Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 5, 2024

M&S has been granted approval by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government to redevelop its flagship Marble Arch store, after almost four years of delays and legal battles. At the time, Machin called the decision “utterly pathetic” and defended the proposals as essential for the area’s revitalisation.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Starbucks Workers United , the union trying to organize Starbucks workers across the country, is planning a “Red Cup Rebellion” on Nov. The site’s home page boasts of having unionized more than 360 Starbucks locations and having over 9,000 union partners. store was only the second REI location to be organized.

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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 Marketing Department Stores Marketing Markdowns 130

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Myer has announced the closure of its Blacktown store in Sydney’s outer west, a move that follows the reduction of footprints of five other stores across Australia. . Since then it has closed stores located at Logan, Hornsby, Emporium and – most recently – Knox, last August.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2023

As part of the retailer’s plans to open 100 locations in 2023, Ross Stores opened 11 Ross Dress for Less and eight dd’s Discounts stores in 13 states during February and March. The 2023 additions will include 75 Ross and 25 dd’s Discounts locations.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2025

Indian retail conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited has signed a franchise agreement with American luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue to expand its luxury retail portfolio through its subsidiary Reliance Retail, the company said in its third-quarter financial report last week.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

Its true that many stores are expected to close this year, but this reflects natural churn in the industry, not a new trend. Many of these closures are long-planned, and most are independent of shifts in consumer behavior or broad-based economic pressures. Lets start by looking at the landscape.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Macy’s has announced plans to open up to 30 smaller stores in strip malls over the next two years, marking a significant shift for the retailer as it seeks to move away from declining shopping malls. These smaller-format stores, about one-fifth the size of traditional locations, offer a more modern, open layout and focus on.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Shinsegae — one of the Big 3 of Korean department store retailing along with Lotte and Hyundai — has continued its great form right through into the second half of the year, helped by the removal of the country’s remaining pandemic restrictions and an increasingly buoyant mood among the country’s more affluent consumers.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Now, Mosaic’s presumably ‘core brands’, Millers, Noni B, Rivers and Katies, are also on the chopping block as the retail group looks to accelerate its rationalisation plan and attract new customers across metropolitan and regional Australia through the administration process. We all grew up with a shop on every corner.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

Beck’s planned departure was first announced in September 2019, at the time when fellow Co-founder and COO Barry Beck left the company. Macy’s updated its “Polaris” growth strategy in late February 2021 as it announced better-than-expected Q4 2020 results, marking a return to profitability for the department store chain.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At Myer’s annual general meeting this week, outgoing CEO John King predicted that trading activity on Black Friday would likely surpass Christmas, with the department store preparing stock ahead of time to mitigate any logistical delays related to potential industrial action. per cent increase in total sales to $3.36

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2022

Department store Myer has announced it will close its Frankston store in Victoria. . The retailer says it wants to divert resources to its rapidly growing online business and develop stores near the Frankston location, such as Southland, Chadstone, and Fountain Gate.

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Department Stores Planning Location 264

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Myer’s acquisition of Premier Investments’ Apparel Brands appears to be the next step in Olivia Wirth’s plan for the department store’s loyalty program, Myer One. This is an opportunity to continue to grow it in a way that is a step change,” Wirth said about the impact of the acquisition on Myer One, which has 10.6

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Slowly but surely Amazon is taking its brick-and-mortar act “across the pond,” opening several different types of physical stores in the UK. Closer to home, Amazon is reportedly planning to open department stores in the U.S. The Kent location is the first of these stores outside the U.S.;

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Macy’s has been stepping up to the plate with a series of new moves, from the expansion of its smaller-footprint stores, to a new digital fashion platform targeting younger shoppers. But while these initiatives sound promising, the question remains: can the department store chain truly adapt to the needs of the modern-day consumer?

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Department Stores Fashion Grocer Location 245

Inside Retail

APRIL 20, 2022

The deal, effective April 26, will aggregate 26 brands and 15 character licences, operate in 300 retail locations across Australia and New Zealand and employ 3000 staff. Brand Collective plans to expand the Shoe Warehouse network. “We The company will also run some 250 wholesale accounts both locally and internationally.

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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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Shopping Department Stores Location Planning 279

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2021

Known as the oldest department store in the U.S., Investment firm Saadia Group bought the Lord & Taylor store inventory, intellectual property and ecommerce assets for $12 million in October 2020 , but liquidation of all 38 Lord & Taylor stores and its website continued.

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Returns Department Stores Apparel Finance 279

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Activist investor Jana Partners has taken an undisclosed stake in Macy’s and is prodding the department store chain to separate its ecommerce business from its brick-and-mortar operations. The online Saks business is valued at $6 billion , with an initial public offering planned for the first half of 2022.

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Department Stores Store Operations Planning Location 258

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

Macy’s will reportedly close four locations, in Fort Collins, Colo.; The closures are part of the retailer’s Polaris growth strategy , which aims to stabilize the department store as it pursues a return to growth. The company will offer impacted employees jobs at nearby locations or severance packages. Gaitherbeurg, Md.;

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Department Stores Location Returns Fashion 273

VMS

JANUARY 9, 2023

Macy’s (New York) is set to shutter four more department stores in in the first quarter of 2023 as part of its ongoing Polaris transformation strategy, according to Retail Dive and several other news sources. The affected stores are in these malls: * Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza; Los Angeles. Foothills Mall, Fort Collins, Colo.

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Department Stores Location Planning Marketing 95

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2024

FAO Schwarz , the iconic New York City toy store, has opened its first location in Paris, on the fifth floor of the Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann department store. “Paris and Galeries Lafayette Haussmann perfectly represent the answer to the objective we have pursued together with ThreeSixty Group.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Earlier this year, it was reported that Harrolds’ Melbourne and Sydney stores would be relocated as part of the business’s plan to return to sustainable profit, however, the business remained plagued by difficulties in the retail sector.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Children’s couture brand Tutu Du Monde has opened its first flagship location, in Sydney’s Westfield Bondi Junction. The store offers the brand’s celebrated collections including tutus, dresses, resortwear, and accessories crafted for young fashion enthusiasts. ­­The

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Department Stores Accessories Fashion Location 264

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

“Maly is a champion for diversity in leadership, people development and data-based insight, and she will leverage the values of the brand to build community and experiences in its neighborhood locations.”. The retailer peaked at 187 stores in 2019, but has since downsized to 160 locations as Macy’s works to right-size its footprint.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 29, 2022

We are bringing the same great savings and value our members know and love but delivering a convenient location closer to home.”. A number of other retailers are opening smaller store concepts as the retail industry searches for new and innovative ways to deliver convenience in an increasingly omnichannel world.

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Wholesale Department Stores Fulfillment Fashion 299

VMS

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Originally scheduled for an October 2020 opening, the seventh location for this family-run department store was caught in the middle of the global predicament – to build or not to build, to cancel or push on? Finally, we were able to implement the installation plan. Retail was no different.

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Department Stores Visual Merchandising Accessories Shopping 106

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Despite the efforts that go into planning, maintaining and marketing local shopping areas, the people who use these places are often not consulted about what they actually want and need on their main street. So what types of stores and services do they want? Across gender, age and location, pharmacies were consistently number one.

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Department Stores Shopping Marketing Planning 299

Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The brand has grown to have a presence in 80 countries through a distribution network encompassing 1200 points of sale across stand-alone stores, franchises, department stores, multi-brand leather goods stores, travel retail and e-commerce websites. The brand still has potential to grow further in Australia.”

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Department Stores Boutique Fashion Accessories 262

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Storied British department store chain Debenhams , which entered administration for the second time in April 2020, will live on online following the acquisition of its brand and websites by U.K.-based based digital fashion retailer Boohoo Group. 1, 2020.

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Department Stores Fashion Location Planning 264

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2022

When asked by CNBC Closing Bell co-anchor Sara Eisen whether Ralph Lauren plans to release its own line of NFTs, Louvet noted that while they are having conversations internally, they “don’t just want to follow the trend. We’ve opened 80 stores over the last year and are investing in more,” Louvet noted. and globally.

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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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Department Stores Returns Jewelry Apparel 211

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The pandemic continues to influence customer purchasing priorities and penetration in the omnichannel environment, which is affecting assortment mix and demand at each location. This is creating new challenges for retail operations, including a particular demand for agile merchandise planning and supply-chain processes.

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Planning Merchant Services Fulfillment Department Stores 130

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. CBD stores take a hit. CBD locations were particularly hard hit, with comparable store sales down 22.3 billion.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

Parisian Store Offers Glimpse into Claire’s Future The 1,200-square-foot Parisian store was designed in collaboration with Formichetti, who is currently serving as Claire’s Creative Director in Residence. Claire’s previewed the Paris store in a video on Instagram. Antoine will give visitors a peek into the “future of the brand.”

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