Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2021

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The return to offices and social events is inspiring consumers to level up their wardrobes and focus more on apparel and footwear. 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

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Without any speculation about the future of shopping in the flesh and the fate of the department store, let us examine why a mobile app is worth the investment, whether or not you also offer an amazing brick-and-mortar experience: The Perks of Push Notifications. Let’s face it, retail has been having a very tough time recently.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2024

Consider the B2B2C marketplace a virtual department store. Make ship happen with Dropshipzone What’s next? You’re set up for order fulfilment, shipping, delivery and returns. There will always be a few things you have to manage, such as processing orders and customer service.

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The hit to profits included higher shipping costs, which were £26 million higher than pre-pandemic levels. Bosses also revealed Boohoo took a hit as the percentage of garments sent back has returned to pre-pandemic levels and the easing of lockdown restrictions in the period saw shoppers return to the high street.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Anecdotally, even some of those who have returned to the cities are hunkering down, watching and waiting for things to become more predictable before committing themselves to work. Shipping woes. On top of the people shortage is a dramatic escalation in shipping costs. Many packed up and left for home and haven’t come back.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 25, 2023

That said, we also maintain our view that many sellers of Levi’s products, especially department stores, are not doing anywhere near enough to push products in a compelling way. This is an issue for Levi’s, which is one of the reasons it has pushed direct distribution much harder, including opening up more stores in select locations.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Archie Norman Archie Norman has spent the last six years overseeing food and fashion group M&S’s turnaround plan as it looks to re-establish its brand, win back consumers and return to profit. Perhaps with M&S now motoring, Norman might jump ship to see if he can perform a similar feat at its rival? Sound familiar?

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

New John Lewis boss Peter Ruis has made quite the statement by bringing back its ‘Never Knowingly Undersold’ price promise, two years after the department store scrapped it. ” The return of the famous price pledge is being supported by the retailer’s “biggest ever investment in marketing”, he says.

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Wiser

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has played a significant role in this shift, with safety concerns prompting many to avoid crowded department stores.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2022

The rich cultural experience sparked her interest in perfumes, and when she returned to New Zealand to live with her family, it would evolve into a passion that sparked what is now a cross-border contemporary scent brand, fittingly named Ashley & Co. From its New Zealand e-commerce site, the brand only ships locally.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Not that long ago, walking into a carefully organised grocery market, hearing a pianist perform in the centre of a high-end department store, or having a retail associate help guide you represented a good retail customer experience. Answering customer service questions such as what your store hours are or what your return policy is.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 20, 2021

NEW YORK — In the week that big-box retailers reported that shoppers are returning to stores came news of Amazon.com Inc.’s Sources told the newspaper that the first stores, encompassing about 30,000 square feet, would open in Ohio and California. ’s latest brick-and-mortar experiment. Penney and Sears.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Bosses at the group, which includes department store House of Fraser and retail chains Sports Direct and Game, said the plan is to reduce the number of shares in circulation. Mike Ashley’s retail empire has announced the start of a £70 million spending spree to buy up stock in the company in an attempt to boost the share price.

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Independent Retailer

JULY 14, 2022

Wholesale can be thought of as an old-fashioned business model formed by large department stores, such as Walmart or Target. You can sell dozens of items in one go instead of selling piece-by-piece, which means your income also comes in bulk, quickly allowing you to get your return on investment. Learn How to Ship Your Products.

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2022

The same way that we are creating technologies for them to reach their consumers, we’re also developing technologies around packaging and shipping methods and returns, to help them be more sustainable. We have our own department stores and we’re very involved in grocery retail.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 17, 2022

“Consumers splurged throughout the season, with apparel and department stores experiencing strong growth as shoppers sought to put their best-dressed foot forward.”. Findings from Mastercard SpendingPulse underscore the strength of the holiday shopper across channels, with consumers returning to stores (up 8.1%

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 27, 2021

“Consumers splurged throughout the season, with apparel and department stores experiencing strong growth as shoppers sought to put their best-dressed foot forward.”. Findings from Mastercard SpendingPulse underscore the strength of the holiday shopper across channels, with consumers returning to stores (up 8.1%

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This time around the department store is using AI to help it match its prices to those at 25 retailers, including M&S, Next, Boots and AO.com. “It’ll be completely friction free – you won’t know that that your T-shirt has arrived from our Cardiff store or has arrived from our DC in Milton Keynes. the year before.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

My Gucci Marmont bag from Vestiaire Collective has shipped. Bagged a pre-loved bargain, supported circular fashion and didn’t even set foot in a store. I wrack my brains to remember when I last bought new clothes in-store. Quick email check. GlamCorner has a sale. Aje has released its new collection. Meet the Gen Z revolution.

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I Love Fashion

JANUARY 19, 2023

Pros Cons Stores hundreds of products styles, & premium products Allows providing samples, small and large bundles of 3 items Allows bulk discount, shipping time, and ways variations Has no minimum order and fulfills orders placed before noon PST within a day Doesn’t accept returns without prior approval 2.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Returns are a cost of doing business for any retailer. In the wake of COVID-19, returns are receiving serious (and necessary) attention for several key reasons: Retailers are spending more processing returns in stores. Returns is just one example.” . In-Store Returns Trending Up, But Not Pouring In.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The brand needed the loan while it sold through excess stock it was left with after shipping issues peak last year caused delivery delays. The furniture brand, which had concessions in House of Fraser, reportedly suffered after the department store fell into administration in 2018. pre-pack administration deal in August 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2022

Target is now a small-format store, which strikes a delicate balance with ecommerce and physical locations synergizing to provide a holistic, consumer-centered experience. Implementing solutions for warehouse logistics allows companies to receive and ship items faster, ultimately making their processes more efficient.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 9, 2023

The fall of Sears and other department stores has only served to usher in a new kind of department store, the big box store. Consumers can shop at a Walmart or a Target and get most of their weekly needs fulfilled without having to shop at multiple stores.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

The year of returns – “happy returns” – a startup raises $100M+ in space. for year of returns). Mallageddon continues At least another 8k stores Yes 8721 stores +1. Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. Merge with Alibaba?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2021

While many customers will have purchases shipped directly to their homes this year, brick-and-mortar stores have rolled out their own solutions that may impact the way we approach the 2021 holidays. location data (how are options like BOPIS holding up at each individual location as life begins returning to normal?)

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Cross Cap

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Online and in-person shopping is becoming more integrated thanks to omni-channel strategies such as ship-from-store, which allows retailers to fulfill orders by having products delivered from nearby stores rather than far-off warehouses. Consumers receive their item faster, at a reduced shipping cost for the retailer.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 21, 2021

I feel like that’s probably I mean I didn’t have the US Direct us UK comparison, clearly like us department stores in things a bit in long-term decline but I don’t think the u.s. is at the stage of like 40% of the mall is gone.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 2, 2022

With this in mind several Nordstrom stores offer a dizzying number of services including: shoe repair, personal styling, gift wrapping, in-store drop off of online returns from other retailers, onsite alterations, dry cleaning, monograming, and an endless array of beauty services. Fast shipping.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 11, 2023

Scot: [40:06] Yeah so this one was one I wanted to bounce off of you I’m a CNBC junkie and I was watching the other day and Target stock had a big Miss and the folks on, Talking Heads were saying that in their earnings release they really called out this shoplifting as a. [40:24]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping. E-com returns 10-15% growth rates.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

How Macy’s is Making Checkout ‘One of the Happiest Moments Online’ As Macy’s retail media network evolves, the retailer is increasingly focused on capturing non-endemic ad dollars — that is, advertising from brands not typically associated with the department store chain such as travel partners or subscription and streaming services. “We

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 27, 2024

New John Lewis boss Peter Ruis has made quite the statement by bringing back its ‘Never Knowingly Undersold’ price promise, two years after the department store scrapped it. ” The return of the famous price pledge is being supported by the retailer’s “biggest ever investment in marketing”, he says.

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VMS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Bezos’ rocket ship went up to the stars (which got all the headlines) and came back down again (hardly mentioned). In the summer, it was reported to be launching its own physical department stores, high on robots and other technology. Much of it is sitting in ships stacking up at various U.S. We’re talking billions.

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