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JUNE 28, 2024

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has cut its profit forecast for fiscal 2024 and plans to close “a significant number of underperforming stores,” CEO Tim Wentworth told analysts on a call for the company’s fiscal 2024 Q3 earnings period, which ended May 31, 2024. Third quarter sales at WBA increased 2.6% year-over-year to $36.4

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2023

Staples has launched tiered Total Support Plans to provide customers with access to 24/7/365 computer support. The new plans were developed to protect customers from viruses, identity theft, crashed laptops, accidents and other problems with a live agent available at any time of day. Retail in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Following a Q4 that its new Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol termed “very disappointing,” Starbucks will make a number of changes designed to improve both the customer and associate experience at its cafés. Additionally, the retailer plans to freeze any price increases on its U.S.-owned For FY 2024, which ended Oct.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new “Triple Shot” plan builds on the original reinvention strategy introduced by former CEO Howard Schultz at the company’s Investor Day in September 2022. said Michael Conway, Group President of International and Channel Development at Starbucks in a statement. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

Despite these statistics, many retailers still don’t have functional workplace violence plans. If they do have a plan, it’s likely that it hasn’t been recently updated, and many employees may not know it exists. My role at Acuity is to help retailers with these types of undertakings. Additionally, the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

“Our decision to invite sellers into our store nearly 25 years ago was one of the best things we ever did for our customers, because the sellers brought in this just amazing array of products and brands and great prices,” he said at the Amazon Accelerate conference for its third-party sellers earlier this month. “It

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 16, 2024

Plans for a $65 million expansive retail centre have been revealed for the Aura community in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The post Plans revealed for $65 million retail precinct on the Sunshine Coast appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is betting big on going small, with plans to open up to 30 new small-format locations across the country in 2024. The planned expansion is in addition to the nearly 15 small-format stores that the retailer already operates. Macy’s Inc.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2024

The store is the Christian charity’s 11th to open this year and Salvos said it plans to add another 25 by the end of the year. Salvo Stores sell pre-loved items at affordable prices, raising more than $44 million last year to support The Salvation Army’s network of more than 2000 community programs and services nationwide.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A Hello Kitty Cafe pop-up will open at Chadstone Shopping Centre’s The Social Quarter on Friday, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the iconic Sanrio cat character. The post Hello Kitty pop-up planned in Melbourne to mark 50th birthday appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

JULY 22, 2024

Google is planning to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, it said on Monday, after years of pledging to phase out the tiny packets of code meant to track users on the internet. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority had also scrutinised Google’s plan over concerns it would impede competition in digital advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Academy Sports + Outdoors has revealed the locations of the nine new stores it plans to open this fall, bringing it closer to the goal the retailer set in March : to open up to 17 new stores during its FY 2024, which began in February 2024. Academy already has opened three locations since the beginning of its fiscal year. Kingsport, Tenn.;

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Following its first livestream event last fall , discount shopping platform Shein is planning a second shoppable livestream event Sunday, Feb. The three-hour “Shein Live: Front Row” event will begin at 12 p.m. 25 to showcase its spring and summer fashions. PT on the company’s official channels on Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2024

for the first time in more than 30 years in Los Angeles,” said Mark Rooks, VP Creative, Sponsorships and Entertainment at Dick’s Sporting Goods in a statement. ” “We couldn’t be happier to have Dick’s Sporting Goods back in the Olympic and Paralympic family,” said Chris Pepe, Chief Commercial Officer at U.S. .”

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2024

Supermarket chain Aldi has dropped its plan to expand into online shopping believing it might affect its ability to continue providing low-cost products for customers. Instead, the retailer is considering new products while targeting growth corridors on the outskirts of major cities and growing sales at its existing 570 stores.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2022

The plan coincides with the appointment of two key executives in the US: Eric Bauer as global CEO and Skye Westcott as president of North America who will lead what Coco Republic, the Australian-founded furniture and homewares chain, describes as an “accelerated global expansion, initially focused on the California market”.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2024

However, at last week’s Delivering the Future event in Nashville, Tennessee, the retail giant announced major plans to combine choice and convenience for its customers. The way we see it: It’s still Day 1,” stated Tony Hoggett, senior vice president of worldwide grocery stores at Amazon. asked Varadarajan.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2023

Casey’s General Stores has announced a three-year strategic plan that will include opening 350 additional stores, expanding its selection of prepared and private label foods and ramping up its community involvement. The effort will build on Casey’s previous multi-year plan, which included building 350 stores between 2020 and 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2024

For example, Floor & Décor faces several forecasting and inventory planning challenges because one of its core products, flooring, is usually only purchased twice in an average consumer’s lifetime. Floor & Décor also prides itself on having a large in-stock selection at its more than 225 stores.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

If you manage or influence customer deliveries, if you haven’t done so, implementing optimised transport route planning is a game-changer for your bottom line. Automate planning : Reduce planning time with automated route planning. Implement a system that reduces the overall planning time. Easier said than done?

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Retail Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Tyson Foods, the well-known food processing company, finds itself in hot water as calls for a boycott surge due to allegations of planning to employ migrants at its factories.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Party City has launched a new digital party-planning marketplace, aptly called Party+ Marketplace , that brings together local vendors and service providers with the retailers’ range of party supplies. Suppliers and service providers will work with customers directly through the Party+ platform.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2024

Hog’s Breath Cafe is looking to rebuild its restaurant footprint, and has plans to open another 20 restaurants by 2029. He has a number of growth solutions, including opening corporate stores with a plan to franchise them once established. Right now we are negotiating with financial partners for us to expand faster,” Spurgin said. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2022

Third-party marketplaces have emerged as one of the biggest growth opportunities for retailers this year, with companies from Macy’s and Bed Bath & Beyond to Giant Food and Michaels launching marketplaces (or announcing plans to do so) in the last six months alone. Second Time’s the Charm? The value of a marketplace is in the curation.”.

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MARCH 27, 2024

with plans for stores in a dozen new markets through a partnership with mall operator CBL Properties. The first wave of store openings started in November 2023 at malls in Roanoke, Va. Throughout the rest of 2024, stores will open at malls in Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn.; expansion plans. and Winston-Salem, N.C.,

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

In addition, the initiative provides intelligence for planning and rostering. “The whole intention behind the operations team’s digital insights journey is to be able to give store teams the right information at the right time to make their jobs easier,” said Coles GM of finance, operations, and sustainability Rich Walker.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2024

Gelatissimo has opened its 50th Australian store at Broadbeach in Queensland, 22 years after the brand launched in Sydney. The gelato chain has another six stores in the pipeline to open across the country in 2024, and plans to maintain this trajectory for the next five years.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sydney’s Paddy’s Market is at the centre of a debate over its redevelopment with some traders and members of the public opposing plans to give the venue a significant facelift. At the moment, we don’t make money. The post Controversy surrounds plans to revamp Sydney’s Paddy’s Market appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., We are always looking for new ways to delight our customers and improve the shopping experience,” said Leandro Balbinot, CTO at Whole Foods Market in a statement.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2024

Its newest location opens this month at Sydney’s Macquarie Centre. The brand operates six physical stores and salons in Sydney’s Penrith, Castle Hill, and QVB, including at Erina Fair on the NSW Central Coast and Charlestown in Lake Macquarie, NSW.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Disney has announced plans to significantly reduce its brick-and-mortar footprint, beginning with the closure of at least 60 Disney Stores across North America as the retailer bolsters its ecommerce operation. The closures are the first step in a total re-evaluation of the retailer’s global brick-and-mortar footprint.

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Retail Focus

MAY 13, 2022

Garden centre retailer, Dobbies has announced today (Friday 13 May) that it has been granted planning permission to build a new 60,000 sq ft store in Reading. The retailer currently has a store at Hyde End Road, Shinfield, and the new store will be built on the land behind the existing store.

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