Category: disruptive retail
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Defining your ‘Five-year’ Retail Strategy plan.
Extracts from Tim Radley’s 5-star book… ‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’ How to become an Essential Retailer. Creating a balanced organisation, flexible process flows, and a culture for change will benefit you little, unless you channel these attributes correctly into the brightest opportunities. Every retailer will have different opportunities that will depend on the product…
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Are Trump’s tariffs a test of our true appetite for circularity?
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, sustainabilityThe continuing trade wars led by Trump’s tariffs have the stock markets tumbling, whilst manufacturers, producers and retailers are re-calculating their plans to continue turning a profit, or even to survive. We have governments throwing out ethical & sustainable policies as they scramble to get the best trading deals for each country. And we have…
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Is it easier to sell as ‘a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ than to build a new reputation?
The recent announcement that the Boohoo fashion group is being re-launched as the Debenhams Group is riddled with more irony than a Shakespearean play. But firstly, the purchasing of the key assets of one of the UK’s most loved department stores was undoubtedly a stroke of genius by Boohoo. Even at its demise it was…
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Why we all need to challenge ourselves to simply act sustainably.
Often the complex and devastating problems caused by the fashion industry seem so huge that individuals wanting to make a change, even organisations wanting to make change, feel lost and helpless in a sea of data and jargon. The causes and the solutions can seem very big business. The irony is that it is actually…
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Can our closet wars help us to select our sustainability battles!
I love this chart! It was produced using Globaldata research and is now more than 5 years old. It predicted what types of retailer our fashion wardrobe would be bought from, up to the year 2028. As we stand here in 2025 we can now see how accurate the predications were. Even if we consider…
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Is your brand worth repairing, renewing, & re-selling to your customer?
On a recent tour of central London stores with some retail clients, they were amazed at how many brands offer repair services and are moving to ‘products for life’ mentalities. Finisterre, not for the first time, stands out as best practice in the world of product repairs. Firstly it offers the customer videos and manuals…
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