Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2020

These include supply chain, real estate, merchandising operations, product operations, health & wellness, human resources, marketing, customer service and e-Commerce. a competitive and high-priced market for tech personnel. Discount Stores were cut from four to three.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2022

Ross Stores is already nearly one-third of the way toward its goal of opening approximately 100 new stores in fiscal 2022. In February and March 2022, the discount retailer opened 22 Ross Dress for Less locations and eight dd’s DISCOUNTS stores in 15 states and Guam. For fiscal 2021, which ended Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

Moving closer to its goal of opening 100 stores during fiscal 2023, Ross Stores opened 18 Ross Dress for Less and nine dd’s Discounts stores across 14 states in June and July. The value retailer now operates 2,061 stores in 41 states, the District of Columbia and Guam.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

“Anecdotal feedback from the first day of the trial was overwhelmingly positive with more than half of our customers opting to use the new Self-Checkouts,” Robert Eichfeld, store operations director at Aldi Australia, said. They clearly recognise a need to give consumers choices.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In addition, the retailer is revising its planned same-store sales growth of 1.0% As a result, Dollar General is revising its financial outlook: the retailer initially planned net sales growth in the range of 3.5% to 5.0%, but is now predicting a more conservative growth rate of 1.3% to a range of -1.0% to 1.0%.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

Prices are rising around the world, but while markets such as the US, UK and Australia are battling inflation rates of between six and eight per cent, consumers in the Philippines are paying as much as 15.62 Sari-sari stores are essentially neighbourhood stores, which figure prominently in lower-middle-class locations in the Philippines.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 20, 2022

Sam Walton opened his first Walmart store in 1962, deciding to bet on the discount store format that was shaking up the retail industry at the time. The dime store retailer S.S. Kresge, a much bigger operator with deeper pockets, also saw the format’s potential, and opened its first Kmart store.

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