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Ideal Shopping Direct blasts through bullish forecasts

Retail Technology Review

Ideal Shopping Direct (ISD), the UK multi-channel home shopping retailer and owner of the Create and Craft and Ideal World TV channel, reports that it has achieved a significant turnaround in the past 12 months; £6.5m profit, 30% ahead of the £5m it predicted earlier in the year.

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Christopher & Banks to get its own home shopping TV show

RetailWire

Now, the company has reached a licensing deal with iMedia Brands for that company to operate the retailer’s business across all sales channels, including a Christopher & Banks television program on ShopHQ, a nationally distributed television network.

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Qurate Snags Amazon, Macy’s Execs to Accelerate Video Commerce Growth

Retail TouchPoints

Qurate Retail Group — parent company of QVC and HSN — has made two new executive appointments as it works to differentiate the home shopping brands and build out its omnichannel video commerce operation. Sriraman was most recently Head of Prime Video Channels at Amazon. On linear TV, QVC and HSN are available in 92 million U.S.

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The 3 big problems with omnichannel retail

Steve Dennis

Nearly twenty year later, multichannel has morphed into “omnichannel” ( thanks Terry ) which, in turn, has spawned a cottage industry of related jargon: “cross-channel integration”, “seamless shopping”, “unified commerce” and so on. Customers don’t care about channels. Maybe this was an interesting distinction a decade ago.

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‘Reclaiming’ lost loyalty for high-street brands via the Metaverse

365 Retail

After all, the convenience of at-home shopping is only going to be heightened as metaverse capabilities become more sophisticated. The metaverse is the congruence of identity and omni presentation channels, so that rather than detract from the physical world it will instead compliment it. . James Browne, Director, 4 Roads.

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The 3 big problems with omnichannel retail

Steve Dennis

Nearly twenty year later, multichannel has morphed into “omnichannel” ( thanks Terry ) which, in turn, has spawned a cottage industry of related jargon: “cross-channel integration”, “seamless shopping”, “unified commerce” and so on. Customers don’t care about channels.

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Shift happens: 7 factors that defined a decade of retail disruption

Steve Dennis

Certainly the past 50 or 60 years brought some big changes: the rise of the suburban regional shopping center, the emergence of discount mass merchants and category killers, the advent of home shopping and warehouse clubs and so on. The customer is the channel. No customer wants to be average.

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