Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

UK-based JD Sports has acquired Groupe Courir , a 323 -store sneaker retailer with locations in France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Luxembourg. The deal, first announced in May 2023, will require Courir to sell 15 stores in France and all six stores in Portugal to Snipes. The €520 million ( $548.1

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2025

These one-stop shops offer the same low prices on snacks and beverages as full-scale Walmart stores. Were continuing to invest in our nationwide physical store footprint, said Dave DeSerio, VP of Fuel and Convenience at Walmart U.S. Walmart will open or remodel more than 45 fuel stations across the U.S. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2025

Retail tops the list of locations where gun violence occurs. Beyond that there are real costs to businesses that happen to be the location of these incidents, even if they dont result in fatalities or injuries. In 2024 there were 5,462 gun-related incidents in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Old Navy has partnered with Radar , a solution combining RFID, AI and computer vision technology designed to track and locate in-store inventory in real time and with a high level of accuracy. Old Navy plans to do a phased rollout of the technology following pilots in select stores, part of parent company Gap Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With experience working for brands like Apple and Starbucks , both of which have carved unique spaces in the realm of store design and experience strategy, Kondrat found that the best spaces had a sound operational foundation, and that these operations, teams and processes were standardized across all locations as the businesses grew.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We see the value Carrot Tags offer as they help Instacart shoppers to be more independent when fulfilling online orders, allowing our associates to focus on store operations and providing excellent customer service,” said Scott Patton, VP at Aldi in a statement. locations in August 2024.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 23, 2025

Seven & I Holdings, formed in 2005 through the merger of Ito-Yokado, Seven-Eleven Japan, and Dennys Japan, boasts more than 80,000 7-Eleven locations in 20 countries and regions. However, the regulatory hurdles remain the central issue blocking the acquisition.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

Walmart Health plans to open 28 new locations in 2024, bringing the total number of sites to more than 75 and expanding its footprint into two new states — Missouri and Arizona. The new facilities will be approximately 5,750 square feet and will be located inside Walmart Supercenters. With 90% of the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2023

store in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Wash. Located in the Marketplace at Factoria, the 76,000-square-foot supermarket will be the largest Asian supermarket in the state and a flagship store for T&T, which is owned by Loblaw Companies Ltd. in summer 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

The branded showcase, located at the Shops at Mission Viejo in Orange County, Calif., will have dedicated store associates on hand to provide customers with personalized assistance. Eyebuydirect has made its first foray into physical-world retailing with a 140-square-foot kiosk featuring a pared-down assortment of 400 pairs of glasses.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In October 2024, the company announced the opening of eight new locations across New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas within a six -month period. These new stores each span 6,277 square feet and operate 24 hours a day, offering a variety of private label products, including fresh bread, milk and eggs, as well as Allsups famous burritos.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

And through its longstanding support of Habitat for Humanity, the company to date has donated more than $600,000 worth of sactionals and sacs to the nonprofit via its 900+ ReStores locations, which are independently owned home improvement stores operated by local Habitat organizations.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

increase over 2023, the footwear brand plans to continue its aggressive store expansion in 2025 by opening 180 to 200 locations. Skechers opened its 5,000 th store in Bogot, Colombia in February 2024 , at which time Skechers President Michael Greenberg said the brand was on its way to a total of 10,000 stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The stores will have rotating installations, including ticketed shows inspired by popular series, and restaurants featuring food from its unscripted shows. The streaming company also has explored wholesale partnerships, with Walmart expanding its in-store Netflix Hubs to 2,400 locations in October 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2024

These locations include board-certified physicians, nurse practitioners and medical assistants along with care coaches, social workers, behavioral health specialists and clinical pharmacists, all dedicated to treating the medical and social needs of seniors.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Inside H&M ’s new store in NYC’s SoHo neighborhood, the fast fashion retailer has nested a shop-in-shop featuring curated secondhand pieces — the brand’s first resale location in North America. To celebrate the debut, beginning Feb.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

The retailer, working with Mood Media , has created an experiential retail location equipped with a large-scale LED visual wall displaying curated content, carefully chosen music and even a custom fragrance, White Pepperwood, carrying the scent of the outdoors through the air.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2025

One of the first additions was a geolocation software development kit (SDK) from Radar , to answer the question of whether athletes were actually opening the app while shopping in the store. Each time [an app user] enters a store, were sending another event to Radar, explained Walker.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2024

That’s why it’s of little surprise that on the occasion of its 60 th anniversary, The Paper Store has embarked on a five-year, $60 million brick-and-mortar-oriented expansion that will add 30 to 40 locations to its current 100+ stores and upgrade approximately 30 existing stores. Is there a need for a brand like ours?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2024

flagship location had opened in New Jerseys American Dream mall in December 2021. The initial U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Walmart paid developer CBL Properties $34 million in an all-cash deal for the site, located approximately 12 miles east of Pittsburgh. The 185,517-square-foot Annex contains eight stores, and the combined property received approximately 3.49 In what is likely a first for a U.S. million visitors in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Macy’s plans to close 150 underproductive nameplate stores — approximately 50 this year alone — and continue its expansion of smaller-format stores as it prioritizes investment in about 350 go-forward locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

store last month and will follow with seven new California locations as well as one store each in New Mexico, Texas and Washington state. Four of the California stores in Santa Maria, Foster City, Apple Valley and Riverside will open on Jan. Daiso also will open stores in Olympia, Wash.,

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The announcement was made in Punta Arenas, the location of the southernmost Walmart store in the world, which is named Lider and located more than 2,000 miles from the countrys central DC. We are building a better future for everyone, for future generations and for our children.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

DoorDash kicked off its expanded partnership with Wegmans Food Markets by offering on-demand delivery from the supermarket’s Maryland stores, with Wegmans locations in Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey, Delaware and upstate New York available in the coming days and more stores to follow.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Apple plans to launch an online store in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in summer 2025, providing consumers in the country with service and support directly from Apple in Arabic. And beginning in 2026, the tech retailer plans to open several flagship physical locations, including one in Diriyah, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When your store is full of associates who love the brand and live it, they will draw in customers. They need to keep track of what’s new, what’s unique to their location and what just went on sale. Prepping click-and-collect orders, picking and packing ship-from-store orders, managing store-to-store transfers, etc. —

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

Costco has raised the salary for most store employees to $30 per hour, according to reporting by Bloomberg and other media outlets. The pay raises, which will take effect in March, apply to the warehouse club retailers non-union locations. The company will add $1 per hour at the top end of its pay scale to reach $30 , and $0.50

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

with the opening of its first Texas store next month and plans for four more locations in the state. Primark also signed a contract to open a flagship store in midtown NYC’s Penn District last month. The new store, located at La Plaza in McAllen, Texas, will feature 37,000 square feet of selling space when it opens Dec.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Customers enter the store, select their items and exit, with purchases being automatically processed through their mobile payment method. Sports stadiums, with their combination of limited square footage and shoppers eager to return to the game, have become optimal locations for autonomous stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ikea will open eight new stores this year in the smaller format that it debuted in Dallas in November 2023. billion investment in omnichannel growth, the furniture retailer is planning seven new Plan and Order Point stores with pickup locations this year; the eighth store, in Santa Monica, Calif., Building off a $2.2

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Suppliers can use this data to view 3D planograms that optimize store visits from their sales teams by sending associates to locations that need the most help. The Augmodo analytics platform for retail executives and brand partners, SpatialView, is designed to provide real-time visibility into shelf conditions.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware as it prepares to sell “substantially all” of its business operations to rival Do it Best Corp. During the reorganization process, the 75-year-old retailer will continue to operate its 4,500 stores, which are independently owned, except for a corporate-owned location in Palatine, Ill.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Big Lots currently operates 960 stores, according to its website , and will continue to serve customers both in-store and online. In September 2024, the retailer had operated nearly 1,400 stores in 48 states, but Big Lots has been closing locations as it struggled to overcome its financial woes.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2025

by store count, with more than 9,000 locations across the country. And while a consistent experience is important for the chain, increasingly, the pharmacy retailer is working to create a store environment that caters to each local community individually. CVS is one of the largest retailers in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

How will you transport the units and control their placement in retail locations? For that matter, expanding into retail locations that are out of the way or in less desirable locations should be avoided. Where will you find the resources to build your displays?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The apparel and accessories retailer has signed five new leases for stores throughout the Southern and Midwest U.S., The retailer plans to open stores in: Castleton Square Mall in Indianapolis, Ind.; Primark plans to put even more time and money into its U.S. expansion in 2025. after already investing more than $90 million in 2024.

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