10/18/2020 11:54:53 AM How Comics & Games Can Change the Shopping Experience for All Retail Brands. By Stephen Sumner When you take time out to better understand the consumer you tend to create a more internally and externally aligned match, if done right...
8/4/2020 8:31:25 PM As Dixons Carphone Moves On-Line What Future is There for Other Retailers? By Tim Hughes Tech retailer Dixons Carphone announced today it is to cut 800 jobs as it changes the way its stores are managed. This isn't news as many...
8/2/2020 10:11:17 AM Travel Retail Has Come to a Grinding Halt - Here's How To Unblock the Problem. By Stephen Sumner I write this blog in the middle of what should be annual vacation season for many northern hemisphere countries. It will soon be the...
4/21/2020 12:00:00 AM Covid19 - How to Go From Sales of £650m a Month to Sales of Nothing ..... in a Month By Tim Hughes Primark was the darling of the High Street, in Kingston in London near where are live, they took over a large retail store and opened...
3/23/2020 11:01:38 AM Why Using Behavioural Logic Will Help you to Connect with Audiences. By Stephen Sumner Where possible countries around the world are looking to mirror the 'lockdown' applied by China in order to enforce 'social distancing'....
3/19/2020 9:13:26 AM How Retailers are Using Social Media To Tackle Coronavirus Challenges By Tim Hughes Interesting article how retailers in Australia are using Social Media, Slack in this case to co-operate during the Corona Virus /...
3/16/2020 11:07:48 AM How Much of Your Digital Audience is Fake? By Stephen Sumner Instead of getting too hung up on a virus that's probably going to be more of an inconvenience for the majority let's discuss that...
3/16/2020 10:33:28 AM Is Covid-19 Finally Allowing the Earth to Breathe? By Stephen Sumner Is Covid-19 possibly natures way of the earth showing us what it feels like when you struggle to breathe. Travel has slowed down at a...
3/9/2020 10:33:29 AM The World Before and After 'Amazon' - What Are the Retail Lessons? By Stephen Sumner It's 1993, the dawn of the global internet for all and an era of explosive opportunities for an as yet number of companies who will come...
3/9/2020 12:00:00 AM Live Streaming for Retail isn’t Social Selling - Here's Why! By Stephen Sumner Semantics for some some, evidential change in the 'buying' process for many. I'm talking about 'social selling' and how it's often being...
1/8/2020 9:41:15 AM Is This the Future of Retail? By Tim Hughes This article is about a retail park that has been sold off to be a DC (distribution centre), so a warehouse. It make sense. First of all...
1/4/2020 5:38:52 PM Debenhams will shut 19 stores this MONTH with 28 more earmarked for closure in fresh blow to Britain By Tim Hughes This is terribly sad. Lives and livelihoods are lost as people lose their jobs, especially, jobs that have lasted for many years. I've...
12/9/2019 12:00:00 AM The micro behavioural trends impacting macro retail economics. By Stephen Sumner If your relaxing over the festive period after a hard earned year in retail maybe you should take some time to take a look at the fashion...
11/25/2019 8:23:15 AM Clarks - The Curse of the High Street or Self Inflicted Wounds? By Tim Hughes There has always been a joke about Clarks. If you don't know that Clarks shoes have always been the "go to" store for shoes for school....
11/3/2019 10:58:18 AM Why Frontline Workers Must Be Part Of Your Digital Transformation By Tim Hughes Whenever you and I deal with a business, we deal with frontline workers, B2C or B2B it is always front line people. I remember being in...
10/28/2019 10:19:08 AM 40%+ Return Rates are not sustainable for retailers, or the environment. By Stephen Sumner If you’re an online fashion and footwear retailer, you’re probably all too aware of the corrosive effect returns have on your bottom...