Tue.Nov 29, 2022

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McDonald’s uniforms repurposed into edgy fashion

Inside Retail

Finnish fashion label Vain has collaborated with McDonald’s to upcycle the fast food chain’s staff uniforms to an exclusive, stylish fashion collection. Inspired by McDonald’s “cultural omnipresence”, the collection features 13 looks and 27 pieces almost entirely crafted from the brand’s used workwear. Vain described the collaboration seem like a rather unconventional combination, “the project ended up feeling very natural from a creative point of view”.

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LoveShackFancy opens first London store

Retail Focus

US fashion brand LoveShackFancy is to open its first European store in London’s Notting Hill. Founded by former Cosmopolitan fashion editor, Rebecca Hessel Cohen, in 2013, LoveShackFancy is a vintage-inspired clothing brand. The brand already has 15 stores, but the opening of its London store will be its first expansion outside North America. Advised by Bruce Gillingham Pollard, it has acquired 192 Westbourne Grove W11.

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Domino’s rolls out 10 new stores in six weeks

Inside Retail

Global pizza chain restaurant Domino’s is set to open another 10 stores across Australia and New Zealand before the end of the year. Domino’s ANZ chief development officer, Cameron Toomey, said Australia is one of the more “mature locations” when compared to the retailer’s global markets. “We have shifted our focus from delivering the standard Domino’s store in a typical, metro location to also developing bespoke stores to get us into locations that we have not serviced.”.

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Pricer ESLs deliver investment payback period of 18 months, new study shows

Retail Focus

Pricer, the provider of leading shelf edge automation and communication solutions, has been found to deliver a significant ROI based on operational efficiencies and digitally enhanced store estates that help to protect margin, according to ‘The Total Economic Impact of Pricer’, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting in November 2022.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

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

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Retail Food Group reports robust sales, plans expansion in 16 countries

Inside Retail

Multibrand food chain franchisor Retail Food Group says sales across its domestic network have grown 16.5 per cent in the first 21 weeks of this year. The company owns and operates Gloria Jean’s, Crust Gourmet Pizza, Donut King, Brumby’s Bakery, Cafe2U Michel’s Patisserie, Pizza Capers and The Coffee Guy. In August, the business reported that its tax-paid profits increased threefold to $5.3 million in its full-year results.

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Study shows the rise of ‘SLICK’ fashion is well underway in Gen Z

Retail Focus

The rise of ‘SLICK’ fashion is well underway among Gen Z, a study shows. According to research from SQLI Digital Experience , more consumers are choosing to purchase second-hand and upcycled clothing items. Though, there is a demand for wanting the pre-loved items swiftly – combining slow fashion with quick delivery expectations. An overwhelming three quarters (76%) of adults want to see fashion brands offering a mix of new and pre-loved clothing.

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“Communicating heritage with an eye to the future” – discovering MUMAC with Barbara Foglia

Design Wanted

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and with a recent restyling, the MUMAC, located in Milan, keeps on growing and connecting with the coffee culture community […]. The post “Communicating heritage with an eye to the future” – discovering MUMAC with Barbara Foglia appeared first on DesignWanted.

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Video: Blockbuster is back – as a Los Angeles speakeasy

Inside Retail

In Los Angeles, you can hop back in time to the 80s and 90s with the new Blockbuster pop-up experience. The speakeasy allows guests to come in, get their Blockbuster membership card and peruse the VHS boxes on the shelves. But instead of a video tape, the VHS boxes represent different drinks, from cocktails to beer and wine. The immersive experience, complete with blue and yellow decor throughout, allows guests to relax on beanbags and even play retro video games.

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Surveillance and Strobe Lights: Walmart, Target and Other Major Retailers Level Up Their Loss Prevention

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Mass merchants and major retail chains are reaching deeper into their bag of tricks this year to prevent holiday shoplifting. Retailers including Target and Barnes & Noble are locking up items behind plexiglass or using steel cables to tie merchandise to store shelves, Reuters reports, while others are installing cameras and hiring more security personnel.

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How Taking Shape is leveraging backend efficiency gains to grow overseas

Inside Retail

Australian plus-size women’s fashion brand, Taking Shape, has had a busy three years. . Since 2019, it has relaunched its online offering in Australia, rolled out dedicated e-commerce sites and fulfilment centres in New Zealand and the UK, and upgraded its warehouse management and order management systems, leading to significant efficiency gains and growth.

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The Personalization Playbook: 2024 Strategies

Did you know—74% of IT leaders are looking to improve their tech stack to offer better personalization? It’s impossible to ignore the importance of personalization, but it comes with challenges. How do you do it with a tight budget? What about customer privacy and the use of data? The Personalization Playbook is packed with research and insights from Orium, Talon.One, and Bloomreach and gives IT leaders answers to these tough questions, helping them shape 2024 strategies for personalization.

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Resources And Tips To Harness The Power Of Interior Design For Environmental Impact — And Employee Retention

All Work

Architecture garners a lot of media attention when it comes to social and environmental impact, but what’s happening in the interior design sector? Expert Melissa Cooksey discusses the ways in which interior designers can take responsibility for what goes into — and comes out of — their projects. . Cooksey shares her top resources and insights, and explains what to do if you’re experiencing pushback from your employer or client due to perceived cost.

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How pop-ups helped inform Kat the Label’s new flagship store in Melbourne

Inside Retail

After building traction online and through its pop-up stores, and achieving skyrocketing growth through Covid-19, Kat the Label has opened its flagship store in Cremorne, Victoria. The lingerie and sleepwear brand is also set to expand its wholesale offering. Its online stockists currently include Revolve, Shopbop, Free People and Urban Outfitters, and it will soon launch in David Jones.

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A Roundup of Bay Cities' 2022 Sustainability Initiatives

Bay Cities

Sustainability has been and will continue to be a prominent driving force in how many companies do business as we strive to do our part to #SavetheEarth. Adopting sustainable practices is much more than a trending fad, it’s a necessary step to guarantee the protection of the environment and aid in the regeneration of our ecosystems. According to The National Retail Federation, nearly 8 in 10 respondents indicate sustainability is important to them, with over 70% willing to pay more to brands tha

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How Coupang, the Amazon of Korea, turned a profit 18 months after listing

Inside Retail

It took Amazon seven years to turn a profit, so the unexpected foray of its Korean look-alike, Coupang , into the black just 18 months after it became a public company came as a pleasant surprise to investors: the company’s stock price immediately rose by more than 10 per cent. On 18 November, it still languished about 60 per cent below its closing price on its first day of trading, the quarterly profit is a major milestone, particularly as Coupang first began operations as a marketplace as long

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

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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Lamitex presents new finishes for the fifth edition of its Decors Week

Design Wanted

The month of October marked a special event – Lamitex’ fifth Decors Week. Renowned for its avant-garde decorative laminates, the Italian company introduced this unique concept […]. The post Lamitex presents new finishes for the fifth edition of its Decors Week appeared first on DesignWanted.

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The importance of an elite B2B customer experience

Inside Retail

Customer experience (CX) has long been a strategic focus for business-to-consumer (B2C) retailers who understand its role as a key driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and retention. Over the years, business-to-business (B2B) retailers have begun to understand that their customers increasingly expect the same quality experiences they get from their B2C interactions with digital consumer brands such as Uber, Netflix, and Amazon.

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IVF insurance Gaia’s identity designed to represent all family types

Design Week

Ragged Edge has rebranded IVF insurance product Gaia as it seeks to separate itself from an “idealised and misleading view” of IVF. The service provided by Gaia centres around making the treatment more accessible and affordable. As well as getting a personalised financing plan based on calculations of the number of IVF rounds that might be needed, people who do not leave hospital with a child pay.

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Delivering disaster: Why Send, Voly and Deliveroo collapsed in Australia

Inside Retail

Compared to the disruption of the last few years, 2022 has been a fairly stable one for retail. But one segment of the market seems to be suffering far more than others. Food delivery businesses, which proliferated throughout the pandemic, have been slowly falling into administration or pulling the plug on their operations. Grocery delivery app Send fell into administration in May , followed by Voly in November.

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Planning the Architecture of Your Modular DXP

Are you considering moving away from a monolith platform and over to composable architecture? Join experts from Google Cloud, GroupBy, and Orium as they discuss the benefits of moving to a modular digital experience platform. In this masterclass, uncover key indicators that show your brand is ready for a modular DXP, and learn how to lay the foundation for composable commerce.

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VMSD: Holiday Windows, Look Book Deadlines Extended

VMS

Missed your chance to submit to VMSD ‘s January/February “Look Book” issue or our annual holiday windows recap? Don’t worry – we’ve extended both deadlines so there’s still time to send us your materials! The new deadline for VMSD ‘s January/February “Look Book” is Friday, Dec. 2. This annual comprehensive guide features a range of retail products from around the world.

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Getting pricing and products right to win in the era of inflation

Inside Retail

Australian retail sales are on the rise, but new research suggests that this growth is driven by inflation, not by consumers buying more. Other new research also links this growth to rising profits. So, with inflation at its highest in three decades and the Reserve Bank forecasting a 7.75 per cent peak later this year, how can you provide Australians impacted by the cost-of-living crisis with affordable products and convenient shopping in a retail environment facing squeezed margins, rising busi

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FENDI Casa Flagship to Debut in Miami

VMS

FENDI Casa (Rome) will open its first flagship store in the United States, in the Miami Design District. The boutique’s opening on Nov. 30 coincides with the start of Miami Art and Design Week, at which FENDI has presented a series of special projects over time, with both established and emerging designers. The Miami boutique, at 4120 NE 2nd Ave., spans about 6400 square feet within a modernist concrete building that’s enhanced by large windows on two levels.

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Dan Murphy’s to open a premium outlet in Sydney CBD

Inside Retail

Dan Murphy’s has been given the green light by the ILGA (Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority) to open a premium outlet in Sydney’s CBD. The approval followed the city’s consent earlier this year for the fit-out and use the former Lindt Cafe site as a premium wine store for the liquor company. In its decision, ILGA announced the site would trade as a “premium wine store, targeted to wine enthusiasts to discover and experience premium wines” and will be a “b

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How Personalized Customer Experiences Drive Retail Growth and Revenue

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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Ethical coffee company Mozzo rebrands to break away from Italian clichés

Design Week

Coffee company Mozzo has swapped its Italian-inspired look for an identity devised by B&B Studio featuring a new logo that emphasises connection and is designed to be animated.

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NHL, New York City | 51st International Design Competition Winner

Retail Design Institute

NHL, New York City. Design: TPG Architecture, New York City. Photography: Eric Laignel, New York City. Drawing inspiration from the NHL brand, logo, and core values of the game of hockey, the TPG team created a clean, modern environment for its new 11,000-sq.-ft. flagship in New York City. In a collaborative effort with the NHL, Fanatic, and Lids, the team created an innovative, world-class retail experience.

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Sweet Paris Expands to Florida

VMS

Sweet Paris Crêperie & Café (Houston) will open its inaugural location in Florida, in downtown Doral on Dec. 5, followed by another early next year in Coral Gable. Also in the works are the brand’s first outlets in Oklahoma and Minnesota, along with added locales in Texas (where it already has 10 stores). Founded in 2012 by Allison and Ivan Chavez, Sweet Paris’ outlets feature French-inspired interiors. “Our mission from day one has been to revive the art of eating crêpes, and we could

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Spar Biggar hosts grand opening day

Talking Retail

Spar Scotland welcomed independent retailer Arshad Aslam and team with the opening of his new Spar store on the High Street of Biggar, South Lanarkshire on 17 November. The 2,500sqft store has been refurbished after sitting empty for a while and now hosts a range of products and services for the local community to enjoy, This story continues at Spar Biggar hosts grand opening day.

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Retails Next Frontier: Exploring and Proving the Value of AI

AI is everywhere. It’s in customer service interactions, product recommendations, marketing outreach, and yes, even commerce experiences. But not every use of AI provides the same value to your brand. In this masterclass, experts from Constructor, commercetools, Contentstack, and Orium discuss how AI can complement your composable tech stack and help bring in immediate ROI.

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Maiden Home Introduces Contract Program

VMS

(PRESS RELEASE) NEW YORK — Maiden Home, the made-to-order luxury furniture brand, has launched a new Contract Program. Following years of furnishing residential spaces with the highest quality pieces, Maiden Home’s Contract Program will deliver the same heritage craftsmanship and bespoke customizations to large-scale commercial and residential projects.

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PayPoint Counter Cash withdrawals top £1m per week

Talking Retail

PayPoint withdrawals from its Counter Cash service in convenience stores across the country are now topping more than £1m per week. The free-to-use, cashback-without-purchase facility launched last year and is available at 4,800 PayPoint stores in different parts of the UK. These locations, prioritised in communities that have below-average free access to cash, have provided.

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EG Group results reveal continued resilience through third quarter

Talking Retail

Forecourt and food business EG Group has reported a resilient third quarter during which revenue and EBITDA increased despite the current global economic climate. In a trading update for the three months to 30 September 2022, the Blackburn-headquartered business, founded by brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa in 2001, generated total revenue of £6.7bn, up from.

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Partners in Action | Category Advice: On the road again

Talking Retail

Pot snacks and noodles form a category worth £24m to UK convenience stores every year, creating a significant sales opportunity for independent retailers who range and merchandise them effectively. Top tips and advice are available via Unilever’s Partners for Growth category management initiative – just one of several categories covered by the programme – which.

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Kelly Goetsch - Chief Strategy Officer at Commercetools | Jason Cottrel - CEO & Founder at Orium | and guest speaker Brendan Witcher - VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.