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Strategy
WRC Is the Hub for Global Retail Leaders
There can be few better opportunities to gauge the mood and pinpoint the real issues facing retailers than when you bring together 750 senior industry ...
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Retail Brands Expand Services to Boost the Bottom Line
When Minneapolis-based Best Buy bought the then eight-year-old Geek Squad from founder Robert Stephens back in 2002, the move seemed anything but intuitive. Now, over ...
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World Retail Congress Presents Six Major Issues Facing Retail Leadership
If you talk to any retail CEO, anywhere in the world (as I have been over many months to build the World Retail Congress programme) ...
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Is It Time for a Return of the Catalog?
Retailers have always been at the forefront to meet consumer needs. Successful retailers know their markets intimately and have adapted to meet new customer trends. ...
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An Argument for Neighborhood Stores
Specialty retailers – from legacy brands and DTCs to startups – are all facing the same challenge: Declining mall traffic and higher downtown office vacancy ...
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New Revenue Streams, Higher Margins Are Walmart’s Focus
With a Walmart store within a 10-mile dash from every consumer in the U.S., and a split-second key tap away, they have clearly established a ...
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Insights for Retail Innovators from Shoptalk
Identifying the critical trends that are shaping retail (short- and long-term) is an art supported by science. And that’s what Shoptalk does every year to ...
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The Culture Power Brand. Designing Brands That Move People.
We are living in extraordinary times as we come out of a once-in-a-lifetime collective reset. And as we heal, recalibrate, and seek joy, we are ...
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