Tag: Retail

Attention National Retailers and Services: Look and Learn from the Independents to Thrive

National and international brands need to learn key lessons from the independents and work with them to create sustainable and vibrant high street futures.  Let’s discuss this in detail. A moment of flux  Throughout lockdown, local independents continued to demonstrate their place in...

Three Ways Retailers are Changing for Good

When the pandemic began, we saw so many changes to ‘normal’ that ‘normal’ meant expecting change. Even running out of coffee became an entirely new experience. Shopping – if the shop is open – has meant a 45-minute queue, and...

The Physical Retail Experience is Not Dying – It’s Becoming Smarter, Stronger, and More Modern

Some 66 million years ago, a great disaster (likely a meteor or asteroid) struck the Earth. For the grand, unagile dinosaurs that had dominated the planet, changing little for millions of years, it proved fateful. But in their place mammalian...

Retail Customer Experience: What Will Happen Post Pandemic?

With consumers forced online during the pandemic, the surge in digital traffic and demand across key retail sectors gives a misleading impression that consumers will shift dramatically to buying online post-pandemic. In fact, consumers say they hope to return to...

Lockdown Lifts Usher in a Big Data Experiment for Retailers

The phrase ‘unprecedented times’ has been used so much in reference to the Coronavirus that it can seem like an empty cliché. We have after all been presented with new extraordinary circumstances on a daily basis for months on end. Now,...

What the future has in store: the 5 pillars of the 2020 retail reality

The extent of change in the retail industry has been remarkable. People are talking to personal shopping robots, storefronts are morphing to mirror passers-by, and consumers are using hand-held computers to digitally try on clothes from the comfort of their...

Shopping With Kids is a Nightmare…Or is It? Design to the Rescue!

In 2016-17, leading Irish food retailer Musgrave Group were in the midst of a price war within the parental shopping segment, with competition heavily focused on price and many products sold at or below cost. To build a competitive edge,...

What Next for Retail After Worst Year for Quarter of a Century? Four Experts Discuss

The first annual sales drop since 1995 is a blow to British retail, but it’s only the latest in a series of setbacks. In the past 10 years, high street institutions such as BHS, and Barratts and Maplin have toppled...

How Independent Brands can Maximise their CX in 2020

With January comes the opportunity to refocus and set goals for the year ahead – even more so when this coincides with the start of a new decade. For independent retail brands, delivering a better experience to customers will be...

Customer-Centric or ‘Channel-Centric’: Knowing the Difference

With the ongoing advances in digital media, I often see organisations claiming to be “customer-centric”, when in reality they are being channel-centric. In the search for giving the best-in-class Customer Experience, do you understand the difference? With a new decade upon...