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Destination: Innovation. 4 Retail-Shaking Store Concepts
Sure, more shoppers are going back to stores, but which ones, and for what reasons? Now that tech has irreversibly changed the shopping trip, retailers have to anticipate a future when consumers find stores less important. These innovative approaches, discovered by our WSL Retail Safari® scouts, are turning stores into...Learn More
How to Make Every Store A Store of the Future with Jo Horgan | EP21
In this episode: Wendy Liebmann and Jo Horgan, Jo Horgan, Founder & Co-CEO of Mecca Brands, discuss how retail innovation must be a discipline embedded into the culture of organizations to stay relevant to what shoppers want in a fast-changing world. They discuss: Putting shoppers at the center of a...Learn More
Retail Leaders Predict Future Success Relies on Engagement
Retail’s future isn’t simply online or in-store – it’s in a “chameleon consumer” who moves effortlessly through complexity and change. In WSL’s latest Future Shop® podcast, top executives from the Fashion Institute of Technology and Maybelline cultivate new ideas with WSL’s CEO Wendy Liebmann on retail futurism, from the role of...Learn More
The Future of Retail Leadership | EP18
In this episode: Wendy Liebmann discusses the expertise, mindset and agility retail leaders will need in the future with Professor Stephan Kanlian, Chairperson of FIT’s Master’s Program in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management, and Morgan Hagney, AVP, Maybelline New York. They discuss: Critical capabilities required in the new phygital...Learn More
The Future of Retail from a Global View | EP14
In this episode: Our own Wendy Liebmann and Christine Cross, UK-based global retail consultant, discuss trends that are already disrupting retail around the world. Wendy and Christine discuss: The impact of channel agnosticism on how people shop, and where companies invest The growth of DTC and how it enables brands...Learn More
Extraordinary Sustainability: 5 Retail Safari® Examples
WSL’s research shows that shoppers have long felt sustainability is a cause worth spending more for. Now retailers are taking that value-driven purpose from ordinary to extraordinary, and driving even more shoppers toward sustainability. Here, we share five examples from our Retail Safari® tours. Shoppers Sought Sustainable Retail, Now It’s...Learn More