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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…

Happy reading.


  • Are Trump’s tariffs a test of our true appetite for circularity?

    April 8, 2025
    in assortment structure planning, circular retailing, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion, fast fashion, internationalisation, meaning in the retail madness, product suppliers, re-sell, recycling, renting, repair, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, sustainability


  • No.15: Build your beautiful assortments before you build your beautiful shops! – 52 Steps to the Perfect Shop

    April 23, 2025
    in assortment structure planning, product development, retail, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, shop of the future, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, telling product stories, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, vm operations


  • Gymshark – We do Gym! They also do diversity, inclusivity, masculinity, femininity, health & well-being for everyone.

    April 2, 2025
    in branding & visual communication, brave-words, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, health & beauty, meaning in the retail madness, pop-up stores, retail businesses, retail management, social savvy, store experience


  • No.14: Hero Products. Display what your customer wants to buy…not what you want to sell! – 52 Steps to the Perfect Shop

    April 23, 2025
    in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, impulse retailing, product development, retail, retail brand heritage, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandising, vm operations


  • A healthier & fairer society will be built through grassroots innovations, led by a younger generation with a heightened moral & cultural responsibility for the world around them.

    March 26, 2025
    in brave-words, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, pre-loved, re-sell, recycling, renting, repair, retail, retail strategy, retail-regeneration, sustainability


  • No.13: Fashion themes must be ‘Moments through Time’ not just a ‘Moment in time!’ – 52 Steps to the Perfect Shop

    April 23, 2025
    in analytics, assortment structure planning, customer experience, fabrics, fashion, fashion accessories, multi-category, product development, retail organisations, space management, store operations, store theatre, supply-chains, telling product stories, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations


  • Is it easier to sell as ‘a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ than to build a new reputation?

    March 19, 2025
    in branding & visual communication, disruptive retail, fast fashion, multi-category, omni-channel retailing, pureplay, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail organisations, retail strategy, value retailing


  • Why we all need to challenge ourselves to simply act sustainably.

    in analytics, circular retailing, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fabrics, fast fashion, pre-loved, re-sell, recycling, renting, repair, retail, secondhand, sustainability


  • No.12: Category stories are not boring! They add power & authority to shops. – ’52 Steps to the Perfect Shop!’ – 52 Steps to the Perfect Shop

    April 23, 2025
    in assortment structure planning, customer experience, fashion, fashion accessories, retail organisations, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, vm compliance, vm operations


  • The need to make more money from selling less is becoming a fact of modern retail life.

    March 12, 2025
    in circular retailing, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, ethical retailing, health & beauty, in-store services, meaning in the retail madness, packaging, personalisation, re-sell, recycling, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, shop of the future, sustainability

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