Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

based wholesale and retail business assets of the Scotch & Soda brand, which will allow its products to be sold in retail stores across the country. Currently the Amsterdam-based brand’s apparel, eyewear, fragrances and accessories are available in stores across Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.

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Wholesale Accessories Apparel Brand Management 330

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2023

DoorDash has introduced Package Pickup, allowing consumers across the country to have the service deliver up to five return items per trip to UPS, FedEx or the USPS. Consumers can attach prepaid shipping labels to their returns or send a shipping QR code directly to their “Dasher” via the DoorDash app.

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Returns Drop-Shipping Wholesale Shipping 278

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

The creditors plan to take over Morphe’s wholesale operations, online platforms and international retail stores, subject to court approval. stores, though it confirmed in a tweet that stores outside the U.S. will remain operational. The company is in the process of closing all 18 of its U.S.

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Wholesale Finance Promotions Planning 289

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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Planning Wholesale Customer Experience Store Operations 317

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2024

Boisson has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and shuttered its eight brick-and-mortar stores, according to multiple media reports and a LinkedIn blog post by Boisson founder Nicholas Bodkins. The non-alcoholic (NA) beverage brand plans to continue operating as a wholesaler and a DTC ecommerce retailer.

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Wholesale Fulfillment Planning Location 264

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Customers can use either the DoorDash app or website, and members of the Sephora Beauty Insider loyalty program can earn points for these purchases by linking their account on the DoorDash app’s Sephora store page. BJ’s Wholesale Club selected DoorDash as its grocery delivery partner across 226 stores in March 2022.

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Fulfillment Wholesale Accounting Consumer 289

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Dunn Tire Managing Director of Retail Operations Robert Clark will continue to manage the brand’s day-to-day retail and service operations. The company also owns Tire Rack , a consumer-direct source and wholesaler of tires, wheels and accessories.

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Location Wholesale Accessories Accounting 260

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Results from Retail TouchPoints’ 2023 Store Operations Survey revealed that merchants’ top store operations challenges for 2023 were tied to employee hiring and retention ( 70% ), responding to high employee turnover ( 67% ) and employee training and engagement ( 56% ).

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Advertising Store Operations Merchant Services Wholesale 264

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Both domestic and international sales of 2nd Street stores showed robust growth, particularly in luxury secondhand merchandise, amid rising consumer inflation and expansion of the resale market. Earlier this year, luxury resale wholesaler LePrix, which sources inventory directly from brands, opened its first Japanese office in April.

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Thrift Store Accessories Wholesale Marketing 130

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It also has grown consistently thanks to an expansive wholesale network and presence on Amazon. But now, Melissa & Doug is taking the reins of the experience and using its first flagship store to fully immerse consumers into its world of play. 6, 2023, just ahead of the holiday shopping rush.

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Wholesale Consumer Shopping Location 262

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

billion in retail sales annually through more than 500 owned retail stores, 7,000 wholesale accounts and ecommerce in 35 countries. “As With Boardriders’ proven retail playbook, we also see tremendous opportunities to accelerate the expansion of its shop-in-shops, branded retail stores, wholesale and ecommerce worldwide.”

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Wholesale Accounting Management Location 260

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2025

Suni Shamapande is a Principal in PwC ‘s Strategy and Operations Transformation practice, where he spearheads consulting in retail operations, inventory accuracy and cost transformation.

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Wholesale Location Consumer Management 147

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While consumers still make plenty of online purchases, analysts expect ecommerce sales to grow more moderately in the near term compared to the past few years. Meanwhile, consumers return to brick-and-mortar stores and seek omnichannel experiences. They invest in new storefronts and build strong wholesale relationships.

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Shipping Wholesale Fulfillment Consumer 264

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Company is working to bring the impacted portions of its IT systems back online and implement workarounds for certain offline operations with the aim of reducing disruption to its ability to serve its retail and brand ecommerce consumers and wholesale customers.” 15 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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Fulfillment Wholesale Consumer Store Operations 264

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

history — anticompetitive and harmful to both consumers and workers. This supermarket mega merger comes as American consumers have seen the cost of groceries rise steadily over the past few years,” said Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition at the FTC in a statement.

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Grocer Wholesale Supermarket Consumer 262

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The streaming company also has explored wholesale partnerships, with Walmart expanding its in-store Netflix Hubs to 2,400 locations in October 2022.

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Location Planning Wholesale Consumer 264

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 20, 2023

For the best companies, wholesale is the primary part of your business. I can’t think of any DTC companies north of $20 million in revenue that don’t have wholesale revenue.” “I had invested in Dollar Shave Club [a pure-play DTC], but over the last 18 months, none of [our investments] have been pure plays.

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Wholesale Marketing Consumer Planning 288

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2024

Philippe Schaus, CEO, Moët Hennessy ; and Bob Eddy, CEO, BJ’s Wholesale Club. The Foodservice Innovation Zone will reflect the increased roles for technology in a field that’s embracing new formats and venues to satisfy consumers’ hunger and thirst.

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ATS Wholesale Inventory Management Fashion 275

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

Buoyed by a return to growth in Q4 2020, Adidas has unveiled a new growth strategy that will transform the company into a direct-to-consumer-led business with an emphasis on sustainability. The move is in line with similar shifts made by competitor Nike, which is ditching wholesale accounts and beefing up its digital and DTC business as well.

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Planning Wholesale Sporting Goods Accounting 232

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

While SPARC committed to keeping a minimum of 125 Brooks Brothers stores open as part of its purchase, the company did not disclose how many of the approximately 175 Lucky Brand locations it will continue to operate. The company “will negotiate with landlords to keep ‘key stores’ open in North America,” according to CNBC.

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Payment Services Wholesale Apparel Returns 264

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A cyberattack that compromises customer personal information can diminish the trust consumers place in a brand. Her team consists of over 50 brokers, service specialists and consultants focused on risk management and insurance for the retail, wholesale and distribution of consumer goods.

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Payment Services Wholesale Store Layout Inventory Management 278

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

The two discussed American consumers’ shifting attitudes toward luxury and how the pandemic has reshaped the luxury market in the U.S., Asia recouped pretty quickly, we’ve seen good potential with local European consumers, but the bulk of the positive surprise came from luxury demand in the U.S. ”. market penetration.

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Consumer Marketing Jewelry Fashion 299

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

The brand has since appeared on Shark Tank and grown to offer a range of 170 shirts, pants and other products available through both DTC and wholesale channels — and in the process, it outgrew its pure-play ecommerce roots. “We worked quickly to get the store up and running. We’ve always wanted to test out a retail location.

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Location Visual Merchandising Store Operations Wholesale 237

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2022

The threats posed by the pandemic caused many consumers to focus on foundational needs such as food, shelter and safety. But despite the initial shift toward the all-consuming COVID-19 response, brands and retailers should now recalibrate their perspectives. And, of course, toilet paper.

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Consumer Planning Wholesale Store Operations 298

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Unions Accuse REI of Unfair Labor Practices Another Seattle-based company, REI , is being targeted by two strong unions: the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) with a total of 80 charges of unfair labor practices.

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Planning Department Stores Wholesale Location 290

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2021

Under the partnership, Kim Lien Group will open and operate a number of The Vitamin Shoppe stores across Vietnam as well as launch wholesale distribution of The Vitamin Shoppe’s family of brands, including BodyTech, fitfactor and Vthrive at pharmacies, gyms, spas and other locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But Bodkins noted that interest in NA products is growing globally, and Boisson’s highly curated digital platform makes it easier for consumers to browse and buy from more than 125 NA brand options. From day one, we saw an opportunity for our stores to be the pedestal that all the brands we carry can sit on, ” Bodkins explained.

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Fulfillment Marketing Customer Experience Consumer 278

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2022

decrease from the same period the previous year, with comp store sales dropping 3.2%. drop in net third-party wholesale sales, blaming reduced demand at the company’s balloon manufacturer Anagram and a helium shortage at some retail stores. During Q3 2022, Party City achieved net sales of $502.2 million , a 1.6% billion to $2.19

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Wholesale Planning ATS Store Operations 275

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

He compared the level of interest of a consumer who had simply seen a Natori ad on social media to one who had “gone to the website, added something to their bag and abandoned the cart. That’s much more useful [data] than the first consumer. We aren’t blindly retargeting every user,” said Natori.

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Department Stores Wholesale Finance Apparel 274

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2024

Smart Carts Encourage Customers to Return Them Smart carts also improve the customer experience by connecting to a retailer’s existing app that consumers download onto their smartphones, to reward them for returning the cart to a corral when they are done shopping. But that’s only the beginning when it comes to smart carts’ benefits.

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Returns Customer Experience Shopping Wholesale 264

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2022

As a result, retailers are experiencing a daunting dilemma: to choose between absorbing cost increases or to pass those costs on to consumers — neither of which is ideal. This is an approach to coordinate an accelerated and organized response that works across the entire supplier base and all categories.

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Merchant Services Promotions Wholesale Finance 258

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Retail TouchPoints (RTP): I understand that although the Harmony783 company is nearly two years old, selling to consumers only started recently. Consumers today are much more aware of the things that are important to them, and sustainability is important to people. How have sales been going?

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Department Stores Specialty Retailers Wholesale Consumer 222

Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

Consumers are not being served well by the New Zealand grocery duopoly, according to the Commerce Commission – but it stopped short of any major recommendations in the final report into the grocery market tabled this week. . Suite of recommendations.

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Wholesale Supermarket Consumer Checkout 130

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2023

One is via bulk resellers that don’t want to get involved in brick-and-mortar retail; they’ll offer multiple pairs to us for whatever we agree it’s worth at wholesale. Another way is in-store purchasing. RTP: “Sneakerheads” can be very demanding consumers.

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Customer Experience Fulfillment Fashion Wholesale 276

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2024

Flore will report directly to President and CEO Michelle Gass and will support all Levi’s commercial operations and global channels, including stores, ecommerce and wholesale. “I (LS&Co.) has appointed Gianluca Flore as its new EVP and Chief Commercial Officer, effective July 29, 2024.

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Wholesale Fashion Location Consumer 147

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. Richard Maicki. Keith Jelinek.

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Drop-Shipping Merchant Services Fulfillment Shipping 200

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2021

Amidst ongoing industry disruption and evolving consumer trends, we are uniquely positioned to build on our momentum and accelerate growth and profitability.”. Thomas Kingsbury currently serves as an independent director at Big Lots , BJ’S Wholesale Club and Tractor Supply Co.

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