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Modibodi was a pioneer in period underwear. Can it reinvent itself for Gen Z?

Inside Retail

Australian period underwear brand Modibodi has always taken a bold approach to advertising. When Modibodi founder Kristy Chong launched the brand in 2013, the period underwear category was in its infancy and many people still considered periods and bladder leaks to be taboo topics. It’s not just a new advertising approach.

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Why short-term data alone won’t cut it for retailers in 2024

Inside Retail

A decade ago, the advertising and marketing sector was taken to task by Peter Field and Les Binet. In 2013, the duo, who have come to be known as the godfathers of effectiveness, published their book The Long a n d Short of It which called out brands for being too focused on short-term metrics.

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How Hue’s Nicole Clay is making the beauty industry more inclusive

Inside Retail

For consumers, this lack of diversity can often be seen in the people advertising products through traditional channels. From a brand perspective, this process often leads interested shoppers away from retailers’ and brands’ e-commerce sites and slows down the shopping cycle. per cent of total beauty industry ventures.

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Strategies for Growth During a Frugal Holiday Shopping Season

Independent Retailer

A Shift In Advertising Focus. In 2020, lockdown-fuelled online shopping surges led to mass stockouts; 2021 brought global supply chain issues and delays; and this year, among skyrocketing inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, there is a widely expected lack of demand. by Mark Hook. 4 Tactics to Grow and Protect Cash Flow.

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How Home Depot Plans to Stand Out in the ‘Sea of Retail Media Networks’

Retail TouchPoints

At the same time, another group in the company wanted to begin offering advertising on The Home Depot website, “so we came together, because it would have been silly to develop two separate ad programs,” Babcock explained in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “ As a result, our media offering grew on-site and off-site at the same time.

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Beyond the Borders – How Retailers are Shifting Gears to Diversify  

Retail TouchPoints

Collaboration is the new competition; it was back in 2013 that Harvard Business Review used this sentence to headline an article on how to drive large-scale social change through collaboration. Almost a decade later, the term is absolutely still valid when it comes to defining the status quo in the retail industry.

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6 Reasons Walmart’s eCommerce Strategy is Winning

Indigo 9 Digital

For many years analysts were saying stores are dead but if Walmart didn’t start testing grocery pickup back in 2013 its grocery pickup services would not have performed so well when put to the test during the pandemic. Walmart had this foresight and a decade ago in 2013 it started testing a grocery pickup service.