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Retail Safari® SNAP - May 2024 Edition
In this issue we present the ultimate in-store retail experiences with focus on community, sustainability, and quick, easy meals: Samsung Gangnam – Seoul, South Korea The Body Shop – Toronto, Canada Trader Joe’s Pronto – New York, NY Retail Safari® SNAP fuels you, and your teams, with the latest...Learn More
The Future of Retail with Helena Foulkes | EP74
In this episode: Wendy Liebmann, WSL’s CEO and Chief Shopper, talks to Helena Foulkes, current board member of Costco & Harry’s, former president of CVS Pharmacy and CEO and Board Member of the Hudson’s Bay Company, amongst other roles. They discuss: Her reflections on the pandemic: What she has learned...Learn More
Walking the Talk of the New Inclusion
Just a few years ago, being inclusive in retail meant recognizing non-binary consumers and those with “differently shaped” bodies. But to be fully inclusive, retailers and brands will have to embrace a much wider spectrum of differences, some of which we can’t even see. Our scouts have been researching the...Learn More
How Women's Health Brands Are Driving the Future of the Category
By Emily Burns, OCT 06, 2023 || BeautyInc. – A Publication of WWD A look at how brands including Womaness, Kindbody and Bayer are employing products, campaigns and community to destigmatize women’s health. At the Beauty & Wellness Forum, Wendy Liebmann, chief executive officer and chief shopper at WSL Strategic...Learn More
Gen Alpha’s Influence Is Taking Hold at Retail
WSL has long advised that to know the shopper, you have to follow the shopper. And today, many of those shoppers are following someone in very small shoes. Gen Alpha, the oldest of whom are just approaching 14, have outsized influence as consumers. These brands and retailers are responding, with...Learn More
50:50 Retail. A Prototype for the Future. Right Now, with Dan O'Connor | EP50
In this episode: Wendy Liebmann talks with Dan O’Connor, founder of the Future Commerce Initiative and Executive in Residence at the Harvard Business School, about the future of commerce and retail. They discuss: How retail is fast moving into a 50:50 (in-person vs. not-in-person) world. The dramatic complexity of the...Learn More