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Budget Retail’s Quality Drive

Budget Retail’s Quality Drive Budget Retail’s Quality Drive Budget and off-price retail are changing radically as consumers demand both quality and low prices. Stylus highlights new innovation in the sector worldwide, including e-commerce ventures, store concepts and online tools to help the shopper.

Advertising & Branding

Retail City Guide: New York, April 2018

Retail City Guide: New York, April 2018 Retail City Guide: NY, April 18 In April, the city that never sleeps pauses to recharge at two new nappable spaces, then revs up for an immersive fragrance pop-up, a gender-neutral concept store and Hudson Yards’ inaugural dining destination. Cultural must-sees include a foray into the history of sculpting eerily realistic human forms.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, April 2018

Retail City Guide: London, April 2018 Retail City Guide: London, April 18 Our round-up of the latest openings in London includes the expansion of Westfield London shopping centre, the new tech-friendly Benetton flagship, and womenswear label Self-Portrait's luxurious first store. Meanwhile, a survey of graphic design's role in politics over the last decade offers a standout exhibition at the Design Museum.

Retail City Guides

Sneakerheads Unboxed

Sneakerheads Unboxed

Sneakerheads Unboxed

Across three key reports, Sneakerheads Unboxed divulges how to decipher and monetise the lucrative yet complex world of sneaker culture – illuminating the new and emergent tribal behaviours, product design codes and engagement tactics needed to capitalise on the genre most successfully.

Liquid Retail

Retail has never been more omnipresent nor as shape-shifting – sliding into social media, service provision, education and entertainment. Liquid Retail reveals exactly how to navigate and exploit this 24-hour, hyper-connected, real-time culture, where individualisation is king, reflexivity rules the roost, and ‘pulsating’ brand relationships are vital.

Insight & Innovation

Re-Engineering Exclusivity

Re-Engineering Exclusivity

Re-Engineering Exclusivity

The spectre of automation, social media’s warping of brand hierarchies, and a peak-product era where access beats ownership mean retail’s luxury rulebook requires an urgent rewrite. From tapping intellectual affluence and the self-acceleration economy, to tiered prestige, humanised fantasies and temporal wealth, we reveal the new formulas for success.

Insight & Innovation

Budget Retail’s Quality Drive

Budget Retail’s Quality Drive Budget Retail’s Quality Drive Budget and off-price retail are changing radically as consumers demand both quality and low prices. Stylus highlights new innovation in the sector worldwide, including e-commerce ventures, store concepts and online tools to help the shopper.

Advertising & Branding

Retail City Guide: New York, April 2018

Retail City Guide: New York, April 2018 Retail City Guide: NY, April 18 In April, the city that never sleeps pauses to recharge at two new nappable spaces, then revs up for an immersive fragrance pop-up, a gender-neutral concept store and Hudson Yards’ inaugural dining destination. Cultural must-sees include a foray into the history of sculpting eerily realistic human forms.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, April 2018

Retail City Guide: London, April 2018 Retail City Guide: London, April 18 Our round-up of the latest openings in London includes the expansion of Westfield London shopping centre, the new tech-friendly Benetton flagship, and womenswear label Self-Portrait's luxurious first store. Meanwhile, a survey of graphic design's role in politics over the last decade offers a standout exhibition at the Design Museum.

Retail City Guides

Budget Retail’s Quality Drive

Budget Retail’s Quality Drive Budget Retail’s Quality Drive Budget and off-price retail are changing radically as consumers demand both quality and low prices. Stylus highlights new innovation in the sector worldwide, including e-commerce ventures, store concepts and online tools to help the shopper.

Advertising & Branding

Retail City Guide: New York, April 2018

Retail City Guide: New York, April 2018 Retail City Guide: NY, April 18 In April, the city that never sleeps pauses to recharge at two new nappable spaces, then revs up for an immersive fragrance pop-up, a gender-neutral concept store and Hudson Yards’ inaugural dining destination. Cultural must-sees include a foray into the history of sculpting eerily realistic human forms.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, April 2018

Retail City Guide: London, April 2018 Retail City Guide: London, April 18 Our round-up of the latest openings in London includes the expansion of Westfield London shopping centre, the new tech-friendly Benetton flagship, and womenswear label Self-Portrait's luxurious first store. Meanwhile, a survey of graphic design's role in politics over the last decade offers a standout exhibition at the Design Museum.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: New York, April 2018

Retail City Guide: New York, April 2018 Retail City Guide: NY, April 18 In April, the city that never sleeps pauses to recharge at two new nappable spaces, then revs up for an immersive fragrance pop-up, a gender-neutral concept store and Hudson Yards’ inaugural dining destination. Cultural must-sees include a foray into the history of sculpting eerily realistic human forms.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, April 2018

Retail City Guide: London, April 2018 Retail City Guide: London, April 18 Our round-up of the latest openings in London includes the expansion of Westfield London shopping centre, the new tech-friendly Benetton flagship, and womenswear label Self-Portrait's luxurious first store. Meanwhile, a survey of graphic design's role in politics over the last decade offers a standout exhibition at the Design Museum.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, March 2018

Retail City Guide: London, March 2018 Retail City Guide: London, March 18 Our round-up of new openings in London places special emphasis on food this month – from Indian and Thai-themed restaurants, to a showpiece food quarter in Victoria. Elsewhere, retail and entertainment merge at Kite’s Eyebar concept store, while industrial designer Tom Dixon has opened a new showroom and restaurant in hip King’s Cross.

Retail City Guides

Shoptalk 2018, Las Vegas

Shoptalk 2018, Las Vegas Shoptalk 2018, Las Vegas Fluid innovation and the retail sector’s rapid pace of transformation dominated debate at Shoptalk 2018 in Las Vegas (March 18-21). From scan-as-you-shop apps to autonomous vehicle deliveries and the rise of visual search and voice ordering, we select the highlights.

Digital Commerce

Retail Week Live 2018: Disruption, Reinvention & Emotion

Retail Week Live 2018: Disruption, Reinvention & Emotion Retail Week Live 2018 The disruptive changes crashing through the global retail sector focused minds at Retail Week Live (March 7-8), the UK’s annual conference. Here are the key learnings from two days of intense debate, with a special focus on how bricks-and-mortar retail can still be relevant.

NRF 2018, Retail's Big Show: Tech-Driven Retail

NRF 2018, Retail's Big Show: Tech-Driven Retail NRF 2018: Tech-Driven Retail Technology is transforming the shopping experience in thrilling, challenging ways. Retail executives and IT providers converged on New York City for the NRF’s annual event Retail’s Big Show to explore the latest cutting-edge solutions. From real-time analytics and retail automation, to mixed-channel engagement and Insta-ready spaces, we distil the highlights.

Business & Industry

Nordstrom’s Tech-Powered Menswear Store, NY

Nordstrom’s Tech-Powered Menswear Store, NY Nordstrom: High-Tech Menswear Store Luxury American department store chain Nordstrom has opened its first men's only store in New York – where tech innovation takes centre stage alongside aftercare services and convenience-focused concepts. The emphasis on exceptional service reflects a recognition by high-end stores that they must work extra time to cosset and care for customers, particularly if they are to offer a long-term alternative to online shopping.

Alibaba Adds Visual Recognition To Smart Speaker

Alibaba Adds Visual Recognition To Smart Speaker Alibaba's Smart Speaker: AliGenie Visual recognition is the big add-on feature for AliGenie 2.0, launched by China’s Alibaba Group in March.

Digital Commerce

Depop’s Hybrid Store Doubles as Brand Comms HQ Depop’s Hybrid Store Depop, a British reselling platform inspired by social media, has opened its first mixed-purposed retail format in Los Angeles.

Shiseido’s Tiered Beauty Playground Spoils Loyal Consumers

Shiseido’s Tiered Beauty Playground Spoils Loyal Consumers Shiseido’s Tiered Beauty Store Japanese beauty brand Shiseido has redesigned its flagship The Store in Ginza, Tokyo, creating a tiered retailing ecosystem that reinforces brand loyalty.

Shoptalk 2018: Convenience Food Retail

Shoptalk 2018: Convenience Food Retail Shoptalk 2018: Convenience Retail The battle between American retailers to become the go-to source for convenience food shopping and fast online delivery was a key focus at this year’s Shoptalk 2018 (March 18-21), the annual retail conference held in Las Vegas.

Grocery retailers are vying for market share, recognising that by 2024 some 70% of US consumers will be grocery shopping online (Nielsen, 2018).

Digital Commerce

Interactive Artwork Aims to Boost Mental Wellbeing

Interactive Artwork Aims to Boost Mental Wellbeing Artwork Boosts Mental Wellbeing A vending machine in Sydney is selling customers small packets of advice based on their mood, in a bid to get more people talking about mental health.

Consumer Lifestyle

Health & Wellness

Mobile Checkout Latest: Ubamarket

Mobile Checkout Latest: Ubamarket Mobile Checkout Latest: Ubamarket Ubamarket, a UK retail tech start-up looking to improve the performance of mobile checkout technology, is poised for rapid growth.

Digital Commerce

Banking Beyond Stereotypes: Cross-Generational Design

Banking Beyond Stereotypes: Cross-Generational Design Retail Banking’s Empathetic Focus British mutual financial institution Nationwide Building Society is rolling out a new open-plan interior design to make its banks less intimidating and appeal more to a broad demographic.

Group Buying 2.0: Pinduoduo – China’s Social Commerce App

Group Buying 2.0: Pinduoduo – China’s Social Commerce App Group Buying 2.0: Pinduoduo, China Chinese social commerce app Pinduoduo (PDD), China’s fastest-growing e-commerce app, is driven by the appeal of a discount linked to buying in a group.

Digital Commerce

Easter Activations: Instagrammable Spaces & In-Store Fun

Easter Activations: Instagrammable Spaces & In-Store Fun Easter Brand Activations 2018 Retailers and brands are challenging traditional customs with a modern take on the spring holiday period. A looser interpretation of Easter reflects how fewer younger people identify with organised religion (see Selective Spirituality).

Advertising & Branding

Aspirational Appeal: Sony’s Immersive Music Experience

Aspirational Appeal: Sony’s Immersive Music Experience Sony’s Immersive Music Experience The Sony Music Experience, a six-week pop-up event at the electronics company’s New York showroom Sony Square, takes interactive music experiences to a new consumer-friendly level of immersion.

Shop, Do, Learn: The New Department Store Formula

Shop, Do, Learn: The New Department Store Formula Do & Learn: New Dept. Store Formula “Shop, do and learn” under one roof: that’s the formula for the modern department store, according to Paula Nickolds, managing director of British retailer John Lewis. She was speaking at the opening of a new 230,000 sq ft unit in Westfield London, now Europe’s largest shopping centre. Innovations in the store – the company’s 50th location – include a Discovery Room where customers can learn how to light a room, create a smart home or hang a picture.

Retail’s Sharing Economy: Swedish Shop Rents DIY Tools

Retail’s Sharing Economy: Swedish Shop Rents DIY Tools Sharing Economy: Tool-Hire Service Tool rental in Stockholm has had a consumer-friendly makeover courtesy of home improvement company Don För Person, reflecting retail’s shift towards service-led concepts.

From Vegas to Shanghai: Modern Telecom Stores Entertain

From Vegas to Shanghai: Modern Telecom Stores Entertain Telecom Retail as Entertainment Two telecommunications brands are exploring new ways of selling mobile tech – ranging from a focus on fun community-centred space to the provision of concierge services.

Retail Week Live 2018: Top European Start-Ups

Retail Week Live 2018: Top European Start-Ups Retail Week Live 18: Top Start-Ups Retail Week Live (7-8 March), an annual conference for retail executives staged in London, saw a fleet of European retail tech start-ups pitching to attract investor interest and industry exposure. We highlight our favourites.

Digital Commerce

The Phluid Project: Gender-Neutral Shopping

The Phluid Project: Gender-Neutral Shopping Phluid: Gender-Neutral Shopping, NY The Phluid Project – America’s first gender-free lifestyle store – opened this month in New York’s NoHo neighbourhood. The shop sells clothes, make-up and lifestyle items that transcend traditional gender stereotypes.

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