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Walmart’s futuristic vision: AI shopping, drone deliveries and green energy

Inside Retail

The world’s largest retailer shared expansive plans for the future of retail at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024), focusing on adaptive retail strategies that encompass realms of customers, workforce and society. Embracing AI Walmart’s goal is to make shopping experiences effortless, engaging and personalised.

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As Microsoft shuts stores in China, are authorised retailers still relevant?

Inside Retail

The reported closure of Microsoft’s brick-and-mortar stores managed by authorised retail partners in China has raised questions about the tech giant’s strategy in the world’s second-largest economy and whether the move is counterintuitive when the market’s consumer electronics sector has seen a sign of recovery. billion, in 2023.

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Understanding the consumer of 2021

Inside Retail

Some 61 per cent believe that retailers and providers of personal care and hospitality services adapted well to the circumstances and to consumers’ changing needs. Almost a third of consumers report better online shopping and delivery experiences during the pandemic and more than 20 per cent report that in-store experiences improved.

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Why retail media has become the next big tool in performance marketing

Inside Retail

The assets and opportunities of retail media include websites, EDMs, apps, in-store media – such as aisle-end or on-shelf displays and radio or TV – along with retailers’ social-media channels like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, Snap and LinkedIn, and online platforms like Google Search and Google Shopping.

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The Lexicon welcomes host of new occupiers amid action-packed summer events programme

Retail Focus

Each week, all Søstrene Grene shops receive a wealth of new, exciting products, and some are only sold for limited periods. Meanwhile, Mr Simms Sweet Shop, the UK’s largest chain of traditional sweet shops, will be opening its first outlet in Bracknell after signing a 10-year lease for a 500 sq ft unit at The Lexicon.

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What consumers really think about brands’ social purpose

Inside Retail

Having endured the pandemic and moved by escalating social and environmental causes, more consumers want to act for the greater good and expect businesses to follow. Our new Consumer Insights report shows that one in three consumers are now more conscious of shopping from purpose-led brands than they were before the pandemic.

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From Hungry Jack’s to Fendi: How brands can leverage the metaverse

Inside Retail

In Facebook and other metaverses, people can work and do business, play games, meet up, learn and shop. The metaverse can play a role in shopping for physical and digital goods. Virtual shopping in the metaverse builds on what is currently available, with augmented reality and virtual reality in virtual stores and fitting rooms.

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