Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 17, 2023
Relationships can move fast. You meet for the first time, and there’s a spark. You feel like you’ve known each other for years, even though you’ve only spent a few hours together. You quickly get a sense of likes and dislikes, as well as what you have to offer each other. Over time, the relationship deepens, and you spend more time keeping each other happy.
Intelligence Node
JANUARY 16, 2023
2022 was a landmark year for retail- making retail predictions for the year 2023 a primary focus for strategists and retailers entering the new year. Technology took the spotlight as. The post 5 Data-driven Retail Predictions for 2023 appeared first on Blog.
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Wiser
JANUARY 17, 2023
When today’s shoppers have so many different buying choices, it is important for businesses to make personalized customer experiences a top priority. In fact, according to a report done by McKinnsey and Company , 71 percent of customers are now expecting companies to deliver personalization. Consumers want to be treated as individuals by the brands they choose to do business with.
Tokinomo
JANUARY 17, 2023
Campaign scoop. No Judgment. Drinking a cold beer at work might be satisfying, but not such a great idea. In this ad, Paul Rudd, who plays Marvel's Ant-Man, is seen placing a Heineken 0.0 non-alcoholic beer bottle beside one of his ant companions, Anton. Anton teases him for drinking on the job, but Ant-Man explains it's non-alcoholic. No judgment here, Ant-Men!
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Category Management is a cornerstone of a successful retail strategy. While it promotes collaboration between manufacturers and retailers to optimize category performance, challenges persist in its effective implementation due to hurdles in communication and collaboration across teams and partners, and more. In this guide, we outline five essential strategies for success in 2025 that will touch on all the essential pieces of a successful strategy and implementation.
Retail Dive
JANUARY 17, 2023
The retailer has closed 170 locations since 2016 and is currently transforming its store strategy to include off-mall locations.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 19, 2023
Sephora will offer its customers skincare personalization technology and solutions, both in-store and online, through a partnership with PROVEN. Shoppers can visit sephora.provenskincare.com and take a three-minute Skin Genome Quiz to formulate their personalized skincare and discover specialized products based on their needs. The answers to the quiz are fed into PROVEN’s algorithm, which analyzes millions of factors to select the best ingredients for each shopper’s skin.
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Inside Retail
JANUARY 15, 2023
Fast fashion brand H&M recently launched Loooptopia, a Roblox game focused on creating, trading and recycling digital fashion items. It’s the latest apparel company to set up a virtual environment on the platform where players can style their avatar and run or scoot around Loooptopia districts collecting tokens. . Loooptopia players can collect elements such as blank clothing items, colours and patterns to create new looks.
Tokinomo
JANUARY 18, 2023
If you’ve read our “ Retail Year In Review 2022 ” article, then you know a lot has happened in the last year in this industry. When we were expecting things to relax after the COVID-19 pandemic and its restrictions, the war in Ukraine started and it impacted the retail industry worldwide.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 20, 2023
Kroger has entered a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud and Deloitte to use cloud technologies that will increase associate productivity across its nearly 2,800 stores nationwide. Kroger recently deployed a variety of Google Cloud data analytics, AI and ML tools, designed to empower store leaders and associates to make real-time operational decisions and deliver a better shopping experience for shoppers.
Retail Focus
JANUARY 20, 2023
Space NK has revealed a newly expanded store, which is the largest in the company’s portfolio, and four times the size of its original location at Westfield London in White City. Covering 2,500 square feet of trading space, the new store will serve as a beauty shopping destination, tailored to customers’ needs and staffed by a team of Space NK experts.
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
Inside Retail
JANUARY 19, 2023
Premium tea retailer T2 Tea has teamed up with emerging Australian creatives to unveil a ‘Kiss The Future Hello’ teaware range. Last year, the Australian company challenged artists to design a mug that represented their version of a “brighter, more positive future”. Based on votes, winning designs by Elaine Li, Sian Downey, Tammy Zhang and Alexandra Truong will be printed on fine bone china mugs, finished with 24k gold details and paired with a stainless-steel infuser.
Dezeen
JANUARY 14, 2023
Luxury brand Louis Vuitton has transformed its stores across the world for the launch of its anticipated capsule collection with Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama. The launch of the collaboration has seen a number of key stores across the world redecorated with Kusama 's signature polka-dots, life-like animatronics of Kusama painting in the windows of the stores and an inflatable replica of Kusama peering over the roof of Louis Vuitton 's Champs-Élysées store.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 20, 2023
Google parent company Alphabet is following in the footsteps of fellow tech giants Amazon and Microsoft in making the “difficult decision” to lay off approximately 12,000 employees, according to a letter from CEO Sundar Pichai sent to employees on Jan. 20, 2022. Titled A Difficult Decision to set us up for the Future , Pichai — who leads both Google and Alphabet — said in his email that employees in the U.S. who were affected by the layoffs had already been notified.
Retail Focus
JANUARY 20, 2023
Louis Vuitton has launched a brand-new collection with world renowned artist Yayoi Kusama. To celebrate the launch in a standout way, Louis Vuitton has projected a colourful, moving Yayoi Kusama polka dot design onto the façade of Harrods; the first brand ever to do this. Running from 6 th January – 13 th February, Kusama’s mesmerising, multicoloured, and immersive, vision will inhabit the iconic department store.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Inside Retail
JANUARY 18, 2023
Woolworth Holdings’ sale of the David Jones department-store business has cleared the way for the brands of its Country Road Group division to return to the shelves of Myer. The Witchery, Politix and Mimco brands will launch at Myer from next month while Country Road – including Country Road Kids, Country Road Home and Trenery – will be stocked from July.
Retail Dive
JANUARY 18, 2023
The retailer is counting on digital innovation to help drive store growth in North America and Europe, according to Fast Retailing CIO Takahiro Tambara.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 19, 2023
Starbucks and DoorDash have expanded their delivery partnership to Northern California, Texas, Georgia, Florida and other select markets, with plans for availability in all 50 states by March 2023. The program has received positive feedback following pilots in Atlanta, Houston and Sacramento, Calif. as well as market expansions in Seattle, Portland and New York City in 2022.
Retail Focus
JANUARY 16, 2023
The announcement of the Pantone Colour of the Year is much anticipated and has become increasingly influential in the world of business, design, and brand marketing. But why is Pantone so influential? Why should a colour matter? And how can you use colours to positively impact your business? Viva Magenta! Four weeks ago, if you’d uttered the phrase ‘viva magenta’, people probably would have looked at you strangely.
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When it comes to driving traffic and growing your online presence, businesses often ask: SEO or PPC—what’s the better choice? This guide breaks down the key differences between search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, highlighting their pros, cons, and best use cases. Whether you’re looking for long-term organic growth or immediate visibility through paid ads, we’ll help you determine which strategy—or combination of both—is right for your business.
Inside Retail
JANUARY 19, 2023
Following a population decline amid Covid-19 restrictions, the Federal Government’s Centre for Population report predicts that Melbourne will overtake Sydney as Australia’s largest city within the next 10 years. The implications will be felt by every industry, including Melbourne’s retail sector, but how so, and to what extent? According to The Age , Melbourne’s population size is set to increase by 1.8 per cent over the year to June, and is forecasted to rise by about a million people, to over
Dezeen
JANUARY 19, 2023
Creative studio Spacemen looked to biophilic design principles to construct a tree-like installation covered in moss, which forms the centrepiece of a flagship outlet for luxury leather brand Braun Büffel in Malaysia. Described by Shanghai-based Spacemen as a store that straddles an art gallery and a laboratory, the studio wanted to create an interior that would attract a younger audience and serve as "an abstract oasis" in Putrajaya's IOI Mall.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 19, 2023
Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their tools and tactics for breaching corporate networks. As retailers get better at protecting their networks from traditional cyberattacks, hackers are adapting to this challenge by finding new security weaknesses, updating old tricks and exploiting new corporate blind spots that have been created by hybrid work, the rise of non-email digital communications and the increasingly blurry line between personal and professional accounts.
Retail Focus
JANUARY 16, 2023
Shaftesbury has announced the signing of iconic, heritage hat brand, Stetson, as their first UK flagship in Seven Dials. Positioned in the heart of London’s West End at 58 Neal Street, the new store will span 1,165 sq ft and include an eclectic range of the brand’s signature styles. Renowned for creating high-quality, durable headwear, internationally acclaimed brand, Stetson, create headgears for all lifestyles; whether it’s authentic Western wear, country-style outdoor fashion, timeless classi
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AI is rapidly transforming digital commerce, but how do you separate real opportunities from hype? Moderated by Orium, AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype , experts from Bloomreach , commercetools , Contentstack , and Fluent Commerce explores where AI is already delivering results and where its potential is still unfolding. This masterclass dives into proven AI applications, emerging innovations , and the gaps between promise and reality in commerce.
Inside Retail
JANUARY 16, 2023
Inside Retail is thrilled to announce this year’s finalists for the upcoming Retailer Awards 2023 presented by Commonwealth Bank. Judges for the 2023 awards include Heather McIlvaine and Aron Lewin of Inside Retail ; David Martin, national manager of retail and e-commerce at CommBank; Reuben Casey, former CEO of Kathmandu; Colleen Callander, founder of Callander & Co and former CEO of Sportsgirl; Gary Mortimer, professor of marketing and customer behaviour at Queensland University of Technol
Retail Wire
JANUARY 20, 2023
Nordstrom has lowered its sales and profit outlook for 2022 following a decline of 1.7 percent in the chain’s net sales for the last nine weeks of 2022. Nordstrom Rack, the retailer’s off-price business, saw sales fall 7.6 percent during the same period. “The holiday season was highly promotional, and sales were softer than pre-pandemic levels,” said CEO Erik Nordstrom.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 19, 2023
Livestreaming, also known as live commerce, is still emerging in Western markets, particularly when compared to the booming Chinese livestreaming market. But Coresight Research indicates that growth is imminent in the U.S. The firm predicts that the livestreaming ecommerce market for the country will total $32 billion by the end of 2023, nearly triple its 2021 size.
Retail Focus
JANUARY 19, 2023
For over thirty years, Jeroboams have been at the heart of some of London’s oldest neighbourhoods; offering a wealth of experience in fine wines, as well as beers, spirits, charcuterie and cheeses. Just last month, Impact Retail designed and implemented a beautiful retail identity for the Jeroboams Wimbledon store. Launching mid-December, the revamped store kicked off the festive season but the brand have big plans for the years ahead including innovative wine tasting and insight into investment
Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon
This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia
Inside Retail
JANUARY 16, 2023
Coaching is what you do ‘with’ someone to help them reach their potential and improve their performance. Coaching is essential in the retail environment, and it’s proven to improve the performance of individual employees and organisations. However, there are still many businesses that haven’t implemented coaching effectively and it’s still common to hear pushback like: It’s too time-consuming, our staff are too busy!
Retail Wire
JANUARY 20, 2023
Wayfair cut five percent of its workforce in August and now plans to announce another round of layoffs as early as today after sales fell 13 percent for the first nine months of 2022 compared to a year earlier. Niraj Shah, the furniture retailer’s CEO, in November told analysts that more cuts would be coming. “We decided to be very aggressive around making sure that we’re not carrying any excess costs that forces to either drive up retails or not have the profit profile we want to have,” h
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 19, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Amazon for workplace safety violations at three of its warehouses, a decision that Amazon said it will appeal. Amazon facilities in Deltona, Fla., Waukegan, Ill. and New Windsor, N.Y. all received hazard alert letters on Jan. 17, 2022 for exposing workers to ergonomic hazards.
Retail Focus
JANUARY 18, 2023
As a small business owner, you know how important it is to make a good impression with customers. Visual merchandising can help you do just that, but it can also be costly. Fortunately, there are plenty of budget-friendly ways to create a visually appealing store. In this blog post, we’ll explore some creative ideas for visual merchandising on a budget that small businesses can use to make a big impact. 1.Use Perspex Cut to Size.
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