Mango has released details of its latest monthly trend ‘campaign’ and also said that it will be upping its social media commitments with this particular launch. The retailer, which earlier this year, moved to a monthly trends model and away from a two-seasons one, has given details of the first of its four AW16 trend…
Adidas promised to rollout its German ‘Speedfactory’ concept further and now it’s planning to do just that. The sports giant said yesterday that it will open a robot-staffed manufacturing plant in the US next year.
Some good news that suggests a healthy chunk of shoppers are still willing to spend post-Brexit vote. Retail marketing agency Live & Breathe has found that despite consumer confidence being low, most UK shoppers don’t have any immediate plans to change their spending (including Christmas 2016).
Do you long for the uniformity of 1980s-style black? Tough luck. It’s been a world dominated by print and pattern in recent seasons so you must be longing for a change. Well, this just in…. pre-summer 2017 isn’t going to give you any relief. So why not go with the flow and tap into some…
More figures about the state of UK retailing in June. More to get depressed about. Springboard has just released its June footfall figures and they show overall visitor traffic falling 2.8%. In detail, that meant a 3.7% drop to high streets, a 1% fall to retail parks and a 2.3% drop at shopping centres.
Alessandro Michele has moved the Gucci ad campaign roadshow from last season’s Berlin to Tokyo for AW16 with a continuation of the ultra-luxe-fashion-against-an-everyday-backdrop trend that’s still serving the brand well. But then Michele is all about continuity and evolution. Having shaken up the brand profile in order to break with the Frida Giannini era in…
For someone who writes a lot about retail, I don’t go into stores to shop (rather than observe) that often. The global store that the internet has become is more my thing, which does little for my bank balance and my waistline, but is refreshingly low on human interaction But whether I’m shopping online or…
There’s been a general trend among retailers recently to try to wean consumers off discount prices. Sometimes that has meant offering “everyday low prices” or it might have been about add-ons to make us all happier to pay higher prices. Either way, discounts are bad for so many reasons: they hurt margins, they make shoppers…
It may not have the same ring about it as Christmas, Mother’s Day or even Black Friday but Amazon Prime Day (let’s call it APD) has turned into the biggest thing to hit summertime shopping in, well, ever. The digital spending extravaganza saw some analysts estimating that Amazon saw sales close to $1bn on Tuesday,…
Yesterday gave us more news on just what M&S plans to do to turn around its clothing offer and an interesting update it certainly was. CEO Steve Rowe said at the AGM that “We have been giving our customers too many reasons not to shop with us. They tell us we have not got the…
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