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Discover retail thought leadership, new concepts & retail innovation, best practice insights on retail strategy, customer experience, merchandising operations, latest trends on rental, re-sell, upsell and every corner of circularity.


Welcome to our headlines & highlights

  • Beware…’Traditional retailers are ‘losing face’ with the customer.’

    Beware…’Traditional retailers are ‘losing face’ with the customer.’

    Extracts from Tim Radley’s 5-star book… ‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’ How to become an Essential Retailer. The single physical channel was relatively easy for retailers to control. At the very least they knew where, and roughly when, they were going to ‘come into contact’ with the customer. And they knew it was on their patch. […]

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    May 9, 2025
    in customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, home delivery, logistics and distribution, meaning in the retail madness, omni-channel retailing, rapid delivery, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, Retail technology


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  • Discover…’The new landscape for retail business communities.’

    Discover…’The new landscape for retail business communities.’

    Extracts from Tim Radley’s 5-star book… ‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’ How to become an Essential Retailer. If we were retail tourists, planning a ‘grand tour’ of a best practice retail organization, then the itinerary we would plan today would be very different from the schedule we would have travelled even ten years ago. In […]

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    May 9, 2025
    in assortment structure planning, disruptive retail, location strategy, new retail, omni-channel retailing, product development, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store operations


  • Ensure…’Retail relationships are not just technology.’

    Ensure…’Retail relationships are not just technology.’

    Extracts from Tim Radley’s 5-star book… ‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’ How to become an Essential Retailer. In the digital-first world, it is easy to get lost in the truly incredible capabilities and applications of technology. It is easy to think that technology holds the answers to everything. It certainly holds the answer to the […]

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    in AI, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, in-store services, meaning in the retail madness, omni-channel retailing, personalisation, retail management, retail organisations, Retail technology, sales promotions & events, shop of the future, store experience


Here’s our latest top 10 posts…

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  • In today’s ‘Shop of the Future’ do you spread visual merchandising more thinly or indulge in its richness?

    September 30, 2024
    in branding & visual communication, brave-words, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, fashion accessories, fast fashion, ladies fashion, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, new retail, omni-channel retailing, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, shop of the future, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, technology & electrical, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, vm operations, windows


  • Celebrating the healthcare sector. From ‘Good People’ into ‘Great Retailers’

    September 30, 2024
    in brave-words, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, food & drink, health & beauty, meaning in the retail madness, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, sustainability


  • Good customer experiences come in all shapes and sizes: Make sure they’re always in-stock!

    September 30, 2024
    in customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, impulse retailing, meaning in the retail madness, personalisation, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, store experience, store operations, store theatre, visual merchandising


  • Swoperz: An idea born from community taking pre-loved children’s fashion to another world.

    October 1, 2024
    in customer-engagement, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion accessories, fast fashion, kids fashion, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, pop-up stores, pureplay, renting, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, social savvy, sustainability


  • The Age of the Retail Creatives is upon us. “12 questions that will shape your visual merchandising career!”

    October 1, 2024
    in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, fast fashion, ladies fashion, luxury, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, new retail, omni-channel retailing, personalisation, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, vm compliance, vm operations, VM Selling Toolkit, windows


  • We can not rely on lower inflation to bring our customers back.

    October 25, 2024
    in analytics, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, health & beauty, in-store services, meaning in the retail madness, personalisation, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, town centre planning


  • “Meet your wardrobe of 2028!” – It has more Second-hand than Fast-fashion

    October 2, 2024
    in accessories, analytics, assortment structure planning, brave-words, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion accessories, fast fashion, footwear, internationalisation, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, product suppliers, pureplay, recycling, renting, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, supply-chains, sustainability, value retailing


  • “You Reap what you Sew!” – Do Boohoo’s woes signal the end of lazy fashion?

    October 2, 2024
    in accessories, branding & visual communication, ethical retailing, fast fashion, footwear, ladies fashion, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, product suppliers, pureplay, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, supply-chains, sustainability


  • Ben Francis, Gymshark and why ‘The physical world is a great place to do business!’

    October 2, 2024
    in branding & visual communication, brave-words, customer experience, disruptive retail, high street planning, leisure & sport, location strategy, new retail, omni-channel retailing, pureplay, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy


  • The ‘Passion Supply Chain’ delivering customer engagement and commercial retail success.

    September 30, 2024
    in assortment structure planning, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, product suppliers, recycling, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, supply-chains, sustainability

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