Category: product suppliers
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Discover a ‘Five-Star Christmas: “Meaning in the Retail Madness”
in accessories, analytics, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, brave-words, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, fashion accessories, food & drink, footwear, health & beauty, high street planning, home, impulse retailing, in-store services, internationalisation, jewellery, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, location strategy, luxury, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, pop-up stores, product suppliers, recycling, renting, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, retail-regeneration, sales promotions & events, social savvy, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store operations audits, store operations compliance, store theatre, store-videos, supply-chains, sustainability, technology & electrical, telling product stories, town centre planning, value retailing, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, vm compliance, vm operations, VM Selling Toolkit, VManalytics, website excellence, windows“An excellent read *****” “Valuable reference for anyone in retail *****” “This book is more relevant now than ever! *****” ‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’ explains how touchpoints have replaced channels, how linear supply chains will become circular, why assortments are increasingly virtual, how physical is turning to local, and why products and shops are…
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A rejuvenated Marks & Spencer proving that ‘Less is commercially More!’
It has always been one of the most difficult messages to get across to buyers & merchandisers. That by reducing your number of options, you can drive more sales & profit. M&S has kindly released figures that prove exactly this. A recent reduction in womenswear options has certainly not held back sales growth. Although its…
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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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Beware the ‘retail wolves in sheep’s clothing!’ Or is Deliveroo nothing more than a ‘sheep in a retail wolf costume?’
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-chainsBeware the ‘retail wolves in sheep’s clothing!’ Or is Deliveroo nothing more than a ‘sheep in a retail wolf costume?’ As the delivery business opens its first, and perhaps last, physical food convenience store. The extraordinary COVID lockdown period created a melting pot of retail disruption. The definition itself of what is a retailer, was…
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‘The Good Store’ – A product of the sustainable community
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‘The Good Store’ – A product of the sustainable community For those wishing to buy sustainably the problem of finding genuine brands takes time and commitment. The Good Store is a department store in central London that has curated 600sqm of space dedicated entirely to products made from recycled materials and upcycled into attractive things…
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On-Demand & Second-Hand: The Yin & Yang solutions to over-production
Supply and Demand has always been the driver for commercial brands and retailers. In new and growing markets, the demand temporarily outstrips supply. For those retailers who simply have the means to manufacture and get their product to the marketplace and to the customer, there is a lot of easy money to be made. A…
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Talking about ‘Experiential Retailing’ for SMEs with Startups.co.uk
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, windowsVery pleased to have collaborated with Startups.co.uk on an article about Experiential retailing.Thanks to Helena Young, for inviting me to contribute. Of course, creating and delivering a good customer experience is so important for every retailer. But will it be the saviour of the high street, the knight in shining armour for independent retailers?Well, not necessarily! As…
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Can the ‘cost of living’ educate us on the ‘price of owning?’
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, sustainabilityThe ‘cost of living’ crisis affecting all of us, is an opportunity to educate everyone on the wider sustainable issues around the things we buy and own. There are of course so many powerful and compelling reasons why we should think more deeply about the repercussions of what we buy. The environment, climate change and…
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Why disruptive retail models must still implement good old-fashioned inventory management?
Why disruptive retail models must still implement good old-fashioned inventory management? The worlds of sustainability and the circular supply chain are clashing headlong with traditional retail principles and processes. This new wave of businesses specialise in, and operate, a variety of models across renting and re-selling. Some of these models still rely on a controlled…
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Delivering successful sustainable retail: Bringing ‘Meaning to the Retail Madness’
Retail is balancing on an unprecedented tightrope of change. Between the precipice of exploitative disaster, and the leap to sustainability and a commercially viable circular future. Where do you begin as a sustainable retailer? Opportunities are emerging for businesses of all sizes, scenarios and origins, to engage with the growing customer sentiment for products made…
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