Category: product suppliers
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Bloom & Wild: Delivering a fragrant revolution
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, home, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, product suppliers, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, supply-chainsBloom & Wild: Delivering a fragrant revolution I’d recommend that we all spoil ourselves with flowers. Not, for the hell of it, and not any flowers. Just those delivered by Bloom & Wild. Bloom & Wild are now relatively established, however it does us no harm to remind ourselves of the reasons for their success so…
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“The Little Loop’ and the Dragon’s/Dinosaur’s Den Dilemma”
What an amazing episode of the BBC’s Dragon’s Den which saw a children’s clothing rental start-up split the opinions and sentiments of the five resident dragons straight down the middle. Charlotte Morley, founder and ceo of shared children’s wardrobe, The Little Loop, entered the Den and came away with investments from two Dragons and twice the…
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What makes a successful physical retail shop? 75% Astute Strategies & 25% Creative Concepts
in assortment structure planning, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, in-store services, location strategy, meaning in the retail madness, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, product suppliers, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, store theatre, supply-chains, visual merchandisingWithout doubt the first-hand customer experience is the essential interaction that makes a physical retail shop a commercial and brand success. But as with the proverbial iceberg, there are a multitude of strategies and operational activities that go towards delivering that first-hand experience, and into making any shop, a success. And now that physical shops…
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“Encouraging Lifecycles with the Customer” – Re-commerce & the Circular Economy
Tim Radley:“Re-commerce & the Circular Economy”World Consumer Goods & Retail Forum 2022 23rd – 24th June 2022Amsterdam, Netherlands The re-commerce model, also known as the circular economy, has become an important strategy for many retail verticals, especially as physical retail continues to lose its footing. But it’s not without its challenges.In this session, Tim Radley…
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The 6 Best Retail Strategies: No.3 Supply Chain Strategies
Supply Chain Partners: In the same boat together The relationship with suppliers has never been so important. The COVID lockdown exposed the dangers of weak supplier integration, whilst the move to remote digital communications highlighted the opportunities for technology applications across new supply chains. Trust between some suppliers and retailers hit an all-time low as…
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The 6 Best Retail Strategies: No.2 Product Assortment Strategies
The Product Assortment. ‘The Crowning of the King’ ‘The Product is King’ or so the old-adage goes. It seems strange to doubt this statement. After all, retail is the process of bringing the product and the customer together. Product is still at the heart of retail, of course, but its role as ‘absolute king’ is…
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“Saving Planet Retail:” From ‘Economies of Scale’ to ‘Scale of Economies!’
From ‘Economies of Scale’ to ‘Scale of Economies!’ The principle behind making money from ‘economies of scale’ is to produce high volumes of products, which reduces the individual unit cost. The more you make and the more you sell the greater the margin and the greater the profit. The principle behind making money from ‘scale…
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