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Your Views:  Pinot Noirs & Chocolate Milkshakes

Last week I referenced a Ted talk by restaurateur Will Guidara, in which he described a customer service epiphany that changed his approach to business and inspired what he calls “unreasonable hospitality.” Which led MNB reader Kiran Smith to write: Thank you so much for sharing this! It was a great reminder that we all […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Top 10 2023 DSI Content Picks for Digital Leaders DSI

The Digital Shelf Institute (DSI) is committed to igniting your passion for what’s possible in the world of digital commerce. With our prolific podcast series, extensive research, and forward-thinking thought leadership from digital leaders, you’ll get the answers to your burning commerce questions. As we close out 2023, here are the DSI’s top 10 content […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

The Secret Behind Quick-Turn Merch: A Strong Partner

From Barbie to the Super Mario Brothers movie and even the debut of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s electrifying relationship, the last few months have been filled with pop culture moments that have captivated almost the entire world. Everywhere you look, someone is talking about these moments. To take the obsession even further, it seems […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

3 Things Connected TV Can Do that Linear Can’t

This year for the first time ever, the viewership share of linear television (i.e. traditional broadcast and cable) has fallen below 50%, according to Neilsen. But it’s not that people aren’t watching TV; it’s just that they are no longer watching it the way they used to: streaming is rapidly taking over and now represents […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Permission Marketing

We’re nearing the twenty-fifth anniversary of Seth Godin’s prescient book, Permission Marketing. Published in early 1999, Permission Marketing set the stage for modern marketing. Many of the marketing tools, channels, and technology have changed or evolved in the past quarter-century (although email has surprisingly remained a fixture), but the ideal of Permission Marketing is as […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

FaceTime with the Content Guy: Leyland Lessons

Jim Leyland, who won more than 1700 games as a manager with four different teams, and earned one World Championship and three pennants, was elected this week to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.  What was remarkable about all the stories was how they sounded a common theme about this management style, which offers all […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

From vision to reality: how outsourced development drives results

In an era where technology is the foundation of business growth, Vodworks emerges as a pivotal player in the realm of software and product engineering services. Specialising in consulting, outsourcing, and augmented team solutions, Vodworks is the strategic partner for businesses seeking to navigate and conquer their most complex technical challenges. This article explores how […]
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  1. International

The Weekly Closeout: Claire’s expands into Mexico and Squishmallows collabs with H&M

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week, and what we’re still thinking about. From Rent the Runway’s decision to restructure […]
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  1. Partnerships & Alt Profit

Former MasterClass Talent Executive and Emmy Award-Winning Producer Launch SonderCo To Reinvent Talent and Brand Partnerships

LOS ANGELES, CA — Entertainment and talent executives have launched SonderCo, a new agency dedicated to innovating and deepening the way brands partner with talent, intellectual property, and other brands to create mutual long-term business value. Building on his experience helping make MasterClass a global brand through talent partnerships, Sean Akaks, former Head of Business […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

The 8 biggest party trends for 2024

Picture this: You’re invited to an event hosted by your male friends in their late twenties. It’s not a birthday party or engagement, or even New Years’. No – it’s a glitter-filled Eurovision party. Passing revelers dressed as ABBA and Conchita Wurst, you sip on non-alcoholic beer and cheers to good times. The winner’s announced, […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

The Chargebacks That Stole Christmas for Retail Merchants

The peak holiday season usually brings a welcome boost in sales and festive cheer for merchants. Known shopping events such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas pique consumer interest and lead to increased customer traffic. But while you might support year-end customer activities with festive purchase options, there’s a potential threat to all […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Reshaping Holiday Beauty Marketing: Visual Authenticity and the AI Revolution

As the holiday season nears, artificial intelligence is transforming retail marketing in the beauty sector. However, responsible AI usage is crucial to maintaining trust with wary consumers. Our VisualGPS research revealed that in 2023, AI makes 63 percent of Americans very nervous, rising from 53 percent in 2022. So, as AI-generated visual content enters the […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

NRF Retracts Claim that Organized Retail Crime Accounted for ‘Nearly Half’ of Retail Shrink

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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  1. Technology & Innovation

Mintel Leap – Welcome to the future of Market Intelligence

Instant answers to complex questions We are thrilled to officially announce the launch of Mintel Leap, our new AI solution that is set to fundamentally change how businesses conduct research. A closed-loop platform built exclusively on Mintel’s proprietary research and human analysis, there are no hallucinations. With speed, quality and accuracy, Mintel Leap delivers research […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Sears is a shell of its former self. So why is it reopening some stores?

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Sears and Kmart once dominated the retail landscape. When the companies merged in 2005, they had nearly 3,500 stores. For context, that’s more stores than Target, Macy’s and Lowe’s currentlyoperate. But years of business missteps have reduced the once mighty retailers to […]
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  1. Corporate Strategy

Tuesday Eye-Opener:  Powered Down

by Kevin Coupe A few weeks ago, I looked askance at a comment by Best Buy CEO Corie Barry that blamed all the money that Taylor Swift fans were spending on concert tickets and merchandise for stagnant sales in her stores.  I thought it was a silly comment – a retailer’s job is to understand […]
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  1. Department: Consumer Durables

Lego Debuts Fortnite Survival Crafting Game

The Lego Group and Epic Games will introduce Lego Fortnite, a new survival crafting game, on Dec. 7, 2023. Designed for people of all ages, the game is designed to encourage creativity, experimentation and collaboration through play. This is the first play experience introduced since Lego and Epic Games announced their partnership in 2023, with […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Major trends in martech for 2024: the real changes underway in a 99% platitude-free report

There was a meme circulating around social media last week of an agency marketer rambling in a “thought leadership” interview on TikTok. I have no idea if it was parody or real. Or more accurately, if it was intentional or accidental parody. It was a jumbled jubilee of buzzword bingo – personalization, data, brand, experience, […]
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  1. Department: Food

How retail businesses can stay protected against natural disasters

While many businesses are always out there trying to reduce costs so they can perfectly retain their business how it is, there’s one thing that can swiftly damage a business to the point of no recovery, and that’s a natural disaster. Now, dealing with a natural disaster is honestly everyone’s worst nightmare. They can take […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Samsung, Acer, Hisense onboard as Currys Connected Media unveiled by UK technology retailer

Currys has unveiled the first suite of products available via its retail media network, Currys Connected Media. This allows partnered brands to understand, reach and engage millions of customers online and in-store. Brands such as Samsung, Acer and Hisense are harnessing the offering, which is built on solutions from partners including Circana, Epsilon and Criteo. […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

How Mideast Conflict Is Playing Out In One Workplace

The Washington Post reports that “on Friday, more than 1,700 Amazon employees presented CEO Andy Jassy with a petition calling for the company to ‘rescind all contracts with the Israeli military and call for an immediate, durable, and sustained cease-fire.’  While that’s a small fraction of Amazon’s total workforce of more than 1 million, employees […]
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  1. Partnerships & Alt Profit

Mozilla Developer Network Partners Exclusively with BuySellAds for Native Advertising Initiative

BOSTON, MA — BuySellAds, a leading digital advertising platform, has been selected as the exclusive partner for Mozilla Developer Network’s (MDN) native advertising program to handle sales and ad serving infrastructure. MDN, a renowned open-source documentation repository for developers, receives over 80 million monthly page views and has been a trusted web development resource since […]
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  1. Data & Insights

3 ways retailers can leverage generative AI to stay ahead of the competition

Some phrases become so common that they bring thinking to a grinding halt. A new one poses a special risk to retailers, because it may prevent them from seizing opportunities to keep up with competitors. The phrase in question? “The AI revolution.” To be clear, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming retail. But retailers need to […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

These 5 people changed retail. Where are they now?

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Every now and then a leader within retail rises up and becomes the person to watch. They grab headlines. They make bold decisions. They shift the focus of retail — even if it’s only for a short period of time.  But then […]
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  1. Corporate Strategy

Many Hats of the CMO

I’ve drawn a number of cartoons over the years on the evolving Chief Marketing Officer role, which is partly a proxy for the ever-changing job of marketing in general. Long gone are the days when CMOs were just in charge of “marketing comms” and marketing was dismissively described as “the coloring-in department.”  Today’s Chief Marketing […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

’Tis the season for shopping and romcoms: RTIH runs back the week’s coolest retail technology plays

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, […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Including HMV, Asda, and Ikea UK: RTIH presents the retail technology week in numbers

Do you like numbers? Do you like retail systems news? Then this is the article for you. Including TrusTrace, New Look, Square, Fossil Group, NewStore, InPost, and the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards. 5…This week, we announced the winning submissions for the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards, sponsored by PMC, FreedomPay, Worldpay from FIS, CADS, 3D Cloud […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Instacart and Wegmans to bring alcohol delivery to New Jersey, US

Instacart unlocks alcohol delivery in partnership with Wegmans. Credit: Instacart/PRNewswire. Grocery technology company Instacart has launched an alcohol delivery service for the first time in New Jersey, US. The service was launched in partnership with Wegmans Food Markets and all independently owned Wegmans wine, liquor and beer locations. Customers above the age of 21 can […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Unlocking new sports audiences with short form video

Take a look at a typical “For you” page on TikTok, and the chances are you’ll see clips ranging from dance tutorials and recipes, to highlights from the big football match, movie trailers, and even “Get ready with me for a night out”. That apparently random list shows how TikTok has become a one-stop shop […]
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  1. Holiday & Events

Parachute to host in-person holiday market with over 40 brands

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: DTC bedding brand Parachute is hosting its first-ever outdoor holiday market event Dec. 2-3 in Culver City, California. The in-person marketplace will feature over 40 brands, including Avaline, ILIA, Nécessaire, Our Place, Brightland, Cuyana and Janessa Leone, per an email sent to […]
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NRF Retracts Claim that Organized Retail Crime Accounted for ‘Nearly Half’ of Retail Shrink

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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