GDR’s Innovation Researcher Harriet Cox stepped into high-end CBD retailer The Drug Store’s first brick-and-mortar boutique to see how it merchandises and talks about its "boundary pushing" products. Back in April Kim Khardashian threw a…
Innovation researcher Harriet Cox looks at how retailers are using in-store content creation zones to boost social media mentions, build community and extend the reach of their physical stores. Earlier this month I went to take…
GDR Innovation Strategist Dave Dalrymple-Pryde explores connected cashless piggy bank alternative Pigzbe and considers what it says about the future of money. One of the exhibitors at the Unbound innovation festival in London last month…
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,…
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…
In the second article of our two-part supply chain and logistics series, GDR’s SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella reveals the opportunities that emerging innovations and logistics trends provide for retailers. As I covered in the…
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…
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…
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’s Babette-Scarlett Schossau paid Amazon 4-star in New York’s SoHo a visit to run the rule over the company's latest incursion into bricks-and-mortar retail. Amazon’s latest retail concept is a physical manifestation of its website and…