Retail Wire

MAY 2, 2025

In a RetailWire exclusive, Brittain Ladd claims Kohl's was warned about its ex-CEO's behavior.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2025

Australian retail sales rose by 4.3 per cent year on year in March, continuing a positive improvement in recent months. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data showed a rise of 0.3 per cent from February to March. While the steady growth is heartening, cost-of-living pressures and economic uncertainty continue to impact consumer behaviour,” said Australian Retailers Association chief industry affairs officer, Fleur Brown.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2025

After May 2, ultra-fast fashion will be slightly more expensive. The human cost, however, remains astronomical. For years, ultra-cheap, ultra-fast fashion has rewired where and how Americans shop. Led by Chinese-founded online retailers Shein and Temu, ultra-fast fashion has succeeded in part by driving prices for trendy clothes as low as possible. Now that model is starting to fray.

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Retail Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Sheep Inc Unveils FIBREGEN a revolutionary 100% regenerative material alongside a collection of FIBREGEN hoodies & sweatshirts developed over two years of R&D and extensive trials. This is the first product release since completing their series A investment last month. Developed in collaboration with Inovafil in Portugal, FIBREGENTM was created over two years of meticulous development.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Retail Dive

MAY 5, 2025

Around 96% of American toy companies are small- and medium-sized businesses. Nearly half of them could shutter due to U.S. tariff policies.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 6, 2025

Co-op has warned customers of ongoing product shortages across its store network as the retailer continues to battle a sustained cyber attack that has forced it to shut down some of its delivery systems. The retailer said the attack on its systems, which began last week, has caused serious disruption to store availability, particularly in fresh categories such as fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

David Jones has named Erica Berchtold as chief commercial officer, a new role created for the former CEO of collapsed multibrand retail group Mosaic Brands. According to a statement from David Jones, Berchtold will begin the job early next month and will be responsible for bringing the merchandise and supply chain teams together to make significant strides under the Vision 2025+ strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2025

Online resale platform ThredUp has made a bold move in its effort to promote the development of circular retail more broadly. The company is making its resale-as-a-service (RaaS) technology free and open source, meaning that the underlying code powering its branded resale shops is now available for any company to access and use at no cost. The company also announced a host of other big plans for the rest of 2025, including the debut of a new peer-to-peer marketplace scheduled to launch by the en

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Retail Focus

MAY 6, 2025

Nestl is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Coles as the new Managing Director for Nestl Confectionery UK & Ireland, effective 1 May 2025. Scott takes over from Mark Davies, who is retiring after an impressive 34-year tenure with the company. In his new role, Scott will join the Nestl UK & Ireland leadership team, where he will spearhead Nestls efforts to expand market share and enhance value for both consumers and customers within the confectionery sector.

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Retail Dive

MAY 6, 2025

As small businesses brace for tariff impacts, Walmart is pairing them with mentors and showcasing their products as part of its new initiative.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 1, 2025

Morrisons is testing out aisle-roaming “tally” robots in its stores to monitor how goods are being displayed on shelves. The supermarket chain is trialling the robots, which are said to be the world’s first autonomous inventory bot, across its Wetherby, Redcar and Stockton stores, The Grocer reported. The bots use computer vision and AI to independently move through supermarket aisles multiple times per day to collect data.

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Retail Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Skechers is set to be acquired by 3G Capital for $9.4 billion.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2025

The Australian Fashion Council (AFC) has teamed up with RM Williams to develop Australia’s first national manufacturing strategy for the fashion and textile industry. As part of the partnership, the AFC and RM Williams will conduct conversations with members of the industry in Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth to create a comprehensive roadmap to revive the sector’s onshore capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 14, 2025

From a risk and compliance perspective, defense, finance, tech, and healthcare are generally thought of as the riskiest industries but the retail sector is more vulnerable than it might appear. Organized retail crime (ORC), fraud rings, evolving regulations and other challenges all have the potential to cause significant disruption in the retail sector, and most retailers have invested considerable time and resources to mitigate them.

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Retail Focus

MAY 1, 2025

The Lexicon, owned in a joint venture between Schroders Capital and Legal & General Capital, has secured 23,039 sq ft of new retail, F&B, and leisure lettings with Mango, Rituals, and Jamaica Blue all arriving at the Bracknell retail destination. International fashion brand Mango has opened a new 19,210 sq ft store at The Lexicon in what is a flagship letting for the scheme.

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A1 Retail

MAY 1, 2025

From travelling the world and road-testing the worlds greatest cars as part of the presenting team on Top Gear and The Grand Tour, to co-owning a pub in Wiltshire, from being sacked from every job hes ever had, to eating bulls bits with Gordon Ramsey, hes now popping up in your local Waitrose with a gin he has made from wait for it British parsnips.

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Retail Dive

MAY 2, 2025

The retailer’s location in Texas, which is its first “Store of the Future” in the U.S., is focused on innovation and caters offerings to regional customers.

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Retail Wire

MAY 2, 2025

Apple is shifting production of many U.S.-bound iPhones from China to India.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2025

After Tuchuzy fell into administration for the second time in five years, the industry was quick to point out where the Bondi-based fashion brand went wrong but after its appointed administrators, Antony Resnick and Henry Kwok from dVT Group, announced a successful sale, experts are weighing in on the enduring value of the brand. Tuchuzy has a reputation in the Australian fashion industry for curating a mix of high-end and accessible pieces.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2025

Payment providers are banking on the fact that millions of people will soo n rely on AI to find the perfect sweater, research a new vacation spot or handle their weekly grocery shopping and they want in on the action. While the idea of AI handling these kinds of complicated tasks autonomously might sound like something out of a science fiction novel, agentic AI is rapidly moving toward this reality.

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Retail Focus

MAY 2, 2025

French fashion eyewear brand bloobloom opens a brand new 615 sq ft store in East London’s thriving shopping destination Spitalfields on 2nd May 2025. Located at 41 Brushfield Street, this marks blooblooms seventh opening in London, joining its growing line-up of London stores in Canary Wharf, Carnaby, Covent Garden, Kings Road, Marylebone and White City.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 11, 2025

Debenhams Group, formerly Boohoo Group, is in discussions about a debt package worth as much as 175m. The fashion giant has held talks about tapping the high yield market for 50m of the proposed total, The Telegraph reported. The retail group is also understood to have held discussions with several asset-backed lenders, which take security over property, stock and intellectual property in case of insolvency.

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Retail Dive

MAY 7, 2025

OpenAI wants to make it easier for shoppers to find, compare and buy products as more customers turn to generative AI for purchases.

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Retail Wire

MAY 14, 2025

Wendy’s has announced that it is expanding its Frosty lineup again, unveiling three new flavors this week in the form of Frosty Fusions. Let’s take a look at what we know about these new options. Wendy’s Unveils 3 Frosty Fusions View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wendy's (@wendys) According to Men’s Journal , Wendy’s introduced new Frosty variations on May 12.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

Australian independent leather goods brand Maison de Sabre has called out fashion retailer Sportsgirl for the release of bag charms that were nearly identical to the brands signature Sabremoji Fruit Charms. The charms included shapes such as oranges, apples, and strawberries and were sold globally. For a well-resourced, national chain to shortcut that by reproducing what an independent brand has built from the ground up its not just disappointing, its damaging to the future of Australian design

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

Google has made headlines once again by announcing a significant shift to its approach to digital privacy. Rather than eliminating online cookies or offering users an opt-out option in Chrome, the tech giant has committed to maintaining cookies as a core part of its browser functionality. Since Google introduced the Privacy Sandbox initiative in 2019, the digital marketing landscape has undergone a significant transformation.

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MAY 1, 2025

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Retail Gazette

MAY 2, 2025

Harrods has become the latest retailer to fall victim to a cyber attack, following attacks at M&S and Co-op. The luxury department store has been engaged in efforts to defend itself against a cyber attack, Sky News reported. Although further details of the apparent attack were unknown on Thursday afternoon, one shopper told the news service that he had not been able to pay for a purchase earlier that day.

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Retail Dive

MAY 2, 2025

The e-commerce giant is “pretty maniacally focused” on keeping prices low, CEO Andy Jassy told analysts Thursday.

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Retail Wire

MAY 2, 2025

7-Eleven and Green Day are just the latest celebrity-based collaboration.

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