Retail Stores

As a brand with a direct-to-consumer (D-to-C) focus, you value your customers. And as a brand that values its customers, you’ve probably been advised — by any number of articles that come up with a quick Google search — to focus on D-to-C as it gives you the most control over the customer experience. This…

Monoprice, the manufacturer and online seller of consumer electronic accessories and small appliances, is opening its first brick-and-mortar store. Located in the company’s Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., headquarters, the 1,900 square-foot store replaces the original will-call store that opened four years ago. The new Monoprice store will feature a series of demo areas for things like…

Analysts at Fung Global Retail & Technology are predicting that 9,452 retail stores will be closed by the end of 2017. If that prediction holds true, that would represent a 361 percent increase in store closings compared to last year. If the current rate of store closings continues through the end of the year, 2017…

Analysts at Fung Global Retail & Technology are predicting that 9,452 retail stores will be closed by the end of 2017. If that prediction holds true, that would represent a 361 percent increase in store closings compared to last year. If the current rate of store closings continues through the end of the year, 2017 […]

In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Senior Editor Caitlin Sullivan reviews the top retail news of the week, including why 35 million members quit Amazon Prime, Nike's marketplace strategy, and Bed Bath & Beyond's possible store closures.

For home improvement retailer Home Depot, content delivered by email is an important driver of both online and offiline traffic.

For home improvement retailer Home Depot, content delivered via email is an important driver of both online and offline traffic. Mailer Name: The Home Depot Date Emailed: June 26, 2017 For retailers, Independence Day is an occasion for selling stuff, and this email from Home Depot, at first glance, seems a little different. The subject line, […]

thredUP, the online secondhand clothing store, is opening at least five brick-and-mortar stores by the end of the year, with the first one opening in San Marco, Texas earlier this week. thredUP is using existing customer data to plan where to open stores and what to stock in each of the stores. [caption id="attachment_50860" align="aligncenter"…

The retail industry is undergoing major changes. This year, many retailers have filed for bankruptcy or shuttered their locations outright, leaving the future of businesses like PayLess Shoes and The Limited uncertain. But while some industry observers will see this difficult period as the end of days, savvy retailers will see it for what it…

Nordstrom’s latest curated pop-up shop, Pop-In@Nordstrom: Gets Wired, is taking on a technology theme. The pop-up shop can be found in eight U.S. Nordstrom stores, and is created is resemble the inside of a computer with an all-white environment, blue fluorescent lighting, a circuit board floor graphic, and tables that look like computer chips and…