Retail Dive

JANUARY 29, 2024

Building and scaling local delivery can be challenging. So how are retailers solving this problem? Through partnerships!

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’m sure you’ve heard the expressions, “what goes around comes around,” and “what’s old is new again.” These are certainly applicable to what we’re seeing in the retail industry right now. No, I’m not talking about the revival of the 90’s poorest fashion choices. We’re seeing a resurgence of retailers placing focus back on their physical stores.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

Australian retail sales increased minimally last December as more consumers opted to purchase on Black Friday in the prior month, reflecting cost of living pressures. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data showed that shoppers spent $35.1 billion in December, up 0.8 per cent year over year. “Today’s retail trade figures confirm that Australian consumers pulled forward much of their Christmas spending to November’s Black Friday sales,” said Anneke Thompson, chief econo

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Austin, Texas, stands strong as a technology and innovation hub, and Elon Musk is adding more power to the region with his plans to set up a content moderation center for X.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

Store-based fulfillment of customer orders got an enormous boost during the COVID pandemic, when both curbside pickup and delivery offerings became survival tactics for so many retailers. While more than half ( 54% ) of retailers responding to the 2023 Omnichannel and Fulfillment Benchmark Report said active physical stores are the final locations for inventory prior to delivery, retailers are increasingly using third-party services to handle the actual mechanics of picking, packing and deliveri

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

The AR headset market continues to grow with the arrival of the Almer Arc 2, a new player from the 2021 startup Almer.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

Trans-Tasman vacuum retailer Godfreys has collapsed into administration and is expected to shut down 54 stores as well as cull 193 jobs. The 93-year-old company has appointed Craig Crosbie, Robert Ditrich and Daniel Walley from PwC Australia as voluntary administrators. “Sadly, like many retailers, we have been heavily impacted by consumer confidence and spending due to the economic era of high inflation, rising interest rates, and intense cost-of-living pressures,” said Jane Allen, daughter of

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

CVS Health has agreed to purchase 264,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of zero-emission renewable energy annually from clean energy producer Constellation Energy to aid its ongoing carbon reduction efforts. These MWh, the equivalent of the annual electricity used by nearly 1,000 CVS locations in California, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey, are being purchased through two separate long-term agreements with Constellation — for direct purchase and for renewable energy certificates (RECs

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Reddit is preparing to go public, eying a significant valuation of at least $5 billion. With plans to make the move this spring, this development has generated buzz within the investment community.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

Michaels has been awarded an educational school supplies cooperative contract for Texas’ Region 4, an eight -county area in southeast Texas serving more than 1.2 million students. The retailer will work with purchasing organization Omnia Partners to let schools and other organizations shop for more than 300,000 items through MichaelsPro Education , receiving benefits including low order minimums and free standard shipping on orders over $49.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Burger King, one of America's multinational fast-food chains, has recently announced an exciting new development with the introduction of the Candied Bacon Whopper.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

To help retailers determine the post-purchase carbon impact of products like appliances, electronics and outdoor power equipment, the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) has partnered with Optera to develop the Direct-Use Product Emissions Database (DPED). The DPED will help fill current reporting gaps and align how retailers measure, compare and communicate greenhouse gas emissions.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

The founder and CEO of New Zealand skincare brand Emma Lewisham shares not only a name but an ethos with her business. Emma Lewisham, both the founder and the brand, has disrupted the beauty industry since launching in 2019 with a skincare line designed to be sustainable for people and the planet. “I think our success is in most part due to our dedication to never compromise,” Emma Lewisham told Inside Retail.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

There will be a major change to how customers can view Amazon Prime Video beginning today.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 29, 2024

Queensgate has announced that Frasers Group plc is set to open several dynamic stores in Queensgate, Invesco’s 835,000 sq ft shopping centre, located in the heart of the city. Frasers Group will open the doors to a Frasers and Sports Direct, occupying the former John Lewis space. These stores will create compelling retail destinations in Queensgate Shopping Centre , together totalling 92,500 sq. ft.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 29, 2024

Ditching tax-free shopping for tourists is costing the UK £11.1bn and deterring around 2m foreign visitors per year, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) revealed. The number of tourists visiting the UK is still roughly 1m fewer than pre-Covid levels, while their spending in real terms has also not fully recovered. The CEBR and business leaders highlighted Rishi Sunak’s decision to charge tourists VAT on shopping in 2021, going back on a tax rebate implemented for decades,

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Retail Dive

JANUARY 29, 2024

Lower rents and greater flexibility are luring stalwart anchors and specialty retailers to outlets and strip centers, analysts say.

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Tokinomo

JANUARY 29, 2024

Campaign corner Back to basics. Lowes Foods, a regional grocery chain, has introduced a new campaign for its private-label brand, Brown Bag. This brand is known for excluding seven unhealthy additives, such as artificial flavors and high-fructose corn syrup, from its range of over 900 products. The campaign features a character named "Basic B" a humorous take on an online influencer who is extremely enthusiastic about Brown Bag's simple and healthy ingredients.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

In October last year, the German automaker Porsche unveiled the 150th Porsche Centre in the heart of the Chanba Ecological Zone in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China. The avant-garde retail space, designed in collaboration with global design powerhouse Gensler, not only introduces a futuristic concept to automotive retail but also sets a new benchmark in sustainability and cultural integration.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

There are ways to spend less, but as with any good habit, one has to commit to it.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

E-commerce giant Amazon’s planned acquisition of robotics company iRobot will not push through after the parties agreed to terminate their agreement, citing regulatory hurdles in the European Union. IRobot has announced a significant restructuring plan to reduce costs and said it would cut about 31 per cent of its workforce, or 350 jobs. Founder Colin Angle has stepped down as CEO, saying given the current challenges, he and the board “mutually decided that iRobot will be better serv

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Global investors who bought the heavily discounted IOUs from China Evergrande, hoping for a bailout from the Chinese government, have been left in the lurch.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

Recent data from Airwallex , reveals a Q4 uptrend: Australians increased their online spending by nearly $200 during the peak sales season of 2023 compared to 2022. This surge – notably in e-commerce, travel, and financial services – presents greater revenue opportunities but also calls for strategic caution. A considered look in the rearview mirror can help us forge a strong path ahead.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

The much-discussed merger between Amazon and iRobot is no more. Regulatory hurdles indicate that their $1.4 billion business venture was untenable.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

Carly Broderick is no novice to the retail industry. With several decades of retail experience under her belt, including nearly 10 years spent with Target as a senior buyer and director across multiple categories (toys, pharmaceuticals, sporting goods, skincare, bath, and fragrances), Broderick knows exactly what big-box retailers are looking for. That’s where Miles, a personal care brand designed for the tween/teen category comes in.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

An unexpected turn of events unfolded on American Airlines flight 271 flying to Maui. The plane experienced difficulty during its landing, causing an abrupt halt and resulting in injuries to those aboard.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

Aesop’s Queer Library is set to return to Melbourne and Sydney this February to showcase a selection of titles by 45 LGBTQIA+ authors. The body care brand will open the library at Aesop QV in Melbourne from February 7 to 11 and at Aesop Bondi Junction in Sydney from February 28 to March 3. During those dates, Aesop will remove all its products from the shelves and replace them with the selected books purchased from Melbourne’s queer bookshop Hares & Hyenas, Allen & Unwin, and Unive

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Retail Dive

JANUARY 29, 2024

The retailer, which earlier this month named a new CEO, said the additional financing will support its repositioning efforts.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

Advanced Planning Systems (APS) are at the heart of digital transformation when looking to improve operations management. Companies in Australia and New Zealand have traditionally lagged in investment in this area. The benefits of implementation that we usually observe are: A 20 per cent reduction in working capital. A 3 per cent reduction in COGS.

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Retail Dive

JANUARY 29, 2024

Gift Mode uses human curation and machine learning to offer shoppers a selection of products for gift recipients.

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