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Coldwater Creek Aims to Futureproof its Business with New Website

Retail TouchPoints

Women’s DTC specialty retailer Coldwater Creek has unveiled a new ecommerce website featuring a modernized look and tech stack. It features an elevated look and customer experience with nature-inspired color palettes, intuitive navigation, engaging imagery and immersive storytelling to enrich the shopping experience.

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When Customers Aren’t Holiday Shopping, They’ll be Streaming

Retail TouchPoints

November and December holiday sales average around 19% of total retail sales, per the NRF , and this share can be even higher for some department stores and specialty retailers. Emarketer anticipates that holiday retail sales will grow 4.5% this year to surpass $1.3 The stakes have never been higher!

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The Container Store Opens 100th Location, Doubles Down on Smaller Format

Retail TouchPoints

The Container Store has opened its 100 th brick-and-mortar location in Princeton, NJ — a small-format concept designed to boost employee productivity and optimize the customer journey. This is the sixth small-format location the Container Store has opened to date.

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Sycamore Completes $1 Billion Chico’s Acquisition, Adds Brands to KnitWell Group

Retail TouchPoints

KnitWell is a best-in-class operating enterprise in the world of vertical specialty retail,” said Lizanne Kindler, Executive Chair and CEO of KnitWell Group in a statement. We are thrilled to welcome these brands, their more than 14,000 associates and their customers to the KnitWell family.”

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Emerging Trends That Will Move Commerce in 2022

To help you navigate the next 12 months, Pivotree has brought together several experts to share their predictions for 2022 across three critical areas of commerce: Supply Chain, eCommerce, and Customer Experience. What’s driving the shift away from ‘one-stop-shop’ marketplaces (and how specialty retailers should respond).

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Realizing the Potential Business-Specific Analytics in Specialty Retail (2021)

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Business Specific Analytics and AI for Specialty Retail. The word “retail” gets used interchangeably as if all retailers are all the same. That’s why specialty retail analytics software needs to be flexible and powerful enough to work with unique business cases and considerations. Not that much.

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Customer Base, Digital Capabilities and Strategic Synergies are Driving Valuations in DTC Mergers and Acquisitions

Retail TouchPoints

Why Retailers are Interested in DTC Brands Corporate retail businesses often find DTC businesses to be attractive targets because of their relatively strong product margins, ability to extend their consumer outreach and online marketing disciplines. These types of synergies can be extremely valuable.

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