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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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Coldwater Creek Aims to Futureproof its Business with New Website

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Women’s DTC specialty retailer Coldwater Creek has unveiled a new ecommerce website featuring a modernized look and tech stack. Replatforming to BigCommerce gives us a modernized infrastructure to drive brand expansion, deliver an engaging customer experience and provide us with tools to scale operations and grow revenue.”

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

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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. With the addition of the Chico’s brands, KnitWell generates approximately $6 billion in annual sales.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Brick-and-Mortar Rollout Beginning in 2024

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The new stores will open in prime locations that complement the existing Macy’s retail footprint, according to the company. As a specialty retailer and with deep roots in the toy and game industry, we are thrilled and honored to partner with WHP Global to expand the base of Toys ‘R’ Us flagship stores,” said Gideon Schlessinger, CEO of Go!

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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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Cole Haan Deploys Platform Supporting Unified Commerce

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Cole Haan operates 90+ retail stores in the U.S. and Canada and more than 300 international store locations and also sells via department store and specialty retail partners.

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Carter’s Plans 50 New Stores this Year; CEO says Stores Provide ‘Best Presentation of Our Brands’

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Children’s specialty retailer Carter’s plans to open more than 50 new stores across the U.S. Carter’s currently operates nearly 800 stores across the country. this year as it aims to hit the 1,000 -store mark by 2027, Chairman and CEO Michael Casey said on the company’s Q1 2023 earnings call.