Retail ThinkTank: New Revenue Models (2021)

How Andie Reaps Rewards by Investing Time in its Celebrity Partnerships

Celebrity partnerships can be a powerful tool for any retailer. The built-in audience and media-grabbing appeal of the world’s most famous people…

Learning from Amazon’s Innovation-Driven Culture

Amazon’s culture has been studied and reported on for years. Many retailers have attempted to cultivate a culture of testing, failing and…

5 Tips for Singles’ Day Success

November might seem far away, but the fact is, brands and retailers in China have already been preparing for the world’s biggest…

Walmart Packages Marketplace and Delivery Tech for Sale to Other Retailers

Walmart will make its own technologies across both digital and physical channels available to other retailers. The company’s move includes integrating Walmart’s…

Making Sense of the Evolved Digital Commerce Landscape

Is the shift to digital a one-way door or will ecommerce go back to pre-pandemic levels? Which categories will be able to…

Report: BNPL Vendor Shares Fall as Apple Prepares to Enter the Space

Apple will reportedly team up with Goldman Sachs to launch its own buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform that lets shoppers make…

The Rise of Inauthentic Influencers: Can Consumers Trust Social Media Personas?

Years ago when I and my team were first putting the GRIN platform together, a lot of brands were doing influencer marketing,…

How Social Commerce Will Reshape Retail: From Content Creation & Partnerships to In-Store Experiences

Social commerce is a relatively new medium, but as retailers and social media platforms alike explore possible use cases and applications, it will…

Cryptocurrencies are the Future of Payments: Here is How Merchants Fit In

Bitcoin, along with many other cryptocurrencies today, finds itself in a rather unique position. The very centralized financial systems that they had…

Farfetch Enlists ThredUP to Power Resale Donation Program

Luxury marketplace Farfetch has teamed up with resale platform ThredUP to launch a donation program for its U.S. customers using the ThredUP…

Study: Resale to Hit $47B by 2025, Giving Fast Fashion a Run for its Money

While the pandemic had a chilling effect on apparel sales as a whole, the resale sector was blazing hot: it grew 29%…

Inside the Sustainable Fashion Movement

We kick off our Retail ThinkTank video series with Matt Moorut, Senior Principal Analyst for Gartner for Marketers! He and Jessie Dowd…

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