Retail TouchPoints
What American Eagle, Journeys and Tillys Are Betting On This Back to School
Top Stories
Latest Posts
How Culture Drives Retail Pride
Featuring: Ron Thurston, INTERMIX This episode is sponsored by Brother. Ron Thurston started his career in retail at the Gap as a store associate. Over the years, he’s been able…
January 11
UPS Forecasts 23% Increase in Returns Compared to Peak 2020 Period
UPS expects to handle 8.75 million returns during the week of Jan. 4, 2021, a 23% rise from the highest volume return period in the 2019 peak-season cycle, according to…
News January 8
Starbucks Promotes Finance Veteran to CFO
Starbucks has promoted Rachel Ruggeri, currently SVP of Finance, Americas, to EVP and CFO. A 16-year Starbucks veteran, Ruggeri succeeds Patrick Grismer, who will be retiring from the CFO position…
News January 8
Apparel Brand Daily Paper Debuts New York Flagship
Amsterdam-based clothing brand Daily Paper opened its inaugural New York flagship store, located on the Lower East Side, in October 2020. The brand’s African cultural heritage and contemporary clothing inspired…
News January 8
How Luxury Brands can Leverage Digital Channels Without Eroding Their Images
Who would have predicted people would be comfortable shopping for and purchasing a car online? In years past, hardly anyone — except maybe the founder of Carvana, who launched an…
Executive Viewpoints January 8
How to Launch a Lifestyle Business in the Age of Social Distancing
There’s no escaping it. Our lifestyles have been severely impacted by the novel coronavirus. Redundancies, layoffs, school closures — these are the reasons we find ourselves at home, unable to…
Executive Viewpoints January 8
How One Furniture Brand Brings the Circular and Service Economies Together
Fernish is a furniture rental company that is doubling down on its mission of making home design easy for everyone, even as they relocate and work from home.
Features January 8
‘The End of an Era’: Family Video to Close All Remaining Stores
The last major video rental chain in operation, Family Video, is shuttering all of its remaining stores, calling it quits as the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on businesses and…
News January 7
Farmacorp Taps Audit Solution to Improve On-Site Inspections and Corrections
Farmacorp, a Bolivian pharmacy chain, will deploy Reflexis Systems’ Q-Walk store audit solution at more than 100 stores, to streamline on-site inspections and automatically prescribe corrective tasks. This will help…
News January 7
