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A Peek Into the Health Store of the Future
The future of health care is being seized by retail, from innovative independents offering to relieve joint pain to Walmart installing examination rooms. All of which means the health store of the future is still a free-for-all. We have four observations to help retailers ensure they remain in the health...Learn More
In Design, the ‘New’ Normal is Anything But - Pratt Design Symposium 2019
[ Photos by Rebecca Smeyne, courtesy of Pratt Institute ] WSL joined leading designers at Pratt Institute’s Design Symposium to discover the “new normal” in fashion, home design and retail and how to reach increasingly educated shoppers. Hint: Get out of the studios and design around the new shopper values. It’s Time to Redesign...Learn More
Forever 21 Bankruptcy Signals a Shift in Consumer Tastes
The New York Times – By Sapna Maheshwari, Sept. 29, 2019 Forever 21, the California retailer that helped popularize fast fashion in the United States with its bustling stores and $5 tops, said on Sunday night that it would file for bankruptcy, a sign of the eroding power of shopping malls and...Learn More
The New Health Store
This issue shows you how different retailers are competing for a share of the Big Business of WELL. As shoppers expand their circle of trusted health care providers, both established chains and CBD innovators want to be first to reimagine how to deliver wellness products, services, information and experiences. As...Learn More
Apple, Google, are the New Authorities in Healthcare. Is Retail Ready?
If one device can pinpoint the moment in which wellness transitioned from a preference to a retail necessity, it would be the Apple Watch. We look into what Apple, along with tech companies like Google and Microsoft, have in store for consumer healthcare, and how it is changing the retail landscape...Learn More
3 Ways to Get Voice-Activated Devices to Pay Off (Hint: You Need a Screen)
Can we talk about voice technology in retail? If retailers are investing in VA technology, they need to be doing so in areas beyond saving time and easy refills. These qualities are building blocks, but growth follows sales, and sales follow browsing. And that browsing must be displayed as well...Learn More