Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

Fast-growing Australian online retailer Canningvale plans to relaunch the iconic Singaporean department store Robinsons as an online-only business this month after acquiring the company’s digital assets for an undisclosed sum. Some of the brands have a history with Robinsons, while others are new to the department store. .

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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

APRIL 29, 2022

Target has been experimenting with increasingly smaller concepts since 2020, when it began exploring sites for 6,000 -square-foot stores — half its then-current minimum size — as the retailer put more emphasis on curbside pickup and store-based fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2021

While suburban shopping malls and department stores have fallen victim to COVID, some smaller retail brands and local stores in walkable neighborhoods with a mix of uses, where people live, work, shop and relax, have thrived ( LA Times , 2020). By fulfilling one situational need, we removed another one — human connection.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Macy’s Q4 and full-year 2020 results show signs of a turnaround for the department store, hard hit, like many of its counterparts, by the COVID-19 pandemic. 22 Macy’s announced plans to close 45 stores by mid-2021, according to CNBC , part of a previously announced plan to close 125 locations by 2023.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Aptos develops and delivers unified commerce solutions for specialty softlines, hardlines and department store chains in North America, Europe, Asia and ANZ. Aptos One, our Cloud POS solution , delivers unified experiences through the store. Does Aptos have any exciting plans for the next 12 months?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

Bunnings recently opened the first new format Adelaide Tools store in Parafield, South Australia. It plans to open the first Adelaide Tools store outside of South Australia in Western Australia in the first half of FY22. “A Kmart, Target and Catch working smarter, not harder. We see the Target brand as our key asset.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This is creating new challenges for retail operations, including a particular demand for agile merchandise planning and supply-chain processes. These activities require frequent decisions on product assortment, store, and floor-space allocations. Retailers are finding omnichannel fulfilment complex.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 10, 2022

After a rollercoaster six months of lockdowns, Christmas and Omicron, department store Myer yesterday delivered a strong half year result with net profit up 55 per cent and its first dividend payment since FY17. This will ensure we’re getting products to our customers in the quickest and most effective way,” King said.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Myer’s online sales have more than doubled since John King took over running the department store in 2018, and the CEO believes they can double again to reach $1 billion in the not-too-distant future. The post How Myer plans to reach $1 billion in online sales appeared first on Inside Retail. Myer reported $539.5 billion. “I

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Regal Brands Global , the new owner of iconic department store brand Lord & Taylor , plans to relaunch it as a discount luxury ecommerce platform in 2025. The site will offer designer goods and Lord & Taylor-branded products, according to reporting in Business of Fashion and other media outlets.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Department stores saw a 2.9% decline, furniture and home furnishings stores reported a 2.6% increase in sales, while health and personal care stores saw a 0.7% The decline occurred despite muted inflation of just 0.1% , according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI).

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Kohl’s CEO Michelle Gass will leave the department store retailer to take on the newly created position of President, LS&Co., The move sets in motion a succession plan for Gass to succeed Bergh as CEO within the next 18 months. reporting to Levi Strauss & Co. President and CEO Chip Bergh. Beginning Jan. Beginning Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon recently announced that it is in talks with mall operators such as Simon Property Group to convert the vacant store space left by the closure of big department stores into warehouses and fulfillment centers. Amazon also has plans for a foray into retail grocery, a model quite different from that of Whole Foods.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 26, 2021

“Kmart and Target earnings growth [of 69 per cent to $693 million] was driven by higher sales, lower clearance costs and an improvement in the cost of doing business as a result of planned network changes,” Scott said. Likewise, Officeworks’ revenue jumped 8.7

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The closure or conversion of 144 Target stores in FY21 has left the retailer with a network of around 140 stores today, a much smaller business that is simpler and less costly to run with a stronger focus on digital sales. Pearson believes this hybrid fulfilment model gives Target an advantage over other retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

JCPenney has faced the same challenges that bedevil the entire department store vertical, ranging from lower foot traffic at malls to the high operating costs that come with significant brick-and-mortar investments. distribution center with a new induction, sorting and packing system.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A little less than year after first announcing its plans, Macy’s has joined the ranks of other major retailers such as Walmart and Target with the debut of its own third-party marketplace.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Department stores get their name from the fact that they contained specialized stores-within-stores where experts in particular products — jewelry, clothing and cosmetics — would interact with customers to ensure that they got the correct products. Live agents also personalize without effort.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2024

Millennials and Gen Z want not only attractive stores but also a dynamic, engaging environment — creating a threshold effect, drawing people in from the storefront window with the promise of an experiential journey and memorable impact.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

When stores began to reopen, there was a fear that consumers would storm return desks. Indeed, one-third of consumers responding to a survey by Optoro said they had kept one or more purchases that they planned to return when stores reopened. However, apparel and department stores are elevated.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2020

Q1 2020 financial results for Costco , Nordstrom and Abercrombie & Fitch encapsulate how three retail verticals — club, department and specialty apparel — are weathering the COVID-19 pandemic. Costco reported a successful quarter, while Nordstrom and Abercrombie discussed plans to handle the fallout. Costco posted a 7.3%

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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. The first Amazon Style store is set to open later this year at The Americana at Brand shopping mall in Los Angeles. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2021

To be sure, some of the retailers debuting marketplaces are looking to compete directly with Amazon: Walmart , Target , Hudson’s Bay and the planned Debenhams marketplace (under new owner Boohoo Group ) are all essentially huge digital department stores with broad category reach.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

That means we have opportunities lost at the store because we don’t have the right size, and replenishment is driven by what corporate believes is in system. If sizes have been messed up for whatever reason at our stores, we’re not going to be planning properly and not going to be selling properly.”

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Macy’s announced plans to hire 76,000 full- and part-time workers ahead of the Christmas selling season. The department store retailer said about 21,200 of the new hires will be put to work in its fulfillment centers. About 28,000 positions will extend beyond the holidays.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2021

As the department store sector aims to reinvent itself for retail’s digital age, iconic retailer Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) is investing rapidly in technologies that will elevate its integrated luxury retail strategy across all channels. So how does NMG see these digital investments leveling up its omnichannel game?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

The first store will open later this year at The Americana at Brand, a shopping centre in Los Angeles, and reportedly be around 30,000 square feet – much smaller than a typical department store, which is around 100,000 square feet. Amazon has not shared the names of any labels that it plans to carry in the store.

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Retail Times

JUNE 8, 2021

Thanks to its recent digital transformation with Blue Yonder’s cloud-based Luminate™ Planning, HEMA, a leading department store retailer, was able to improve its demand forecasting and fulfilment capabilities to meet those customer demands.

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365 Retail

JANUARY 4, 2022

Thai group Central and real estate business Signa now have a portfolio of 18 department stores, including Selfridges in London, Manchester and Birmingham, de Bijenkorf in Netherlands, Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But despite the rush, retailers still have multiple opportunities to maximize both in-store sales and online conversions. YOY growth this holiday season, whereas department stores will only see a 0.3% Focus on bringing people back to stores: In-store retail sales are expected to increase 7.9%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The laggards are those we now read about in the headlines as entering bankruptcy, with large department stores often mentioned. To survive, retail is being forced to think of itself as destinations to learn and interact, with fulfillment coming in the form of a pickup purchase or home delivery.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2024

Shoppers using the Kohl’s Instacart storefront can earn Kohl’s Rewards on these orders, which are priced the same for delivery and in-store purchase. Kohl’s hosted Sephora shop-in-shops in more than 900 stores at the end of 2023 and plans to have them in all 1,170 stores by 2025.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We wanted to bring fulfillment in-house as a core capability because we were having some service difficulties [with suppliers], because no one’s going to love your business like you do and respect your customers as much,” Young said. We can be truly innovative and try things that we couldn’t before,” he said.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 20, 2021

Citing people familiar with the plans, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon intends to open retail locations that would operate much like department stores, selling apparel, personal-technology gadgets, household items and other merchandise, and handling returns. Fulfillment costs are rising. Penney and Sears.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

Rising ecommerce sales and the power of social networks empowered customers to discover new, cutting-edge brands, which meant many (especially millennials and Gen Z) spent less time in the beloved department stores that had long served as anchor tenants. Shopping Destinations Set Sights on an ‘Experiential’ Tenant Mix.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 20, 2021

We are likely to see these stores, in addition to supporting the online offering, act as event spaces and hubs for local activity. . These stores will act primarily as showrooms, where shoppers can see products, interact with staff and order items for home delivery. .

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