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The days of lazily strolling through store aisles are over, at least for a while. And nowhere is this trend more clear than in Walmart’s new store design, which the company is unveiling for the first time today. The design…

Back in April Dixons Carphone announced plans to open drive-through stores. As it turns out, those stores aren’t so much classic drive-through as curbside (or kerbside as we say in the UK) collection points. The truth is drive-through retail is…

There’s a pattern to disruption in the retail industry.It usually comes from outside the business rather than within.That’s not to say that retailers don’t come up with bright new tech ideas.It’s just that the ideas that throw a spotlight on…

Whole Foods “opened” a new “store” that you can’t walk into or shop at.Located in Brooklyn and slightly smaller than a typical Whole Foods, the store is dedicated solely to fulfilling online orders. But this is not just a pandemic-related reaction.…

What Target has managed to do is take that same level of customer loyalty and translate it to a world where people haven’t been spending nearly as much time in stores. It’s not a new strategy, but in some ways,…

The way we understand retail has shifted—big time. COVID-19 brought the retail industry to its knees in many ways. Brick and mortar shops once-daily frequented, saw a dearth of clients. Read more in Rallyware Retail Reinvented: Pros and Cons of…

In the world of retail, business failures are easy to find. Identifying a successful business turnaround, on the other hand, is far more difficult. Even the professionals paid to inject new life into troubled businesses admit that the hogh street…

In mid-March 2020, department stores were classified as nonessential businesses and forced to shutter in an effort to curb the spread of the disease. Read more in fast company  Department stores were the original retail startups. Now they’re headed for…

Amazon  pledged over $350 million to raising wages by $2 per hour in the US, £2 per hour in the UK, and “approximately” €2 per hour in many countries in the EU throughout April, a commitment worth over $350 million.…

A 49-minute trip became a free Lack coffee table. About two hours of driving scored a Billy bookshelf. Even a five-minute trip was good for a veggie dog. Read more in Fast Company  Ikea is giving out free coffee tables—but…