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Why Uncommon Corporate Partnerships are a Must in 2024 (and How to Make Them a Reality)

Retail TouchPoints

The trend of a cautious yet resilient consumer has continued into the early stages of 2024, with high-ticket luxury and department store industries underperforming sectors that sell necessities — online retail, discount/club, automotive and grocery. Full-service restaurants are trailing their limited-service peers.

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The Average CMO Tenure is at its Lowest Level in More Than a Decade: What Should Retail and CPG Brands Know?

Retail TouchPoints

In today’s market, communication is no longer a one-way street; it’s a relentless, multi-lane highway of dialogues, demanding CMOs to be omnipresent by using the right channel at the right time. The pace and complexity are why many CMOs are finding their roles untenable.

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Nordstrom Takes Stake in Topshop Brands, Launches Joint Venture with ASOS

Retail TouchPoints

department store chain and British online retailer aim to “redefine the traditional retail/wholesale model.”. Now, Nordstrom will have the exclusive multi-channel retail rights for both brands in all of North America, including Canada, and own a minority stake globally. .

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Inside Natori’s Transformation from High-End Wholesaler to Omnichannel Brand

Retail TouchPoints

Loyalty to those stores used to be 100% — a top customer would go to Neiman Marcus for everything and not go anywhere else. But come 2006, 2007 we really started to see that loyalty go away, and the bigger piece of it was [that] fewer people were going into department stores overall.

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In Luxury Design, ‘Invisible’ Technology Supports the High-End Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

What does this look like in terms of design, and how does this differ from the traditional department store? Retail store design is a multi-year investment in capital, and therefore it is easier to adapt to unprecedented changes through brand communication and customer service models.

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The ‘Social Proof’ is in the Pudding: Gartner Analyst Explains the Lure of Livestream Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

Matt Moorut: Livestream shopping allows consumers to discover new products in a channel that they are already using. consumers via this channel? . RTP: Are brands seeking out employees/store associates as hosts, or are they partnering with outside influencers more? RTP: How can retailers appeal to U.S.

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Saks.com Spin-Out: Genius Move or Opportunistic Folly?

Steve Dennis

Indeed, the customer is the channel and retailers with a more harmonized and remarkable retail experience generally outperform those that have failed to break down silos. The Bay has long suffered from the woes of unremarkable department stores. The lines are blurring. Digital drives brick and mortar and vice versa.