Retail TouchPoints

1 day ago | retailtouchpoints.com | Nicole Silberstein

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Last year, 650 million people across 30 countries visited an Ikea store, and the company's website attracted more than 4 billion visitors. Those are staggering numbers that would make any retailer crow, but when an organization of that size decides it needs to streamline processes, those numbers suddenly become daunting. That is, however, exactly what Ikea decided needed to happen, and to do it the company turned to...more numbers.

3 days ago | retailtouchpoints.com | Nicole Silberstein

4 days ago | retailtouchpoints.com | Nicole Silberstein

This article first appeared in our sister publication Shop Eat Surf Outdoor (SESO). , one of the largest footwear retailers in the country with over 1,000 stores in North America, has been one of the most important large wholesale accounts for footwear brands for decade. However, leaders of several large industry footwear brands have expressed frustrations with the retailer over the years because they believed Journeys wasn't evolving, even though good people and good merchants worked there.

1 week ago | retailtouchpoints.com | Nicole Silberstein

President Trump has once again pushed out the deadline of a Congressional order requiring that TikTok be sold to a U.S.-based company or be banned. This marks the third delay of the order, which was originally supposed to take effect in January. A deal was rumored to be nearly final earlier this spring, but the announcement of President Trump's " reciprocal tariffs" in April prompted China to put the conversation on hold.