31 May 2022 Are you a digital-first retailer or are old paradigms holding you back? By Bryan Eshelman David Bassuk Joel Bines Here’s a thought exercise for retailers as consumer behavior continues to blend channels: “What if you thought of yourself as an online...
24 May 2022 "New Normal" – kommt das stationäre Geschäft zurück? By Nicolas Weingaertner Thomas Biehler Mit der Aufhebung von Corona-Maßnahmen stehen Handelsunternehmen vor dem lange beschworenen „New Normal“ und der Herausforderung, sich...
17 May 2022 How can you deliver disruptive retail technology without the disruption to business as usual? By Brian Kalms Oli Freestone Digital transformation: two words that strike fear into the most forward-thinking retail leaders who, when faced with organisational...
02 May 2022 Consumers just want to shop – retailers must make it easier online and in stores By Luca Signorelli Asher von Stein The idea that a retailer’s stores compete with its online channels is as archaic as making a mixtape. For our industry, one of the...
26 Apr 2022 No end in sight to retail’s rollercoaster ride By Matt Clark The turmoil of the last two years has hit retail particularly hard, and it appears the rollercoaster ride is nowhere close to coming to...
26 Apr 2022 Focus Retail : Quelles priorités pour les acteurs de la consommation face à l’onde de choc du conflit russo-ukrainien ? By Olivier Salomon Victor Gavrilov Comme si les drames humains, les vies brisées et perdues ne suffisaient pas, le conflit Russie-Ukraine porte aussi en lui les germes de...
22 Apr 2022 Online? Offline? It's all about the bottom line... By David Bassuk Bryan Eshelman Steven Fratus John Samuel +1 more... Show less The impact of the pandemic on digital shopping habits has been both profound and well documented. However, retailers are facing a genuine...
19 Apr 2022 The art and science of Metail By Simon Freakley As we emerge from COVID-19 restrictions in Europe and the Americas, we are once again able to travel and spend quality time in person...
07 Apr 2022 The tipping point into ‘Digital First’ retail By Brian Kalms Oli Freestone Enabling seamless omnichannel shopping – the integration of digital and physical customer touchpoints – remains the preferred strategy...
30 Mar 2022 Owning both agency and power, consumers finally become retail’s focus By Alexa Driansky David Bassuk Joel Bines Tumult has become something of a constant in our lives. Retail is dealing with the impact of everything from supply chain troubles to...
25 Mar 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict: Grocery retailers must act now as food costs soar By Jennifer Boone Matthew Hamory Chris Hooks Tetyana Klymenko Joel Rampoldt +2 more... Show less The Russia-Ukraine conflict and resulting sanctions will drive additional burden on inflation, commodity availability, and supply chains...
22 Mar 2022 As demand for pure online grocery plateaus, is buy online and pick up in store the future of grocery? By Joel Rampoldt Steve Scales A study by Brick Meets Click and Mercatus shows that U.S. online grocery sales fell 8.6% year-on-year in January 2022.This may feel like...
03 Mar 2022 “OK, Millennial” – The generational marketing myth By Michael Hunter Millennial. Gen Z. Gen X. Does a week go by when you haven’t heard at least one of these terms? The catchphrase “OK, Boomer” is used by...
22 Feb 2022 Retailers should brace for a shock: The real impact of inflation is coming By Bryan Eshelman The biggest headlines in January focused either on Omicron or inflation. And while the former is thankfully fading away, the latter may...
16 Feb 2022 2022 - how much will retail tech really change? By Brian Kalms Analysis: NFTs, virtual fitting and the metaverse – the tech trends that will define retail in 2022 | Analysis | Retail Week...
28 Jan 2022 The Big Consumer Squeeze is coming – what can retailers do? By Oli Freestone Inflation is once more a hot consumer topic after several decades out in the cold. In the UK headline inflation is now running at a...