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Retail Trends in 2021 — Overcoming 2020’s Challenges

Retail TouchPoints

At the close of every calendar year it’s customary to pen a post about trends and predictions for the upcoming year. This year, like most, catalyzed some nascent trends and kicked a few in the teeth. But let’s be real here. Is that even possible coming out of a year like 2020?

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Hudson's Bay to split its e-commerce, store operations

Retail Dive

The rupture follows similar maneuvers at HBC's other retailers, Saks Fifth Avenue and its off-price Saks Off 5th, and runs counter to retail trends.

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Retail Consumer Behavior Patterns and Shifting Dynamics: The Future of Retail & Retail Trends

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

The Retail market landscape has seen significant changes in retail trends and shifts in consumer behavior since the coronavirus breakout, but the industry now appears more optimistic about the growth prospects. Here Are The Ten Emerging Retail Trends We Predict For 2022.

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More Private Label, Smaller Store Footprints: How COVID-19 Is Accelerating Existing Retail Trends

Retail TouchPoints

COVID-19 is reshaping the retail landscape, but many of the major changes taking place represent an acceleration of existing trends. That’s why retailers and their ecosystem partners can better prepare for the future by understanding where they were already headed and compare it to the new trajectories created by the coronavirus.

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Retail Lessons From China: Innovation, Resilience And Recovery

Retail TouchPoints

With retailers continuing to reopen their doors to the public, the question remains — what COVID-19-necessitated retailing strategies will make their way into go-forward plans, and which of those will be forgotten? There is no ‘returning to normal’. Livestreaming Unlocks Massive Sales Potential.

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design:retail Publication Shifts To All-Digital Format Under Retail TouchPoints

Retail TouchPoints

“While we are ceasing the print publication, we are thrilled that the design:retail brand will live on, migrating its content to an exclusively digital format under the Retail TouchPoints family.”. The designretailonline.com web site will remain in operation for several months as its content is shifted over to the Retail TouchPoints site.

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RIC20: 50+ Sessions, 99 Speakers, Live Roundtables, Startup Innovation Labs and More

Retail TouchPoints

It’s easy to see why Retail TouchPoints and RetailX chose “The Big Acceleration” as the theme for the 6 th annual Retail Innovation Conference (#RIC20), being held virtually Oct. That’s because the coronavirus pandemic has, for better or worse, dramatically sped up a number of long-brewing retail trends.