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Reinventing the phone shop: Dialling up the experience

Retail Gazette

Just a decade ago, high streets and malls were awash with mobile phone shops with a seemingly endless number of places to peruse the latest Blackberry or Samsung Galaxy. That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. As telco retailers look to become more experience-led, is this the end of the phone shop as we know it?

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

Inside Retail

Founder and designer Kate Nixon said that the business started in Byron Bay in 2015, with her hand-making lace bralettes and posting products online. It’s a personal shopping experience that’s high-end, but at an affordable price point, [and] we think we’ve got a good niche market going.”.

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Why AMP for Email has a Place in Every Email Marketers’ Playbook

Retail TouchPoints

Originally developed by Google in 2015, accelerated mobile pages (AMP) is open source technology designed specifically to boost how fast pages load on smartphones and tablets. Finally, email marketers can conduct abandoned cart campaigns or increase sales with email shopping carts and payment options. Are they in stock?

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Getir and the rapid rise – and equally rapid downfall – of speedy grocery

Retail Gazette

Founded in 2015, Getir became one of the largest of more than a dozen rapid delivery companies, raising more than $5bn in VC funding during the pandemic. Essentially a high street store with no shop front. A mini boarded up warehouse next to your local coffee shop. Dark stores are fulfilment centres only.

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

Retail Geek

And it was really when we purged all that stuff around 2015, seeing the Caspers of the world emerge and Warby Parker’s and even Tesla with their showrooms. We don’t, we don’t stock things there. And it’s like, okay.

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Why Ultra Fast Delivery Companies are Struggling

Indigo 9 Digital

Traditional brick and mortar retail was dead and fast delivery took over. As the COVID-19 pandemic eased many people went back to their old habits of shopping more offline. By Tricia McKinnon Once the COVID-19 pandemic hit all things eCommerce took off. Retailers that couldn’t get their goods delivered quickly were viewed as dinosaurs.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

Jason: [4:27] Yeah I want to say their stock was at 450 when you made that prediction and you can get it for the budget price of 1193 right now. Shop owners better than Prime 10 times as many subscribers I. I kind of suspect sharpener was a little bit of a sort of a budget exit for for shop Runner. Jason: [5:57] I believe.