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New Zealand’s Deadly Ponies to open first Australian store

Inside Retail

We’ve created an interior handwriting for our spaces, linking them together but also creating new developments for each store that we introduce,” said Liam Bowden, creative director at Deadly Ponies. . The store is scheduled to open on August 4 on High Street in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale.

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“It’s been an awesome journey”: Marcus Crook on founding HoMie

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I thought there’s got to be a better way to deal with excess stock than sending it to landfills in Ghana. It was going well, so we started to partner with other brands that had excess stock and dead stock that didn’t get used. IR : Tell me about launching your upcycled collection, Reborn.

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SikSilk Nets 25% Increase in Digital Purchases Following Site Search Revamp

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer partnered with solution provider Nosto to help it keep the products that appear in search results in line with inventory levels, while also increasing relevancy and preventing “dead-end” searches for which no products or an incomplete list of products are shown.

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‘Earth is Now Our Only Shareholder:’ Patagonia Founder Donates Company to Fighting Climate Change

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The Patagonia Purpose Trust now owns all the voting stock of the retailer, which totals 2% of all Patagonia stock. The Holdfast Collective will control all nonvoting stock and use every dollar received to “protect nature and biodiversity, support thriving communities and fight the environmental crisis.”

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Tuning in: Will AI signal the death of music, or herald a new era of creativity?

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Inside a recording room at Queen Mary University of London, a group of researchers fiddle with novel artificial intelligence (AI) tools to develop what they call the “new virtual worlds” of music. While labels and streaming companies partner to market the technology, many experts say AI raises legal and ethical concerns.

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The Importance of Using Search Data to Drive Ecommerce Success

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Zero results pages can also illuminate the need to configure better synonyms to prevent dead-end searches. Informing what to stock in physical stores. Florian Niedermayr is the Head of Search at Nosto , an AI-powered Commerce Experience Platform.

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Is the DTC business model dead, or just evolving?

Inside Retail

Like many trends, the discourse around DTC is a rollercoaster, ranging from ‘DTC is dead!’ to ‘Look at this amazing DTC brand! But first, let’s take a look at the history of DTC and why it became so popular. Is DTC dead? Everyone should do this.’ The truth, as is often the case, likely falls somewhere in the middle.