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Boots Beauty – A Look Inside

Boots is a U.K. beauty retailer and pharmacy chain that operates 2,100 stores, ensuring that 85% of the U.K. population is within 10-minutes of one of its store. Over the past three years, Boots has been elevating its in-store beauty experience by renovating over 170 of its beauty halls. This report explores the first solo ... Read more

Smart Shopping to Live Well

Our How America Shops® report, Caution! Retail Curves Ahead, reveals that financial anxiety affects 77% of shoppers caused by increases in their monthly expenses. Retailers and brands have an opportunity to respond with innovation in merchandise and experience. In this Retail Safari® we reveal: Examples of retailers and brands who are delivering more affordable wellness ... Read more

Experiential Retail: 4 Innovators to Learn From

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Our How America Shops® research reveals that there is a 51% increase (vs. 2014) in the channels people shop in three months: 13.3 today vs. 8.8 in 2014. With this boom, how will your brand or store differentiate itself, excite shoppers, and drive loyalty? In this Retail Safari® we reveal: The inside of the stores ... Read more

Supermarkets: Yes! to Innovation

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In this Retail Safari®, we look beyond the obvious big-box stock-up retailers like Walmart, Costco, and Amazon to discover how three grocers, Sendik’s Food Market, Bristol Farms, and Rouses Market, are competing by finding their own base of shoppers. Read this Retail Safari® to explore: How these retailers reimagine the store as an easy (and ... Read more

Paths to Beauty: Eyes Everywhere…

This Retail Safari® brings you innovators, both brands and retailers, who are delivering what the next generation of shoppers expect: convenience, personalization, and discovery. Will it stop with beauty? Is your category next? In this Retail Safari®, we identify: Convenient solutions like dual-purpose cosmetics for everyone and channels to discover the best in beauty Innovators ... Read more

Shopping Made Easier: The Best Shopping Tools, Brands & Retail Formats

Convenience is a major influencer in shopping behavior and a value that retailers and brands must shout to shoppers. In this Retail Safari®, we reveal: What shoppers are doing to make their Shopping Life easier – and how smart retailers and brands are responding Buzz-worthy digital tools making headlines now like AI Solution-oriented brands and ... Read more

Clicks to Bricks: How to Attract Young, Digital-Savvy Shoppers to the Store.

Although Gen Alpha might not have money to spend, they are influencers for the adults in their lives who do spend. The physical store must target and excite the next generation of young, digital-savvy shoppers and compete with social media for this shopper's attention. In this Retail Safari®, we identify: 3 innovators from around the ... Read more

How to Attract Shoppers During a “Permanent” Price Correction

91% of shoppers say that rising prices are not transient inflation, but they expect that prices on groceries will stay at 2023 levels (or go higher)[1]. In this Retail Safari®, we identify: 16 examples of retailers, brands, and digital platforms helping shoppers live within their stretch budget Examples in food and beverage (plus some in ... Read more

Breaking Barriers In Apparel: What Does It Mean For You?

What starts in one category extends to other unexpected areas. Apparel is one category known for leading disruption with a futuristic approach to retail. The innovations that we are seeing today in fashion will transform shoppers’ expectations of shopping next. In this Retail Safari®, we tour four Apparel stores, Amazon Style in Los Angeles, CA, ... Read more

Food Retailing: Frictionless, Local, Social

As more shoppers participate in online shopping and expect a happy and fast shopping trip, food retailers need to reimagine the physical store for the most basic of trips – groceries. On this Retail Safari®, we take you through three innovative themes in food retail. First, convenient solutions, such as AI technologies and a 24/7 ... Read more

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