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Primark mulls click-and-collect trial expansion

Retail Gazette

The fast fashion chain is currently trialling click-and-collect across 57 stores, for its womenswear and kidswear products. Speaking at the LIVE Retail Week x Grocer conference, Primark CEO Paul Marchant said: “It plays into our bricks-and-mortar strategy because it is driving more customers to the stores.

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process. For example, a customer shopping for jeans could stop at a display that features a sign reading “Need Help?” alongside a large QR code.

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2023 in review: 8 stories that rocked retail this year

Retail Gazette

Soaring food prices put the grocers under the spotlight and, despite the wafer-thin margins they operate on, execs from Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons were hauled in front of MPs to investigate whether the sector was profiteering from the cost-of-living crisis. Meanwhile, online fashion giant Shein continued its UK assault.

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Does Buying Local Have A Positive Impact on the Planet?

Independent Retailer

As sustainability continues to grow in popularity, the new buzz around the block is that ‘buying local’ and ‘shopping small’ is better for the planet — but is this really true? Second Hand Shopping Gaining Popularity. Thirty years ago, it belonged exclusively in the domain of thrift stores and consignment shops.

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6 of the Best Ways to Retain Customers in Retail

Indigo 9 Digital

That’s why you still shop at the mom and pop grocer across the street from your home. Why do you choose to shop there year after year? Many consumers say they want to buy sustainably sourced clothing but fast fashion retailers like Zara and H&M are among the largest clothing retailers in the world.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 297 -GroceryShop 2022 and news

Retail Geek

Scot: [6:13] Awesome so that was a derivative or a spin-off show so we had shop talk and then they did a grocery focused when in you your usually are doing half the talks at that did you get a lot of air time groceryshop. Scot: [7:10] Spin-off of the spin-off of a spinoff. Jason: [7:13] Exactly and I want to say this is the.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 283 – 2021 Year End Review

Retail Geek

Pretty big deal I have seen some estimates that think it’ll grow even more than nine percent this year to put that in perspective the last time before last year there grew nine percent would have been like 1999 so so not only do we have great growth over two years we do have great holiday growth one huge caveat. [26:43]