Store Operations

Woolworths South Africa Rolls Out RFID Solution to 200+ Stores

Premium retailer Woolworths will deploy the iD Cloud RFID solution from Nedap to 217 Fashion, Beauty and Home stores across South Africa…

Luxury Lessons: What High-End Brands Can Teach Store Designers

Global design and consultancy organization Arcadis (formerly CallisonRTKL) recently worked with Saks to reinvent its West Coast flagship experience. but the company…

Ulta Beauty Rolls out ‘Beauty Dropoff’ Recycling Program in all 1,350+ Stores

Ulta Beauty and Pact have expanded their Beauty Dropoff recycling initiative chainwide, providing drop-off bins for clean, empty packaging from any beauty…

Zenni Optical Cuts Product Data Management Time 70% with PIM Solution

Since implementing a product information management (PIM) solution from Akeneo in January, Zenni Optical has reduced data inconsistency issues across teams by…

Cookies Dispensary Heads to Chicago’s West Loop

TRP, a cannabis retail, cultivation and distribution platform, has opened the doors to Cookies Chicago, the inaugural Windy City dispensary from the…

Fred Segal Home’s Platform for Artisans Keeps the ‘Curator of Cool’ Alive

Fred Segal, the namesake of a retail brand that helped define California style in the 1960s and 70s, was known as the…

Joann Enters Structured Bankruptcy; Stores and Site to Remain Operational

As it seeks to find firmer footing, Joann has entered a Transaction Support Agreement (TSA) with a majority of its financial stakeholders…

Salesforce Survey: 36% of Retail Employees Already Using Generative AI

Retailers have been eager to jump on the generative AI bandwagon: according to a new survey conducted by Salesforce and the Retail…

Target Rolls Out 10-Item Self-Checkout Limit Chainwide

Following a 200-store test that limited customers using self-checkout to a maximum of 10 items, Target has rolled out Express Self-Checkout to…

Planning to Prevent Workplace Violence in Retail

A 2022 U.S. government study found an annual average of 1.3 million nonfatal workplace violence incidents between 2015 and 2019. This is…

Dick’s to Open 16 Next-Gen ‘50K’ Stores, Expand House of Sport Format in 2024

Dick’s Sporting Goods posted strong results in fiscal 2023, which ended Feb. 3, 2024, with $13 billion in net sales, 5% higher…

Ulta Beauty Plans 2025 Expansion to Mexico

Ulta Beauty, which posted strong financial results for 2023, will move into Mexico next year as part of a joint venture with…

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