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Last Call for Sustainability: Imperatives for Change in the Retail and CPG Industry

Retail TouchPoints

These struggles to improve manufacturing processes are most visible in the textiles industry given the “fast fashion” trend — rapidly producing large volumes of inexpensive garments designed to capitalize on style trends. Notably, textiles can take more than 200 years to decompose in landfills.

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The Next Generation of Shoppers Needs a Next-Generation Strategy

Retail TouchPoints

strikes Gen Z as cumbersome, slow and old-fashioned. Maran Nalluswami is SVP and leads the Diversified & Value platform at Synchrony , one of the nation’s premier consumer financial services companies. Three suggestions: Adapt to where and how Gen Z wants to shop. They want shopping to be fast and fun — less of a process.

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N Brown Group Appoints Natalie Rogers as Chief People Officer

365 Retail

Her experience traverses various sectors including digital, technology, and financial services, where she has demonstrated expertise in organizational culture, employee relations, leadership development, rewards, and organisational design.

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Retail’s Last-Mile Challenge

Retail TouchPoints

Essentially warehouses for delivery or pickup of goods that sit closer to the customers, micro-fulfillment centers are expected to have a cumulative opportunity worth $10 billion by 2026, with more than 2,000 new centers, according to financial services company Jeffries.

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Experts predict the biggest fintech trends for 2023

365 Retail

While traditionally, BNPL services were used to split payments for high value items, they soon became associated with online fast fashion brands, targeting Gen Z and Millennial shoppers. BaaS enables clients to embed financial services into their own products or build completely new financial services from scratch.

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Digital commerce in the 5G world

GetElastic

Increased speeds, low latency and the adoption of M2M/IoT use-cases will enable new B2C and B2B business models based around on-demand services delivered anywhere in the world at any time. Manufacturers will be able to sell hardware products in on-demand fashion with new value-added services.

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JP Morgan Chase launches new digital bank brand in the UK

365 Retail

The Chase brand already provides a range of financial services to more than 60 million households in the United States. A new digital bank brand offering cashback and money management features has been launched in the UK by JP Morgan Chase.

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