Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

Those brands that have avoided bankruptcy have often been forced to undertake aggressive cost reduction and store closures. Department stores have been particularly impacted, with consumers forced online during the pandemic now choosing to buy direct from brands or from more price-competitive online marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

One year after Kohl’s and Sephora launched their Sephora at Kohl’s shop-in-shop collaboration, the retailers plan to roll out the successful concept to all 1,100 Kohl’s locations. Currently available in 600 Kohl’s stores across the U.S., the partnership is projected to reach $2 billion in annual sales by 2025.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Located at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne, the 250sqm flagship offers Gentle Monster’s full range of product and experience to Australian consumers. The store features giant head kinetic objects highlighting the brand’s compelling visual narratives.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A strategically designed stadium-adjacent shopping and lifestyle district can activate the space and move the venue from a fortress to a living room, both on event days and non-event days. But designing a successful retail experience doesn’t simply involve placing stores and restaurants next to the stadium.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 16, 2024

LaManna, the 10,000sqm independent supermarket located at Essendon Fields, is rising to the Christmas occasion. Typically, consumers seek out department stores and shopping centres to get in the holiday spirit but LaManna has managed to position itself as the exception.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2025

In his first earnings cycle at the helm , Kohls new CEO Ashley Buchanan laid out his plan to turn around the embattled company, which has struggled for years to return to a position of strength while fending off activist investors. Sales were down at the department store in both Q4 2024 and for the full year, both of which ended Feb.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Japanese department store Matsuya has introduced a digital platform with a click-and-collect service including tax refunds in a bid to tap into the growth of international tourists. Features such as BOPIS (buy online, pick-up in-store) allow travelers to save time by pre-ordering and collecting items at their convenience.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Iconic denim lifestyle brand Levi’s has unveiled a unique storefront takeover – the largest of its kind in Europe – with premium London department store celebrating the campaign launch of REIIMAGINE Chapter II, featuring global icon, Beyonc.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2022

JCPenney is celebrating its 120 th anniversary with a fresh campaign centered on retail’s return: “Shopping is Back!” JCPenney also is launching a cross-country “Shopping is Back!” JCPenney is transforming itself with innovation and imagination and is ready to get back to connecting with our customers through shopping.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

Regional department store retailer Belk will host shops featuring products and services sold by Conn’s HomePlus in 10 to 20 locations as part of a pilot program that will kick off over the next few months.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

At their very core, brick-and-mortar stores are meant to be the physical manifestation of a brand a distillation of its promise and the experience it aims to create for shoppers and associates alike. This presents an opportunity for in-store media to influence customers brand preferences as they shop.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

The holiday season brings a surge in shopping, both in-store and online. Department stores may face large amounts of packaging materials, unsold goods and returned items, while ecommerce retailers often deal with higher volumes of cardboard boxes, bubble wrap and plastic packaging.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Harrods , one of the UK’s oldest department stores, has kicked its hipness quotient up a notch with the opening of The Edit LDN , a leading UK online store for high-end streetwear. The demand for sneakers is growing every day and we are at the heart of servicing this trend,” said Rashid in a statement.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2025

A year after the French luxury department store originally announced it would be launching its first US location, Printemps is officially opening a brick-and-mortar store in the heart of New York Citys financial district on March 21. Unlike its other locations, the Printemps New York store will not have shop-in-shops.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

Ecommerce, along with other digital channels, took center stage as new shopping habits formed and expectations drastically shifted. While we won’t be traveling in flying cars to our favorite stores anytime soon, we’re still on the fast track to a transformed shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2024

With higher than expected growth , a burgeoning middle class, and evolving consumer preferences, China stands at the forefront of the retail revolution. per cent) of surveyed department store operators expect their sales to grow in 2024, a significant decrease from last year’s 85.7 per cent and 6 per cent respectively.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

The shop-in-shop retail approach can yield benefits for both the host retailer and the hosted brand, but there are certainly challenges to entering into this type of partnership. Would standing out or blending within the host environment drive the most traffic to the shop-in-shop? Making Space for a Shop-in-Shop Partner.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Australias department stores are at a crossroads. Once the go-to for everything from fashion to homewares, theyre now struggling to stay relevant in a world of online shopping, specialty retailers, and shifting consumer habits. In September 2024, department-store sales fell by 0.5 So how did we get here?

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Charity Super.Mkt, the ‘department store for second-hand style’ launched earlier this year by Maria Chenoweth and Wayne Hemingway, will open at Bluewater this week. We’re really excited to be taking for the first time Charity Super.Mkt and charity retail into Bluewater the UK’s second largest shopping centre.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Alibaba had sold its Intime chain of department stores in December 2024 at a shareholder loss of $1.3 The company will set up a joint shopping venture this year with South Korean retailer E-mart , according to reporting in the Wall Street Journal and other publications based on an E-mart regulatory filing.

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Inside Retail

JULY 23, 2024

The long-anticipated deal between Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus could create the ultimate department store behemoth at a time when legacy players are facing increased competition from luxury e-commerce companies and a new generation of high-end brands blending premium products with immersive experiences. billion deal.

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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. Black Friday is once again the top day to shop, with 114.9 An estimated 166.3 billion , compared with $28.1

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

“This presents a unique opportunity for us to offer great value at a time when customers are looking for ways to stretch their dollars further. This is why Black Friday has become such a significant event at David Jones, offering customers the chance to purchase quality, trusted brands at exceptional prices.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

In the competition for consumer dollars, stores remain a crucial part of a successful omnichannel strategy and there is significant opportunity in the current market for retailers looking to open stores and developers looking to reimagine spaces in fresh ways. Lets start by looking at the landscape.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2024

Traditional shopping malls are poised for a dynamic transformation, presenting attractive real estate opportunities as more spaces become vacant and accessible. Architects look at a variety of elements to understand the context of the building and its location.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2024

When you look at other global companies, not many can say Australia is their fifth-largest market, so this is a unique place for us, and also I see a lot of future potential for Fiskars Group in the Australian market. Consumers like to shop for something new from the range if they have everything already. Christmas is huge.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

A recurring theme at Day two of NRF’s Retail’s Big Show Asia in Singapore on Wednesday was clearly the understanding among retailers of the need to deliver a great customer experience to succeed. In Macau customers can try a cocktail in store at a rotating bar in the middle of the shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

November and December holiday sales average around 19% of total retail sales, per the NRF , and this share can be even higher for some department stores and specialty retailers. In many ways, the same trends we see in consumers’ Q4 shopping behaviors mirror their TV viewership. this year to surpass $1.3 billion online!

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In response to higher costs, shoppers will spend more time looking for deals this season, according to an ICSC survey.

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Inside Retail

JULY 23, 2024

Aesop will return to David Jones next month as part of the department store chain’s strategy to boost its luxury beauty offerings. The brand will later launch at Chadstone Shopping Centre and Bourke Street Mall as part of the stores’ $15 million beauty hall redevelopment.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In particular, the index showed strong rises in spending at department stores, electronic stores, hardware, family clothing, pet shops, household appliances and florists, and showed signs that many people are preparing for holiday events such as Christmas parties with an increase in spending intentions for clothing rentals and tailors.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Global high-performance wellness brand, Hyperice , opens its first pop-up shop at luxury department store, Harrods. Jim Huether, CEO of Hyperice says: “Harrods’ is the world’s most iconic department store.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Iconic British department store Harrods has partnered with the Global-e international ecommerce platform to improve its online operations in more than 200 markets worldwide and offer customers elevated, localized shopping experiences.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I had clients tell me they refuse to shop in the city now,” Poulakis said. They told him it was “easier to drive to Chadstone, valet the car and go shopping” than to navigate public transport. It reportedly owed creditors $12 million at the time of liquidation, according to 9News , citing a statement from SMB Advisory.

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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’. And here’s a glimpse at three places in this year’s list that we think are worth knowing. So far this year, it has facilitated over 70 pop-up brand activations.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2024

Scentre Group’s fund from operations stood at $568.2 The Westfield shopping centre owner and operator’s net operating income grew 3.5 billion while the group’s portfolio was valued at $34.3 million in the first six months, up 2.1 per cent from the year-ago period. per cent to $1.01

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Inside Retail

JUNE 24, 2024

Following the €1 billion acquisition of the KaDeWe property in Berlin’s most famous shopping street Tauentzienstraße, from Signa Prime Selection AG last April, Central Group has agreed to acquire the rest of the KaDeWe Group portfolio – Alsterhaus in Hamburg and Oberpollinger in Munich. What’s next?

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