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The Labubu effect: How Pop Mart is leading the blind box economy

Inside Retail

This is the story of Pop Mart, the company behind the Labubu craze, and how a single social media post from a K-pop superstar catapulted the brand into the stratosphere of the blind box economy. This isn’t just a form of brand promotion but a powerful way to attract fan engagement through individuality and storytelling,” she added.

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Why third spaces are the retail trend to tap into in 2025

Inside Retail

Not only do these aesthetically designed retail third spaces create optimal opportunities for shopping and for creating user-generated social media content, but they also help create a positive and more personalised set of memories for consumers to carry a long-lasting positive association with a brand.

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Curating community: Retail’s answer to the loneliness crisis

Inside Retail

The Covid-19 epidemic brought to light flaws in our social media networks, therefore aggravating this problem. And social media, even if it provides some connectivity, can also sometimes make people feel disconnected. Relationships that create brand stickiness and self-sustaining brand engagement.

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Crafting luxury brand narratives through popup stores

Retail Focus

Crafting brand narratives through popup stores can be an effective strategy to engage customers, create buzz, and build a unique brand experience. Creating interactive experiences: Engaging customers through interactive experiences that allow them to connect emotionally with the brand is essential.

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Black Lives Matter: the designers using social media to protest

Design Week

The controversy over the hashtag shows the use of social media to designers, as a way to spread and show support as well as distribute educational information. The six-part guide aimed to show the ways in which social media can be manipulated to spread the message of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Taylor Swift offers a masterclass in marketing. Here’s what retailers can learn

Inside Retail

Rather than investing in and delivering on their brand promise, they focus on other, often supplementary, marketing strategies such as launching engaging campaigns, brands may believe they can substitute competence with warmth. Swift’s brand promise has always centred on quality products.

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Day two at NRF: Retail bosses debunk Gen Z myths and discuss growth

Inside Retail

Although these three brands operate in very different retail sectors, Li, Piper and Pearson agreed on a few common tactics for effectively engaging with the Gen Z consumer, from focusing on and enhancing the in-store shopping experience to learning how to “share the pen” with this younger, social-media-savvy shopper.