Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

With the decline in high street spending and increased online competition from ecommerce stores, companies in the retail space need to be effectively innovating to keep up. One way for brick-and-mortar stores to stay ahead of the competition is to expand into digital product. Since the pandemic, seven in 10 consumers have used mobile devices and apps for shopping, and it’s not just millennials and Gen Z; Gen X and baby boomers are 68% and 56% more likely, respectively, to use their mobile device

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2024

Levi Strauss & Co’s Eureka Innovation Lab is located on a quiet, dead-end street near Coit Tower in San Francisco. Unassuming from the outside, the brick warehouse is a hive of activity within. Sewing machines whir, washing machines thump and lasers beep as they precisely cut holes into raw denim. Hundreds of jeans in every shade of blue hang on the walls and mysterious trunks covered in stickers from around the world are stacked wherever there’s room, while jazz music plays in the backgroun

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

JD.com has won a lawsuit against rival Alibaba Group in the High People’s Court of Beijing, which fined Alibaba 1 billion yuan ( $140 million) for engaging in monopolistic practices. JD.com had sued Alibaba and its ecommerce divisions, Zhejiang Tmall Network and Zhejiang Tmall Technology, for practicing “choosing one of two” behaviors — essentially saying to suppliers that if they sold to JD.com, they would not be allowed to sell on Alibaba.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Body Shop has earned the title of being the first global beauty brand offering 100 per cent vegan product formulations certified by The Vegan Society. Back in 2021, just 60 per cent of the cosmetic brand’s products already carried the Vegan Society trademark. The retailer has been campaigning against animal testing in the cosmetics industry since 1989. “We were the first beauty company to fight against animal testing in cosmetics.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

To drive customer retention and loyalty, most brands and retailers continue to rely on purchase discounts ( 77% ) and loyalty program points ( 61% ), according to Retail TouchPoints research. However, a Deloitte survey reveals that consumers’ loyalty program preferences and expectations are evolving. While financial benefits are still top of mind — largely thanks to inflation pressures and tightened household budgets — consumers are increasingly seeking services and experiences that truly reflec

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2024

Retailers of all sizes and industries are using the success of experiential activations to create brand awareness and, as a result, drive more business. Sydney’s Bondi Beach has become home to many pop-up activations and brand collaborations, including, most recently, a beach club venture between membership-based skin clinic Fayshell and ice-cream giant Magnum.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

An increase in late credit card payments in the U.S. and other factors seem to suggest that American debt is inching closer to its pre-pandemic levels.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

Nike has laid out a plan to cut up to $2 billion in costs over the next three years in a bid to “accelerate future growth while building a faster, more efficient” organization, executives shared during the company’s fiscal 2024 Q2 earnings call. The company plans to trim expenses in ways including simplifying its product assortment , increasing automation and use of technology , and leveraging its scale to drive greater efficiencies across the business, although no details on the form these init

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Chevron Corp., the multi-national energy corporation, has announced that it will be writing down the value of its assets ranging from $3.5 billion to $4 billion.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ikea Retail (Ingka Group) has seen “game-changing” results since employing artificial intelligence-powered demand sensing technology. Over the past three years, the retailer has worked closely with Inter Ikea Group (a group of companies that work to connect Ikea franchisees with appropriate suppliers) as well as Blue Yonder to support the implementation and scale-up of this technology.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2024

Hotels, alcohol, and gaming facilities operator Endeavour Group has named Ari Mervis as its new chairman, succeeding Peter Hearl, effective by the end of April. Mervis is currently the chairman of Myer and McPherson’s and previously served as executive chairman of Accolade Wines and as CEO of Murray Goulburn. The new appointment marks an orderly transition with Hearl retiring after serving as chairman since 2021, when Endeavour Group demerged from Woolworths Group.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

New battery sourcing guidelines implemented by the U.S. Treasury on Monday have reshaped the EV market dynamics. These regulations were designed to reduce the U.S. dependency on China for EV batteries.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2024

Throughout every year, a multitude of major and minor calendar events offer great opportunities to engage with customers at a time when they are open to shopping for friends, families or themselves. Keeping track of all the seasonal events can be overwhelming, and missing just one or two key marketing moments may mean passing up an opportunity to inspire your customers to shop with your brand.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

The broad choices that were available to consumers prior to the pandemic are not coming back.

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Dezeen

JANUARY 2, 2024

East London hair salon Buller and Rice has opened a new venue with an interior design palette that includes seaweed, algae, cork and mushroom leather. Buller and Rice Wanstead is a salon that doubles as a lifestyle store, selling products ranging from homeware to wine. Company founders Anita Rice and Stephen Buller designed the interior themselves, filling it with bespoke creations from designers and makers including Natural Material Studio 's Bonnie Hvillum and Copenhagen-based Jonas Edvard.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently issued a series of automobile recalls affecting millions of vehicles.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2024

Asda has raided Morrisons to bolster its leadership team, including the appointment of Matt Kelleher as its first ever chief digital officer Kelleher, who is currently CIO at Morrisons , will join its Leeds-based rival in July. He will take responsibility for Asda’s data and ecommerce functions and will also lead its technology functions once its ongoing technology transformation project ‘Future’ is complete.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Elon Musk's Tesla shattered estimates for its fourth-quarter deliveries in 2023, marking an electrifying end to the year.

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Retail Dive

JANUARY 2, 2024

Discover how traditional retailers are adapting to the digital era and embracing sustainability, leveraging technologies like Hanshow's ESL solutions, AIoT and SaaS to enhance efficiency, reduce environmental impact and meet evolving consumer demands.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

A lucky Powerball player in Michigan won the $842.4 million New Year's Day jackpot.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2024

Pop-up operator Sook has closed its portfolio of retail spaces after it failed to raise sufficient funding to continue trading. The start-up’s founder John Hoyle said in a LinkedIn post that the business had ceased trading as of December 31 “due to a lack of investment” Sook, which won Retail Gazette’s DTC Game Changer award in 2022, brought empty retail spaces back to life, allowing brands to open pop-up stores.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

A resident in Florida has sued Hershey, alleging that its overall marketing tactics and festive packaging during Halloween on Reese's candy was creatively misleading.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2024

Selfridges’ Thai co-owner Central Group is seeking to take greater control of the department store and could snap up fellow shareholder Signa’s stake following its collapse. Following Signa Prime Selection – the division which co-owns Selfridges – filing for insolvency last week, its stake in the department store is set to come up for sale to recover money for the firm’s creditors.

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Retail Dive

JANUARY 2, 2024

From new marketing techniques to consumers spending despite inflation, here are the big takeaways from the latest holiday season.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2024

More UK supermarkets changed hands than ever before last year as mounting debt piles saw chains selling off stores to raise extra cash. Around £2.49bn worth of food stores were bought and sold in 2023, according to data from property services firm Knight Frank, which is more than three times the amount as the year before and 71% above the ten-year average of £1.4bn.

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Retail Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Delta Air Lines topped the list for the third year in a row.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2024

M&S shares shot to a five-year high on Tuesday as investors predict the retailer will be crowned one of the best-performing over the holiday period. The food and clothing retailer was among the top risers on the FTSE 100 as shares jumped as much a 2.5%, raising the value of the group by more than £70m. The flurry of activity came after BNP Paribas analysts crowned M&S as one of their top stock picks for 2024, adding that the business was “a likely Christmas winner”.

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Retail Customer Experience

JANUARY 2, 2024

In today's episode, we sit down with Guy Silver, employee communications director at Costco, to hear how the retail brand partnered with Appspace in its employee-facing digital signage.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Cotswold Company’s sales jumped over the golden quarter as consumers refreshed their homes ahead of Christmas. The home furnishings retailer saw orders surge 13% to £16.4m in the nine weeks to December 31, up £1.8m on the same period last year and 64% on pre-Covid results. The retailer attributed the sales advance to its ongoing investment into online and retail showrooms, which it said has led to a 14% increase in active customers year-on-year.

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Retail Times

JANUARY 2, 2024

Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! Krispy Kreme is here to celebrate Veganuary with their brand-new limited edition vegan doughnut Cookie Indulgence range. These handcrafted doughnuts will be in shops just ahead of 2024, bringing joy and flavour into the New Year!

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