Category: brave-words
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Were the seeds of second-hand, vintage, and fashion rental sewn in ’70s football sub-culture?
in brave-words, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, internationalisation, leisure & sport, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, personalisation, product suppliers, recycling, renting, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, sustainabilityWere the seeds of second-hand, vintage, and fashion rental sewn in ’70s football sub-culture?Check out a fascinating BBC article and exhibition in Liverpool The popularity of fashion rental and vintage re-sale is gathering pace, driven by both aesthetic and sustainable motives. A key attraction is to break away from the mainstream commercial, both in terms…
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Empowering & Organising Retail People: Bringing ‘Meaning to the Retail Madness’
Retail has a chequered history of human resource management, to say the least. Sadly, some of us will still remember the aggressive cultures that used to pervade the offices of some our biggest retail businesses. Even recently, I have experienced the painful charting of an executive hierarchy, stating with precision who is more important than…
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Is there another Zara? Or is it running out of ‘fast-fashion time?’
in assortment structure planning, brave-words, disruptive retail, fashion accessories, footwear, ladies fashion, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, product suppliers, recycling, renting, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, supply-chains, sustainabilityZara is extraordinarily successful. But will it become a victim of its own success, so long as sustainability remains a victim of Zara. Zara has become the most amazingly successful fashion retailer ever. It perpetually fills its stores with new and exciting styles, that customers across the world constantly fall in love with. To achieve…
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The 4 reasons why retailers behave ethically & ‘change for the better’
The invasion of Ukraine, as with COVID before, is showing us the ‘Ethical DNA’ of our favourite brands & retailers There are 4 reasons why retail and consumer brands behave ethically and “change for the better.” In essence they react ethically and commercially, in various combinations. Ethical perception depends on the context of the situation.…
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Incredible Universe: “Welcome to the Global Shopping Mall”
Tim Radley speaking at the PLUGin event – “Welcome to the Global Shopping Mall – future of E-commerce and Retail” Those, with a longer retail tooth, will remember an extreme retail concept from the 1990s called Incredible Universe. At 17,000 sqm it was a retail heavyweight, selling everything electrical and technological, such as it…
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Retailers & Consumers: A Conflict of Space & Interests
Many traditional retailers and their customers just don’t “get each other” anymore! A gap has appeared between the priorities of each, the desires, the realistic possibilities of buying & selling – a conflict of interest. The distance that divides the two camps is best seen when we look at the issue of space and…
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Is your online sales & physical store numbers strategy in place?
Online & offline, the biggest challenge for historic retailers is to remain relevant and attractive to their customers. That will ultimately dictate the online sales potential and physical store numbers that will be viable for a business. Do you remember the days when the e-commerce part of a bricks ‘n’ mortar business was compared to…
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“Making Money from VM” – Tim Radley @ VM&Display Show
We live in a retail climate where online retailing is making significant in roads into the sales and profits traditionally commanded by physical stores.Customers and retailers alike are questioning the future direction of physical stores, some to the point of asking whether there is a future for physical stores at all. Of more relevance is…
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