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Why Office Suppliers Are Getting Hit Hardest In Retail Closures
Retail stores took a big hit during 2020. Consumers slowed spending and adjusted to pickup and delivery models. Office suppliers, perhaps, took a large brunt of the blow. How have they adjusted during all these changes? What business strategies worked or didn’t, and how can retailers adjust moving forward. Marketscale TV Host Hilary Kennedy talked…
Creating Impactful Digital Experiences for Your Retail Brand
Designed for retail leaders and lovers alike, Retail Refined explores the in-store technology of the future, challenges the industry’s preconceived notions, and brings together retail’s biggest names to understand the brand strategies that will define the next decade in retail. Creating a digital experience for a consumer is essential but an often overlooked aspect of retail….
How The Content Pros Use SEO And Content To Sell
Jennifer Kaylo Ruscin guides retailers to be the hero and navigate the industry’s biggest B2B challenges online and offline. All companies rely on content to get their message to the world. It comes in many shapes in forms: blogs, emails, Instagram, Twitter, web pages. But, what exactly is content, SEO and how do you make yours…
Powering Innovation Beyond The Silicon Level For Interactive Experiences in Retail and Hospitality
The modern consumer is one that no longer views interaction and engagement as a luxury – it’s now an expectation for doing business with an organization, particularly in retail and hospitality. Consumers are looking for elevated engagement and end-to-end, holistic experiences, and that means, for those retailers and hospitality organizations, turning to visual and interactive…
Will Small Businesses Face The Brunt Of Retail Closures?
Investment banking firm UBS predicts that one in five retail stores will close over the next five years, with significant losses in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What does this mean for small businesses that might feel the most impact, and what does that mean for the folks on main street? Voice of B2B,…
Is Experiential Marketing Retail’s Ticket to a Resurgence?
Designed for retail leaders and lovers alike, Retail Refined explores the in-store technology of the future, challenges the industry’s preconceived notions, and brings together retail’s biggest names to understand the brand strategies that will define the next decade in retail. Everything in life is an experience. They have just become more sophisticated and calculated, especially in…
The Longterm Impact of Retail Closures in 2021
The CEO of Mainvest, Nick Mathews, discusses big news out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on massive incoming retail closures in 2021. He breaks down which sectors are most impacted, but specifically, gives insight on how small businesses are being hit, and offers strategies for how government and business communities can step in…
Solving Retail Problems with Edge Solutions
Edge computing means various things to different industries. For Christie Rice, Director of Business Development for Retail at the Intel Internet of Things Group, and Richard Newman, CTO and Co-Founder at Reliant, edge computing is all about the retail experience. “For a lot of enterprises, particularly the ones that we focus on in retail…
Could Employee Engagement be Draining your Bank Account?
Designed for retail leaders and lovers alike, Retail Refined explores the in-store technology of the future, challenges the industry’s preconceived notions, and brings together retail’s biggest names to understand the brand strategies that will define the next decade in retail. The pandemic’s impact on retail was so disruptive. It changed the industry forever, and a big…
How Good is H-E-B’s Strategy to Secure Market Share in Dallas?
San Antonio-based grocery chain H-E-B is headed north. The beloved Texas grocer plans to open two stores in the Dallas/Fort Worth area by the Fall of 2022. Walmart and Kroger dominate the North Texas market. However, H-E-B will have to fight to break through this crowded area, including Whole Foods, Costco, and Target. Voice…
Can H-E-B’s Digital Strategy Compete with Kroger and Walmart?
The texas-based grocery chain, H-E-B, looks to open two new stores in the North Texas area by the Fall of 2022. With targets for Frisco and Plano, they seem to be planning to dominate market share in these Dallas suburbs, similar to what they do in other major Texas cities such as San Antonio…
Demystifying the Value of the Fitting Room with Data
Designed for retail leaders and lovers alike, Retail Refined explores the in-store technology of the future, challenges the industry’s preconceived notions, and brings together retail’s biggest names to understand the brand strategies that will define the next decade in retail. What’s the value of the fitting room for retailers? Most don’t know because they don’t have…
Getting the C-Store Perspective on Compliance Software
Brent Puzak has a unique perspective on compliance software. After years serving as Circle K’s Director of North American Environmental Shared Services, Brent Puzak has joined Titan Cloud as their new Vice President of Solutions Consulting. It was during his time with the global c-store chain that he realized how the data and information…
Who Does Walmart’s ‘Made in America’ Plan Benefit?
Walmart has made an additional $350-billion pledge to its Made in America pledge, promising to spend that amount on items made, grown or assembled in the United States over the next decade. The company estimates that the move will generate more than 750,000 new U.S. jobs – but will it really be such a resounding…
Key Considerations when Building a DTC Healthcare Brand
Direct-to-consumer companies were some of the few, especially in industries like retail, that fared the best during COVID-19 and the pandemic’s fallout. Their ecommerce strategies allowed for easy funneling of consumers into their services, and data out of IBM’s U.S. retail index from mid-August of 2020 shows the pandemic accelerated digital shopping growth by…
Nokia Announces 5 Year Deal with AT&T for 5G Services
In a deal that will see customers benefit from additional 5G capacity towards the end of 2021, Nokia has announced it has signed a five-year deal with AT&T to expand the mobile operator’s C-Band network in parts of the US. Extending 5G in C-Band spectrum with Nokia will allow AT&T to provide 5G services to…
Solutions, Services, and Social Action. Can Store Design Make a Difference?
Retail is exciting, fast-moving, and filled with opportunity, yet information overload is a constant challenge. Join retail strategist, speaker, and trainer Carol Spieckerman every other Thursday as she navigates past the noise to get to the heart of what really matters in retail. In every episode, Carol harnesses her latest retail trajectories and interviews with industry experts…
Navigating Major Trends in Retail Data and Analytics
Like any industry, retail is now being forced to reckon with an emphasis on data – and analysis of that data – unlike any we’ve seen before. Retailers are in a position to understand more about their supply chain, customers, store experience, marketing and more than ever before, but they need solutions that can help…
The Driving Forces Behind the Retail Digital Transformation
Designed for retail leaders and lovers alike, Retail Refined explores the in-store technology of the future, challenges the industry’s preconceived notions, and brings together retail’s biggest names to understand the brand strategies that will define the next decade in retail. What’s driving retail digital transformation post-pandemic? There are two main categories—customer interaction and transaction enablement, both…
Overcoming Infrastructure Deficiencies in the Retail Supply Chain
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a direct impact on the retail industry in terms of consumer presence in brick-and-mortar stores, growth in eCommerce, and more, but it’s also highlighted some glaring inefficiencies and shortcomings in the industry’s supply chain. Notably, retailers lack visibility and data regarding their supply chain and its infrastructure, leaving them largely…
How to Sell a Product Concept to Retailers
Jennifer Kaylo Ruscin guides retailers to be the hero and navigate the industry’s biggest B2B challenges online and offline. Host Jennifer Ruscin shares her insights on how to make an impact in retail buyer meetings without an actual product. Ruscin has extensive knowledge of the process. She’s successfully helped companies sell millions of dollars of products…
Keeping Count: Getting to Know Datascan and the Retail Landscape
Datascan is an industry leader in inventory counting, helping modern retailers navigate the plethora of supply chain, inventory, stock management and data-related challenges they need to in order to thrive in the modern retail landscape. On “Keeping Count,” the company will help shape the conversation around those trends, offering leading insights primed to help retailers…
Turning Image Recognition and AI into Revenue
Designed for retail leaders and lovers alike, Retail Refined explores the in-store technology of the future, challenges the industry’s preconceived notions, and brings together retail’s biggest names to understand the brand strategies that will define the next decade in retail. While the shelves at stores look appealing to shoppers, they encompass lots of data from retailers…
Amazon Quietly Began Building a Grocery Chain During Pandemic
(Bloomberg) As many businesses struggled to survive the pandemic, Amazon.com Inc. was quietly building a national grocery chain.The first Amazon Fresh store opened to the public in Los Angeles in September. Store No. 11 opened Thursday, and Amazon is working on at least 28 more, from Philadelphia to the Sacramento suburbs. The company is also…
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