Wiser
JULY 27, 2021
When you think of a strong brand, what comes to mind? Is it excellent marketing? High-quality products? Pushing the boundaries of what’s feasible within an industry? An innovative pricing strategy ? No matter what you think of first, there are entire teams behind the scenes working to make that brand strong. It’s one of the oldest adages in business: Your brand is your most valuable asset.
Talking Retail
JULY 26, 2021
Retailers suffered a market share decline in food-to-go compared to foodservice operators during the pandemic but should recover strongly, says the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD). The IGD expects retailers overall share of the food-to-go market to reduce to 21% in 2021 from 24% in 2019. But this will gradually increase to 23% by 2026. This story continues at Retailers set to recover lost ground in food-to-go, says IGD.
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Retail Focus
JULY 30, 2021
The Levi’s® store in Bromley is the first in a line of branches to have a shift in design and strategy, in collaboration with Lucky Fox , as the brand hits a new direction. The selected stores, which will have a more focused product selection of mainly tees and jeans, have been redesigned to create a more informative and focused shopping experience.
Retail TouchPoints
JULY 30, 2021
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its mask guidance to recommend that all people wear a mask indoors in areas with “substantial and high transmission” of COVID-19. The change is just beginning to trickle down to retailers, with Apple and Walmart among the first to announce that they will require masks in-store. The renewed concerns stem from the highly contagious COVID-19 delta variant and the large number of unvaccinated people in the country.
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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.
Inside Retail
JULY 25, 2021
Melbourne’s Bayside Shopping Centre has become Victoria’s first shopping centre-based vaccination hub, and expects to give easy access to Covid-19 vaccines for 500,000 local residents. “We are pleased to have opened the Frankston Community Vaccination Hub at Bayside Centre, where we are able to provide this important service in a central, easy to access location to our community,” said Peninsula Health executive director of operations Helen Cooper.
Tokinomo
JULY 27, 2021
Brands all over the world are trying to find better ways to engage with their customers. However, most of them make the same mistake: they market their products to a general audience. There is no such thing as a general audience/general market. Your customers are all unique. Yes, they have things in common, and they can even form “ tribes ” to which you can market.
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Retail TouchPoints
JULY 27, 2021
The pandemic’s disruption of the retail industry has driven a lot of change over the past 15 months, from an increase in online shopping to the rapid adoption of omnichannel fulfillment options. And despite U.S. consumers’ tremendous enthusiasm to get back to in-person shopping and experiences, notably with a 44% increase in foot traffic to stores, restaurants and entertainment venues since the start of 2021, that doesn’t mean they are going to leave behind all the omni habits they adopted durin
Inside Retail
JULY 29, 2021
Far from being a historical issue, modern slavery impacts an estimated 40.3 million people globally, including one in every 130 women and girls, according to a recent article published in the journal Energy Research & Social Sciences. Australian jeans brand Outland Denim was founded to bring an end to modern slavery by providing opportunities to people who have experienced or are vulnerable to human trafficking.
Retail Wire
JULY 30, 2021
Wegmans will open its first store in Manhattan on the site of a former Kmart at Astor Place. The 82,000-square-foot store will open in 2023. Wegmans operates one other New York City location at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That store opened in 2019.
Retail Focus
JULY 28, 2021
Everyone has something to say about Amazon. Yet one thing always rises above the critiques: They’ve been ruthlessly customer focused. If it doesn’t benefit the consumer, they won’t do it. Their latest example is “Just Walk Out,” a suite of technologies that enable shoppers to simply enter a store, gather their items, and simply leave.
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.
Retail TouchPoints
JULY 29, 2021
Dollar General is expanding its pOpshelf offering into a store-in-a-store format at two DG Markets in the Nashville, Tenn. area. The concept, which launched in October 2020 and has since expanded to 16 stores, offers a rotating selection of items at price points of $5 or less. “Through this combined format, we aim to deliver the value and products customers trust from a DG Market with the continually-refreshed merchandise, including beauty and seasonal products, home décor and arts and crafts th
Inside Retail
JULY 29, 2021
Australian mattress retailer Koala has selected South Korea as its second international market, launching into the region this week. The move follows the brand’s recent success in Japan, where consumers are demanding quality international products. “We’ve been [in Japan] for four years and in the last two years, we’ve really seen incredible growth.
Retail Wire
JULY 28, 2021
Walmart announced it will cover 100 percent of its associates’ cost for tuition and text books as part of college degree and certificate program with academic partners including the University of Arizona and Southern New Hampshire University.
Retail Focus
JULY 27, 2021
Harrods is delighted to open the doors to its new Hair and Beauty Salon on the Fifth Floor from the 26 th July 2021. The Knightsbridge store’s new Hair & Beauty Salon offers guests a serene and tranquil beauty space, with unrivalled access to exclusive treatments and ‘must-have’ products from the world’s most innovative beauty brands, all under one roof.
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Retail TouchPoints
JULY 29, 2021
Remember Toys ‘R’ Us? A toy shop that gave the world Barbie, Mr. Potato Head and other wonderful creations. The toy seller, which at its peak had more than 1,500 stores around the world, was part of the fabric of American childhood for more than half a century. In many countries, it was the go-to store for birthday gifts and special treats — a magical wonderland of toys where, as children, we happily spent hours exploring.
Inside Retail
JULY 29, 2021
We spoke with LK Group’s Larry Kestelman about his recent acquisition of Brand Collective and what kinds of retail brands he’s looking to acquire next. Inside Retail: What about the Brand Collective business attracted you? Larry Kestelman: When we took over PAS Group, we said straightaway that we’re a growth organisation and we want to grow organically and through mergers and acquisitions, and Brand Collective was a very logical target for us.
Mike Anthony
JULY 28, 2021
If the trade press is anything to go by, you’d imagine that the discounter channel had somehow disappeared over the last twelve months. All the headlines are about e-commerce growth and devastated high streets and traditional retail. True, the discounters have had a quiet pandemic. But does that mean we can forget about them? Far from it! From what I can see, discounters are well positioned to go from strength to strength.
Retail Focus
JULY 30, 2021
The past 18 months have been tough for the Great British high-street, with many retailers forced to close for months on end as the Coronavirus pandemic hit the UK. However, this hasn’t stopped The Fragrance Shop – they have seen exponential online and in-store growth during this period, with business booming. The launch of their brand-new Southport store in July 2021 has seen the company reach the impressive milestone of 200 branded stores across the UK, bringing their overall portfolio to 203 s
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Retail TouchPoints
JULY 29, 2021
Qubit has launched Qubit CommerceAI , a tool that leverages AI, deep learning and machine learning to deliver advanced 1:1 personalization techniques. The Qubit CommerceAI models are designed to understand and react instantly to customer context in order to unlock more value from retailers’ entire product catalog. . Qubit CommerceAI combines customer data, including intent, and design tools with the goal of driving conversion rates and customer lifetime value while reducing abandonment.
Inside Retail
JULY 29, 2021
When Sheryl Sandberg announced the introduction of sponsored egg freezing at Facebook in 2014, some criticised the move as a ploy to drive women to delay motherhood until it suited the business. But a recent study by Monash University in Australia signals a change in attitudes, with almost half of 656 Victorian women surveyed believing it appropriate to offer egg freezing as an employee benefit.
Cisco Retail
JULY 30, 2021
Choice is good. And so is simplicity. At Cisco, we’ve always prided ourselves on offering network professionals choice. Choice that suits different network sizes, domains, sophistication levels, and industry needs. Sometimes we’ve even been accused – rightly in my view – of providing so much choice that it can be difficult to find the right fit.
Retail Focus
JULY 29, 2021
The Mercers’ Company has today announced that the UK art gallery group, Clarendon Fine Art, has selected 117 Long Acre, Covent Garden, for its latest unique gallery experience in the capital. . Capturing the gallery’s mission to make art accessible and enjoyable to all, from first-time buyers to established collectors, the 3,500 sq ft Long Acre site joins the brand’s portfolio of over 20 galleries across the UK and is just a few miles down the road from Clarendon Fine Art’s first-ever location
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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.
Retail TouchPoints
JULY 28, 2021
The pandemic has prompted a rethinking of our cities and how we go about our lives. What does the urban shift mean for the future of retail? More specifically, how does the on-demand economy change the retailer’s business model? And, what are the last-mile delivery challenges retailers face? Urban Shift: People and Community. Our world has become increasingly urbanized.
Inside Retail
JULY 28, 2021
Australian online furniture business Temple & Webster is well on its way to achieving its goal of becoming the biggest furniture retailer — either online or offline — in Australia. The company recently reported a record year of revenue, profit and active customers, thanks to the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns, which not only drove more people to shop online rather than in stores, but also to redecorate their homes.
Cisco Retail
JULY 29, 2021
Application is the Business & Level of Digitalization is the Brand. In our ever-changing world, where the application represents the business itself and the level of digitization it provides is directly related to the perception of the brand; enterprises must ensure they stand differentiated by providing exceptional user experience – both for their customers as well as their employees alike.
Retail Dive
JULY 29, 2021
New in-app shopping features have enticed consumers to shop as they scroll.
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
Retail TouchPoints
JULY 28, 2021
Walmart will make its own technologies across both digital and physical channels available to other retailers. The company’s move includes integrating Walmart’s Marketplace, online and in-store fulfillment and pickup technologies into the Adobe Commerce platform. Retailers will be able to access Walmart’s cloud-based services to reach new customers through Marketplace and offer national two-day shipping through Walmart’s Fulfillment Services.
Inside Retail
JULY 28, 2021
Digital shelf, dark store and a fresh food playground – is this the future of supermarkets? Accenture thinks so. The consulting company has developed a new supermarket concept, in partnership with design agency Le Projet Hope, that blends online with offline and old shopping habits with new processes. . Dubbed Openmarket A22, the supermarket concept is designed to be as logistically efficient as an automated e-commerce warehouse, bringing back the sense of discovery to grocery shopping thr
Cisco Retail
JULY 29, 2021
The Meraki team recently announced a new endpoint: Appliance uplinks usage history. This brand new endpoint provides the usage history of your uplinks for a given timespan. Learn more and engage with the team in the Meraki Community post here. Using this endpoint, you now have the ability to do capacity monitoring. This allows you to determine if the cause of a problem is due to bandwidth over utilization and helps you measure the usage of your uplink bandwidth.
Small Biz Trends
JULY 26, 2021
Taking any cost of the expense sheet for a small business is always a great thing. And this makes the announcement of Zoho Invoice being available for free even better. Why, because this is a proven cloud-based invoicing solution with more than 30 real-time reports so you can easily navigate the billing and payment collection process. So, getting it for free means taking the cost of a valuable tool you use regularly of your expense sheet.
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