Sat.Nov 07, 2020 - Fri.Nov 13, 2020

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Ecommerce strategy: How to Disrupt the Disruptors  

RetailMinded

There’s an unlikely contender for the eCommerce crown – the king of the physical retail space: Walmart. . It seems counterintuitive, but key to Walmart’s success in the eCommerce arena is its sheer physical presence on the ground. Walmart has placed a big emphasis on the opening of its brand-new Supercenters over the last couple of years and that focus has given the brand a huge network of stores it can now leverage for ‘click & collect’ (or buy online, pickup i

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McDonald’s unveils “bright and beautiful” new packaging designs

Design Week

Fast food giant McDonald’s has revealed a suite of new packaging designs for its food range, coinciding with the announcement of the McPlant, its first foray into plant-based burgers. Unveiled this week, the restaurant chain says the new look will be rolled out worldwide within the next two years. It is unknown whether the work has been produced in-house, or with a design studio.

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Costa Nova Sailing Club Restaurant / Ferreira Arquitectos

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Sales Territory Management Plan: Creating a 5 Step Strategy [Video]

RepslyBlog

Most consumer goods companies understand the importance of an effective sales territory management plan - it can prevent territory overlap between field reps, which causes confusion and wastes time. By clearly defining territories, you can create a strategy that ensures field reps will not compete against one another for the same customers or visit a customer twice.

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AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype

AI is rapidly transforming digital commerce, but how do you separate real opportunities from hype? Moderated by Orium, AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype , experts from Bloomreach , commercetools , Contentstack , and Fluent Commerce explores where AI is already delivering results and where its potential is still unfolding. This masterclass dives into proven AI applications, emerging innovations , and the gaps between promise and reality in commerce.

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Holiday Email Marketing: A How-To Guide

Jahabow

The holiday shopping season is traditionally a huge revenue driver for retailers, but that’s especially true this year, as many businesses are looking to make up for time lost due to the events of the last several months. Whether your store offers only in-person shopping or you’ve turned to supplement revenue with eCommerce options, holiday email marketing is a surefire way to help boost traffic — and your bottom line.

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Pentagram helps Virgin Money launch as challenger bank

Design Week

Pentagram has designed the identity for Virgin Money, a new bank from Virgin that seeks to “challenge the UK’s existing banking landscape” The project is a collaboration from Pentagram partners Luke Powell, Jody Hudson-Powell and Domenic Lippa. The identity also rolls out across rebranded physical locations. According to the studio, Virgin Money wanted to position itself as a brand that “shares Virgin’s core values but happens to be in banking” as opposed to a

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Why Investing in Custom Cannabis Display Cases for Your Dispensary is a Must

Show Best

With marijuana legalized in more than half the states in America, the prospects for the industry are clearly on an upward trend. In fact, 5 states joined the bandwagon this past election day. States that have legalized recreational marijuana on November 3rd include: . New Jersey. Arizona. South Dakota. Montana. Mississippi . With a flourishing home market to cater to, this presents incredible opportunities for new and existing dispensary owner alike to capture more wallet share.

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6 Things To Do Now If Your Marketing Budget Is Underspent

Shopperations

Regardless if the COVID pandemic meant you couldn't keep your product on the shelves or you quickly had to readjust your projections, shopper marketing programs overwhelmingly were paused or cancelled in the last 6 months. For many shopper marketers this means they are in the unfamiliar position of being underspent on their marketing budgets.

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Norway’s redesigned passports pay homage to the Northern Lights

Design Week

Norway’s new passports have been revealed, featuring illustrated natural landscapes and UV details. Designed by Oslo-based studio Neue, the new passports come in a range of colours, indicating different citizenship statuses. Neue won the competition to design Norway’s new passport in 2014 with a concept based around the country’s scenic scapes and how they could unify Norwegian citizens.

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5 Ways Poor Logistics Management Can Affect Your Business

RetailMinded

It’s true that every business is different. As such, each one has different supply chains and faces issues when their business requirements need to change or grow. Add to that not being on top of your logistics management, and you can be facing disastrous consequences on the health of your business as a whole. As the spinal column of any business, logistics management is crucial because it serves to make sure that the entire supply chain management, including shipping and delivery, are conducted

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Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains

Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon

This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia

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The Power of Point Of Purchase Displays During Holiday Season

Scrube

According to the National Retail Federation , holiday retails sale during 2019 had a strong finish at $730.20 billion. As a retailer, you should take advantage of this lucrative opportunities and utilize point of purchase merchandising displays to increase impulse purchases during the coming holiday season. The (P.O.P) point of purchase product displays are designed to catch consumers when they’re already on the way to making a purchase, offering discounts and deals that require us to spend only

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How do your ‘Green Credentials’ stack up?

Form Room

The post How do your ‘Green Credentials’ stack up? appeared first on formroom.

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This portable music player aims to lead a “digital album artwork revolution”

Design Week

Musician and designer Tom Vek has unveiled plans for Sleevenote, a portable music player which hopes to lead “the digital album artwork revolution” Unlike most traditional music players, Sleevenote is square – designed to mimic a physical album. At 16cm wide, it is slightly bigger than a CD and just smaller than a 7” record sleeve.

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Does the UK Government really understand the retail sector?

Nelson Blackley

These are unprecedented times for UK retail. As we approach the last seven weeks of the key Christmas trading quarter, the Government’s latest COVID-19 directive last week means that all ‘non-essential’ retailers across England are now closed and can’t re-open until at least early December. In Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland a raft of different restrictions is impacting retailers, whether they are classified as ‘essential’ or not.

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Future-Proofing Enterprise Commerce: Why Extensibility Wins with Shopify

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is evolving fast, and brands relying on rigid, one-size-fits-all solutions risk losing agility. But modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. In this webinar, we’ll explore how an extensible, modular approach empowers brands to integrate new capabilities, enhance performance, and scale efficiently—all while leveraging Shopify’s strengths.

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Workplace Temperature Kiosks Help Businesses Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19

Frank Mayer

Recently, New Jersey’s Governor Phil Murphy signed a COVID-19-related executive order requiring specific health and safety standards that would protect New Jersey workers at their places of employment. Amongst many directives listed under the order, one regulation outlines employers must conduct daily health checks like temperature screenings, self-assessment surveys, or questionnaires.

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Educational platform Eyeyah is using design to help kids spot fake news

Design Week

“We don’t know what jobs kids are going to have in 10 years’ time, so our work is about finding ways we can help them along their journey,” says Steve Lawler. Lawler is the co-founder of Eyeyah, an education platform that uses creativity to engage young people with vital lessons for the digital age. A graphic designer by trade, he tells Design Week that design is a key tool in exploring these topics.

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Wearable air purifier and diabetes earring lead social impact showcase

Design Week

A diabetes-monitoring earring and air purifier inspired by the London Underground are among the shortlisted projects at this year’s Global Grad Show. Hosted by Dubai Art Group, the year-round showcase brings together 100 new graduate projects which aim to have social impact in sectors such as personal health and the environment. Airtomo air purification device 270 universities from around the world submitted a total of 1,600 projects for the second year of the competition. 2020 also marks

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“I’m very aware of how vulnerable I am”: how freelancers are facing the pandemic

Design Week

Earlier this week , the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance revealed that a million people may quit self-employment in the UK because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Using data collected in August – the month the UK economy began to tentatively reopen following the first lockdown – the report suggested 58% of the country’s self-employed workforce had less work, and that the number of people anticipating quitting their work was at its highest a

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Templo uses “distorted” images to brand the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition

Design Week

London studio Templo has created the identity for the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition (UKACC), which aims to reflect the organisation’s push for “openness, transparency and fairness” UKACC is an independent group which seeks to hold the powerful to account, including political leaders, corporations and parties with vested interests. As its name suggests, the coalition brings together a variety of anti-corruption organisations in the UK and also internationally.

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This flag project uses data to highlight danger of “glacier extinction”

Design Week

German design studio Moby Digg has unveiled a series of redrawn country flags as part of a “digital protest” to highlight the danger of melting glaciers around the world. The project is in partnership with communications agency Serviceplan and environmental science specialists at METER, and uses climate data to reshape country flags. The digital protest will be held between the 9 -19 November, the original dates of the COP26 climate change conference.

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Malika Favre “bends bodies” into an erotic alphabet in her new Kama Sutra A-Z

Design Week

Malika Favre’s latest project is a “celebration of sex and the human body” in book form. The French illustrator has partnered with independent publisher Counter-Print to produce Kama Sutra A-Z, a book which sees her turn the 26 letters of the alphabet into erotic art pieces. Featuring an illustrated couple who bend and twist to make each letterform, the book is inspired by the original Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfilment.

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Stefan Sagmeister: “The latest negative tweet does not mean that we are living on the brink”

Design Week

Stefan Sagmeister is trying to think long-term at the moment. The 24-hour news cycle – aided by platforms like Twitter – means it’s easy to only see “democracy in peril, ubiquitous conflicts and an overall outlook of doom”, he tells Design Week. “As you know, short term media like Twitter and hourly news create an impression of a world out of control,” the designer says.

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🚀Future-Proof Your Salesforce B2C Commerce: Modernization Strategies Inside!

Outdated platforms are costing you sales. Legacy platforms like Salesforce SiteGenesis and SFRA can slow innovation, increase maintenance costs, and frustrate customers. This playbook provides a strategic roadmap to modernizing your Salesforce B2C Commerce platform using a composable approach to transition to faster, scalable, and flexible e-commerce solutions —without disrupting your business.