross-Border Strategy To succeed internationally, online stores need to plan carefully. A cross-border approach, in contrast, allows brands to diversify their revenue streams.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

Amazon has announced plans for its first-ever physical fashion store — dubbed Amazon Style — which will feature women’s and men’s apparel, shoes and accessories. Amazon’s done this before… just not for apparel. The goal is an Everything Apparel Store IRL.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2021

According to data from BDO , 51% of retailers are planning to implement training to upskill employees’ technology capabilities, said Natalie Kotlyar, BDO’s National Leader for the Retail and Consumer Products Industry Group in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Traditionally, sport/leisure apparel and footwear brand FILA relied primarily on retailers to get its products on the bodies and feet of consumers. To make up for the loss of in-person sales — and to reap the benefits of a planned marketing tie-in with the estate of the Notorious B.I.G. sneaker collaboration.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2023

Revionics software allows Academy to take a customer-centric and data-driven approach to pricing,” said Govind Madhu, SVP Merchandise Planning and Allocation at Academy in a statement. Since its inception in 1938, Academy has grown to include 270 stores in 18 states.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

More and more, that means rethinking product development and expanding their sizing and assortment planning to represent a wider range of sizes and body shapes. this year alone, representing approximately 21% of the total women’s apparel market. Challenge 2: Planning and Allocation. billion in the U.S. Challenge 3: Pricing.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2021

That means using these insights to not just draw traffic and market in a cookie-less world , but really to use it for demand planning, to source new designs to determine where you should hold the inventory for those products. ”. Nordstrom and Other Apparel Retailers Will be at the Mercy of Global Supply Chains. There will be demand.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Digital accounted for 44% of net sales in Q4 2020, and the retailer also highlighted the fact that 25% of its digital sales were fulfilled from its brick-and-mortar stores via curbside pickup and same-day delivery. The increasing prominence of digital reflects the company’s “Polaris” omnichannel transformation strategy. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

WHP Global plans to expand the Express brand to multiple countries in Asia and Latin America through a series of licensing agreements. The company also plans for shop-in-shop experiences in Mexico and Indonesia. late last year. and acquire the Express brand IP under a new joint venture with Express’ parent company.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2024

For instance, consider a furniture store with a long fulfillment cycle that may not ship purchased items for months. One apparel client that came to us on the verge of an acquisition was forced to delay the deal due to non-compliant financials that had been derived from Shopify reports.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2025

With 50 per cent cash-on-cash returns reported for 2024 and plans to open 80 new doors by the end of 2025, it would appear that Foot Locker’s investment in updating its customer service experience is working.

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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. YOY growth this holiday season, whereas department stores will only see a 0.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

This includes regional positioning of inventory for e-Commerce fulfillment, retail store transfers, and direct-to-store shipments straight from overseas factories. Existing technologies such as demand planning, inventory optimization, allocation and replenishment and supply chain management are essential in the new era of retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Rent the Runway’s decision to permanently exit brick-and-mortar retailing continues its plan to drive down expenses. It offers designer apparel and accessories for rent as a monthly subscription, or four- to eight-day rentals for a single occasion. It also partnered with West Elm to add décor and bedding to its merchandise collection.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In May 2022 , Patagonia revealed plans to replace multi-card hang tags with ones featuring QR codes, a change that would divert 174,000 pounds of paper waste from ending up in landfills “We are so pleased to be welcoming Patagonia to the Pack4Good family,” said Nicole Rycroft, Founder and Executive Director of Canopy in a statement.

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