US personal care brand Burt’s Bees has launched a three week pop-up store in London’s Covent Garden to promote its new colour cosmetics range. Innovation researchers Harriet Cox and Charlie Lloyd went down to check it…
As brands in multiple sectors are exploring new rental schemes this month, GDR’s John O’Sullivan looks at the retailers who are going even further and inviting customers to borrow their products for free. Right now…
Applying eyeliner with hands covered in fried chicken grease doesn’t sound like the ideal setting for a beauty retail experience but this is exactly the scenario cult beauty brand Benefit has engineered for its latest pop-up…
The shop window at multi-brand New York concept store Showfields proclaims it to be “The most interesting store in the world”. GDR SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella dropped in when he was in town to put…
Much of the flurry of activity around GDPR trailed off once the deadline for compliance passed in May last year. But is there a second wave on the horizon? Article 20’s right of data portability has…
With the NRF’s BIG Show 2019 taking place in New York over the next week, we pay tribute to the most interesting and disruptive new retail concepts in the Big Apple. Here's our list of the…
On 14 September 2019, a significant change to online payments will come into effect across the UK and Europe. The problem: retailers are unprepared for it. GDR’s Charlie Lloyd spoke to Mark Beresford, director and head…
GDR CEO Kate Ancketill looks to the positives and predicts we’ll see more locally optimised offers, an explosion of new store formats and more hybridisation in 2019 Kate’s thoughts were first published in Retail Focus’s Retail…
H&M has redesigned its three-floor store in London’s Hammersmith to look nothing like H&M. GDR’s Babette-Scarlett Schossau paid it a visit to see how the space has been transformed. H&M gave its 2,300 square metre store…
GDR innovation researcher Babette-Scarlett Schossau describes the emotional rollercoaster of visiting a store where you can walk out without paying. As a new customer to Dirty Lemon, I didn’t know what to expect when I walked…