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Shopping Center Outlook: Why Open Air, Mixed Use and Tech-First Locations Are Hot

Retail TouchPoints

The rise of buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) and the lingering demand for more open spaces have made centers offering plenty of fresh air, easy access between parking facilities, and stores and amenities that go beyond just retail, all very attractive to consumers. Open Air Shopping Centers Enable Easy Omnichannel Services.

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Ribble Cycles redefines omnichannel retail with Landmark Flagship Showroom

365 Retail

The 2,000sq ft state of the art showroom has been designed to showcase Ribble’s complete award-winning and critically acclaimed bicycle range and provides a brand new bicycle retail proposition blending digital with the physical to create a unique, totally immersive and all-sensory consumer experience. .

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Remaining Agile in a New Age of Retail: Three Things that Enterprise Brands can Learn from Smaller Players 

Retail TouchPoints

From leisure and sportswear to gifts and jewelry, the chances are you’ve bought a product from a small business over the last couple of years — whether it be a digitally native startup, a one-person band working from their kitchen table or a small independent store selling online around the world. Reflecting the growing?

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How Digital Technologies Have Changed The Retail Store

Forrester Omnichannel

One of my first jobs was as a sales associate at a clothing store, after which mall shopping lost any of the leisurely appeal it once held. Today, a mix of technologies are coming together to marry the online and offline experiences to revolutionize in-store shopping and the role of the physical store. omnichannel. The result?

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Retail’s Digital Future

iVend

Consumer preferences have shifted in response to the pandemic, as many have faced changes in their jobs, income and leisure time. Digital retail technologies hold the potential to create game-changing innovations. For consumers, this means high-digital touch shopping experiences, from AI to mobile-enabled shopping and options.

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How Innovative Partnerships, Business Agility and Verticalization Can Revive Brick-and-Mortar Retailing

Retail TouchPoints

Sporting Goods & Fitness: As consumers strive to prioritize personal health and wellness, retailers such as DICK’S Sporting Goods are seeing growth opportunities. Athleisure: Brands offering workout and leisure apparel have seen a surge in sales as many households continue to work and learn from home.

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Despite a muted outlook for 2024, the Retail Think Tank outlines key growth opportunities and predictions for next years’ winners and loser

365 Retail

While the retail sector outlook for 2024 is expected to be muted, hampered by ongoing macroeconomic challenges, weakened consumer demand and low economic growth prospects, retailers mustn’t let stagnation stifle innovation and future opportunities, the KPMG/RetailNext Retail Think Tank (RTT) , an independent board of retail experts, warns.