Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Universal Store Holdings expects higher sales for the fiscal year ending June 30, thanks to improved performance in the majority of its segments. The fashion retailer – which sells more than 100 ‘trend-led’ apparel, footwear and accessories brands including Champion, Perfect Stranger, Tommy Jeans, Thrills, and Wrangler – forecasts annual group sales to rise 9.7 per cent from last year to $288.5 million.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

GlassesUSA.com has long deployed a range of technologies, including computer vision and AR try-on technology, to streamline product discovery and provide better recommendations. Now the retailer has added its proprietary AI engine to facilitate online eyewear purchases with the “Pairfect Match AI” solution, which helps customers find frames suited to their unique facial structure and draws on the retailer’s stock of more than 10,000 frame styles.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Australian retailers are calling for stricter laws and deterrents for retail crime , emphasising its negative impacts in the industry and the economy. At the 2024 Retail Crime Symposium in Melbourne, the soon-to-merge Australian Retailers Association (ARA) and the National Retail Association (NRA) highlighted opportunities for further collaboration in the sector to help businesses. “Good progress has been made to provide legislative protections for frontline workers, but the coverage is no

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

In an industry still struggling with a tight labor market, choosing which technology to arm store associates with becomes a critical decision. Today’s retail workers almost need to have superpowers — moving as fast as The Flash would be helpful given how many different tasks a retail worker performs each day — but adaptable, multi-purpose solutions can provide that extra burst of needed speed.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Four in five Australian consumers are cutting down on something to save money as the cost of living crisis bites – and more than half of consumers in the country are looking for the best value when they shop. But are retailers up to the task of responding to these new pressures, and how are they adapting to remain competitive? The statistics come from the newly released Shopify Australian Retail Report 2024 ( available for download free here ).

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

Amazon ’s 10th annual Prime Day was its biggest ever, with record-breaking sales over the 48 -hour member sales event and more items sold than on any previous Prime Day, according to the company. Helping to drive these banner results were millions of new Prime members worldwide, with a record-breaking number of customers signing up for Prime in the three weeks prior to the start of the sale on July 16, 2024, according to Amazon.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

It’s no secret that the FMCG industry is fiercely competitive. From laundry detergents to packaged foods, consumers have countless options available to them, and a strong brand is critical to cut through the noise. Events are one of the most powerful tools a brand can use to build emotional connections with its audiences, boost loyalty and ultimately drive sales.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Earlier this month, the University of California, Berkeley published its findings after testing mainstream tampon brands for toxic metals – the results were alarming. According to UC Berkeley’s research, toxic metals including lead, nickel, mercury and arsenic are present in popular tampon products. However, for sustainable menstrual product brands like Hello Period, the most shocking part of UC Berkeley’s study was that it is the first of its kind to measure the presence of metals in tamp

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

John Deere has joined fellow rural-oriented brand Tractor Supply in cancelling support for both progressive causes and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) principles. In a statement on X , the retailer said it would be auditing “all company-mandated training materials and policies to ensure the absence of socially motivated messages, while being in compliance with federal, state and local laws.

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Retail Wire

JULY 18, 2024

Bud Light, once the U.S.’s longstanding beer sales leader, has dropped to No. 3 following a boycott of the brand that began last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

Petco Health and Wellness Company has tapped retail industry veteran Joel Anderson as its new CEO. Anderson will take the reins from R. Michael Mohan, who has been serving as the interim CEO since the departure of Ron Coughlin in March 2024. Anderson was most recently CEO of Five Below , which has appointed Kenneth Bull as its interim President and CEO in the wake of Anderson’s departure.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Luxury fashion houses Dior and Armani are being probed over allegations they used “Chinese factories” in Italy that underpaid and overworked their staff. Italy’s competition watchdog AGCM has launched an investigation into possible violations of the consumer code in the way the companies promoted and sold clothing and accessories. “In both cases, the companies may have issued untrue statements about their ethics and social responsibility, particularly regarding working co

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Retail Wire

JULY 18, 2024

The Tex-Mex chain restaurant will be added to Darden's large portfolio of brands.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Malin + Goetz CEO Bradley Horowitz has more than 25 years of experience in the beauty industry, working across a number of global brands. Here, he discusses his passion for skincare products, why hard work is still the most important way to succeed in your career and the challenges of finding the right work-life balance. Inside Retail : What do you think is it about the beauty industry that has led you to stay in the industry for as long as you have?

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Retail Wire

JULY 18, 2024

KFC is sponsoring Jaydon Hibbert, a triple-jump Olympic athlete.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Adore Beauty witnessed higher revenue in the last fiscal year as the number of returning customers increased. The skincare and cosmetics retailer delivered annual unaudited revenue of $195.7 million in the year ending June 30, up 7.4 per cent. The company saw a record number of returning customers – 519,000, up by 5.8 per cent year on year. Moreover, active customers grew 1.6 per cent to 814,000.

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Retail Wire

JULY 18, 2024

BISSELL is voluntarily recalling several models of its Steam Shot Handheld Steam Cleaner due to safety concerns.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Bradley Horowitz is a legend within the beauty retail sector. With over 25 years of strategic, sales, marketing and management experience, Horowitz has worked for brands including Clarins, L’Oréal, and Amorepacific. The executive has built his reputation on understanding what the modern consumer is looking to purchase for their vanity table and medicine cabinets.

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Retail Wire

JULY 18, 2024

Taco Bell has introduced the Cheesy Street Chalupas, combining traditional street taco ingredients with cheesy chalupa shells, which the brand dubbed Quesalupas.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Significant market trends are impacting retail businesses today – the migration of consumers online, supply-chain challenges and the cost-of-living crisis to name just a few – but there is a more obvious reason many retailers are struggling. Working with retailers across Australia and New Zealand, Quantiful CEO Jamie Cormack has identified poor planning outcomes as one of the significant causes forcing retailers to contract and even close stores today.

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Retail Wire

JULY 18, 2024

Farm equipment giant John Deere announced this week that it will be pulling back on some diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Jeweller Michael Hill anticipates higher group sales in the last fiscal year on the back of better results in Australia and Canada. The company forecasts total sales to have grown 3.8 per cent to $641.4 million as its Australian segment sales rose 10.5 per cent to $359.7 million and Canadian segment sales increased 0.3 per cent to C$156.0 million in the year ended June 30.

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Retail Wire

JULY 18, 2024

The Jack in the Box collaboration with the upcoming movie offers special food promotions.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 18, 2024

Carpetright’s largest competitor Tapi Carpets is moving closer to a deal to snap up its rival, potentially saving hundreds of stores and jobs. More to follow… Related Story As Carpetright puts administrators on standby, what went wrong?

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Retail Wire

JULY 18, 2024

Prolonged delays and cancellations during the summer months are all traced to extreme heat patterns

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Retail Gazette

JULY 18, 2024

Pret is ditching its free drinks perk and food discount for subscribers as it replaces its subscription scheme with a “new and simpler offer” The food to go chain revealed its Club Pret benefits are set to wrap up in September as it looks to provide “better value for everyone” Under the changes, subscribers will no longer receive five free barista made drinks per day.

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Retail Dive

JULY 18, 2024

Consumers avoided big-ticket purchases, but steep discounts drew in back-to-school shoppers and others — and not just at Amazon.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 18, 2024

Sales during day two of the Amazon Prime Day event saw total UK online spend surpass £618m, according to Adobe Analytics. The sales represented a 8% increase on the £570m the retail giant raked in during the second day of last year’s event. The first 24 hours of this year’s Prime Day event saw £633.4m spent online, making it the biggest day for online shopping so far in 2024, with yesterday’s figures a close second.

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365 Retail

JULY 18, 2024

If you want actual examples of social media shaping consumer interests, look no further than the beauty industry, or more specifically, the glossy world of #BeautyTok. The hashtag has 5.4 million posts on TikTok at the time of writing, allowing influencers to share tips and recommendations with newbies and enthusiasts alike. These digestible yet informative clips have given the sector a bold new look.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 18, 2024

Jollyes is giving away thousands of free poo bags as it teams up with local councils to encourage dog owners to ‘bag it and bin it’. The pet specialist is handing out 140 free ‘Power Poop’ rolls next Friday (26 July) to the first customers at the launch of its new Blackburn store, which opens at 10am. It will also give away 140 free poo bag rolls to the first customers shopping instore across its 100+ store estate on the same day.

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