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New Zealand’s Deadly Ponies to open first Australian store

Inside Retail

We’ve created an interior handwriting for our spaces, linking them together but also creating new developments for each store that we introduce,” said Liam Bowden, creative director at Deadly Ponies. . The store is scheduled to open on August 4 on High Street in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale.

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Capri, Tapestry Pull Plug on Merger Amid Regulatory Uncertainty

Retail TouchPoints

Both groups said that the outcome of the legal process was too uncertain and unlikely to be resolved by the outside date (or drop-dead date) of Feb. billion , in line with the previous year and led by growth at the Coach brand. The picture was a bit different at Capri, where revenue was down 16.4%

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SikSilk Nets 25% Increase in Digital Purchases Following Site Search Revamp

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer partnered with solution provider Nosto to help it keep the products that appear in search results in line with inventory levels, while also increasing relevancy and preventing “dead-end” searches for which no products or an incomplete list of products are shown.

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Wireless Power and the Retail Store of Tomorrow

Retail TouchPoints

Replaceable batteries don’t all deplete at the same rate, meaning one shelf may require multiple trips to replace dead batteries at various intervals, and most used ones — three billion, according to the EPA — end up in landfills as toxic e-waste annually. Each of these devices requires consistent power to operate.

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Breaking Barriers: How Brick-and-Mortar Retailers can Deliver Exceptional Customer Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

People have been saying “Retail is dead” for several years now. in its fiscal year 2023 (ending in September) versus 2022…which may come as no surprise to you at all if you’ve been in a Costco on a Saturday lately. No, retail isn’t dead. Bad retail is dead. The problem is it simply isn’t true. Costco grew revenue by 6.7%

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‘Earth is Now Our Only Shareholder:’ Patagonia Founder Donates Company to Fighting Climate Change

Retail TouchPoints

The Patagonia Purpose Trust now owns all the voting stock of the retailer, which totals 2% of all Patagonia stock. The Holdfast Collective will control all nonvoting stock and use every dollar received to “protect nature and biodiversity, support thriving communities and fight the environmental crisis.”

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Rob Scott: ‘Some of our locations may be suitable as vaccination points’

Inside Retail

We are happy to explore ways we could work with the third-party providers we use to offer workplace flu shots to our team members across the Group, and look at ways to do that for Covid vaccines,” Scott said in a statement provided to Inside Retail. “In

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