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Flashback: When Bondi Sands made its UK debut, despite the naysayers

Inside Retail

Luckily the event exceeded our expectations, with over 100 guests, including editors and writers from Cosmopolitan , Glamour and Vogue magazines, along with Superdrug’s head of beauty and head of marketing. Beforehand, our nerves had been jangling with the usual pre-event fears: Is it going to go well? Will people show up?

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Tokyo Olympics: Will Changes and Challenges Put Retail Off its Game?

Retail TouchPoints

Nicole Silberstein, Ecommerce Editor. billion in ticket sales (based on the 2016 Rio Games ), but merchandise sales will almost certainly suffer as well. Bryan Wassel, News Editor. Adam Blair, Editor. How Much will Spectator-Free Stadiums Stifle Retail Sales? shoppers still need a bit of a nudge.

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Mimco bets big on marketplaces to reach new customers

Inside Retail

One thing that hasn’t changed, according to Rovis, who has been managing director since 2016, is the brand’s focus on product quality and design. It also has a large network of more than 100 bricks-and-mortar stores and David Jones concessions across Australia and New Zealand and a robust e-commerce offer. .

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In-Store Audits vs. Focus Groups: Which One to Choose?

Wiser

When we first discussed this topic way back in 2016, Raj Rajaratnam, then the VP of Consumer Insights at Clorox, was saying that “focus groups are probably the most misused tool in our tool kit. Editor’s Note: Contributing writers are Gabrielle Winant and Min-Jee Hwang. They can also be misunderstood and misused.

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Putting in a Good Word: GPU-Powered Crossword Solver Makes Best Showing Yet Against Humans

Nvidia

Following a long string of victories for computers in other games — chess in 1997, go in 2016 and Texas hold’em poker in 2019 — a GPU-powered AI has beaten some of the world’s most competitive word nerds at the crossword puzzles that are a staple of every Sunday paper.

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Improving the dine-in offers at supermarkets…

Retail Insider

It introduced them into some of its larger stores but, sadly, the experiment was all over by 2016 when new chief executive Dave Lewis sought to address some of the failures of his predecessor Philip Clarke by offloading non-core elements. Glynn Davis, editor of Retail Insider.

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The need for friction

Retail Insider

The apogee of this for me (to date at least) was a meal at London’s Pied à Terre in 2016 when original chef Richard Neat returned for a celebratory 25th anniversary week to cook some of the dishes that helped make his name and gain two Michelin stars. Glynn Davis, editor of Retail Insider. I’m intentionally adding friction.