Industry Headlines: July 25, 2013
- U.K. Retailers Embrace Showroomers: Silvertown Quays gambles on a futures where brands use retail space to display—not sell—their wares. (AdAge)
- High-End Stores Use Facial Recognition Tools To Spot VIPs: How do you give celebrities the star treatment if you don’t recognize them? Not a problem any more. (NPR)
- Top back-to-school trends for 2013: The season’s key points in a handy dandy infographic. (Retail’s BIG Blog)
- Canadian companies aim for balance as customers expect more for loyalty: More specifically, once shoppers are used to loyalty rewards, they have a hard time letting go. (The Globe and Mail)
- H&M signs lease for store in South Africa: The world’s second-biggest fashion retailer moves in to South Africa. (Reuters)
- E-Book Vs. P-Book: Common sense tells us the brick-and-mortar bookstore is a dead end, but the numbers don’t bear that up. (The New Yorker)
- U.S. Stores Catch Royal Birth Frenzy: Little Prince George is going to be great for retail. He’s also great for marketers, which we’ll be looking at in an upcoming issue of Tactics Magazine.
- Shopkick Adds In-App Purchases To Help Retailers Fight Amazon: ‘We Are The Anti-Amazon Coalition’: The popular retail service adds a bridge between online and brick-and-mortar. (Tech Crunch)
- Fur Coats in Stores as Sweltering Britons Seek Bikinis: The summer shopping season has failed to line up with the heat wave, and shoppers are frustrated. (Bloomberg)
- Are malls morphing into gyms?: Healthy food, workout clothes and fitness clubs: the new retail mix. (The Age)
- Socially conscious shoppers shedding fast fashion: Shoppers want more durable options, and when shopping centers can’t provide they’re making them themselves. (StarTribune)
- Offline is the new online: Offline showrooms for online retailers makes for a big change in the physical space brands look for. (Inside Retail)
