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The seasonal nature of shopping always presents a multitude of problems for retailers. The back-to-school season (not to mention the fall and winter holidays) are still months away but for retailers planning what to stock, how to display it and how to get shoppers engaged, it’s just around the corner. Shoppers are looking for ways to save money – but it’s important to remember that they see seasonal shopping as more than simply buying goods.
Like all shopping, it’s wrapped in cultural and behavioral practices that represent a host of emotions and beliefs. If costs and savings were the only factors considered, shoppers would buy exclusively… read more.
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We’ve been talking a lot lately about how to approach gender and shopper behaviors in retail. In earlier posts, IV Whitman concluded that we need to think about the “third gender” and Gavin Johnston reminded us that it’s not stereotypes – but context – that should drive retail marketing efforts. Just as there are various ways of thinking about the male shopper, there are equally various ways of approaching him. And, when done properly, brands can increase point of purchase… read more.
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Cross-channel integration. It’s not a retail buzz term right now for nothing! It can be difficult to do correctly, especially with mobile becoming the fifth channel. One retailer who has mastered the one-stop-shop mentality across all channels is Office Depot.
Tune in to hear VP of Customer Marketing, Christine Buscarino share the focus of Office Depot’s cross-channel integration success and but how they differentiate themselves with a true one-stop-shop mentality.
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Pause the game! Newsflash in the retail world: It’s not about just fulfilling shopper needs anymore, it’s all about the experience and getting to know your shopper, the consumer and the influencer. When it comes to video game retailer GamerDoc, they know all three. GamerDoc President Jim Belanger says the typical gamer is misunderstood by other retailers. Tune in to hear Jim discuss how shopping is now an entertainment experience and how retailers can take cues from their shoppers to achieve true engagement.
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Experience is the new location.
Visual Merchandising with Charles Luckenbill of OfficeMax
Possibly the most interesting discussion from day two of Global Shop was with Charles Luckenbill, Vice President of Visual Merchandising for OfficeMax.
In a retail world where shoppers and brands are managing experiences with brick- and-mortar, click-and-mortar and all social and mobile points in between, the mantra “location, location, location” has been replaced by “experience, experience, experience.” After… read more.
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For a conference called Global Shop, it was refreshing to learn about a brand whose focus is on local marketing and local experiences.
Gabrielle Rosi, Senior Design Coordinator of Whole Foods Market, utilizes three seemingly simple yet hard to pull-off values to design the Whole Foods Market stores to create shopper experiences unique to each location.
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Earlier this month, TV quiz show Jeopardy featured two former champions playing against a computer named Watson. While the story of man versus machine is as old as John Henry and the Industrial Age, the ending was a new one. In a Terminator-style twist, the machine dominated the humans.
What, as retail marketers, can we learn from this demonstration of silicon superiority? For starters, Watson is a wake-up call to anyone who may still have a “wait-and-see” attitude toward technology. Sophisticated digital retail experiences aren’t ten years away—they’re right here, right now.
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The Brand Show caught up with Digital Signage Expo 2011 keynote speaker and Intel general manager, Jose Avalos. In this video, Mr. Avalos discusses Intel’s retail vision, the role of mobile in retail and the impact of the transition from 3G to 4G.
- I.V. Whitman, contributor for The Brand Show and brand strategist at Two West, Inc.
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