Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

They add that while eco-conscious choices resonate with today’s consumers, there is more to it than recycled content alone. Retailers showcasing a commitment to sustainable practices can set themselves apart in a competitive market, appealing to the growing demographic of environmentally aware consumers.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 2, 2025

With brands having to work harder than ever to maintain attention, loyalty and consumer spend, powering authenticity with imagination – have driven impressive commercial results through dynamic retail design. So, what can we expect in 2025 and how can Checkland Kindleysides help retailers?

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These seemingly trivial behaviours reveal deeper emotional and psychological patterns. This approach, rooted in emotional engagement, proved worthwhile, confirming the importance of designing for positive customer experiences. Fashion, for instance, reflects our projection of a better future and fulfils a need for optimism.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2025

Today, consumers expect the freedom to shop on their own terms, being able to review all the options available to them online and without disrupting their daily routines. For example, generative AI can be used to summarise thousands of product reviews into concise snippets, sparing consumers the need to sift through endless opinions.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

While the brand’s designs were considered bold and lively by Gen X and older Gen Y consumers, also known as Millennials, the brand didn’t strike the same chord with younger Gen Y customers. How did Vera Bradley fall off? Can Gen Z save Vera Bradley?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

However, lurking in the shadows are what are known as ‘dark patterns’, intricately designed digital experiences that exploit human psychology – often at the expense of users’ best interests. In essence, a dark pattern is a devised user interface or interaction design that guides users into taking actions they might not have intended.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A cursory glance through the history books shows us how patterned and predictable the impact of a crisis is on innovation. The effect of the pandemic on society is highly patterned and predictable. New technologies have sprung up to connect consumers at a time of increasing distance. Crisis: a connection catalyst.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Our research shows that 34 per cent of retail executives say supply-chain efficiencies and improvements are a top customer engagement priority. This helps manage consumer expectations as well as enhance profitability on limited stock. Using AI to analyse why consumers return goods is critical to reducing return rates.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Armed with a huge depth of knowledge about an individual customer, from their browsing behaviour to their purchase patterns, both human and AI-powered agents can deliver exceptionally personalised service. Data analytics and AI can also detect wider patterns in customer data to predict how an individual customer might behave in the future.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 23, 2024

The brand includes a line of products retailed both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and through its retail partners – a natural progression in Eucalyptus’s purpose to build a better future for healthcare by improving outdated and inefficient systems entrenched within the healthcare system.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2025

As China’s luxury market continues to evolve amidst economic shifts and changing consumer behaviours, understanding the complex dynamics of this vital sector has become increasingly crucial for global luxury brands. Despite the low confidence in 2024, the forecast reveals a cautiously optimistic picture of luxury consumption.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Particularly among Millennials and Gen Z, modern consumers seek experiences, relationships and community, along with products and services. Offering free seminars in computing, music and photography, Apple encourages knowledge and innovation among its consumers, enhancing its brand association with progressive thinking.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

Consequently, these innovations are transforming the retail scene and deeply impacting how consumers behave. From personalized shopping experiences to seamless omnichannel services, digital tools are setting new expectations among consumers. They can compile detailed analyses that showcase trends, patterns, and forecasts.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

Department stores have been particularly impacted, with consumers forced online during the pandemic now choosing to buy direct from brands or from more price-competitive online marketplaces. Australian digital sales reached record levels during Covid-19, with lockdowns driving consumers online in greater volumes than ever before.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2024

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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This is not just a transient trend but a robust response to the changing consumer, who now craves the tactile satisfaction of in-store shopping along with the personalisation and convenience of online commerce. Today’s consumers might browse products online and then feel, try and buy them in physical stores.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2021

For example, traditional tattooing patterns are often linked to really deep rituals, and they pop up in textiles and makeup for all different cultural reasons. If a garment or a pattern or design is telling a story, it might not be my story to tell. It doesn’t mean we can’t engage with people.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2022

Whether consumers shop online or in-store, modern marketers need to understand how to reach consumers where they are. . Shopper Marketing is a proven strategy to engage the omnichannel consumer on their path to purchase. . These repeat purchases are made without consideration as the consumer trusts the brand.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Understanding the psychology behind consumer behaviour is crucial for businesses and marketers aiming to tailor their strategies effectively. For students, grappling with academic demands often leads to unique consumer patterns, especially when seeking services that align with their educational needs. Social Influence.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2023

Recent years have seen rapidly evolving changes in all areas of consumer behaviour and there is little doubt it will continue in terms of the products and services that people want, who they want them from, and where and when they want to access them. Sleep and mindfulness will also be a focus to enhance their overall quality of life.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Consumers are placing a premium on the romanticised ‘village life’. Many consumers have cooled to impersonal shopping experiences and are dreaming about shopping in a way that is connected, simple, and friendly. Some have developed more cosy shopping patterns in their local areas and may frequent only a small range of shops.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2022

The design process leading up to the 2023 Resort range and post-runway show engagement was vastly different, proving Daniel Avakian is steadfastly changing the system. “To With the fly-through video fading in the background, the graphics switched to a moody animated pattern and the runway show began. Fashion weeks’ future.

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Creative Displays Now

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Your retail display should use techniques like cross-merchandising and interactive elements to engage with customers and draw them into the aisle. Include Interactive Elements to Build a Connection Interactive elements keep customers engaged with your display and have a ripple effect on brand loyalty. Creative Displays Now!

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Its a time of heightened consumer spending, aggressive promotions, and operational intensity. Sales trends This time of year provides a unique lens into consumer behaviour. Understanding these patterns helps anticipate future demand and plan better for upcoming events like Easter or mid-year sales.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 16, 2024

For Beard, retail should go beyond the product and instead be approached as a form of theatre that creates magic, generates connection and evokes emotion for consumers – what he calls “retailtainment”. Create the brand, the emotion, the resonance, break [consumers] patterns so they remember you,” concluded Beard.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 27, 2025

Untether retail media Retail media is clearly a high-margin revenue opportunity for retailers, one that allows brands to leverage retailers first-party data and reach consumers closer to the point of purchase. Coresight estimates that the US retail media market will reach $67.8 billion in 2025, ultimately growing to $106.4

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Consumer data is undoubtedly a critical resource for retailers. The data retailers collect can also have value to consumers. If retailers use it well, consumers can benefit from better personalisation in product offers, promotions, and communications. Yet not all consumers find personalisation appealing.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The themes on display are often indicative of the global trends affecting consumers and retail. In the past year or so, KPMG has published global research papers that add further insights to the big trends affecting retail models and consumer behaviour. What do consumers think and how are retailers using it? trillion in 2030.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

Loooptopia players can collect elements such as blank clothing items, colours and patterns to create new looks. This in-game action is a subtle reference to the environmental impact of textile waste globally and to change consumer behaviour, we need to learn new habits. Learning new habits.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2023

Fast fashion has normalised using garments for short periods of time, and throwing them away when trends change, driving an unsustainable pattern of overproduction and overconsumption. Against this backdrop, the EC aims to create a coherent framework and vision for the transition of the textile sector to a less wasteful model.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Daly advocates creating a loyalty program to reward top customers and keep them coming back and progressively localising your website and marketing engagement strategy to connect with the local target audience. The ease of returns has become a basic expectation among consumers shopping online.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2021

IR: What are some new denim styles that Levi’s is seeing consumer demand for at the moment? KRG: As consumers increasingly work, study and socialise closer to home, versatility is more important than ever. What has the consumer response to these collections been like? It’s also a personal passion of mine!

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2025

Walking into the 1172-square-foot space designed by Ringo Studio, consumers are greeted by a 16-foot- long custom table with marble insets, anchored by a dramatic light fixture. Picture breezy afternoons, retro architecture, and lively patterns that celebrate Miamis playful, laid-back spirit.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 5, 2024

In fact its popularity is, like all fashion trends, somewhat cyclical – and the application of modern technology to it is giving high-end brands a way to engage audiences that are hungry for personalisation. Humans have been embroidering for literally thousands of years, and yet it is not a process that has sat still or stagnated.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2023

Founded by then-21-year-old Cami Téllez in 2019, Parade was initially created to fill a gap in the market for stylish and size-inclusive bras and underwear for Gen Z consumers. With smaller but more responsive followings, these micro-influencers helped build an organic and socially engaged audience base.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2024

The rise of ghost malls is not merely a symbol of declining customer footfall or a shift in consumer behaviour. The phenomenon raises questions about the viability of the traditional mall model in the face of changing consumer preferences and evolving shopping habits. “No

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The new store concept was designed to appeal to both groups, with a spacious service desk in the middle of the store, similar to a kitchen island, where the sales teams can move freely around to engage shoppers, and decluttered shelving that makes the product the “hero” of the space. Image: Supplied. Telling the brand story.

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