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…
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…
Yesterday GDR CEO Kate Ancketill appeared on Evan Davies’ BBC Radio 4 show The Bottom Line to discuss personalisation and mass customisation. In this blog post she defines what makes these approaches distinct and highlights the…
In the first article of a two-part series, GDR’s SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella explores the challenges created by complicated modern supply chains. Part 2: Emerging opportunities and logistics trends In 1907 Sears, Roebuck…
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…
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…
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 CEO Kate Ancketill reflects on the dramatic shifts that are defining the next generation of retail. This blog originally appeared in SLICE, Verifone’s retail and hospitality newsletter. Click here to see a PDF of the…
As UK department store Debenhams announces it will be closing 50 stores, GDR CEO Kate Ancketill discusses the challenges facing physical retail GDR CEO Kate Ancketill has called on traditional retailers to be brave enough…