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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.


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  • 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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  • Exclusive Interview with Tim Radley: Experiential Retailing & Store Concepts

    October 2, 2024
    in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, omni-channel retailing, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store theatre


  • ‘Authenticity, not Experience,’ will be the Saviour of the High Street

    October 2, 2024
    in customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, high street planning, in-store services, location strategy, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, omni-channel retailing, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, retail-regeneration, store experience, store theatre, town centre planning


  • ‘Pulling the purse strings not the heart strings!’ M&S shop strategy is on the money

    October 2, 2024
    in assortment structure planning, disruptive retail, food & drink, high street planning, ladies fashion, location strategy, meaning in the retail madness, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, space planning, store experience, store layout, town centre planning


  • Beware the ‘retail wolves in sheep’s clothing!’ Or is Deliveroo nothing more than a ‘sheep in a retail wolf costume?’

    October 2, 2024
    in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, disruptive retail, food & drink, impulse retailing, in-store services, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, omni-channel retailing, product suppliers, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, social savvy, supply-chains


  • ‘The Good Store’ – A product of the sustainable community

    October 2, 2024
    in accessories, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, fashion accessories, health & beauty, home, ladies fashion, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, multi-category, new retail, packaging, pop-up stores, product suppliers, recycling, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, retail-regeneration, store experience, supply-chains, sustainability, telling product stories


  • On-Demand & Second-Hand: The Yin & Yang solutions to over-production

    October 2, 2024
    in assortment structure planning, disruptive retail, internationalisation, ladies fashion, new retail, personalisation, product suppliers, recycling, renting, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, supply-chains, sustainability


  • Is it right to celebrate beautiful retailing, from less than beautiful retailers?

    October 2, 2024
    in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, personalisation, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, store theatre, sustainability


  • Talking about ‘Experiential Retailing’ for SMEs with Startups.co.uk

    October 2, 2024
    in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, impulse retailing, in-store services, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, personalisation, pop-up stores, product suppliers, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, social savvy, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, visual merchandising, windows


  • My exciting collaboration with the London College of Fashion

    October 2, 2024
    in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, fashion accessories, footwear, jewellery, ladies fashion, location strategy, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, new retail, omni-channel retailing, pop-up stores, recycling, renting, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, sustainability, telling product stories, visual merchandising, windows


  • Can the ‘cost of living’ educate us on the ‘price of owning?’

    September 30, 2024
    in customer-engagement, disruptive retail, food & drink, ladies fashion, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, new retail, packaging, product suppliers, recycling, renting, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store operations, supply-chains, sustainability

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