Omnichannel

How Lucky Brand is Successfully Using Ship From Store
May 19, 2017 at 10:57 am

Lucky Brand, a retailer of jeans, casual wear and accessories, is adapting its operations to account for the omnichannel behaviors of its customers. This is a challenge not unique to Lucky Brand. Retailers are looking to make the purchase experience, and particularly order fulfillment, as easy for its customers as possible. That means the introduction…

Inside Wolverine Worldwide’s E-Commerce Replatforming
May 18, 2017 at 12:44 pm

In an interview yesterday at the Salesforce XChange conference in Las Vegas, Jason Pawlowski, senior director, DTC technology, Wolverine Worldwide, detailed the footwear manufacturer and retailer’s replatforming process on the Salesforce Commerce Cloud. In 2012, Wolverine Worldwide, already owners of footwear brands such as Merrell, Hush Puppies, Sebago and five other brands, entered into an…

The Top 50 Retailers by Profitability
May 18, 2017 at 11:53 am

For the second straight year, Total Retail has tracked the year-over-year net earnings for our Top 100 Fastest-Growing Retailers, and ranked them accordingly. Pair this earnings research with our ranking of the top 100 publicly traded retailers based on year-over-year net sales to get a more in-depth view into not only which retailers are growing sales,…

Insights Into Total Retail's Top 100 Omnichannel Retailers
May 17, 2017 at 1:56 pm

The article below is an excerpt from Total Retail’s inaugural "Top 100 Omnichannel Retailers" report. DSW, UGG, Urban Outfitters and Zumiez tied for the No. 1 ranking on the list.  Consumers have raised the bar when it comes to the seamless omnichannel experiences they expect from retailers and brands. In Total Retail's "Top 100 Omnichannel Retailers"…

Personalization, Innovation Go Hand-in-Hand for Marketers
May 16, 2017 at 11:16 am

When it comes to marketing technology, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are the talk of the town. The New York Times and IBM, for example, are teaming up to promote a new movie with their AR app, and this year sports fans could view Super Bowl LI highlights in VR. Big brands are…

The Top 100 Fastest-Growing Retailers
May 16, 2017 at 10:39 am

Total Retail is excited to present its seventh annual ranking of the 100 fastest-growing publicly traded retailers. This year’s list, as in years past, is based on companies’ year-over-year net sales growth, comparing the 2016 fiscal year to the 2015 fiscal year.

New Lands’ End CEO Taking an Omnichannel Approach
May 16, 2017 at 9:56 am

Jerome Griffith took over as Lands’ End CEO in March, and for the first time in that position he addressed the company at its shareholders meeting last week. He told those in attendance he is “extremely excited” about Lands’ End’s future. “The elements of success are here," Griffith said. “The company [does] over $1 billion…

Haunted by Retail Closures? Here’s Your Local Marketing Fix
May 15, 2017 at 8:45 am

Brick-and-mortar retail brands face a host of challenges resulting in waves of store closures that make headlines almost quarterly. Marketing can often be a major contributing factor in most cases, and an overall determinant of success or failure. Take Payless ShoeSource, for instance. A number of business struggles, like significant debt load and poor retail…

AI in Retail: Where Are We Now, Where Are We Going?
May 12, 2017 at 8:48 am

Quietly and subtly, artificial intelligence (AI) powers have been changing the way we interact with many of the most popular systems today, from filtering the things that you see on your news feed to coming up with new solutions for customer acquisition and retention. In retail, AI is appearing more often than ever before. In…