The report aims to gain a greater understanding of how the overarching marketing tactics and strategies are shaping results from upper-funnel brand awareness to lower-funnel performance and conversion metrics within …
Consumers are increasingly pushing for sustainable business practices in retail, driving businesses to reassess what they produce — and how. From ingredient upcycling to plastic alternatives to smart trash cans, we look at the technologies placing …
This White Paper on the impact of the global pandemic and subsequent lockdowns from the first half of 2020 on department stores was finalised at the end of October 2020. …
“Department stores are decathletes”: This sentence fully explains the challenges embedded at the very core of any department store in the world: their model concentrates a vast array of complex activities, …
Consumers continue to prioritize last mile fulfillment speed and convenience, accelerating the need for retailers and ecommerce brands to deliver faster, more efficiently and cost effectively. Hyperlocal fulfillment models are also in …
As 2021 draws to a close, there is a horrible sense of history repeating itself. Just as 2020 ended with the arrival of a new COVID-19 variant that saw renewed lockdowns and …
The ecommerce boom of 2020 brought millions of new shoppers to digital platforms, and that growth trajectory continued into 2021. For many retailers, the past year was spent catching up …
Retail leadership teams that have been forged into leaner, faster moving, risktaking units through these last 19 months find themselves having to operate at this continued pace in order to combat these …
Retail leaders know that the only constant in consumer behavior is change. Never has that fact been more evident than in recent months, as the US continues to lift pandemic …
The year 2021 marks a new era for retail and ecommerce. The pandemic drove a massive shift in almost everything digital, and while 2020 will remain an anomaly in terms …
The year 2021 marks a new era for retail and ecommerce. The pandemic drove a massive shift in almost everything digital, and while 2020 will remain an anomaly in terms …
Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for July 2021, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $617.7 billion, a …