Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

Walmart is facing a potential class action lawsuit over unfair and deceptive pricing practices that could cost consumers millions of dollars a year. The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago last week ruled that the company must face a lawsuit claiming it charges higher prices at the register than it posts on store shelves. The court order allows customers to prove their case in a proposed class action regarding Walmart’s “bait-and-switch” pricing scheme, which violated consumer protection

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Retail Wire

JULY 9, 2024

Although Walmart's members-only sales event has ended and Amazon's Prime Day is still a week away, the fierce competition between these two retail giants continues at full speed.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

Lush is extending its all-year-round closed-loop packaging incentive to allow customers to bring even non-Lush plastic cosmetics packaging for its recycling program – but only for a limited time. Lush will deduct $1 from a customer’s purchase for every plastic cosmetics packaging piece brought to its stores as the company seeks to minimise its plastic footprint.

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Retail Wire

JULY 9, 2024

On July 11, 2024, the convenience store retailer 7-Eleven is offering a special promotion on its aptly named Slurpee Day, coinciding with the date's numerical significance of 7/11.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

In the touristy Saint-Ouen flea market, not far from the Stade de France where athletes will compete in this summer’s Paris Olympics, police officers swarmed in at dawn on April 3 and shut down 11 stores selling counterfeit bags and shoes. They confiscated 63,000 items of clothing, shoes and leather goods, including fake Louis Vuitton and Nike products, and threw them into garbage compactor trucks on the spot.

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Retail Wire

JULY 9, 2024

The Wendy’s Company announced new development agreements with franchisees in the Republic of Ireland and Romania to open restaurants starting in 2025 as part of its plan to expand across Europe.

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Retail Wire

JULY 9, 2024

Dollar General has announced a new kitchen and housewares collection inspired by Dolly Parton that spans multiple items across different product categories.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

Live shopping veteran HSN has launched a new creator platform, HSNfluencer , to directly recruit, manage and analyze its partnerships with online creators. Powered by partnership management platform Impact.com , HSNfluencer allows the company to streamline its relationships with digital creators and influencers. The platform is designed to makes it easier for creators to engage with the HSN brand, share links and promote products through campaign-focused collaborations.

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Retail Wire

JULY 9, 2024

The company's new 2024.26 software update has been released.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

Big Lots will close 35 to 40 stores in 2024 following a tough Q1, and in a recent SEC 10-Q filing the retailer expressed “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.” The retailer boosted its liquidity with a $200 million term loan facility in April 2024 but is now forecasting difficulty paying that loan back within the next 12 months, increasing the risk of a default.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

Harlin Jones Fine Jewellery has opened a new studio at the heritage-listed Trust Building in Sydney, marking the brand’s expansion from New York. The new studio showcases Harlin Jones’ signature collections, including engagement rings, wedding bands, and statement pieces. Clients may also work with Harlin Jones’ staff to customise their jewellery pieces. “This new space allows us to connect more intimately with our local clients, offering them a dedicated environment to discove

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

Lowe’s Media Network is expanding its offerings to include in-store programmatic audio ads in partnership with Vibenomics , a Mood Media company. Since its 2021 launch , Lowe’s media network has grown significantly and now serves more than 300 brands in the home improvement category. The new partnership with Vibenomics will allow Lowe’s to offer its advertising partners targeted, specialized audio ads that are delivered programmatically to stores chainwide.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

Circana’s newly launched Complete Eats report is based on unprecedented cross-channel panel expertise tracking $158 billion dollars of Australian food and beverage spending across FMCG and foodservice. Inflation played a key role in driving growth of 6 per cent in spending per trip in both channels. But other behavioural measures highlight where the cross-channel competition for share of spend is being won and lost.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

Like many industries, retail is currently experiencing a talent shortage. How severe is that shortage? While vacancies for the U.S. job market overall are down 5.6% in the last 12 months, retail vacancies are up 11.6% through April 2024. And, interestingly, job seeker activity is starting to trend up, too. These trends offer cause for hope and concern ahead of the holiday period.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

A long-held marketing principle is that brand differentiation is fundamental to success. And there’s no doubt differentiated brands experience higher preference, recall, usage and ‘brand love’. For many brands, however, true differentiation is almost impossible to establish, let alone communicate to customers. Research across 17 markets by the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science has found lack of differentiation is prevalent in many categories, ranging from banking and fast food to ca

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Retail Focus

JULY 9, 2024

For many homeowners, their property is in a constant phase of improvement and evolution. When people buy a home, it is unlikely to be exactly to their tastes and plans will be made to redecorate key rooms and spaces so that the home becomes as unique as they are. At first, this may simply involve re-painting key rooms to fit with more modern designs and colour schemes.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

Having recently opened a flagship store in Hong Kong’s Lee Garden, the Italian gourmet chocolate and gelato manufacturer Venchi is plotting its larger expansion in Asia Pacific with a meticulous localisation strategy as consumer spending continues to rebound. “The Asia Pacific region is known for its speed, competition, and evolving consumer preferences,” Marco Galimberti, CEO at Venchi Asia Pacific, told Inside Retail.

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Retail Focus

JULY 9, 2024

We can analyse the gambling and retail industries separately because they are completely different and huge in their own unique ways. But one thing ties them together, and that is the eagerness for extra expansion. Most businesses tend to expand on their own, but sometimes it is good to join forces with another company so as to make the process somewhat simpler (and mutually beneficial).

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s international e-commerce unit is tapping generative AI-powered tools to help cross-border merchants with translation, content creation and product returns, group vice president Kaifu Zhang said. Speaking on stage at the Reuters Next Conference in Singapore, the executive, who heads Alibaba International Digital Commerce’s artificial intelligence (AI) initiative, said he was bullish on AI’s potential for the company, even in the face of increasing te

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Retail Wire

JULY 9, 2024

McDonald’s is reintroducing two popular burgers for the first time in two years: the Smoky BLT Quarter Pounder with Cheese and the Smoky BLT Double Quarter Pounder.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

Granado is an internationally recognised fragrance brand with a unique backstory. Originally known as Granado Pharmácias, the company was founded in 1870 by Portuguese native José Antonio Coxito Granado who produced remedies, cosmetic products, and other items from the plants, herbs and native flowers of Teresópolis, a mountainous region near Rio de Janeiro.

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Retail Wire

JULY 9, 2024

To make Johns Hopkins University's medical school tuition-free for the majority of students, Bloomberg Philanthropies has pledged $1 billion.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

Australia Post has opened a $12 million parcel facility on the Gold Coast as part of its long-term commitment to the region. The facility spans 15,087sqm and can process up to 6000 parcels per hour, 7500 parcels per day, and up to 90,000 at peak hours. It includes sortation technology, which improves the visibility of customer parcels moving throughout the network, as well as integration with Australia Post’s range of services, which includes Express Post, Parcel Post, StarTrack Premium, a

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Retail Wire

JULY 9, 2024

The Amtrak Borealis train has proven to be extremely popular so far.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 9, 2024

Timpson CEO James Timpson has resigned from the business to focus on his new role as minster for prisons, parole and probation. In a statement shared on LinkedIn, his father, Sir John Timpson said he will spend more time with the key cutting and shoe repair specialist while his son carries out his “important job” Sir John said: “I will rely on support from Paresh Majithia, who becomes our acting group managing director, to pick up the detail normally overseen by James. “W

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Retail Wire

JULY 9, 2024

The RockYou2024 10 billion password leak is the largest in history.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 9, 2024

Co-op has inked a new franchise agreement with EG On The Move as the convenience retailer targets “significant franchise growth ambitions” Seven new Co-op franchise stores open this summer in Doncaster, Billinghurst, Glasgow, Portlethen, Macmerry, Ipswich and Finmere with petrol forecourt business EG On The Move. The first store as part of the new agreement is set to launch in Ogden Road, Doncaster, this week as the retailer looks to scale its franchise business to reach over 500 sho

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Retail Wire

JULY 9, 2024

The company continues its environmental promise of giving more than it takes.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 9, 2024

Selfridges London has partnered with athletic brand Champion to open the doors to the ‘Champion Sports Bar’ to celebrate this summer of sport. The brand has transformed the Harry Gordon’s Bar & Kitchen, located on the Oxford Street department store’s lower ground floor, into a USA sports bar-themed venue as part of a two-month takeover.

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Retail Dive

JULY 9, 2024

Following HBC’s deal to take over Neiman Marcus and form “Saks Global,” RJ Cilley left to become chief executive at HVAC startup Voomi Supply.

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