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Shopify research provides new insights on building brands consumers love

Inside Retail

For medium-to-large retailers, it’s mission-critical to understand the dynamics between consumers and the brands they love. It’s only when retailers can successfully align their value propositions with the desires and preferences of their core consumer base that they can forge deeper connections with customers and foster true brand loyalty.

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“The best can always be better”: Ghd Australia’s MD on customer satisfaction

Inside Retail

In 2008, the British company brought its innovation team in-house to remain at the forefront of the highly competitive industry. To ensure full control from concept to the finished product, our own research and development laboratory in Cambridge, England, was established in 2008.

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The working class: Why the casualisation of suiting is here to stay

Inside Retail

Suiting was once reserved for men’s formal attire and workwear but now the fashion industry is following consumer trends and doubling down on business casual. This corporate aesthetic that is bleeding into consumers’ everyday wear signals more than just a style fad.

Fashion 240
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The Olympic opportunity: How brands can sustain their momentum beyond the Games

Inside Retail

This article delves into the psychological effects of the Olympics, explores how they influence consumer behaviour and provides insights into what retailers can do to capture and extend the positive sentiments the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will generate. Let’s break some of them down and look at a few examples more closely.

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Why the founder of Culture Kings wants retailers to sell with emotion and magic

Inside Retail

Culture Kings is an Australian retail phenomenon, what started as a Carrara market stall in 2008 evolved into an international retailer being listed on the stock exchange with a $600 million valuation. Create the brand, the emotion, the resonance, break [consumers] patterns so they remember you,” concluded Beard.

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No longer a “hot new thing”: Why AR shopping is here to stay

Inside Retail

However, beauty brands and other companies in various retail sectors have been integrating AR technology into the consumer shopping experience since well before 2020. The first commercial use of AR is believed to have occurred in 2008. Developed by German agencies in Munich, it involved a print ad featuring an AR model of a BMW Mini.

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Ultra-fast fashion is undermining efforts to make the industry more sustainable

Inside Retail

The amount of natural resources consumed and waste produced is snowballing. And let’s not forget the power of consumers. Most ultra-fast fashion brands emerged in the late 2010s following the most well known, Shein, founded in 2008. We’re on a downward spiral, from fast fashion to ultra-fast fashion. Cheap clothing at what cost?

Fashion 246