Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

The San Bernardino facility is one of 15 EFCs and distribution centers, and the closing stores represent approximately 2.3% of Kohls 1,150 locations. Like other department stores, Kohls has had trouble adjusting to changes in consumer shopping patterns. Net sales for the retailers Q3 2024, which ended Nov.

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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

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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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

Results from Retail TouchPoints 2024 Store Design & Experience Survey prove just how top-of-mind in-store retail media is: 44% of respondents noted that their top challenge was determining how best to bring new digital media and technology elements into their locations.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

has unveiled its Bold New Chapter strategy, signaling a major shift for the iconic department store retailer. Macy’s plans to close 150 underproductive nameplate stores — approximately 50 this year alone — and continue its expansion of smaller-format stores as it prioritizes investment in about 350 go-forward locations.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

When retailers closed stores, however, online sales in a given area decreased by 11.5%, with some categories including home (32.2%) and department stores (26.1%) seeing even greater declines. Emerging retailers saw even greater gains, of 13.9%.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2020

Just 16 months after its first New York City store debuted as the anchor for the brand-new Hudson Yards retail and residential complex, Neiman Marcus announced it would close the 188,000-square-foot store. We are assessing each store in how they maximize customer relationships and optimize profitability. and Bellevue, Wash.

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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’. Home to Apple’s London Campus, a 2229sqm food hall and a glass chimney lift, Battersea Power Station also has housing and hundreds of shops located in its historic turbine halls.

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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

APRIL 6, 2022

We have ‘iconic’ shopping centres, ‘iconic’ retail stores, ‘iconic’ restaurants, ‘iconic’ hotels, ‘iconic’ rock groups. But Takashimaya, a retailer of 1831 vintage and still the largest department store chain in Japan, is surely genuinely deserving of the word. The amount of department store floorspace declined by 6.1

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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. Notably, Harrolds was a latecomer to e-commerce, only launching an online shopping site in 2020.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Macy’s is expanding the number of department stores it operates with Backstage shops by 26. The off-price store within the store will measure from 11,000 to 18,000-square-feet depending on the location.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Consumers like to shop for something new from the range if they have everything already. If I jump to China, for example, we open a new store every month. We just opened in September a Georg Jensen jewellery store in Shenzhen. [With] another brand, Moomin, we’ve gone well into textiles.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

While the industry can agree on the necessity of a physical presence for retailers operating in the apparel space, the jury is still out on the optimal number of locations for brands to maintain relevance and succeed. “We We all grew up with a shop on every corner.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2022

Living in a building of historic importance gives one of the world’s pre-eminent luxury department store companies that extra little bit of cache — the trick now is to find ways of being a retailer of future importance, a stiff hurdle upon which so many department store companies are stumbling. Footfall was up 6.4%

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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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The biggest swing occurred in department store spending, which saw a 14.3 Especially in department stores, where the consumer appetite to spend appears to have fallen so dramatically between November and December? After almost a year of consecutive increases, the retail industry saw a 3.9 per cent in August, 2022.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Westfield shopping centre owner and operator’s net operating income grew 3.5 During the period, the group operated its shopping centres with increased levels of security following the stabbing attack at Westfield Bondi, which killed six people and impacted many others. Scentre Group’s fund from operations stood at $568.2

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When Laura Peden was growing up in the 1970s, department stores were a special place. Decades later, she still vividly remembers how she and her grandmother would travel into Myer’s city store at Christmas to see the “insanely fascinating” windows. The department store was no longer the star attraction.

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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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Dezeen

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Architecture studio OMA has revealed images of the first completed part of its renovation of Berlin department store KaDeWe, a retail and event space connected by wood-clad escalators. A shop window will be used for analogue and digital display. The department store is located in Berlin.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2024

Saks Fifth Avenue is switching its downtown San Francisco location to an appointment-only format beginning Aug. 28 in what is believed to be a first for a department store. The same circumstances already have prompted the closure of nearly 40 other retailers’ stores, including Macy’s , Anthropologie and Nordstrom.

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Inside Retail

MAY 10, 2023

For once, department stores are leading a retail sales recovery instead of lagging it. Supermarkets (5,921 stores) gained 1.8 per cent but the big winners were department stores (190 of them) performing well above the average, with a 13.5 METI counted 190 department stores for its first quarter survey.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

We are making the necessary moves to reinvigorate relationships with our customers through improved shopping experiences, relevant assortments and compelling value. From wrong to right The last 10 years have been challenging for department stores around the world, and Macys is no exception.

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Retail Dive

MAY 9, 2024

The move gives the department store chain another store-in-store partnership alongside Sephora.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The first 200 “Sephora at Kohl’s” in-store shops are slated to open in fall 2021, and the Kohls.com beauty assortment will exclusively showcase Sephora product offerings beginning at the same time. Following the initial 200 locations, the retailers plan to expand the concept into at least 850 stores by 2023.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

The Foam was designed to make retail locations “smart” by providing retailers with suggestions to improve operations, and creating more personalized shopping experiences for their customers. The Foam connects directly into pre-existing light fixtures at any retail space, including shopping centers, department stores or groceries.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2022

The department store retailer has also partnered with Finish Line since 2013 in a relationship that saw the athletic goods retailer establish its own branded shop-in-shop locations inside Macy’s stores. said Sam Archibald, General Business Manager of Apparel at Macy’s in a statement.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Major department store, tick. We’ve all encountered those shopping centres that look and feel the same, no matter where you are in the world. Platform is the antithesis of a cookie-cutter shopping centre – indeed, it acts as a platform for independent brands to thrive. Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. Cinema, tick.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Showfields closed its Miami and New York City locations in July and September, respectively. It has three remaining bricks-and-mortar locations, in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Brooklyn. The Brooklyn store will be expanded by 2,500 sq feet, to 14,000 sq feet, to accommodate brands relocating from the two stores that closed.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2025

The synchronised bang-bangs took place along a 1400-metre stretch of the Chao Phraya River, with its epicentre at the Icon Siam shopping mall on the west bank. The female powerhouses of Thai retail The global retail real estate industry (or shopping centre industry if you will), has traditionally been dominated at the highest levels by men.

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Inside Retail

JULY 20, 2021

Sales in department store David Jones jumped during the last year despite the continuation of the Covid-19 crisis and intermittent lockdowns hampering trade. Sales in the department store rose 2.3 per cent in comparable stores, as customers increasingly shopped online through lockdown and unprofitable space was minimised.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2022

The CallisonRTKL 2022 Forecast reveals how shopping trends favoring convenience and technologies that ease decision-making for purchases are shaping the future of physical retail spaces — including retail’s role in the “15-minute city” concept and the repurposing of mall spaces. The blend of experiences is critical.

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