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How EMERGE in Color’s Design Connected Black Creatives With Luxury Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

Even though it operated for little more than one month, EMERGE In Color at Los Angeles’ Beverly Center created a powerful space for Black designers and Black-owned businesses that are too often overlooked by retailers in the high-end category. It can’t be dead stock or something that they had for two years.

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Is the DTC business model dead, or just evolving?

Inside Retail

A few years ago, it seemed like every new brand making noise in the market was adopting a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business model. Like many trends, the discourse around DTC is a rollercoaster, ranging from ‘DTC is dead!’ to ‘Look at this amazing DTC brand! Everyone should do this.’ million before going public in 2020.

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The Importance of Using Search Data to Drive Ecommerce Success

Retail TouchPoints

69% of consumers go straight to the search bar when they visit an ecommerce site, and their search interactions provide merchants with crucial information about their intent, preferences and needs. Zero results pages can also illuminate the need to configure better synonyms to prevent dead-end searches.

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Kmart MD talks Target merger, shrinkage, and adapting to customer behaviour

Inside Retail

With customers continuing to seek more value as cost-of-living pressures bite, Wesfarmers’ Kmart Group is set to benefit from shifting consumer demand, and an increasingly strong value proposition. If you’re looking at this over a time period, the greater benefits [will come] in FY25-26,” Bailey said.

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Sephora CEO Guillaume Motte shares his four ingredients for success 

Inside Retail

As part of LVMH’s selective retailing division, Sephora doesn’t typically break out its results but global president and chief executive Guillaume Motte recently shared an overview of the retailer’s global growth in his keynote speech at the World Retail Congress in Paris. China was at an outlier at 2 per cent. We donated 1.7

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How EMERGE in Color’s Design Connected Black Creatives With Luxury Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

Even though it operated for little more than one month, EMERGE In Color at Los Angeles’ Beverly Center created a powerful space for Black designers and Black-owned businesses that are too often overlooked by retailers in the high-end category. It can’t be dead stock or something that they had for two years.

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The Party People aims to revamp the shopping experience with AR mirror

Inside Retail

It can be used as its own pop-up store, on dead space like a wall, in a shop window that’s closed for some literal window shopping, or even on a store under construction so people can interact or shop with a brand before it opens.” As many customers know, going into a changing room at a store can be time-consuming and it can be tedious.