Retail Is Your Business - retailtech and retail innovation

With a finger on the pulse of all things culture, Retail Prophet’s Director of Insights Reilly Stephens leverages her understanding and network in the music, tech, marketing and advertising industry to keep the team up to speed on grassroots movement and trends. She shares insights on how brands and retailers have navigated the pandemic, opportunities and challenges, along with thoughts on drones, user-generated content, and digital fashion, and the roles of media and content in building better bridges between physical and digital commerce.

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Leading brands, visual creatives, designers, visual merchandisers, architects, vendors and academic institutions worldwide use WindowsWear, reportedly the world’s largest and most comprehensive visual database of retail and e-commerce. Founder/CEO Jon Harari offers insights into how this unique online resource provides competitive research, information, insights, and trends for visual creatives to enhance and coordinate their brand’s physical and e-commerce environments, and the content that includes visual merchandising, window displays, retail & interior design, product packaging, e-commerce, technology and more from the hottest global brands.

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Retail Pride is about celebrating your accidental career, and the theme of the first book by author Ron Thurston (Vice President of Stores at Intermix, an author and member of the Board of Directors at Goodwill)."Retail Pride: Your Guide to Celebrating Your Accidental Career" is an indispensable guide for every retail employee, manager, and multi-store leader looking to accelerate their potential and grow their career. It's filled with straightforward, practical tips for developing your talents, connecting with customers, and building your leadership skills.

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Passionate about transforming the retail industry, specifically the customer’s buying experience, and integrating technology within that journey, Kishore Khandavalli is the founder of 7T, a custom software development firm that works on projects ranging from mobile apps to large enterprise platforms. He shares how his team recently developed the Fit Freedom app,  an augmented reality (AR) body measurement application designed to simplify the online apparel shopping experience, and designed the app first for Rebel Athletic, who wanted to use it to allow cheer teams, like the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, to shop for athletic wear and custom uniforms within minutes.

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The post-sales consumer experience is an area of the customer journey that's overlooked by many retailers. Tobias Buxhoidt, CEO and co-founder of parcelLab, has worked in logistics and warehouse operations for over 20 years and now helps over 500 retailers including Ikea, H&M, Puma, Farfetch, and Nespresso improve their post-sales operations and related consumer experience.

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As the leading manufacturer of reusable bags, Lotus Sustainables has eliminated the need for over 400 million single-use plastic bags. In 2020 the company ranked 144 on the INC 5000 fastest growing companies in America. Founder and CEO Farzan Dehmoube is on a mission to eliminate plastic from shopping with eco-friendly products now available in 15,000+ stores across the US and Canada, as well as on Amazon and Lotus-Sustainables.com.

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Cure Hydration is the only organic beverage with a science-backed formula, plant-based ingredients, no added sugar and has 4x the electrolytes of leading sports drinks. With 75% of people being chronically dehydrated, and the majority of drinks in the $14.5 billion sports & energy beverage market full of sugar and synthetic ingredients. CEO/Co-founder Lauren Picasso shares insights on a recent funding round, 10x sales growth in 2020, growth of subscription orders, and standing out and achieving shelf space in major retailers in an established but growing market.

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For the first time, e-commerce will not just be a channel for transactions – people can now actually browse and shop online, just like they did in-store. Ben Rodier, Co-Founder & Chief Client Officer at Salesfloor, shares how the company offers a mobile application platform designed for store associates so they can personalize each interaction with consumers, whether that’s in-store, online, on social – any channel, helping clients get a 10x lift in online conversions and 47% increase in average order values, compared to traditional e-commerce metrics. Salesfloor is enabling store associates to go virtual where consumers are met on retailer and brand websites by an associate from a local store near the consumer and can help guide the shopping experience by offering product / apparel recommendations, can demo items via live video chat, etc.

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Northwood Retail leases, manages, and markets a portfolio of community and mixed-use properties across the United States with a concentration in Texas, Colorado, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Northwood Retail's president, Ward Kampf, provides important insights into how consumers are shopping to buy and are more decisive in the decision making process, that consumers will be more thoughtful about how they spend and what they are getting since many are saving money from traveling this season, the investment trend that consumers continue to make in their homes and luxury, why retailers must create demand and meet the consumer where they are, and why it is so important to provide a targeted and customized shopping experience to stand out. 

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Sustainable direct-to-consumer bedding brand Sheets & Giggles, based in Denver, Colorado, is famous for their naturally cooling eucalyptus lyocell sheets and comforters, their impressive give-back to charitable causes and plating trees for every purchase, and branding and marketing overflowing with humor. Founder/CEO Colin McIntosh shares the origins and ethos of the company along with what drives its rapid growth.

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