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New Cannabis Dispensary Modeled on Customer-Friendly Supermarkets

Retail TouchPoints

Products are displayed out of their packaging (though behind glass), allowing customers to see exactly what they’re buying, supplemented with information cards providing product details. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): What attracted you to cannabis retailing? California is almost a cannabis culture; people have depth of knowledge.

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“I’m not trying to be everything for everyone”: JD Sports CEO Régis Schultz 

Inside Retail

We are on-site, we are counting people, we are counting the number of bags,” Schultz said. “It’s How do we find the floors that will be best for us?” How do we find the floors that will be best for us?” When I joined, we were developing a lot by acquisition,” he noted. You see that through your eyes.

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Retailers Get Real with AI: Four AI-Powered Apps We’ll See this Year

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We are past the point of conjecture about whether AI will upend the retail industry; it already has. But what are the most forward-thinking retailers doing with AI this year? First we drove to the mall and trawled through racks of clothes hoping to find something in our size and style. AI agents will shop for you.

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Retail Innovation Conference & Expo 2024: The Latest News on Sessions, Speakers & Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

In his latest book, For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be , he provides actionable guidance to help other brand and business leaders understand and embrace culture. Read the article. Click here to read the coverage. Read the article.

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How two sisters created Francesca Jewellery from a Tasmanian market stall

Inside Retail

Rachel Vasieck: I fell into the retail industry without really being aware at the time of what I was doing. During my first year out of school, I discovered the world of social media and how we could reach an audience beyond our tiny shopfront, from that point onward I was hooked. IR: What are some of your career highlights so far?

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Purple, Tempur Sealy Settle Mattress Firm Acquisition Concerns

Retail TouchPoints

We believe our Purple brand and products bring a high number of unique consumers into Mattress Firm stores. We appreciate working on an even playing field today and want to continue to work collaboratively with Mattress Firm. This agreement will give us time to explore expansion opportunities.” ”

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Sephora CEO Guillaume Motte shares his four ingredients for success 

Inside Retail

“Specifically in terms of geographies, when you look at where it’s coming from, you see that in North America, which is the most important market in the world, we managed to grow by more than 27 per cent,” Motte said. We didn’t slightly beat the markets, we smashed some of the numbers.