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How charity shops became cool

Retail Gazette

With a smug smile you say ‘I thrifted it a while back’ This is a scene that is being played out in the bedrooms of many Gen Z shoppers as charity shops are fast-becoming the go-to destination for young shoppers, giving them access to brands they may never have been able to pick up without breaking the bank.

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Wireless Power and the Retail Store of Tomorrow

Retail TouchPoints

Stores are getting smarter by the day, driven in part by the robust experiences witnessed by the majority of us who increased our online shopping during the past three years. Classic brick-and-mortar stores are seeking to recapture foot traffic by ramping up their investment into in-store technologies.

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Five Ways Ecommerce Retailers Can Sleep Well and Sell More This Black Friday

Retail TouchPoints

For example, Searchspring found that the most-searched clothing term during Black Friday 2021 was “petite,” and the most searched housewares and décor term was “wire ribbon.”. During high-volume shopping periods like Black Friday, the last thing a retailer wants to do is promote out-of-stock or limited-stock items.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Finally, email marketers can conduct abandoned cart campaigns or increase sales with email shopping carts and payment options. Salesforce also addressed support for building and sending AMP emails in 2021. Are they in stock? AMP for email allows marketers to send surveys and collect data, too. Why AMP, and Who’s on Board?

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Retail technology for building recession resilience

I Vend

Retailers across the board are impacted by a scarcity of staff, a factor that will only be heightened in this coming recession by the ‘Great Resignation’ pandemic phenomenon in 2021. Retail business intelligence is the key to picking up on trends in time to adapt to them, rather than being left with stock outs, and missed sales opportunity.

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

Retail Gazette

At the height of rapid delivery demand in 2021, over $18bn was invested into speedy grocery companies through venture capital. Essentially a high street store with no shop front. A mini boarded up warehouse next to your local coffee shop. This is more than Morrisons and Marks & Spencer combined.