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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To position themselves as the ultimate holiday shopping destinations, Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack are doubling down on helpful services, compelling brand partnerships and unique in-store shopping experiences. Cardmembers in select markets will have access to free two-day shipping.

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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. Others are asking about in-store and out-of-store mobility for associates. We’re also excited to see more customers adopt our newly reimagined store fulfilment app.

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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 Bound

DECEMBER 2, 2024

With a slew of high-impact shopping events driving consumer spending, this is your prime opportunity to maximize revenue, build brand awareness, and move products off shelves quicker than at any other time of the year. Now, let’s break down the top 4 Q4 shopping events and discuss how your brand can stand out.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Consumer preference for online shopping continues to rise, as more purchases are being made online than in stores with each passing year. According to McKinsey , ecommerce sales in apparel, department stores and beauty products have increased by nearly 10%, on average, since the onset of the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2023

Today, Curacao operates stores that are at least 100,000 square feet in size and cover four main verticals — electronics, home, fashion, kids and babies — and 17 different subcategories. We don’t want to be just a store that sells stuff that everyone else sells ,” said Nerubay. We sound like them. We feel like them.”

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The marketplace, powered by Mirakl , is key piece of Macy’s turnaround strategy aimed at transforming the department store into a digitally led, omnichannel retailer. The platform, which is integrated into the existing Macy’s website and app, brings an expanded assortment of 400 new brands across 20 product categories at launch.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Among its multiple impacts, COVID-19 accelerated an elongation of the holiday shopping season that was already underway. Rather than being limited to a jam-packed four to five weeks from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, consumers are beginning their shopping as early as October (with a few doing so even earlier than that).

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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. But this model is unlikely to work for most retailers.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The ‘secret sauce’ for Sheet Society is bringing the look, feel and shopping experience of clothes fashion to manchester and bedding. Hayley Worley: Sheet Society was, at its core, born of a desire to make shopping for sheets uncomplicated and accessible. HW: Traditionally, we shopped for sheets in department stores.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

US department store chain Target is testing a new fulfilment method that promises to speed up the delivery of online orders by using its own delivery drivers from Shipt, a same-day delivery platform the retailer acquired for US$550 million in 2017. For years, Target has put our stores at the center of how we serve our guests.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2022

While the growth of online commerce and social media has made it easy for direct-to-consumer (DTC) businesses to start up and ship items to customers, moving such a business to the next level can be a lot tougher. Unfortunately, the business requirements of many retailers make the hurdles even higher.

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Retail Next

OCTOBER 24, 2019

One of the hottest trends in retail right now is BOSS: Buy Online and Ship to the Store for pickup (very similar to, but not the same, as BOPIS, or Buy Online, Pickup In Store). It’s the digital version, for us dinosaurs, of going to a department store and having them order the right size when something wasn’t in stock.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2021

With over 200 stores and a slew of international brands, including Celine, Ganni, Levi’s and Reebok, United Arrows is one of the country’s largest select shops, which is a kind of mini department store. For the Japanese customer, the in-store experience is actually really important,” Sabré explained.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The surge in popularity of challenger marketplaces has resulted in consumers now visiting an average of three marketplaces every time they shop online. The study delved into evolving shopping habits and found while consumers are increasingly open to diversifying their options, brand websites remain the most trusted platforms.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On the brick-and-mortar side, The Edit LDN has been selling high-end footwear at the iconic Harrods department store in Knightsbridge for a year, and plans to expand to a Galeries Lafayette in Doha, Qatar beginning Nov. We provide them with trends data about what’s selling as well as an account manager and personal shopping team.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Founded by brothers Omar and Zane Sabré, the company recently collaborated with Disney , and is about to launch another collaboration with Barneys, an upscale department store in New York. Within our first year, we were shipping to 80 countries.”. We have a really healthy market that we’ve been able to grow.”.

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Wiser

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The emergence of eCommerce has transformed traditional shopping habits, with a growing number of parents and students turning to online platforms to fulfill their annual back-to-school shopping needs. Understanding these changes and adapting effectively is crucial for retailers who aim to capitalize on this annual shopping event.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2023

Product quality has become more important for online shoppers compared to two years ago, along with product cost, shipping cost, customer reviews, and authenticity. The company also has proactive measures in place to prevent non-compliant products from being listed, and regularly monitors the products sold in its stores for quality assurance.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2022

Department stores. “On On [previous trips to the US], we would always make the department stores a really big ticket item on the trip agenda, but we don’t anymore because we’re not seeing enough innovation from them,” Lattouf said. In the future, more people will be shopping online, but what will that look like exactly?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 25, 2023

Within the latter, sales rose by 10 per cent on a constant currency basis when the now-closed Russian stores are excluded. This was primarily driven by the strength of shops and online across the Americas and Asia. Rather, the Levi’s brand is lost in the wider mess of retailers like Macy’s and Kohl’s.

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Retail Focus

JULY 24, 2024

The theatrical nature of pop-up stores often incorporates elements of surprise, delight, and discovery, turning the act of shopping or brand interaction into an event worth remembering and sharing. From transformed shipping containers to installations in public parks, guerilla pop-ups push the boundaries of what retail spaces can be.

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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. Because they’re either the market leader or they’re where our customer shops elsewhere.”

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As a woman of South-Asian background, Willink said she has always struggled to find complexion-based products in retail stores. “I I remember going shopping for cosmetics with my predominantly white friends in my teenage years and noticing the disparity between our experiences,” she recalled. In 20 years, ‘not much has changed’.

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Retail Focus

MAY 24, 2023

When a retailer runs out of an item, it can damage sales and brand reputation while also costing money in shipping, storage, and lost opportunity. Constant unavailability may also harm your shop’s reputation making the customer feedback mostly negative.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

It was challenging, because it was a brand new business with a brand new team, and the way people shopped changed almost overnight.”. Shipping goods directly from each store could broaden the reach of what the business can realistically offer online. We had been working on it for 18 months or two years beforehand.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2022

Inflation is beginning to impact all aspects of our customers’ shop, and we have been seeing a gradual change in [their] shopping behaviours,” Banducci said, adding that the business is juggling putting through legitimate price increases for suppliers while keeping prices down for customers.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2022

As a child growing up in Hong Kong, New Zealander Jackie Ashley was smitten with the sensorial experience of the city’s streets – the eclectic mix of burning incense, tea houses, flower shops and street food vendors. That first retailer was the upmarket Auckland department store, Smith & Caughey’s.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Just last year, luxury department store chain Saks Fifth Avenue sold six different types of advent calendars; in 2023, that number tripled. One way that retail brands can navigate this issue is to invest in more eco-friendly packaging and shipping materials, both for their year-round and holiday-based product offerings.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Potts joined the supermarket in 2015 after almost four decades at Tesco, where he started on the shop floor aged 16 and rose through the ranks to run its Asian operations. Perhaps with M&S now motoring, Norman might jump ship to see if he can perform a similar feat at its rival?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

With the rapid evolution of digital channels and online shopping, a global pandemic, and supply-chain challenges, retail is evolving at an unprecedented pace. Acoustic suggests using SMS in five key areas: Supporting a “buy online, pickup in-store” (Bopis) strategy, which is increasingly important for retailers amid supply-chain challenges.

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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. People love to shop.

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2023

Target US is making shopping easier for customers with the option to make product returns right from their cars at no extra cost. The new returns service is already available at over 500 stores across the US and is expected to reach all 2000 Target locations in the next few months.

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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. .’s latest brick-and-mortar experiment. Penney and Sears.

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Independent Retailer

JULY 14, 2022

Online shopping rapidly grew during the height of the pandemic and continues to soar, and more small-to-medium sized businesses are shifting to ecommerce. Wholesale can be thought of as an old-fashioned business model formed by large department stores, such as Walmart or Target. Learn How to Ship Your Products.

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