Building businesses from better customer understanding.
Retail is behind the financial services sector in its understanding of customers and should improve its standing by using data to identify core customer groupings.
Consumers are demanding that retailers cut back on plastic…
Mars Bars are getting new packaging, using paper-based wrappers that can be more easily recycled than plastic.
It’s fair to say that inflation has had retailers worried for some time. But it feels as though that concern is reaching something of a fever pitch right now.
There have been calls to take action to prevent retailers from ‘profiteering’ by raising prices further during the ongoing inflation crisis.
Selfridges launches The Stock Market for trading pre-owned goods.
On 3 June 2021, the world’s largest store entirely devoted to the Harry Potter saga opened at 935 Broadway, New York.
Beauty industry looking pretty.
The global beauty industry is predicted to hit $580 billion in retail sales by 2027 as it enjoys growth of 6% per year during this five-year period.
In the aisles of Pike Place Market, Seattle iconic public market.
Pike Place Market has been one of Seattle’s most iconic sites for over a century.
Ecological transition: why we are overconsuming and how retailers can help us to stop this.
We have been overconsuming for decades while aware of the consequences on the climate and biodiversity
Secret Sales highlights attraction of non-full-price.
Working with Secret Sales is enabling brand owners to deal positively with the rising issues of waste, according to CEO Chris Griffin.
Asos highlights negative impact of returns.
Asos highlighted how the cost of delivery and returned goods is continuing to weigh heavily on its ability to generate profits.
Have we seen the end of the big budget anchor store? Hopefully not – but they are having to change with the times and some are finding the process difficult.
In the pre-internet days of the 1990s, no shopping centre would be complete without a couple of anchor stores.