Retail Focus

MARCH 29, 2022

Keeping pace with consumer trends and changing behaviours is key to the success of retail operations, particularly when managing the impact of current global events on supply chains to ensure they’re able to consistently meet demand. . According to the latest CBI quarterly Distributive Trades Survey, consumer confidence is growing as retail sales volumes were 16% higher than seasonal norms in February.

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Wiser

MARCH 29, 2022

Pricing strategy is one of the hottest topics in the retail world, and rightly so. Having the right strategy keeps companies competitive and profitable. But, with so much information on price optimization floating around out there, and countless tips on increasing your profit margins, it can be difficult to know which strategies will actually help your bottom line.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Retail sales continued to perform well in February recording a 9.1 per cent year-on-year increase according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data released today. . Despite supply chain disruptions, departments stores recorded a 5 per cent increase after months of decline. Clothing, footwear and personal accessories recorded a 17.8-per-cent increase compared to February last year, followed by cafes, restaurants and takeaway food which grew 15 per cent and household goods, up by 8.1 per cent.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Navigating the past two years of digital changes has been a challenging yet invigorating time for brands and social media users alike. From the large spike of social platform users and increased time spent online to measurement fluctuations, everyone has developed new behaviors and preferences within the social space. 2020’s lockdowns forced brands to get creative with their digital presence as well as how they service their customers.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 28, 2022

Moss Bros has launched a new concept store at Victoria Place, the recently launched £700 million regeneration scheme in Woking town centre co-owned by Woking Borough Council and Moyallen Group. Occupying a 2742 sq ft space, the brand has opened on Victoria Place’s Henry Plaza. . The Moss Bros new concept store is designed to meet the needs of every shopper, including a dedicated style suite with its own fitting room and a cash desk for private appointments.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

Walgreens Boots Alliance is opening micro-fulfillment centers that use robots to fill customers’ prescriptions. The drugstore giant expects it may use robots to fill as many as half its prescriptions by 2025.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2022

Fabletics is partnering with Grammy Award-winning artist Lizzo to launch YITTY , a new shapewear brand. Lizzo has been developing the business for three years and will put an emphasis on inclusivity, with fits for all body types from size 6X to XS. YITTY aims to blur the lines of inner and outerwear with intentional-meets-functional designs and bold colors.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 30, 2022

Global lifestyle brand, kate spade new york, is to open its first Northern Irish store in April 2022, at designer outlet, The Boulevard. . Taking prime position at the entrance of the Lotus Property-owned scheme, which is positioned on the A1 corridor between Belfast and Dublin, the 1458 Sq ft store will open April 2022, offering a range of product categories, including ready-to-wear, handbags, accessories, small leather goods, tech accessories and jewellery. .

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Tokinomo

MARCH 29, 2022

Brick and mortar retailers have a lot of challenges to deal with after two years of pandemic and a rapid online shopping habit adoption. Apart from having to provide an amazing experience in-store to attract the attention of shoppers, they also need to make sure that they have the products shoppers are looking for.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Uber and BP have announced a global delivery partnership in an attempt to expand delivery services to everyday convenience. BP becomes the first major convenience retailer to team up with Uber on such a scale, and will connect more than 3000 retail locations with Uber Eats by 2025. . The partnership will cover retail sites in Australia, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, the US and the UK with plans to expand operations to European markets from next year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2022

Today’s shoppers are operating in a completely unrestrained informational environment, full of seemingly endless places to get input during the purchase journey. They aren’t bound by traditional constraints, and are gathering data far and wide to inform decisions with behaviors that no longer follow any established marketing models. We call this Shopper Promiscuity, with a propensity toward curiosity, experimentation, and risk-taking.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 29, 2022

Shaftesbury has today announced that the sustainable women’s performance wear brand, Dai, has opened its debut permanent space on 35-37 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials. Alongside the launch of two vintage activations, these recent openings boost Seven Dials’ diverse community of ethically driven retailers, solidifying it as London’s go-to destination for the conscious consumer. .

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Retail Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

Amazon.com is looking to recruit 1,300 customers to place orders for delivery through its Prime Air drone program. The company will recruit testers in Lockeford, CA, and College Station, TX, who will be able to choose from around 3,000 items, all weighing under five pounds, and have them delivered via drone.

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MARCH 28, 2022

In a bid to accelerate carbon removal solutions, Canadian e-commerce company Shopify has invested in nine climate tech start-ups including Australian-based company Loam Bio, bringing its total carbon removal spend to $32 million. Loam Bio has developed a microbial seed coating that increases carbon in soils as well as crop yields. The technology is said to help farmers, thus laying the foundation for globally-scalable carbon removal.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. The retailer reported 5.6% comparable sales growth and growing market share in grocery during Q4 2021, and much of this success can be attributed to its robust last mile and fulfillment strategy.

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Mulesoft

MARCH 31, 2022

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Cisco Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Contributing author: Piyush Raj, Product Manager, Cisco SD-WAN. We are living in a hybrid cloud world in which users are accessing applications from anywhere. The cloud migration question has evolved from whether ‘applications should move to the cloud’ to ‘when applications should move to the cloud’. Every IT organization today is looking to meet the demands of agility, scalability, and faster time to market all while lowering costs by moving towards the cloud.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 28, 2022

Pre-pandemic, the power balance in retail leasing sat very much in the landlord’s favour. Retailers and industry bodies had been calling out for a major reset for years, as rents continued to escalate, out of step with modest growth in many categories. If there was ever a ‘great reset’ event, gosh did we get it. The drive to e-commerce, covid relief legislation, months of forced store closures in major markets, and retailers closing their doors permanently throughout 2020-21, all contributed to

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2022

Lifestyle discovery store SHOWFIELDS has overhauled its New York City NoHo location with a new curation themed “Rebirth.” Focusing on “fantasy visions of the future,” the store currently features more than 100 brands and a range of experiences centered on the “desire for living a more inspired, full and layered life.”. Each of the three floors of the retailer’s Bond Street location has been redesigned to represent a different time of day: 1 st Floor: Sunrise.

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Retail Wire

APRIL 1, 2022

Marc Rosen, the new CEO of JCPenney, is focusing the company on delighting its core customer base instead of engaging in a Quixotic attempt to gain new ones. The department store chain is focusing on customers with median household incomes between $50,000 and $75,000 who are looking for affordable clothing and items for their homes. “The biggest difference this time is we are loving those who love us.

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Cisco Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

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Inside Retail

MARCH 28, 2022

Online retailer MyDeal has launched a new global activities marketplace called Amazed.com in Australia. The new website will utilise MyDeal’s proprietary marketplace technology and existing 1 million active customer base to offer a one-stop shopping experience for activities and experiences for locals. The company also plans to expand operations to New Zealand in the first half of the calendar year, and then move to offshore markets like the UK and US.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2022

IM Properties has partnered with Parcel Pending to launch the Premier Parcel secure delivery locker concept for residential deliveries. The service will be powered by Premier Parcel, a new company owned by IM Properties, with the lockers located next door to Sendik’s at The Corners of Brookfield, a mixed-use facility in Brookfield, Wis. that combines retail, restaurant, residential and entertainment offerings.

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Retail Wire

APRIL 1, 2022

The U.S. government plans to put 180 million barrels from its strategic petroleum reserve on the market over the next six months to mitigate the rising cost of gas that has spiked with Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine. The release will add 10 percent to oil production in the U.S.

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Cisco Retail

MARCH 30, 2022

This blog is authored by Amandeep Singh , Technical Marketing Engineer – Technical Leader at Cisco. We have some exciting news: the popular Application-First Security lab with AWS has been updated, and it is better than ever! It has now been redesigned to follow the Cisco Validated Design “Securing Cloud-Native Applications – AWS Design Guide”.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Fashion and lifestyle platform The Iconic has launched its first beauty campaign “I am Iconic” to celebrate diversity in the beauty category. . Featuring a range of faces representing beauty across gender, age groups, ethnicity and culture, and star, the campaign aims to strengthen the brand’s beauty offering and its online market. The brand says it wants to celebrate beauty in all its forms and the new campaign introduces its definition of beauty. .

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2022

Corporate awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion practices (DE&I) in retail has grown over the last few years, but within many companies actual progress has been slow or nonexistent. For Bumbershoot CEO and CMO Kimberly Minor — also President and Founder of Women of Color in Retail and President and CCO of Bandier — reflecting on a 25-year career in retail and branding as a woman of color has afforded great insights into the DE&I needs of the industry.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 1, 2022

There are many different ways in which you can develop a loyal customer following for your business. The most important factors are – of course – to offer premium quality products and provide a high level of service, yet alone this is not always enough. Other tactics include standing out from the crowd by showcasing a unique brand personality to develop a cult following and running a rewards program that encourages people to continue shopping with you and/or using your services.

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Cisco Retail

MARCH 30, 2022

Going ‘Under the Hood’ to get a closer look at the Intersight Workload Optimizer Decision Engine – Blog 1 of 3 in a weekly series where we dig a little deeper into the technology behind the Workload Optimizer service of Intersight. A little over a year ago, Cisco debuted a new service on the Intersight Platform: Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO). At its core, IWO is a powerful decision engine that constantly acts to assure workload performance and minimize cost.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2022

Hong Kong-listed beauty giant L’Occitane Group has acquired a majority stake in Australian-based clean skincare brand Grown Alchemist for an undisclosed sum. . Grown Alchemist was founded in 2008 by Melbourne siblings, Jeremy and Keston Muijis, with a focus on futuristic anti-ageing technology and unique botanical skincare formulas for optimal skin health.

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