Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Through a combination of converting existing stores and building at least 10 new stores next year, Dick’s Sporting Goods will add at least 19 House of Sport locations by 2024. The retailer also plans to exit its Field & Stream banner; after closing 12 of those stores in Q4 2022, which ended Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Beginning in August 2025, Target will offer its new Champion collection of activewear and sporting goods for kids and adults. The 500+ -piece collection includes apparel, accessories and bags and will be infused with on-trend colors, exclusive premium fabrics, unique washes, detailed trims and the unique Champion logo.

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Retail Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The former Best Buy exec has experience managing human resources and store operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Retailers and law enforcement agencies continue to experience daily incidents of theft, partner in large-scale investigations and report recoveries of stolen retail goods into the millions of dollars.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2024

Dick’s Sporting Goods posted strong results in fiscal 2023, which ended Feb. increase in comp store sales. 3, 2024, with $13 billion in net sales, 5% higher than the previous year, and a 2.4%

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Peloton also entered a partnership with DICK’S Sporting Goods in late September. The deal has brought Bike, Bike+, Tread and Guide products, as well as select accessories, to more than 100 DICK’S stores and online at DICKS.com.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 20, 2020

Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) has added a new brand to its collection by acquiring certain assets of Modell’s Sporting Goods for $3.64 million , with the intention of making the brand exclusively digital.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Retailers have gotten better about thinking about simple things like power accessibility or creating WiFi shadows around fixtures and things like that, but there are still far too many unintended consequences that come out of store design because they did not think through tech requirements up front.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Dick’s Sporting Goods , one of the largest sporting goods retailers, recently unveiled its House of Sports store with a running track, rock wall, batting cages and outdoor turf field. Now imagine people coming to this lounge and they do not have access to the Internet.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2021

“The retailers that really invested in buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), shops-within-shops in larger footprint locations or even experiential retail — those retailers really started to thrive during this time,” said Joe Scaretta, Co-CEO and Founder of CS Hudson in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail Focus

JULY 16, 2021

Opening today, the new store features an extensive range of official NBA and WNBA merchandise and memorabilia, including exclusive NBA products, apparel, jerseys, headwear, sporting goods, toys and collectables from major brands such as Mitchell & Ness, New Era, Nike and Wilson.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

While shrink is far from a new problem in retail, the impact of theft — particularly large-scale operations run by organized retail crime (ORC) rings — has been garnering the attention of executives at some of the country’s largest retailers, including Lowe’s , Target and Dick’s Sporting Goods.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2024

The category builds on the success of the Walmart Restored collection of refurbished electronics and small appliances; and Collectibles, available in the Collector Shop , where sellers can now enable preorders to build customer anticipation for product drops, including releases that are exclusive to Walmart.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2021

The divestiture, which is the result of a formal process that began in February 2021 , will help adidas focus on strengthening its core brand in the global sporting goods market. Adidas will sell Reebok to Authentic Brands Group (ABG) for up to €2.1 billion ( $2.5

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Dick’s Sporting Goods also attributed part of the brand’s 23% profit drop in the second fiscal quarter of 2023 to theft ( CNBC ). In recent months, The Home Depot, Foot Locker, Target and other retail giants have suggested that shoplifting is cutting significantly into their respective profits.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This past September, Target issued a news release about its plans to close nine stores in New York City, the Bay area and the Pacific Northwest “because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests, and contributing to unsustainable business performance.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A number of major retailers have enhanced their same-day delivery capabilities for this ecommerce-heavy holiday season: Bed Bath & Beyond began offering same-day delivery via Shipt in late September, and has encouraged BOPIS orders by offering a 20% discount from Dec.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The perception that retail was suffering from a rampant crime wave was bolstered by statements from executives ad Dick’s Sporting Goods, Target and Lowe’s , all blaming shrink as one of the factors negatively affecting not just their financial results but the safety of employees and customers. billion in retail shrink was due to ORC.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

More than 300 companies , including Patagonia , The Gap , DICK’S Sporting Goods and Walmart committed to removing some of the logistical barriers that often keep workers from voting.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cedric Clark didn’t originally intend to have a career in retail, much less rise to the heights of EVP of Store Operations at Walmart , one of the world’s largest retailers. At the beginning of his working life he was an athlete, playing basketball professionally overseas when 9/11 interrupted that journey, at least temporarily.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As a result, it will report Reebok as “discontinued operations” from Q1 2021 onwards. This will enable the company to focus on strengthening the adidas brand in the global sporting goods market. Adidas initially acquired Reebok in 2006 and implemented the “Muscle Up” turnaround plan in 2016.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2024

In August 2023 , executives from retailers including Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lowe’s and Target blamed retail crime in part for poor financial performance as well as for jeopardizing the safety of associates and customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

Nonetheless, Adidas is optimistic, citing the recovery seen in Q4 2020, its strong market position and attractive growth prospects for the sporting goods industry as a whole.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

In-store experimentation experiences are opportunities to entertain, energize and inspire customers while connecting emotionally with them. This is especially important for connecting with Gen Z customers, two-thirds of whom like to shop in-store when they’re looking for new products.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As sporting goods retailer INTERSPORT has found, using digital at the shelf edge to help customers enhances both customer experience and improves efficiency of in-store operations.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

For example, in September 2023, the Chandler Fashion Centre in Arizona opened a 250,000 square-foot Scheels, a sporting goods chain, where visitors could experience attractions like riding on a ferris wheel or visiting an aquarium. In fact, data from Placer.ai A sustained increase in foot traffic, with February 2024 visits at a 23.3

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I Vend

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Consumers continue to spend on essentials such as food, personal care, and basic clothing, but reduce their outlay on items such as furniture, home electronics, sporting goods and accessories. Retail Technology: Efficient in-store operations. Retail technology can help to deliver on these goals.

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Mass Relators

MAY 14, 2021

Retailers will continue to follow coronavirus-related laws and regulations governing store operations in each state and we urge lawmakers and government officials to prioritize policies that both encourage work and continued safety.”. Specifics from key retail sectors include: Clothing and clothing accessory stores were down 5.1%

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Retail Prophet

MARCH 24, 2022

Erwan Rambourg is a luxury and sporting goods analyst and author of The Bling Dynasty: Why The Reign of Chinese Luxury Shoppers Has Only Just Begun, and Future Luxe: What’s Ahead for the Business of Luxury. Gilsenan oversees all retail operations as well as the expansion of vision services.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The perception gained even more support as Lowe’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Target all blamed ORC for negatively affecting their financial results. billion in 2021 retail shrink could be attributed to ORC.

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I Vend

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As a retailer, you rely on your POS technology for store operations, and you may well have an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as well or be considering one. But rather than seeing them as two essential but separate – entities, the retailers who get the most from their POS and ERP systems are those that integrate them.

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