Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2021

McDonald’s has unveiled an initiative to foster safe and inclusive workplace it calls Global Brand Standards. The policy will focus on four main areas: harassment, discrimination and retaliation prevention; workplace violence prevention; restaurant employee feedback; and health and safety. The company says the standards have been set to further ensure physical and psychological safety for its employees and customers. .

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APRIL 18, 2021

(PRESS RELEASE) ALPHARETTA, GA – Neenah is expanding its popular ENDURA Wide Format line to include ENDURA POSTER in a new seven mil, 500-foot roll. It is also adding an innovative seventeen mil matte finish ENDURA ART to the portfolio. These additions are in response to market demand created by wide format equipment enhancements while providing a trusted, durable and cost-efficient signage solution for various retail, hospitality, attractions, and commercial art businesses.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2021

Dusk Group bas delivered strong growth in the past nine months, the candle-maker revealed on Friday, with sales more than doubling and underlying EBIT up 33.2 per cent. The primary driver of this success was particularly strong like-for-like sales growth, up 44 per cent during the third quarter, and an increase in gross margin of approximately 400 basis points.

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APRIL 18, 2021

(PRESS RELEASE) LANCASTER, PA — Employee expectations of post-pandemic indoor workspaces go beyond a “return to normal” and demonstrate a desire for spaces that put people in a better place, with an eye toward spaces that are more responsive to an ever-adapting world, according to a new survey conducted by Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (AWI). The survey “Making Space for A Resilient Future” revealed six trends that point to a need, and an opportunity, to approach the design of indoor workspac

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2021

The change in consumer behaviour brought on by the pandemic has been wide-reaching. From the inability to travel to the uptick in Zoom meetings, these shifts have led to changes that will extend beyond Covid. The result, for many industries, including retail, has been the rise of the low-touch economy. Characterised by lower touch interactions, the change has presented many opportunities that many retail brands have embraced.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2021

Facebook will announce a series of products under the umbrella of “social audio” on Monday, including its take on audio-chat app Clubhouse and a push into podcast discovery and distribution, Recode reported on Sunday. These plans include an audio version of Rooms, a video-conferencing product Facebook launched a year ago. The Clubhouse-like product will let groups of people listen to and interact with speakers on a virtual “stage”, the report added.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2021

Online plus Offline (O+O) will replace O2O as the new standard for the retail industry, according to Malina Ngai, Group COO of AS Watson Group. “The traditional strategy of O2O from the past generation drove customers from one channel to another, however O+O is totally different,” Ngai says. “It is more about creating an integrated experience to better serve customers’ needs, that enables them to shop across any channel, anytime, anywhere.”.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2021

With Earth Day falling on Thursday this week, Japanese sportswear business Asics has unveiled its latest sustainable product collection – the Earth Day Pack. The collection is its most planet-friendly to date, according to the brand, which said it repurposed around five tons of textile waste in the manufacturing of the set of shoes – the equivalent of about 25,000 t-shirts.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2021

In 2020, $2.767 trillion was rung up in sales by the world’s top 100 online marketplaces, more than half of all global e-commerce sales. As businesses look to replicate this success, the digital marketplace sector is heating up. For good reason. Marketplaces give operators the mechanism needed to offer customers a larger and richer selection of products, without having to increase on-hand inventory, logistics support or even outlay significant amounts of capital. .

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