Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 10, 2021
The pandemic has been a challenging time for shopping centers, and even as vaccination rates climb and shoppers return to old habits, retailers are finding that many of their shopping preferences have permanently shifted. As the new year approaches, retailers need to think about what their expansion plans will look like and how their stores can best serve customers.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Following another year of turbulence, it’s no surprise there is still a great deal of uncertainty in the retail industry. Supply chain issues and pandemic-related shortages continue to impact retailers worldwide, while the ever-accelerating shift to online shopping has left gaps in the high street – with House of Fraser the latest big name to announce it is closing its Oxford Street store in January. .
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Inside Retail
DECEMBER 9, 2021
The Australian Retailers’ Association is expecting Aussies’ pent-up demand for shopping to continue beyond Christmas, divining that a record $21 billion will be spent in stores and online in the period between Boxing Day and January 15. ARA chief executive Paul Zahra said Boxing Day sales are always a key part of the retail calendar, but that that momentum will continue into the new year.
Tokinomo
DECEMBER 7, 2021
The retail industry has changed a lot in the last few years, especially due to the Pandemic. It’s important for brands managers and retail representatives to keep up with the latest trends and find the best solutions for their shoppers.
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Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Let’s face it — a monogamous relationship with a national shipping company ain’t cutting it anymore. The performance of each of the three main national carriers — FedEx, UPS and USPS — has steadily declined due to structural issues, including poor earnings, wage pressures and constrained labor. If you are a retailer stuck in a single-carrier relationship, it’s time to open it up, especially with holiday shopping underway.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Even before the pandemic, the bricks and mortar aspect of the retail sector was undergoing major changes as the battle to attract people into stores, rather than shop online, intensified. As shoppers return to malls and high streets, this trend shows no signs of abating, as retailers look to provide unique, interactive and frictionless experiences that tie in with digital offerings.
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Intelligence Node
DECEMBER 8, 2021
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Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 8, 2021
AI and brand language optimization are playing increasingly important roles in ecommerce, but Party City has leveraged these tools to boost its brick-and-mortar foot traffic and sales. Party City began using AI-powered copywriting platform Phrasee to increase the engagement and open rates of its customer email campaigns earlier in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic had created a greater need to connect with customers online, particularly since more than 80% of Party City’s sales come from in-store shop
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Railpen, the investment manager for the £35bn Railways Pension Scheme, has announced Police, the Italian fashion accessories brand, has opened a new location in Caledonia Park, Scotland’s premier designer village. Adjacent to Hugo BOSS and Radley, Police’s new 1,500 sq ft store features Police’s full range of lifestyle and apparel products. This includes its latest collaborations, such as the Police x Lewis Hamilton eyewear range, designed in partnership with the F1 racing driver.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 8, 2021
The Australian Government has launched a national campaign to incentivise Australians to recycle more, as well as to buy more products manufactured with recycled content. The ‘ReMade in Australia’ campaign signals a shift in how the country deals with its waste, according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and makes recycling one of six national manufacturing priorities moving into an election year.
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Retail Wire
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert has said that there is “a special place in hell” for companies that are not actively seeking to turn back climate change. “Our biggest contribution has not been the money we’ve given away. It’s not individual issues that we’ve advocated for. It’s not scaling grass-roots environmental activism through different levels of support,” he said. “It’s operating from the bowels of business and proving that businesses can exist to do more than maximize the wea
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Supply chain challenges are nothing new, but they are newly in the spotlight as massive consumer delays and shortages affect the shopping public. Impacted by everything from container shortages to port congestion to loss of labor and COVID-related shutdowns, supply chains everywhere are facing disruptions exacerbated by the bullwhip effect: the amplified response to atypical demand that creates ripples throughout the chain.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Shaftesbury has announced the official opening of a debut pop-up store in Seven Dials for Rowing Blazers, the cult American clothing brand most well-known for their irreverent take on preppy clothing. Located on 16 Earlham Street, and spanning 872 sq ft, Rowing Blazers Seven Dials represents the brand’s first bricks-and-mortar British store which offers an edit of product from their A/W’21 collection fronted by Pete Davidson and Ziwe Fumudoh.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Global fashion retailer Kookai has cut inventory counts from a few days to 30 minutes as a result of implementing radio frequency identification (RFID), from Avery Dennison at its manufacturing facilities in Fiji and Sri Lanka. The project is at the heart of Kookai’s omnichannel strategy: ultimately, all clothing and stores will be equipped with RFID enabling it to precisely track all items within its supply chain, speed up check out times, enable online orders to be fulfilled from local s
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Retail Wire
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Retailers have continued to test drone deliveries but have not yet made the decision to roll out air service broadly. The companies behind the technology say they are ready to go but retailers have still not given them the all clear.
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Kohl’s has become the latest retailer to attract the attention of an activist investor seeking the separation of its digital and brick-and-mortar businesses. Engine Capital, which owns an approximately 1% stake in Kohl’s, believes the standalone ecommerce business could be “conservatively valued at $12.4 billion or more.” In comparison, Kohl’s total operation is currently valued at about $7.3 billion.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 7, 2021
ISE 2022 returns with a vibrant and inspiring edition, a redesigned show floor and new demonstration areas guaranteed to enable exhibitors to ‘Rise Up. Reimagine. Ignite the Future.’. Exhibitors are signing up in significant numbers to take part in ISE 2022, the destination for world-class brands to showcase the latest technologies in pro AV. With over 700 exhibitors already committed, including bellwether brands Barco, Crestron, KNX, Kramer, LG, Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony to name just a few –
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 8, 2021
McDonald’s is facing a class action over the company’s alleged failure to provide its employees with paid?10-minute?rest breaks. The McDonald’s staff class action filed in the Federal Court by Shine Lawyers follows a 2020 finding that former employee Chiara Staines was not provided with paid 10-minute rest breaks when working shifts four hours or longer.
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Dezeen
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Huge boilers, chimney-style columns and chainmail-fringed doorframes feature inside the central London showroom of bathroom brand Coalbrook, which has been designed by local studio Holloway Li. The retail space is situated in the city's Clerkenwell neighbourhood, set inside a former tobacco-pipe factory now known as The Market Building. Huge boilers (top image) and chainmail pendants (above) feature in the showroom.
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Australia-based tech platform Marketplacer , which helps brands, retailers and other businesses create their own online marketplaces, has received $38 million in fresh funding to build out its product suite, grow its partner program and continue its expansion in the U.S. With this new funding, Marketplacer has raised more than $85 million to date and now has more than 100 marketplaces on its platform globally, including major Australian supermarket chain Woolworths , lifestyle brand SurfStitch a
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 10, 2021
The Cotswold Company, known for its high-quality, master-crafted furniture and home accessories, has today opened a brand-new store in Leamington Spa. The brand’s sixth store, the new Leamington Spa location will be the first of The Cotswold Company’s physical destinations to embody its revised brand ethos, following a company rebrand in April this year.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Mexican restaurant chain, Mad Mex, has acquired back the 50 per cent ownership from its Singapore-based venture partner, 4Fingers International, shifting focus to its home market. The recent acquisition also means the end of Mad Mex’s ambitious expansion plan in Asia , which was announced two years ago before the pandemic forced it to change the strategy. .
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Small Biz Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Uber Eats has become one of the most popular online food ordering and delivery platforms. The secret to uber eats’ success comes from increased demand for delivery companies to provide pick-up and drop-off services for food. Uber offers gig workers a way of making money online while offering more choices of restaurant meals for customers while at the same time helping participating restaurants increase their pool of potential customers they can reach.
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 6, 2021
New York City has become a testing ground for ultra-fast grocery delivery, with orders delivered in 15 minutes or less. In the last year, startups such as Jokr , Gorillas and GoPuff have left legacy delivery services like Uber Eats and Instacart scrambling to keep up in the speed wars. Now, Instacart is reportedly planning a p i lot of 15-minute grocery deliveries, and DoorDash just announced that it is introducing a speed delivery service in NYC beginning with its convenience store network Dash
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 8, 2021
The UK’s cost of living squeeze is making Millennials and younger demographics more sensitive to pricing and promotions, the latest research from antuit.ai , the leader in SaaS Artificial Intelligence (AI) demand forecasting solutions, reveals. With increasing numbers of retailers passing on rising production costs – prompted by supply chain tension and labour market shortages – to the consumer, the CBI warns shoppers face the biggest price rises in 30 years this Christmas.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Australia will create a licencing framework for cryptocurrency exchanges and consider launching a retail central bank digital currency as part of the biggest overhaul of its payments industry in a quarter of a century. The country will also broaden its payment laws to cover online transaction providers like Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google as well as buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) providers like Afterpay Ltd, ending their run of operating without direct supervision. “If we do not reform
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Cisco Retail
DECEMBER 9, 2021
SD-WAN is fast becoming the standard for enterprises and service providers to connect users to applications reliably and securely across the remote workforce, branches, data centers, and multicloud. In a time when digital transformation is expanding exponentially and applications shift to the cloud and hybrid cloud, multiple use cases have emerged that necessitate very different network policies, security privileges, routing priorities, bandwidth requirements across different subsidiaries, partn
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Giant Food has launched the Ship2Me marketplace on its website, which will add tens of thousands of new items that expand Giant’s online selection beyond traditional grocery. The categories, chosen to complement the retailer’s primary offerings, including health and beauty, home décor, seasonal items, kitchen and dining, outdoor, pets and premium pantry products.
Nvidia
DECEMBER 7, 2021
There’s an old axiom that the best businesses thrive during periods of uncertainty. No doubt, that will be tested to the limits as 2022 portends upheaval on a grand scale. Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions are affecting everything from production of cars and electronics to toys and toilet paper. At the same time, global food prices have jumped to their highest level in more than a decade as worker shortages, factory closures and high commodity prices shred plans at even the most sophisti
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Retail and fast-food workers across Australia have seen their working hours and job security fall over the course of the pandemic, alongside an uptick in customer aggression , according to a joint report by the Australian National University and the University of Sydney. The ‘Pandemic Pressures’ report found that 49 per cent of retail workers reported their job security had fallen – worse among women and Australians who speak a different language at home – throughout Covid-19, as well as 51 per
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