Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Google Shopping and American Express have teamed up to celebrate small businesses this holiday season with a new take on the classic window-shopping experience, in the form of shoppable street murals in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago. Blending physical shopping inspiration with a digital experience, the murals, which will be live through mid-December, give passersby an interactive way to discover and support local businesses.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

If your brand isn’t rethinking data consent and tracking, now is the time to act. We know that privacy laws in Australia are under the microscope and expected to continue tightening in 2022 (and beyond). It makes sense: the last major overhaul of how consumer data is dealt with in Australian law happened way back in 1988. Now, regulators and lawmakers are reviewing the definition of ‘personal information’ (right down to primary online identifiers such as geolocation), with a ra

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Tokinomo

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

When customers step foot inside a grocery store, they are bombarded with options. As you know, the market is saturated and you need to find a way to differentiate your products. Without the right differentiation, customers won’t even consider buying your product, considering they have many options.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The ‘Seven Dials Winter Festival’, is a three-day shopping, dining and cultural event that took place over the weekend from 19th-21st November, in the heart of London’s West End. Organised by Shaftesbury, The Winter Festival featured on-street entertainment and creative workshops such as traditional brass bands, gospel choirs, as well as complimentary glitter stations and wreath making.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For decades, Black Friday marked the official start of the holiday shopping season and was one of retailers’ most critical sales days. But thanks to the evolution of ecommerce and, specifically, live shopping, brands and retailers have the power to expand their holiday revenue opportunities and capitalize on an entirely new wave of commerce. In fact, recent examples show that adding livestreams to the existing digital holiday formula helps brands build hype , connect with shoppers in a more mea

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Harvey Norman has been hit by falling sales and depreciating exchange rates, with global sales falling 8.8 per cent during the period between July and November, and unaudited gross profit falling 35.5 per cent between July and October, compared to the same periods of last year. According to the department store business, exchange rates across Europe, Singapore and Malaysia hurt the business’ aggregated sales, and were only partially offset by growth in the New Zealand dollar and the UK pound.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Grosvenor Britain & Ireland (GBI) has announced that Bershka, the international fashion label from Inditex, has selected Liverpool ONE for its regional debut. The 8,000 sq ft flagship is set to open early next year and will enhance Liverpool ONE’s already extensive international fashion offering. Located on upper South John Street, the new store will offer Bershka’s extensive menswear and womenswear collections, as well as exclusive ranges such as Bershka X Nirvana and Bershka X League of L

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A federal jury in Ohio found that CVS Health , Walmart and Walgreens substantially contributed to opioid overdoses and deaths in Lake and Trumbull counties, according to The New York Times. Hearings slated for spring 2022 will determine how much each company will be required to pay the affected counties. The verdict was the first to find that pharmaceutical companies contributed to a “public nuisance,” which includes the opioid crisis, according to plaintiffs.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Australian fashion label, Aje, has launched an Aje Athletica flagship store at Westfield Sydney City, with six more standalone locations scheduled to open across the country early next year. . Launched last May, Aje Athletica is an activewear spinoff brand designed to support physical performance and personal well-being. Long term, Aje plans to open 11 Athletica stores across Australia and New Zealand that will exclusively sell the consciously designed athletic wear range.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A picture worth a thousand words now takes just three or four words to create, thanks to GauGAN2, the latest version of NVIDIA Research’s wildly popular AI painting demo. The deep learning model behind GauGAN allows anyone to channel their imagination into photorealistic masterpieces — and it’s easier than ever. Simply type a phrase like “sunset at a beach” and AI generates the scene in real time.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Dior has opened a pop-up store at Jumeirah beach in Dubai. The initiative, which coincides with the Dubai Expo includes two 3D printed pavilions created in collaboration with Italian 3D printer manufacturer WASP and is located at the Four Seasons Hotel in Nammos. The pop-up is made up of two cylindrical modules, 3D printed by combining clay, sand and natural fibres through WASP’s sustainable construction 3D printing technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Ten years ago, brands had a fear of upsetting wholesale partnerships. Beholden to industry powerhouses like Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdale’s in the fashion vertical or Target and Walmart in the CPG space for the majority of sales, brands across the board were wary of entertaining direct-to-consumer initiatives (DTC) that might disrupt their wholesale business.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Homewares group Adairs will acquire omni-channel furniture retailer Focus on Furniture for $80 million, in a play to expand its market share in the furniture and bedding space. According to Adairs, the team at Focus will continue to operate independently of Adairs and the business is expected to be earnings accretive immediately upon acquisition. “This is an exciting and strategically significant development for the Adairs Group,” said group chief executive Mark Ronan.

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Dezeen

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Architecture studio Foster + Partners has designed an Apple Store in Los Angeles as "a dynamic hall of illusions" amplified by a mirrored ceiling that reflects rows of indoor trees. The single-level store, which replaces an existing structure, is located at The Grove , one of the city's prominent shopping centres adjacent to affluent neighbourhoods Beverly Hills and West Hollywood.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Shaftesbury has announced that leading art toy brand, Pop Mart, has selected Chinatown London for a European flagship and UK debut, and will be joined by Yolé, the world’s first no-sugar added ice cream and frozen yogurt brand. Set to bring Pop Mart’s best, latest, and most exclusive collectibles to the London market, the brand has selected the 395 sq ft unit at 80 Shaftesbury Avenue for its debut UK permanent shop, which will also be the European flagship.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In the last few years, YouTube has seen huge growth in live video, with more than half a million channels livestreaming for the first time in 2020. And as on many other online platforms, where there’s livestreaming there’s live shopping. This holiday season, YouTube is promoting the commercial potential of its platform with its first-ever live shopping pop-up event.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Sustainable knitwear brand, Mia Fratino, is set to shut its doors during the upcoming Black Friday/Cyber Monday shopping sale to protest against waste and over-consumerism. . The brand said it will purposefully pause its online store on November 26 and 29 to raise awareness about considered purchasing and take a stand against sales that encourage mass consumption and retail hysteria.

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Cisco Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

As it builds momentum ahead of opening in 2023, the Grantham Designer Outlet Village has announced a suite of fashion and F&B brands that will take space in the premium outlet – alongside the news it will feature online sales platform Wishibam, a UK-first for outlet retail destinations. Premium and lifestyle fashion brands have all agreed to take space in what will be the leading outlet retail destination in the East Midlands, alongside household F&B names including Starbucks and Five Gu

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

One of the most significant trends over the past several years has been the adoption of cloud-based services, spearheaded mainly by an increasing number of IoT and video solutions being deployed in the retail market. While most high-tech deployments still primarily consist of on-premises solutions, especially when it comes to video, the benefits of the cloud are too appealing for some retailers to ignore.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Global beauty brand Lush is shutting down its Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat accounts until the platforms take action to provide a safer experience for their users. According to Lush, this new ‘Anti-Social’ policy will take affect across all 48 of its regions, and relates to the social platforms’ unwillingness to deal with the detrimental impact social media has on people.

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Cisco Retail

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This blog is co-authored by Ammar Rayes , Cisco Principal Engineer, and Matt Denapoli , Software Engineering Leader. Today, enterprises use Wi-Fi as their main wireless access network indoors, and VPNs and borderless connections over cellular networks for mobile workers and assets. With digitization & automation, enterprises are discovering the limits of Wi-Fi for fixed and public cellular access technologies.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Sloane Stanley celebrates the return and opening of Libby Blakey Design , an interior and retail design specialist, at 336 Kings Road, in the heart of Chelsea until January 2022. Libby Blakey Design specialises in providing interior design services and features a 1,298 sq ft showroom holding a wide selection of European antique furniture and decorative accessories sourced from around the world.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Autonomous retail technology is on the rise, with innovations like Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology already leapfrogging past yesterday’s self-checkout solutions. This technology has helped make shopping a more frictionless experience for shoppers, but retailers that choose to implement these solutions must place a heavier focus on security technology as well.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Indian police said on Saturday they had charged senior executives of Amazon.com’s local unit under narcotics laws in a case of alleged marijuana smuggling via the online retailer. Police in the central Madhya Pradesh state arrested two men with 20 kg of marijuana on Nov. 14 and found they were using the Amazon India website to order and further smuggle the substance in the guise of stevia leaves, a natural sweetener, to other Indian states.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

. Co-Author: Silesh Bijjahalli. As today’s leading companies utilize artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to discover insights hidden in massive amounts of data, many are realizing the benefits of deploying in a hybrid or private cloud environment, rather than a public cloud. This is especially true for use cases with data sets larger than 2 TB or with specific compliance requirements.

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Retail Dive

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Friendship Heights was once known for luxury retail in the Washington, D.C. area, but retail options have dwindled.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Target will close all its stores on Thanksgiving from now on, according to multiple media reports. The retailer closed on Thanksgiving 2020 and previously announced its intent to close this year, but the shift to annual closures is a new policy. “What started as a temporary measure driven by the pandemic is now our new standard,” said Brian Cornell, CEO of Target in a note to employees seen by CNBC and other outlets.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Australian toy retailer Toymate is set to open “the largest toy store in Australia” early next month, standing at 2960 square metres. The superstore in Auburn, NSW will stock over 10,000 toys, with a large range of international brands such as Marvel, Star Wars, Disney and Lego, and aims to provide a fun-filled shopping experience for both adults and children.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Senior retail teams should be serving their frontline staff, first and foremost, so they’re empowered to get on with the important business of serving customers. That’s the view of a group of retail experts who are hosting a free webinar this week to implore brands to shake up their business model and collaborate more closely with store teams, instead of just paying lip service to their potential. .

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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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