Retail Focus
JUNE 24, 2025
Visual merchandising is an essential tool for retailers aiming to boost sales and improve customer experience. It involves strategically presenting products in a physical space to engage customers and encourage purchases. This blog post will explore how effective visual merchandising can positively impact sales and offer practical tips retailers can implement to enhance their display tactics.
Retail TouchPoints
JUNE 25, 2025
In today’s fast-paced world, retailers are generating more data than ever before. From customer transactions to inventory management, retailers need to be able to manage, integrate and govern their data to make informed decisions that drive growth and profitability. Many vendors are now launching retail-specific data management solutions in response to this demand.
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Small Biz Trends
JUNE 21, 2025
Key Takeaways Understanding Consignment: Consignment is a selling method where sellers retain ownership of items until they are sold in a retail store, reducing upfront costs and risks. Key Players: The consignment process involves three main participants – sellers, retailers, and customers – each playing a crucial role in the ecosystem. Consignment Process: Sellers select items based on quality and demand, retailers showcase these items, and payment is made to sellers after a sale, typically at
Retail Gazette
JUNE 22, 2025
In today’s high-pressure retail environment, personalisation has become one of the most overused, yet least understood, buzzwords. It’s often equated with algorithms or automated emails. But at its core, personalisation is a human discipline; it’s about understanding people: their motivations, habits, and decision-making moments. That’s where real impact begins.
Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy
AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.
Inside Retail
JUNE 23, 2025
For retail brands to survive in the current climate, they need to position themselves in a way that customers want to engage with them, trust, and return – not just in person, but across platforms, formats and channels. The new retail model demands more than operational efficiency. It demands emotional relevance. Measurable creativity. Brand behaviour.
Miller Zell
JUNE 25, 2025
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A1 Retail
JUNE 24, 2025
Today (24th June) Co-op has announced that it will stop sourcing relationships with countries where there are internationally recognised community-wide human rights abuses and violations of international law *. This policy has been approved by the Co-op Group Board and coincides with the start of Co-ops Fortnight in the UK. Over recent years, Co-op members have made clear through surveys, engagement and motions that conflict is one of their biggest concerns and that their Co-op should do all it
VMS
JUNE 24, 2025
The ongoing growth of online sales – and the corresponding rise of in-store returns – has turned into a lose-lose proposition for many store operators, finds a new survey by Retail Systems Research (RSR) for technology provider Jumpmind. “Our polling of retail executives and store managers shows the increasingly growing volume of orders being bought online and returned to stores is crushing many retailers, as they struggle to keep up with new costs and new workloads from in-store returns process
Retail Customer Experience
JUNE 24, 2025
JD Dillon, chief learning officer at Axonify, offers tips, advice and strategy for dealing with the rising incivility from shoppers so store associates feel safe, are well trained well and are not on a burn-out path.
Retail TouchPoints
JUNE 23, 2025
This article first appeared in our sister publication Shop Eat Surf Outdoor (SESO). Journeys , one of the largest footwear retailers in the country with over 1,000 stores in North America, has been one of the most important large wholesale accounts for footwear brands for decade. However, leaders of several large industry footwear brands have expressed frustrations with the retailer over the years because they believed Journeys wasn’t evolving, even though good people and good merchants worke
Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA
The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.
Inside Retail
JUNE 24, 2025
If you are a Chinese family who’s been looking ruefully at that noisy old fridge in the kitchen, or the washing machine in the laundry, or even that old clunker in the garage, now is still a great time to replace them with something brand spanking new. The government’s US$40 billion 2025 trade-in subsidy program has been a great gift to both families and bulky goods retailers this year, and it is providing a welcome uplift to sales at a time when things otherwise might be looking a bit grim.
Retail Gazette
JUNE 24, 2025
Grocery inflation hit 4.7% in June — the highest level since March 2024 — as UK shoppers made 490 million trips to supermarkets in the four weeks to 15 June, according to the latest data from Kantar. Despite rising prices consumers shopped more frequently, averaging almost 17 grocery trips per household and marking the highest footfall since March 2020.
Retail Focus
JUNE 23, 2025
Ghalia Boustani- Ephemeral Retailing Specialist | Published Author | Podcast Host In the ever-evolving lexicon of retail and brand culture, LUXENTAINMENT emerges as a telling synthesis—a fusion of luxury and entertainment. It’s more than a clever portmanteau; it is a cultural signal, capturing a pivotal transformation in how luxury is imagined, staged, and consumed today.
Retail TouchPoints
JUNE 25, 2025
It’s rare for a retailer, or any business for that matter, to last for 100 years, which is what makes Bealls such a standout — the Florida-based off-price chain is celebrating its 110 th anniversary this year. Not only that, but the company remains family owned and operated to this day, with CEO Matt Beall representing the fourth generation to lead the retailer.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
Inside Retail
JUNE 26, 2025
Four new stores opened last quarter are pushing the boundaries of design, technology, and brand storytelling. From Aesop’s algae-powered sanctuary in Hainan to Zara’s hyper-digital flagship in Nanjing, Hoka’s cloud-like pop-up in Hong Kong, and J Lindeberg’s five-floor golf-inspired Seoul experience, these openings demonstrate how global brands are rewriting the rules of in-store engagement.
Retail Dive
JUNE 24, 2025
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Small Biz Trends
JUNE 22, 2025
Key Takeaways Nostalgic Charm: Vintage retail stores offer a unique and inviting atmosphere that captivates shoppers with their curated collections and storytelling capabilities. Impact of Photography: Quality photographs play a crucial role in showcasing the essence of vintage stores, attracting customers by highlighting vibrant colors and inviting storefronts.
Retail TouchPoints
JUNE 24, 2025
Every year, failed payments cost merchants an estimated $118.5 billion globally. That’s not just a number – it’s abandoned shopping carts and frustrated customers who may never return. In some sectors, the damage is even worse. Ecommerce businesses, for example, experience false decline rates as high as 10%, meaning that legitimate transactions are mistakenly rejected, costing merchants $443 billion annually in lost sales.
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AI agents already analyze trends, draft content, and trigger actions across leading commerce platforms. Yet most organizations still rely on workflows built for human‑only teams, losing speed, margin, and customer loyalty. Humans + Agents: Rethinking Enterprise Commerce in the Age of AI Collaboration shows how to close that gap. In one concise read you’ll see where agent gains surface first, how early adopters prove ROI, and which lean controls keep innovation moving without risking data or bran
Inside Retail
JUNE 26, 2025
From barcode comparisons to instant resale authentication and artificial intelligence (AI) models guiding purchasing behaviour, the next evolution of artificial intelligence in retail isn’t happening in the cloud but on the shop floor. As AI reshapes both digital and physical experiences, the store is emerging as a high-stakes frontier, where value, trust and speed must collide in real time.
Retail Dive
JUNE 25, 2025
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Small Biz Trends
JUNE 25, 2025
Key Takeaways High Return Categories: Apparel, electronics, home goods, and beauty products are among the most returned items due to sizing issues, defects, and customer dissatisfaction. Quality Control: Ensuring product quality through rigorous checks can significantly reduce return rates and enhance customer trust. Accurate Descriptions: Providing clear and detailed product descriptions, including size guides and high-quality images, helps align customer expectations with actual products.
Retail TouchPoints
JUNE 25, 2025
Walmart has pursued numerous initiatives designed to improve its delivery speed and reach over the past year, and now the retail giant is reportedly testing dark stores —mini-warehouses that are not open to the public — in Dallas and Bentonville, Ark., according to Bloomberg and other media outlets. By stocking these dark stores with popular products, retailers can support a wider delivery radius and faster deliveries.
Speaker: Beth Sunshine, SVP, Up Your Culture
When culture isn’t consistently lived out across the organization, engagement suffers—and it often starts with a disconnect at the top. In this session, Beth Sunshine, SVP of Up Your Culture at The Center for Sales Strategy, will reveal how HR and executive leaders can close the gap between vision and execution by equipping frontline and mid-level managers to become culture carriers.
Inside Retail
JUNE 24, 2025
Amazon plans to invest US$4 billion to expand its delivery network, enabling faster delivery speeds in small towns and rural communities nationwide. The company aims to triple the size of its delivery network by the end of next year and expand Same-Day and Next-Day Delivery services to more than 4000 smaller cities, towns, and rural communities by the end of this year.
Retail Focus
JUNE 26, 2025
Supermarket shelves look calm, yet the prices behind every carton of milk or bag of rice can shift overnight. Weather, geopolitics, energy costs, even a ship stuck in a canal can nudge a commodity upward and squeeze retail margins. If the past few years have taught purchasing teams anything, it is this: price risk is no longer a distant finance issue.
Small Biz Trends
JUNE 22, 2025
Key Takeaways Timing is Crucial: Sending offers during peak shopping hours, such as after 5 PM on weekdays and during weekends, can significantly increase open rates and engagement. Understand Customer Behavior: Analyzing when customers are most receptive helps tailor your marketing efforts and boosts conversion rates, especially for small retail businesses.
Retail TouchPoints
JUNE 23, 2025
For years, ecommerce has been stuck in a transactional rut. Shoppers type in a keyword, scroll through product grids, maybe filter a few options, and if the stars align — convert. It’s a model built to manage massive product catalogs efficiently — and for a long time, that was enough. Or perhaps simply the most a shopper could hope for. But today’s shoppers expect more than efficiency; they want experiences that understand their context, preferences and intent in the moment.
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Category Management is a cornerstone of a successful retail strategy. While it promotes collaboration between manufacturers and retailers to optimize category performance, challenges persist in its effective implementation due to hurdles in communication and collaboration across teams and partners, and more. In this guide, we outline five essential strategies for success in 2025 that will touch on all the essential pieces of a successful strategy and implementation.
Inside Retail
JUNE 26, 2025
In the crowded world of celebrity beauty brands, few break through the noise. Rhode, the minimalist skincare label co-founded by Hailey Bieber, did more than just launch well. It moved quickly, scaled smart and has become a benchmark for modern brand-building. But behind the gloss and glazed doughnut skin is a blueprint that female founders should study closely.
Retail Dive
JUNE 26, 2025
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Small Biz Trends
JUNE 21, 2025
Key Takeaways Powerful Training Method: Sales role playing is an effective tool that helps enhance selling skills and boosts confidence by simulating real-life sales scenarios. Skills Development: Engaging in role plays improves essential skills such as communication, negotiation, and objection handling, essential for successful sales interactions. Team Collaboration: This practice fosters teamwork, allowing sales members to provide and receive feedback, which promotes continuous improvement and
Retail TouchPoints
JUNE 26, 2025
Ecommerce brands today face a critical junction. Rapid shifts in consumer behavior, combined with accelerating technological innovation, require retailers to prioritize mobile site excellence more urgently than ever. This isn’t just about minor incremental improvements or ticking boxes on performance checklists – it’s about survival and relevance in a fundamentally transforming retail landscape.
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
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