RetailWire

JUNE 15, 2020

Starbucks, which had reportedly banned employees from wearing Black Lives Matter t-shirts on the job last week, quickly changed its position to, first, allowing workers to wear the shirts and then, secondly, announcing that it was designing its own.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

In addition to his negative comments directed toward Rørsted, West recently sparked controversy by wearing a T-shirt printed with the message “White Lives Matter” during Paris Fashion Week. The phrase has been identified by the Antidefamation League as a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement by white supremacists.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

During a Paris Fashion Week Yeezy fashion show, Ye caused a stir when he appeared alongside conservative personality Candace Owens, with the pair wearing T-shirts that featured the phrase “White Lives Matter,” which has been identified by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement by white supremacists.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

Sephora has signed on to the 15% Pledge , a call for major retailers to reserve 15% of their shelf space for items produced by black-owned businesses. population that is black. The pledge’s first step is for retailers to determine the percentage of shelf space and contracts they currently give to black-owned businesses.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

These retailers] support Black Lives Matter, they support LGBTQ rights and they support environmental justice,” said John Logan, Professor and Chair of the Labor and Employment Studies Department at San Francisco State University in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The holiday season is just as important for cannabis as it is for other areas of retail, with Green Wednesday (the day before Thanksgiving), Black Friday and the leadup to Christmas all driving sales spikes in 2021, according to Surfside’s The Season of Green report. Again, it all starts with retail marketing and brand marketing.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A recent study found that 68% of Gen Z shoppers planned to use non-traditional channels for Black Friday and Christmas shopping, with Instagram (47%) taking the lead as a holiday shopping platform. Most social networks offer in-app shopping solutions now, including live video to meet shoppers’ demands. Retailers Going Live.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2020

The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others are symptoms of centuries of racist, unjust treatment against Black people and other marginalized communities. We will continue to stand in solidarity with Black people and all other marginalized communities to fight for a future of justice and equality.

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Kissmetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It doesn’t matter whether you’re developing software, designing a book, developing a web design cover, or simply branding your business: colors define mood and influence responses. For example, if you are selling bouncy jump houses — those things kids play in — you don’t want to use a black website. Men Prefer Blue, Green, and Black.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2021

Work culture matters. Who you are and what you stand for matters to people who work at your company and buy your products. Words and language matter, whether they are on your website, in an ad, on social media or in what others say about you in product reviews or on the news. And our words matter. Now more than ever.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2020

To our colleagues in the Black community — we see you. You matter, your lives matter, and you are valued here at Apple,” he wrote. The Best Buy leaders followed by imagining how they could “begin to internalize how terrifying life can be” for a black man, woman or child in America. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2023

This, for example, is why we know that the direction you walk around the store matters. See one product first, and then a second, similar one at a different price point, and it’s not necessarily the cheaper option you’re going to buy — first impressions matter! So what can AI teach us about the human mind at work?

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RetailWire

JULY 8, 2020

Shake Shack reported a sales decline of $3.2 million for the second quarter as the burger chain closed locations due to the coronavirus outbreak and protests against racial inequality across the country. Even with the challenges it faced, the company opened four new locations in Charlotte, Los Angeles, Sacramento and St.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2022

They’ve been politicized by the Black Lives Matter movement and Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, have massive student loans and are facing rapid inflation while earning comparatively low wages. These retailers] support Black Lives Matter, they support LGBTQ rights and they support environmental justice,” said Logan.

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Smile.io

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

If you’re wondering how to be an ally for the Black community this February, shopping from Black-owned businesses is a great place to start. Not only are you supporting a small business owner’s dream, but by shopping from Black-owned stores you are directly and sustainably supporting a community of entrepreneurs.

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RetailDive

DECEMBER 9, 2020

As retailers fretted about how to take action on systemic racism while people took to the streets for Black Lives Matter, a fashion designer clarified things for them.

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RetailDive

JUNE 12, 2020

Campaigns led by Black entrepreneurs are pushing retailers and brands to take action beyond their "Black Lives Matter" social media posts.

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Kissmetrics

AUGUST 3, 2021

What if you could see every ad currently live on Facebook? Facebook Ad Library gives you free access to view any ad currently live on the Facebook ecosystem. Users can view every detail of the ads, including the copy, the image, how long it’s been live, when it launched, and any versions being A/B tested. Are your ads enticing?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The ThirdLove mission, according to Zak, is to “help women feel comfortable and confident in their everyday lives.” Whether through email, social media or text, the brand can “engage with you in a very different way than just treating you like every other woman in the world.”. Lesson 2: Find new ways to differentiate online.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Homedics successfully intertwined brand and performance marketing during the holiday season by first emphasizing upper-funnel media for about a month before turning its performance marketing into high gear for Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. “We We had incredible results, triple digits in terms of sales year over year.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2021

AR room planners, robust review and recommendation engines, detailed product listings, live chat — name a phygital enhancement and they’ve got it. Modern’ could be something you’d see in South Beach, a very low-profile white sofa, or it could be metal and black leather.”. And that’s where Syte comes in.

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365 Retail

APRIL 29, 2024

Go under the city streets to discover Palatine Hill, where Rome’s high society used to live, and wander through the complex hallways of the Vatican Museums that are filled with many works of great art. Costa Rica is a haven for those who adore nature and where one can understand why saving the environment matters.

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RetailWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Three former Whole Foods employees claimed in a lawsuit that they were discriminated against when the grocer fired them for refusing to remove the “Black Lives Matter” facemasks that they were wearing on the job. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

It stopped in Indianapolis on Friday, where we went to Crispus Attucks High School, which is a very renowned historically Black high school. They’re wearing us across multiple different occasions in their lives, whether that be the tunnel, to walk the red carpet or waking up on a Saturday and hanging out with their family at home.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

I could give the same example on things like taking a public stance on Black Lives Matter, the importance of a minimum wage or gay marriage,” said Sethi. The combination of transparency, clear support and letting employees know about flexible options will help retailers thrive no matter how the vaccine mandates shake out.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

If a retailer’s online infrastructure can’t cope with a sudden spike in demand following, say, a Black Friday sale, those customers are unlikely to return. To stay competitive in the era of ecommerce, fast responsiveness is key, no matter the business model.

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RetailWire

JULY 11, 2022

A recent ruling by an appeals court that said Whole Foods could not be sued for not allowing associates to wear “Black Lives Matter” face masks shows the limits that employees have in changing working conditions.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2022

I would say almost nine out of 10 times, I was the first Black woman or Black person and most times the only person of color. They have a Black history T-shirt, they have a Hispanic history T-shirt, they have a women’s history T-shirt, they have a pride T-shirt. From the beginning of my career, I’ve been in a leadership role.

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Kissmetrics

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Super Saturday—the holiday season doesn’t lack shopping days. In response, many brands have been distancing themselves from heavy discounts and Black Friday deals. From November onwards, everyone’s inboxes start overflowing with Black Friday deals, special offers, and holiday greetings.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That awareness has prompted a shift toward more mindful buying, with 68% of consumers saying they plan to increase their efforts to identify brands that reduce environmental impact and 74% of Millennials reporting they’re more conscious of spending their money to support more Black-owned businesses and creators.

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RetailWire

JULY 1, 2020

Walmart announced that it would pull any merchandise with the “All Lives Matter” slogan while continuing to sell items with “Blue Lives Matter” on it.

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Kissmetrics

DECEMBER 16, 2021

That’s why quality matters. In fact, Amazon’s Prime Day has a big impact on the retail industry like other major shopping events like Black Friday. Utilize Facebook Live. Why not add Facebook Live to the mix? percent of Facebook videos are live. Many Facebook Live videos are shot on smartphones.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2020

Henderson: We see cannabis tied into larger trends beyond COVID-19, for example Black Lives Matter. RTP: How do you see your business in relation to the other big changes that have taken place this year? We’ve been kicking it against the pricks for 45 years.

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RetailWire

JUNE 19, 2020

Denzel Skinner was an employee at a Taco Bell franchise until he refused to remove a Black Lives Matter face mask while on the job. After he was fired, Mr. Skinner posted a video about his experience on Facebook. Taco Bell has since clarified that workers may wear BLM masks at all its locations.

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RetailWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Black and Mobile bills itself as the only Black-owned delivery service exclusively serving Black-owned restaurants. Mr. Cabello’s drill seargant, a white man, wrote in response, “This Black Lives Matter s**t is f ing stupid.

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ESW

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To that end, incorporating scents into their living environments that promote health and wellbeing is important. Many of these startups are women or black-owned businesses. Customer experience matters more than ever and fragrance shoppers turn to brands that provide a seamless and personalised journey across channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2021

Between COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer and the recent insurgence at the United States Capitol, 2020 was a landmark year for organizations to speak out, raise awareness and drive positive change for the world around them.

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