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Luxury Retail Phygitalisation: Blending Tradition and Technology in the Digital Age

Retail Focus

For their staff to effectively navigate this new landscape, brands must invest in training and development. It requires a delicate balance between preserving the traditional allure of luxury retail and embracing the opportunities presented by digital technology.

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Expanding the Boundaries of Luxury: Navigating Experiences Beyond Traditional Retail

Retail Focus

Recently, they crossed all boundaries to discover the vast opportunities for their brands to evolve and grow. On one hand, creating a comprehensive brand experience extends an enticing array of opportunities. Luxury brands can also introduce different tiers of products or services to cater to varied consumer segments.

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First Nations artists, Pride and mental health: Volley talks collabs

Inside Retail

Opening up again Volley – which was sold by Pacific Brands to private equity firm Anchorage Capital in 2014 following a collapse in sales – has managed to transform its reputation as a ‘daggy’ shoe company. In 2019, Volley’s brand manager John Szwede told News.com.au

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All-in-one fresh foods market, catering and event location BRIDGE opens in Zurich

Retail Focus

The BRIDGE market concept skilful balances the offering into a varied combination of fresh-food areas, catering and dry goods. With the conceptual design and implementation of BRIDGE, Interstore | Schweitzer has set a milestone in the history of the Migros brand and has enriched Zurich’s food retail scene with an extraordinary jewel. .

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Studio Giancarlo Valle transforms historic Stockholm cinema into tactile rug showroom

Dezeen

Interior design firm Studio Giancarlo Valle has turned an early 20th-century cinema in Stockholm into a showroom for rug company Nordic Knots, restoring its original stone details and adding warm wood and brushed steel. The brand managed to find a Swedish company that could replicate the original terrazzo to cover the entire floor area.

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In-house teams: TfL on why “the whole city is really a canvas”

Design Week

“I think we’re all aware of the design titans whose shoulders we stand on by working where we do,” says Jenney De Sousa, brand manager at Transport for London (TfL). As a designer at TfL, De Sousa is part of a multi-part in-house team which covers almost every touchpoint across the transport network.

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Proximity retailing and current retail environmental paradoxes

Retail Focus

And to add complexity to the situation, these brands find it difficult to establish a reliable supply chain, as they may not have the same level of relationships or resources as larger brands. The key will be to find a balance between using the benefits of online retail and maintaining the unique features of small-town shops.