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Three Lessons Grocers can Learn from Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

L.L.Bean , a retailer specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment, holds its associates, or “Store Guides,” to high standards — tasking them with sharing their knowledge of the outdoors with customers and upholding merchandise presentation standards, promoting company programs and handling day-to-day operations.

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Beyond Inc. Brings in Slate of Retail Heavyweights for C-Suite

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She has 25+ years of prior merchandising experience running multi-billion-dollar businesses for Target ; Steph Whitacrehas been promoted to SVP and General Manager of Zulily from her previous role as VP, Merchandising. Before that, he spent 16 years at Zappos and began his career in merchandising and operations at Lombardi Sports.

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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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Robling Releases Analytics Tools To Assist Reopening Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

Robling is offering COVID-19 store reopening analytics for both essential and specialty retailers. The tools are designed to help retailers navigate operations during the pandemic with the environment’s special considerations in mind. Specialty retailers can use the dashboard to keep an eye on operations and inventory.

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

Retail TouchPoints

The mergers and acquisitions market remains strong for direct-to-consumer firms that operate across a spectrum of channels, but investors are now going back to the fundamentals and targeting companies with evidence of economic success.

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How to Launch a Marketplace to be the Disruptor, not the Disrupted

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers large and small have transformed their businesses with the marketplace business model and technology. Walmart, Target, Home Depot and most big box retailers run their own successful marketplaces. However, the ecommerce operator must still source products, negotiate contracts, merchandise, price and support products.

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HBC Splits Saks OFF 5TH Into Online and In-Store Businesses — a Path Other Brands May Follow

Retail TouchPoints

HBC will spin off the ecommerce operations of Saks OFF 5TH into its own independent entity through a partnership with Insight Partners. The brick-and-mortar operations of Saks OFF 5TH’s, which consists of 105 stores, will become a separate entity called O5 and remain wholly owned by HBC.