Inside Retail
DECEMBER 11, 2024
2025 is set to be yet another year of disruptive change for the retail industry. In the past three years, the average employee experienced 10 planned enterprise changes, up from two in 2016. Its exhausting and the Harvard Business Review tells us that employees willingness to support enterprise change collapsed to just 43 per cent in 2022 compared to 74 per cent in 2016.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 11, 2024
The forex exchange market is the largest and most liquid global financial market, with trillions of dollars’ worth of different currencies traded daily. For most of us, it is a decentralized network of participants trading various pairs of currency, with pricing managed by market forces or demand and supply. Thus, participants in the forex market go beyond individuals.
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Retail Focus
DECEMBER 9, 2024
The 2025 Retail Visual Merchandising and Display Awards are officially open for entries, offering an exceptional opportunity for retail professionals to celebrate their creative achievements and gain valuable industry recognition. Taking place on 12th March 2025 in London , next year s event will continue its long-standing tradition of spotlighting the talent that shapes retail spaces into captivating experiences.
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Stop & Shop will deploy Savings Station kiosks in half its stores this month and complete a chainwide rollout to all 350+ supermarkets by the end of January 2025. The kiosks, which the retailer began piloting in late 2023, allow customers to activate weekly circular digital coupons and personalized offers without requiring a smartphone or even internet access.
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Retail Wire
DECEMBER 7, 2024
In-N-Out Burger isn't very popular in a Woodland Hills community.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Bed Threads, The Iconic, and Oroton ranked ahead of other retailers in November for overall returns experience in the Online CX Index, Australias first and only online retailer performance platform powered by real data. The Online CX Index, a partnership between Inside Retail and Humii, covered the returns experience for November, from customer re-packaging and returning a product to receiving their refund.
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Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 11, 2024
In 2020 my beloved local Fairway went under, and for five years the store space has languished, sitting dark and empty alongside several other shuttered chains: Modells , Subway (although somehow the Kohls has survived). However, one month ago the lights turned back on with bright green flag chains strung across the parking lot and a large banner, Amazon Fresh announced that it was now open for business.
Retail Wire
DECEMBER 13, 2024
JetBlue continues to improve the customer experience.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 9, 2024
About 160 Mosaic Brands stores will close by the middle of next month, in a store consolidation program which will see the Katies brand wound down. The receivers and managers of Mosaic Brands have announced a store consolidation program, which includes closing down the Katies brand and its 80 stores, along with an additional 80 stores across the Millers, Rivers, and Noni B brands.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The 2024 edition of MAPIC has now closed, but once again it has affirmed itself as an indispensable business platform in an ever-evolving industry. Despite the many challenges facing the retail sector, these three days of networking and information exchange demonstrated that the sector’s fundamentals remain strong and its determination unwavering.
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Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Chemist Warehouse , Australias largest pharmacy chain, is piloting wearable SmartBadges from Augmodo in four Melbourne stores. The AI-powered solution can be used to create live 3D store maps as well as recommend tasks to increase associates efficiency, including restocking shelves, placing orders and improving compliance. With Augmodo, the AI assistant lets them know which products are out of stock and in the wrong place, and which tasks are needed next, said Mark Finocchiaro, Managing Partner,
Retail Wire
DECEMBER 9, 2024
John Deere continues downsizing.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Online florist Meg’s Flowers has to pay $1 million in penalties after the Federal Court found the company falsified claims that it was a local florist located in multiple towns, suburbs, or localities that it posted on its websites. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) brought Meg’s Flowers to court, noting that the flower shop did not directly maintain any local shopfronts accessible to customers, contrary to its claims in 156 websites and in 7462 Google adverti
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 9, 2024
This holiday season (and beyond), its even easier for shoppers at Benuta to find whats on their wishlists. Just in time for the holidays, Benuta Europes largest online store for rugs, and a provider of complementary home decor has teamed up with US-based Constructor , an ecommerce search and product discovery platform. With its large, diverse product catalogue including more than 20,000 items for all spaces and aesthetics Benuta uses Constructor so shoppers can pinpoint whats best for them.
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Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Activist investment firm Barington Capital Group and real estate development company Thor Equities have taken a stake in Macys Inc. and are pushing the retailer to make significant changes to its real estate and financial strategy, including considering the spinoff of its higher-performing Bloomingdales and Bluemercury banners. In late November, Macys announced that it was delaying reporting of its Q3 2024 earnings to Dec. 11, 2024, after uncovering a financial irregularity in which an employee
Retail Wire
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Dollar General is offering items on DoorDash's Marketplace app.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 8, 2024
Woolworths has reopened its four distribution centres after reaching a deal with the striking workers but expects about a $140 million negative impact on food sales due to the picketing, which began last November 21. Woolworths said that the United Workers Union (UWU) has endorsed the new individual enterprise agreements comprised of wage increases of a cumulative 11 per cent over three years.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Derbion, the East Midlands premier retail and leisure destination, has announced that 2024 saw a series of new openings, upsizes and relocations across the shopping centre as it continues to attract and retain leading retail and F&B brands. Derbion store and facilities photography 2024. Pictured by Shaun Fellows / Shine Pix Ltd Over the past 12 months the shopping centre has welcomed seven new arrivals including established names such as B&M, White Stuff, and Pavers, whilst also attracti
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Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Amazon has launched a new service Amazon Autos in partnership with Hyundai. Customers in 48 U.S. cities can now browse, order, finance and schedule pickup of new Hyundai vehicles from local participating dealers directly via Amazon. The streamlined, end-to-end online experience includes vehicle search, trade-in valuation, transparent haggle-free pricing, financing options and online checkout.
Retail Wire
DECEMBER 9, 2024
McDonald's is giving the people what they want.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 8, 2024
The Memo, Australias premium destination for expecting and existing parents, has created its own product line, Due. Co-founders Phoebe Simmonds and Kate Casey said the name of the private-label brand came from a similar frustration that gave birth to The Memo: That an industry focus on mothers is long overdue. We were playing with the concept of time for Due and in the creative process, we were working around the line: It’s time to put you first, Simmonds told Inside Retail.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 9, 2024
True Fit , the leading AI-driven solution that decodes size and fit for shoppers and fashion retailers, has announced its certification as a Shopify Plus Certified App Partner, helping fashion retailers selling on Shopify leverage AI-size and -fit recommendations to power conversions, improve customer lifetime value (CLV) and reduce returns. As a hallmark of innovation and proven performance, True Fit is the first – and only – size and fit app to be certified on the Shopify Plus Cert
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Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Supermarket chain Hy-Vee is continuing to build out its retail media network, RedMedia , through a new partnership with in-store retail media solution Grocery TV. Grocery TV will now power more than 10,000 screens at Hy-Vees 400+ retail locations across the Midwest, reaching shoppers at key store touch points including the entrance, checkout, service departments, aisles and endcaps.
Retail Wire
DECEMBER 7, 2024
Delta Air Lines is ready to train a new generation of pilots.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 9, 2024
The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) is calling for national consistency in knife laws after new regulations took effect in New South Wales. Under NSWs new knife laws, it is illegal to sell knives to a child under the age of 18 (with exemptions for retailers selling to those who need a knife for their work or study). Police also have the authority to scan people for knives or weapons without a warrant in public.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 9, 2024
The Liberty Romford, the shopping centre owned and operated by Redical , has announced that beauty and wellbeing brand, Rituals , has opened its new store, heralding a strong start of the destinations retail transformation and elevation. The 1,162 sq ft store stocks the brands full range of luxurious yet affordable wellbeing products for bath, body and home.
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Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 9, 2024
This story is part of Retail TouchPoints ongoing Small Business, Big Ideas series, focusing on smaller retail brands that have found big success and have even bigger ambitions. The advent calendar has long been a holiday staple, but in the last few years a new variation has soared in popularity luxury advent calendars, ranging in price from hundreds to thousands of dollars.
Retail Wire
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Through Amazon Autos, consumers can browse for new Hyundai from a local dealership.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australias latest cash rate decision has been described by the Australian Retailers Association as a missed opportunity to provide relief for households and businesses this festive season. The RBA on Tuesday decided to hold the cash rate at 4.35 per cent, which has remained unchanged since December last year. This comes as bad news for retailers, especially smaller businesses, amid challenges from subdued consumer spending and rising business costs, according to ARA chief ind
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Black Friday trading delivered improvements to web visits, ecommerce conversions and digital revenues in the lead-up to the discounting event, according to the latest data from Wunderkind , the leading AI-powered performance marketing and identity platform. Original data from Wunderkinds Marketing Pulse, which analysed over 39.5 million online shopping journeys, revealed that web visits increased by +19.8% in the week leading up to Black Friday (16 22 Nov 2024 vs 23 29 Nov 2024), as consumers
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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