Design Week

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There’s an odd tension at the heart of the sustainable market. According to one survey , while 65% of consumers say they want to buy sustainably-driven brands, only 26% actually do. This can partly be explained by the origins of sustainable product branding, according to Among Equals founder and strategy director Oliver Burch. The sector has been consistently communicated as “less than or not as good as” more traditional products, while people are used to the idea that it is &#

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A harmonious mix of concrete, oakwood and aluminium features in this Copenhagen shoe store , which has been designed by Danish studio Norm Architects. When it came to devising a fit-out for the Notabene store in Copenhagen's Old Town, Norm Architects worked on fostering "contrast and beauty" between the site's existing industrial features and the warm, tactile material palette that the studio felt was representative of the footwear brand.

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Design Week

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Studio Blackburn has unveiled new branding for Sunderland, which aims to give the city a voice on “a local, national and international” scale. Located in the North East of England, Sunderland is a port city with a history that was partly shaped by coal mining and ship building. In more recent years, the local council has set its sights on becoming a “smart city” and in 2020 it was crowned Smart City of the Year.

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Unveiled during Dutch Design Week 2021, A Line of Water by Margherita Issori is a sculptural gesture and call to climate action. Italian designer Margherita Issori has imagined a series of wooden installations in Venice, enabling its inhabitants to be fully immersed in the city’s lagoon landscape. Called The Line of Water , the proposal includes benches, platforms and pier-like extensions that would be partially immersed during high tide and fully accessible during low tide.

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Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Retailer organisations have united in disappointment at the government’s continued unwillingness to introduce specific legal protection for shopworkers who are assaulted. Although some peers in the House of Lords yesterday spoke in favour of the measures, two proposed amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill were withdrawn. The government argues that a wide.

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A network of local artisans helped create LI-AN-LO’s Mycelium, a collection of three sustainable tables handmade in Sweden. Swedish studio LI-AN-LO has created a trio of fully locally-produced tables with the intention to ‘slow design down a bit’. Called Mycelium, the collection rethinks the life cycle of design by using fully recyclable materials. The base of each table is made with solid spruce and supports a glass table top.

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The French furniture brand channels four generations of woodworking expertise into a futuristic collection inspired by ’60s sci-fi flicks. It’s no wonder Hervet Manufacturier’s design collection is dubbed “The Art of Space” The retro-futuristic pieces feel otherworldly with their widely angled silhouettes and Sputnik-inspired details.

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Dyson today unveiled the latest chapter in its fast-expanding direct to consumer retail approach, introducing advanced virtual reality technology to enable its customers to experience and test Dyson technology hands-on from their own homes using a VR headset.

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Retail Store Windows

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There isn't a great deal for us to mention here at the moment although hopefully their seasonal scheme is on its way and there will be something of interest for us to show you. Apart from the strap line 'We are Ready', quite what they are ready for is not clear. Well, here you go for now anyway. Check out our fantastic sponsors below for incredible Visual Merchandising solutions or click on the banners on the side of the main page at www.retailstorewindows.com Don't forget you can also join our

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Asda has introduced a new way of shopping at its Milton Keynes supercentre as it continues its drive to reduce plastic and help customers shop more sustainably.

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The government’s consultation on banning plastic cutlery, cups and plates is an “inadequate” response to the waste crisis, says Friends of the Earth. The green campaign group argues that while the proposed ban is useful, only a broad scale and firmer ban on plastics will have a serious effect. Camilla Zerr, a plastics campaigner with. This story continues at Piecemeal plastic bans are not enough, say campaigners.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Struggling with labor shortages, department store retailer Macy’s has asked its corporate employees to work in stores during the holiday season, reports Business Insider. In a corporate memo obtained by The Washington Post, Macy’s asked its corporate staff to volunteer for shifts in stores in a program it calls “Experience Elevation Elves.” Workers were asked to volunteer for three full-day shifts in stores.

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Chocolate brand Thorntons is back on TV with a new advert for the first time in four years, as part of a £3.6m campaign that also features social media support. Running from 19 November for six weeks, the humorous advert aims to “reignite shoppers’ emotional connection with the brand and drive awareness of the Thorntons. This story continues at Thorntons returns to TV with Christmas advertising campaign.

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Following the news that, from January 19, 2022, Amazon will not accept payments from UK-issued Visa credit cards; Chris Dinga, payments analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view: “Visa holds the second largest credit cards market share in the UK, with close to 20 million cards issued in 2021 - behind Mastercard with around 38 million, according to GlobalData.

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Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Co-op has extended its Co-op on Amazon Prime offering to Bristol surrounding areas. It follows the original launch launch of the service in Glasgow in September last year. Customers in Bristol and surrounding areas including Avonmouth, Chipping Sodbury and Almondsbury can now shop online through the Co-op on Amazon and have same-day delivery through Prime, subject to availability, on orders over £40.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Online shoppers have been receiving lots of “out of stock” messages lately. In October, consumers saw more than 2 billion such messages across a range of product categories, according to the Adobe Digital Economy Index , which provides a look into U.S. e-commerce by analyzing direct consumer transactions online. The number of online out-of-stock messages was up 250 percent from a pre-pandemic period, January 2020.

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The annual Sporting Lunch made a return for GroceryAid at Grosvenor House, London on Friday 12th November 2021. Over 1,200 colleagues from 198 companies raised over £633k on the day, through tickets sales, generous donations and 24 sponsors: a record fundraising amount for this event.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

By: Faith Huddleston • Director, Creative Activation. TENFOLD + TENSPACE | Columbus, Ohio. We’ve all seen the pop-up stores and we all know the formula. We’ve seen it done well and executed poorly. So what’s the next evolution of retail? What if you could create a retail experience that was about inspiring humanity and truly connecting with people on an emotional level?

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Today, Kao, a leading Japanese consumer goods manufacturer and one of the world's largest suppliers of professional salon products including brands like Goldwell and other iconic beauty brands such as John Frieda and Molton Brown, announced that its production and administrative facilities in the UK and Germany will be climate neutral by 2022. Whereas the UK facilities have already achieved this goal for the year 2021, the German operations will follow on January 1st, 2022.

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Edge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A “crafty” Christmas for Edge…. Lino printing workshop run by London-based print artist Emily Vanns…. Creativity is at the heart of all we do and we were delighted to welcome London-based print artist Emily Vanns into our studio to run a lino print session. She got the ‘artist within’ out of every one of us! We learnt all about the history of lino design, got our hands messy carving and printing and managed to create some of our own festive Christmas cards!

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amy Higginbotham, senior retail analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view: “Kingfisher has emerged from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic as a much stronger business, with group sales up 11.8% on a two-year basis in the three months to the end of October. Group like-for-like sales also remain comfortably ahead of pre-pandemic levels, up 15.0% on a two-year basis, supported by an increase in average transaction values.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CHICAGO, November 18, 2021 –( BUSINESS WIRE )– Retail TouchPoints (RTP) announced plans to bring together one of the fastest growing conference programs in the industry (the Retail Innovation Conference) with two of the longest standing brands serving the digital and physical retail communities. The new combined event will replace the former retailX Event and will feature distinct IRCE and design:retail show floors and programming.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Illva Saronno is proud to announce its prestigious win in Wine Enthusiast’s Wine Star Awards as Spirit Brand/Distiller of the Year. The Wine Star Awards are considered one of the most acclaimed awards in the alcoholic beverage industry and for Disaronno to be recognised as a leader in the global wine and spirits business is an incredible achievement.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Travel brand Away (New York) has added three executives to its leadership team, according to a press release. Charles Liu joins the brand as COO, and he will lead the retailer’s end-to-end supply chain and business technology teams. He has previously held roles at Walmart, Shopko and Walgreens and was most recently COO at Casper Sleep. Melissa Weiss comes on-board as CMO; she will head the brand’s marketing organization, including brand marketing, growth marketing, creative and communications te

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A brand new Spar convenience store and Shell service station on one of Darlington’s busiest main roads has opened its doors to the public.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

As part of a strategic review of its retail business, CVS Health (Woonsocket, R.I.) will create new store formats: stores dedicated to offering primary care services; enhanced versions of its HealthHub locations focused on health and wellness; and traditional CVS Pharmacy stores, according to a press release. The retailer will also reduce store density in some locations, closing about 300 stores per year for the next three years, beginning in spring of 2022. “Our retail stores are fundamen

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Albert Bartlett is launching a new national advertising campaign capturing its brand-new theme ‘Make It Extraordinary’. The advert includes a fantastical representation of the potato picking line and features world-class acrobats to demonstrate the five-star treatment that every one of Albert Bartlett’s potatoes receives. The campaign will launch during Coronation Street on 19th November 2021 and will also be supported with cinema, digital and social media advertising, marking a multi-million-po

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

kegg is a discrete and comfortable 2-in-1 fertility tracker that can predict and identify ovulation. At kegg our mantra is “fertility understood” We believe that women deserve the best technology and experience when it comes to tracking their cycles and managing their fertile window. The femtech market has long been overlooked, but finally, we are seeing movement in the right direction.

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Hamleys, the world’s oldest and most iconic toy store, is set to bring the magic of Christmas to Westfield London, with a brand-new festive pop-up, opening on the today, followed by a permanent, 11,000sq ft store in spring 2022.

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Pizza Hut has announced the following changes to its senior leadership team in the UK and Europe:

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Speaker: Shaunna Bruton - Associate Director of Product Strategy at Orium | Sam Panzer - Director of Industry Strategy at Talon.One | Frank Passantino - Director of Product Management at Bloomreach

More and more, customers are expecting a better personalized CX. But can retailers actually deliver? Data from McKinsey shows that companies that excel in personalization increase their revenue by 40%, but despite these numbers, retailers struggle to implement customer personalization strategies. So what are the potential solutions? Join us to gain a better understanding of the current retail landscape and learn what you can do to translate personalization strategies into practical implementatio

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