Marketing: Print

  1. Technology & Innovation
RTIH Editor, Scott Thompson, brings you his top ‘future of retail’ systems launches and deployments from the past week, including Amazon, Pinterest, Aldi, Walmart, HMV, New Look, TrusTrace, One Water, Polytag, BERSHKA, and 3DLOOK. Amazon Amazon has opened a Second Chance Store in London, giving festive shoppers the chance to buy quality returned products in-person, […]
  1. Department: Nonfood
IndiePet, a nonprofit trade association for independent pet retailers, will offer its retailer members access to Open Catalog from Salsify, a centralized hub for product content. Manufacturers that are IndiePet members can publish their product content to Open Catalog, making it easily accessible to 240 retail businesses representing 1,500 storefronts. “We’re always on the lookout […]
  1. Merchandising
“A MAP policy is a great way to protect those pennies in the basket and to really help your retailers understand that they need to be in compliance if they want to be able to sell your products.” — Rae Guimond, director of digital shelf strategy at PriceSpider With a growing number of channels and […]
  1. Corporate Strategy
“We always like to think about the next 100 years, and we feel the digital space is going to be that lever to propel us forward.” — Mike Friedberg, Director of Ecommerce, Hinkley When consumers choose lighting decor for their home, they largely focus on style and price and not the brand name. But Hinkley, […]
  1. Holiday & Events
Kohl’s has unveiled a series of new initiatives designed to inspire holiday shoppers and rev up seasonal sales results. While discounts and deals will be core, the ailing department store chain is also prioritizing in-store merchandising and curation to improve the customer experience.   To make finding the perfect gift even easier, Kohl’s has developed a […]
  1. Holiday & Events
Kohl’s has unveiled a series of new initiatives designed to inspire holiday shoppers and rev up seasonal sales results. While discounts and deals will be core, the ailing department store chain is also prioritizing in-store merchandising and curation to improve the customer experience.   To make finding the perfect gift even easier, Kohl’s has developed a […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
Amid record-breaking heat waves this past summer, many communities faced some intense weather events that caused significant power outages. On Father’s Day, triple-digit temperatures triggered severe thunderstorms that left more than 450,000 people without power across the southern United States. In August, major summer storms caused outages for more than a million people on the […]
  1. Media & Marketing
Bloomberg has a piece about how in the UK, food retailers are doing battle with market share-grabbing discounters Aldi and Lidl with more aggressive marketing of their loyalty card programs. This has become even more important, the story says, as food inflation has had an impact on prices and consumer spending.  Promotions have become critical, […]
  1. Data & Insights
The landscape of online retailing encompasses everything from drop-shipping and wholesaling to subscription and white-labeling, allowing entrepreneurs to choose the optimal business model to align with their brand’s vision and capabilities.    Choosing the right eCommerce business model can significantly impact a brand’s success, and it requires a comprehensive understanding of each model’s nuances. Key factors […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
​[[“value”:” Last year, non-fungible tokens craze picked up steam and many brands wanted to get in on the action. For the uninitiated, NFTs are defined as digital tokens connected to digital goods such as art or music.  Though the NFT industry made headlines for generating billions in trading volume, the once-hot NFT market appears to […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Furniture retailer La-Z-Boy reports that 3D product configuration and WebAR OnDemand technology is now available on its website. Powered by 3D Cloud by Marxent, the initiative is part of La-Z-Boy’s Century Vision strategic plan. The company is investing in a range of new shopping and brand experiences for both digital platforms and bricks and mortar […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
The retail landscape is in a difficult place at the moment. Between economic stressors like high inflation rates, talent shortages and industry changes such as rapidly evolving customer expectations and surging demands, many retailers are scrambling to find a foothold in these uncertain times. They need to make every resource count. Merchandising teams are critical […]
  1. Data & Insights
While shopping for party clothes for his daughter, Shridhar Marri had his epiphany about where e-commerce should head. His daughter had just graduated from Syracuse University, and she had very specific requirements for the parties to follow. She wanted “effortless cool” that was “minimalistic, elegant, and not extravagant.” And none of the beauty products could […]
  1. Media & Marketing
I went off yesterday – twice – about Amazon’s decision to convert Prime Video to an advertising-supported platform;  you’ll only be able to watch commercial-free if you pay an extra $36 a year (which makes it a de facto Prime membership fee increase).  I think this represents a lack of loyalty on Amazon’s part to […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
Counterfeiting is a pressing concern for businesses globally, transcending all sectors and demographics. It affects the brick-and-mortar, catalog, and e-commerce sectors and undermines customer retention, service, management, merchandising, mobile, and omnichannel integration. It encompasses everything from fake consumer goods to fraudulent copies of digital products. This rising tide of counterfeiting is fueled by an intricate […]
  1. Channel: Grocery
On the subject of treating employees in a way that keeps them engaged, one MNB reader wrote: I have a nephew with limited cognitive skills but is a loyal bagger at a Michigan Kroger. On his fifth year of service he received a package containing Thank You cards from store management and fellow workers as […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: RH on Thursday reported net revenues of $800 million, down 19% from $992 million last year, and net income of $76 million, down 37% from $122 million year over year.  The high-end furniture retailer also reported an adjusted operating margin […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
In today’s rapidly evolving retail landscape, adaptability is key. Retailers must stay ahead of changing market dynamics and shifting consumer behaviors to remain competitive. To achieve this, they require robust and flexible retail systems that can seamlessly adapt and scale. This is where composable architectures come into play, offering a transformative solution that empowers the […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Today’s consumers are more demanding, less loyal and more distracted than ever before. Retailers face new, complex challenges as they attempt to connect to new customers, provide a more seamless shopping experience, and improve their overall profitability. Consider the following: 82 percent of global consumers regularly use multiple digital touchpoints during their buying journey; and […]
  1. Channel: Marketplace
Amazon is bringing ‘Buy with Prime’ capabilities to Shopify merchants via a new app integration. Buy with Prime was designed to give Prime members fast, free delivery and easy returns through Amazon’s fulfillment network and ultimately help brands increase shopper conversion by about 25%.  Now, the new app is empowering Shopify merchants to offer this seamless […]
  1. Channel: Marketplace
Amazon is bringing ‘Buy with Prime’ capabilities to Shopify merchants via a new app integration. Buy with Prime was designed to give Prime members fast, free delivery and easy returns through Amazon’s fulfillment network and ultimately help brands increase shopper conversion by about 25%.  Now, the new app is empowering Shopify merchants to offer this seamless […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Up to 70% of business-to-consumer marketers believe that content marketing has become more important to their business over the past year, and 77% have successfully used this content to build credibility and trust among their consumers, according to the Content Marketing Institute. The Home Depot is tapping into this value by creating a branded content […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
7-Eleven has upgraded its mobile app with simplified login and registration, a centralized deals and rewards area for 7Rewards loyalty members and improved in-app shopping and delivery experiences via 7NOW Delivery. “The heart of our digital connection with the customer is through the 7-Eleven app — it’s a key driver that allows us to give […]
  1. Media & Marketing
Welcome to a special encore episode of the podcast, where we open up the back catalogue and share some of our favourite and most popular episodes that are worth a second (or perhaps your first) listen.  Today we bring you our exclusive interview with Joe Kudla, CEO and Founder of Vuori, the fast-growing Southern California-inspired […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
In conversation with Matt Wood (right) this week at Amazon’s AWS Summit. Amazon’s absence from this year’s generative AI bonanza has been a bit puzzling. The company invented Alexa, intuiting people’s interest in speaking with computers, yet when OpenAI released ChatGPT it seemed to cede the territory. But rather than sitting out the game, Amazon […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
We took note the other day of a Bloomberg story about how on Prime Day Amazon  was “dangling an ‘invite-only’ promotion designed to give customers a better shot at snagging the bargains they want.  Shoppers request an invite for discounted items they see on the site — 32% off an Acer Swift X laptop, for […]
  1. Data & Insights
In the ever evolving retail landscape, the key to securing and retaining customers lies in creating a seamless and personalised experience across multiple channels. This paradigm, often referred to as omnichannel marketing, has been further amplified in the age of digital transformation. As customers expect more integrated, personalised, and engaging shopping experiences, retail marketers are […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Since 1872, the retail industry has witnessed the power of direct mail firsthand. Aaron Montgomery Ward’s revolutionary mail-order business, Montgomery Ward and Company, kickstarted a retail revolution. A modest one-page “catalog” marked the beginning of a transformative era for retail direct mail, igniting the immense potential of reaching customers through their mailboxes. In today’s highly […]
  1. Data & Insights
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once said, “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. Our job is to figure out what they want before they do.” The world of retail is getting ready for its iPhone moment using breakthrough generative AI technology. Unlike traditional AI that is used to detect patterns […]
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The National Retail Federation (NRF) has updated a report that had attributed “nearly half” of 2021’s $94.5 billion in retail shrink to organized retail crime, saying the data point was part of two-year-old testimony to a U.S. Senate committee by Ben Dugan, former President of the Organized Retail Crime Resource Center. The NRF report was […]

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