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Can we combat the Lonely Paradox with our high streets?

Inside Retail

The frequency of social contact has also been declining for decades, with data from the Hilda survey showing a relative decline of 11 per cent since 2001. The rise of the shopping mall and cookie-cutter chain stores in the 90s and 2000s played a part in disengaging us from our local communities. And we’ve stayed.

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Target Named 2021 VMSD/Peter Glen Retailer of the Year

VMS

At Target, we’re continually innovating our store design to make our shopping experience even easier, safer and full of joy,” explains Joe Perdew, VP Store Design. The first time was 20 years ago in 2001, which was also the first year the award was given. We also added touchless restroom fixtures and hand sanitizing stations.”.

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Paritzki & Liani Architects mixes architecture and geology in Grifo210 boutique

Dezeen

The shop references the island of Ischia in terms of both architecture and geology. Tel Aviv-based Paritzki & Liani Architects referenced both the island's landscape and architecture in the redesign of Grifo210, a fashion boutique on its most prominent shopping street, Corso Vittoria Colonna. Photography is by Simone Bossi.

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Big brands pledge big funds for the British Heart Foundation’s 60th Birthday

A1 Retail

PPGF are supporting the BHF throughout the month of July by spotlighting the BHF as one of PayPal’s checkout featured charities which could raise over £50,000 – enough to fund a heart attack research project for six months. . As a long-term partner of the BHF, since 2001 they have raised over £400k for the charity. Coinstar .

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 314 – Lovesac Founder and CEO Shawn Nelson

Retail Geek

I guess scalable already is Shop and Shop. So our showrooms right now in shopping malls, they’re only like 800 square feet. So we’re innovating on product, we’re innovating on go to market, shop and shop.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 258 – Retailer Owned Brands and Other News

Retail Geek

You don’t have to pick your target or anything you just kind of give Google a budget in Google figures out the best place to put your ads so she put 1800 dollars into these Google smart shopping ads, um and that generated 3.6 million impressions and what do a quarter of a million dollars in sales for her so.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 270 – Microservice based commerce platforms with Kelly Goetsch

Retail Geek

And then behind the scenes were actually seven vertical teams so we have a team focused on checkout we have a team focused on product catalog. Kelly: [20:20] They were actually invented in 2001 so there’s a guy named Royal Roy was his name Roy Fielding.