Retail Dive

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Going into Q3, many major players cleaned up their inventories after last year’s surge in stock levels, with benefits to margins. Not everyone fared equally, however.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This is Part 1 of The Holiday Readiness Series , which will feature tactical tips and takeaways from experts that retailers can still apply to rev up their sales results. Looking for even more data and insights to power your approach ? Check out the Retail Strategy & Planning Series on-demand. Offering excellent customer service is a business basic at any time of the year, but it’s particularly vital during the holiday season.

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Hyken

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The title of this article may sound like a lesson in sales, but it’s much bigger than that. It’s about the entire customer experience. If a promise to provide value in the CX is built into a company’s mission and values statements, it potentially becomes part of the culture. Imagine if your organization were bold enough to state that the value it delivers to customers would make price irrelevant.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Don’t Blame Shrinkage: Why Poor Digital Strategy Might Be Responsible for Retail Uncertainty While retail is a cyclical industry, it’s important to be honest about transformations, negative and positive, in the industry. At the time of writing, in the US there have been 12 retail declarations of bankruptcy so far in 2023 , over twice as many as 2022 in total.

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On the heels of a new $1 billion turnaround plan, the retailer’s seasonal push includes paid creators, video ads and a “Penney Prepper” challenge.

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Retail Times

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! NaviLens technology will be added to Pringles cans to make them more accessible to blind and partially sighted people. The new packaging will allow a smartphone to easily detect the unique on-pack code and playback labelling information to the shopper with sight loss.

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Hyken

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Whoever said “the customer is always right” didn’t hear this about this story. Fox News just posted an update to a 2021 story about a man arrested for pointing an AK-47 at an employee at a pizza shop in Knoxville, Tennessee. The short version of the story is this. A customer walked into a Little Caesars restaurant and became angry when he was told he would have to wait a few minutes for a pizza.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The government has launched a new Retail Crime Action Plan to combat shoplifting today. The plan, published by the National Police Chiefs Council, sets out how police should respond to and investigate thefts against convenience stores and other retail businesses. The guidelines for police officers focuses on areas including prioritising attendance at the scene of violent crimes, how retailers should report crimes, and identifying “hot spot” locations where additional patrols would be

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Gaggenau has opened its first Sydney flagship covering 260sqm on Crown Street in Surry Hills. Gaggenau Sydney features a range of products including the 400 series cooktops, ovens and wine cabinets. The store, designed by Munich-based studio 1ZU33, takes inspiration from the brand’s relationship with the culinary arts and the hospitality landscape that defines the inner-city suburb.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Eating bugs might be in your future sooner than you think thanks to Tyson Foods.

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Retail Times

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! Data published today by The Food Foundation shows that the price of a healthy packed lunch has increased in four out of five major retailers since August, with costs increasing by up to 5% in just two months.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s time to say goodbye to cookies. A full 60% of marketers believe the era of advertising cookies and IDs is coming to an end. And yet there’s a successional gap. Nobody seems to know what to do next. The same survey reports that 41% of marketers aren’t familiar with targeting methods other than third-party cookies or IDs. “I think everyone’s talking about it but not many people are actually doing a lot of preparation yet,” says one anonymous advertising executive quoted in the study.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Local studio Architecture for London has designed an interior for stationery store Present & Correct in London , which features gridded joinery and draws on "wunderkammer" cabinets of curiosities. The studio designed bespoke joinery and storage for the Present & Correct shop in Bloomsbury, central London, which sells vintage and new stationery from across the globe.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Iceland has said it will be offering customers free food this half term as over half of parents say they are already feeling the pressure of festive expenses. Thanks to the frozen food specialist’s Famous Holiday Freebie offer, from the 20 th October shoppers who spend over £20 in-store and swipe their Bonus Card can choose a free item from Iceland’s easy tea products – including big brand names from Birds Eye to McCain.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Precision Group, along with its luxury retailers, is investing $125 million in Adelaide Central Plaza over the next three years as it intends to make the shopping centre Australia’s next luxury retail hub. Adelaide Central Plaza at Rundle Mall will house Tag Heuer, Tiffany & Co, along with exclusive brands within the David Jones department store, the company said.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

OpenAI, a leading innovator in artificial intelligence, has announced a significant upgrade to its ChatGPT Plus.

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2023

More small businesses and consumers also turned to bankruptcy in the first nine months of 2023, per Epiq and the American Bankruptcy Institute.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Even though “digitally native” is on the short list for describing Gen Z, its members are most certainly in-store shoppers as well, albeit with their own set of priorities and expectations. New research from MG2 confirms that Gen Z is looking for curated visual merchandising experiences and for brand values to shine through in these physical environments, along with a focus on wellbeing and community connections.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cultural centre Het Nieuwe Instituut is rethinking the archetypal museum shop with a pop-up at Dutch Design Week , designed to encourage more ethical, resource-conscious consumption. Instead of offering a straightforward exchange of wares for money, New Store 1.0 offers patrons the opportunity to trade their urine for a piece of P**s Soap and encourages them to place their phones on specially designed fixtures to provide lighting for the venue once the sun goes down.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Tesco has relaunched Paperchase online and in selected stores, just 10 months after it rescued the brand out of administration. Customers will be able to shop the new stationery items in 120 of the grocer’s supermarkets around the UK from today. ‘Paperchase at Tesco’ has launched with four core ranges – Rainbow, Pastel Ombre, Artful Scribbles and Confetti – all offering a wide selection of themed stationery products, including notepads, pens, highlighters, washi tap

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Kogan has logged a 6.5 per cent year-on-year decrease in gross sales for Q1 of FY24, but recorded quarter-on-quarter growth for the first time since the first quarter of FY22. Kogan is a portfolio of retail and services businesses that includes Kogan Retail, Kogan Marketplace, Kogan Mobile, Kogan Internet, Kogan Insurance, Kogan Money, Kogan Cars, Kogan Energy, Dick Smith, Matt Blatt, Mighty Ape in New Zealand, and Brosa.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The price of Halloween candy has seen a sharp increase of 13% this year.

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Many in the generation expect to spend more than last year and will shop earlier if retailers introduce discounts sooner, according to a Shopify report.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With the bustling holiday shopping season nearing, many brands have spent the last several months assessing their operational strengths and weaknesses, particularly in logistics and fulfillment. Oftentimes, these hinge on the synergy between a brand and its third-party logistics (3PL) provider. To succeed in the holiday peak season and ensure seamless fulfillment, deliveries, and returns, it’s essential for these partners to monitor key metrics, analyze operational data and maintain communicatio

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Hyken

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“Curiosity killed the cat.” According to Wikipedia , this saying first appeared in a 1598 play, Every Man in His Humour , by English playwright Ben Johnson. The following year, Shakespeare used a similar quote in Much Ado About Nothing. The intent behind this saying is “to warn of the dangers of unnecessary investigation. …” In other words, be careful pushing for more information.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Wilko’s new owner The Range has relaunched the brand’s website after buying it out of administration last month. The discount retailer has recommenced trading on thousands of product lines across the home and garden, with hundreds of new lines and own brands to be added to the site daily. The Range snapped up Wilko’s brand, website and intellectual property in September after the retailer was forced to call in administrators.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Teen fashion brand Pavement has exclusively relaunched at Big W stores across Australia as it seeks to provide budget-friendly clothing options to the youth market. “We are thrilled to reintroduce Pavement to the Australian market, especially during these challenging times. Our brand’s ethos revolves around providing our young people with clothing that empowers them to showcase their personalities,” said Brooke Norton, divisional general manager at Designworks, the new owner of

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While McDonald's revenue increases, so do its prices.

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As companies turn to cost-cutting measures, there’s no shortage of big names slashing jobs — and not all of them are in dire financial straits.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Ashley is tapping an unlikely partner to inspire holiday cheer: three-time Grammy-award-winning a cappella group Pentatonix. The furniture and mattress retailer will host a holiday-themed pop-up experience at The Grove Storefront in LA Nov. 2-3. Designed as a series of listening rooms, the pop-up will give visitors the chance to listen to Pentatonix’s new holiday greatest hits album, The Greatest Christmas Hits , in the comfort of Ashley furniture. “Ashley seeks to connect customers to

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