Retail ThinkTank (2022)

6 Lessons from Parachute’s Growth as an Omnichannel Lifestyle Brand

Since its inception in 2014, Parachute has aimed to provide comfortable, high-quality home products at an affordable price point. Accelerated by the…

How EMERGE in Color’s Design Connected Black Creatives With Luxury Consumers

Even though it operated for little more than one month, EMERGE In Color at Los Angeles’ Beverly Center created a powerful space…

Going Global and Acting Local in the Ecommerce Era

“Go global, act local.” It’s a phrase commonly used among executive leadership teams wanting to strike the perfect balance between personalized experiences…

How to Boost Revenues, Enhance CX With Appointment Scheduling Solutions

An old advertising slogan warned that we “never get a second chance to make a first impression,” and it’s a thought retailers…

Study: 82% of Retail Workers Say Stress and Burnout Have Increased

There are strong signs that the “Great Resignation” is still having a major impact on the U.S. job market as a whole,…

How Rent the Runway Boosted Talent, Sustainability and CX by Moving to the Cloud

For retail tech teams, the ultimate sign of success is, ironically, when their work goes unnoticed — there’s nothing worse than a…

NRF: Electronics and Demographic Changes Drive Back-to-School Spending Trends

The 2022 back-to-school season will likely avoid being negatively impacted by the weight of inflation, according to data from the National Retail…

How Spotify Helped Abercrombie & Fitch Drive True Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is on pretty much every retailer’s to-do list these days. If it wasn’t deemed a priority before the pandemic, it…

New Solana Spaces Store in NYC Heralds Coming Wave of ‘Phygital’ Web3 Concepts

[Editor’s Note: See the store for yourself and go behind the scenes with Co-founder Vibhu Norby in our Store Tours video here.]…

How DTC Brands Are Scaling the Store Experience

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands are increasingly turning to stores in order to continue their path to growth. However, if companies like Warby Parker…

3 Immersive Customer Experiences Using Augmented Reality

When the mobile game “Pokémon GO” made a splash in 2016, global audiences got their first taste of just how engaging augmented…

New ‘Phygital’ Experience at Saks, Neiman Marcus Aims to Bring Shoppers into the Metaverse

Fashion designer Jonathan Koon has teamed up with the retail-focused metaverse world Highstreet to launch a “phygital” experience at Saks Fifth Avenue,…

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