Sainsbury’s recently opened its Meat-Free Butchers, popping up for three days to serve East Londoners plant-based alternatives to meat and educate them about how best to prepare them. Innovation researcher Charlie Lloyd went down to take…
GDR's James Mullan returned to the NRF Protect stage this time last week to deliver the final keynote at retail's biggest loss prevention and cybercrime conference. Held just outside the parks of Disneyland in Anaheim,…
GDR innovation researcher Babette-Scarlett Schossau explores the latest food innovations at the V&A’s Food: Bigger than the Plate exhibition. Food is one of my biggest passions so I was thrilled to get the opportunity to visit…
We’re delighted to announce that GDR has been supporting The DO School’s project to promote Purposeful Retail. The DO School is a global organisation made up of “a community of purposeful DOers, innovators, and experts” from…
GDR’s John O’Sullivan explores how brands are helping their customers to live more sustainable lives. Sustainability has become one of the hottest topics for brands, retailers and consumers over the last couple of years. Brands are…
Last week GDR’s CEO Kate Ancketill spoke about the future of retail at the Tax Free World Association’s Asia Pacific Exhibition and Conference in Singapore. Her talk looked at how retailers, brands, airlines and airports…
GDR’s John O’Sullivan explores the experiential spaces that are constantly evolving to keep customers coming back for more. During the last six months we’ve noticed a real spike in the number of new multi-brand retail stores…
Two weeks after writing this article unpicking the future of cashless stores, GDR’s SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella visits Sainsbury’s new “till-free” store to interrogate the format from the customer’s and the brand’s perspective. I was…
H&M’s new homeware flagship on London’s Regent Street focusses on high style over high tech. Innovation researcher Harriet Cox went along to check it out. Coming just months after the brand opened its first dedicated Home…
As backlash against cashless stores spreads in the US, GDR’s SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella assesses the pros and cons for retailers and customers, and considers what the future holds. Looking from a futurist perspective…