Merchandising
August 19, 2016 at 10:08 am
As consumers continue to seek convenience and instant gratification via mobile devices, retailers are challenged with thinking about new ways to generate customer interest and loyalty. To develop insights in these areas, Synchrony Financial recently tracked existing and emerging trends impacting both the retail and mobile payments space and published them in a new report. The report…
August 17, 2016 at 11:23 am
The athletes aren’t the only ones winning gold this summer. Retailers selling Olympic merchandise are seeing higher-than-usual sales. Fanatics, an online sports apparel retailer, is seeing sales up 50 percent higher compared to the 2012 London Games. The most popular items include the Nike Team USA Snapback, the Nike Team USA Medal Stand Full-Zip Jacket…
August 10, 2016 at 1:43 pm
Listen in as Iconery Founder and CEO Ivka Adam talks with The Grommet Co-Founder Jules Pieri about product market fit. Want to hear more? You can register to hear the entire session on-demand, as well as other great content from this year's Total Retail Virtual Conference & Expo!
August 9, 2016 at 11:45 am
Coach on Tuesday announced that it will shutter about 25 percent of its North American department store locations. Most of the locations tend to be low volume, according to the company, and the closings will be spread out in terms of geography. Coach will keep open its best-performing sites and avoid the stores that put its…
August 9, 2016 at 10:37 am
For the first time in four years, Target will sell Amazon.com tablets and e-readers on its website and in its stores. Target stopped selling Kindles in May 2012, according to an article from The New York Times. At the time, Target was one of the bigger carriers of the e-readers outside of the e-commerce space.…
July 28, 2016 at 11:34 am
Sears Holdings Chief Executive Eddie Lampert is freaking out his employees. The CEO has started moving Kmart stockroom merchandise onto the sales floor. The move, according to the company, is aimed at freeing up employees to assist shoppers, making sure they “[do] not wait in line at the checkout,” reported the New York Post. But…
July 28, 2016 at 9:37 am
We’ve all been there. You enter a store for one thing, but on the way to finding that very item you stumble upon countless other products you didn’t know you needed. A hundred dollars later and you have the $5 socks you came for, and a new blender, some shampoo, a birthday card for your…
July 22, 2016 at 11:10 am
Zara is in the spotlight for allegedly copying the designs of independent artist Tuesday Bassen. The Los Angeles-based illustrator and designer posted the below picture to her over 100,000 Instagram followers earlier this week showing the side-by-side comparisons of her work next to Zara’s designs. Total Retail’s Take: I get that mistakes happen, but when…
July 19, 2016 at 10:27 am
Urban Outfitters is capitalizing on a presidential election year by violating the unwritten rule of retail: never get political. The retailer, which has a history of selling controversial items, is offering a range of merchandise bashing Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. That includes a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “IDK NOT TRUMP THO.” Total Retail's Take: Urban…
July 11, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Frank + Oak made its reputation as a retailer of men's apparel, accessories and shoes, first selling online, then adding brick-and-mortar stores. The company is about to undertake another evolution as it prepares to sell womenswear. In episode 43 of Total Retail Talks, Eric Alper, chief marketing officer at Frank + Oak, discusses the company's…
