GDR’s Jacqueline Oteri surveys recent fitting room innovations and says retailers must use these spaces to enable their customers’ shopping missions. With the rise of digital and e-commerce shopping over the last two decades, physical…
GDR’s CEO Kate Ancketill appeared on BBC Breakfast this week to discuss how physical stores can survive this inflection point for retail Last week department store chain House of Fraser became the latest traditional retailer to…
GDR’s Charlie Lloyd took a trip to Zara’s new flagship at Westfield Stratford City, a tech-driven space that aims to make the brand’s physical and online shopping experiences more seamless than ever before. The new…
GDR SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella picks out his favourite start-ups from this week’s Retail Business Technology Expo in London. The Retail Business Technology Expo is a great place for retailers to buy technology that…
As tabloid media circles loudly proclaim the death of retail, GDR SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella paints a more optimistic view of the future driven by the merging together of lifestyle, experience and shopping. This post…
Having soaked up three days of talks, walked some 41,837 steps and accumulated more than 40 business cards at the NRF Big Show in New York, GDR’s James Mullan reflects on the major themes of this…
On the ground with GDR's SVP Global Innovation James Mullan, who rounds up the first day of retail’s biggest conference of the year. Sunday School has never been so interesting. The 107th NRF Big Show…
This article is a summary of GDR CEO Kate Ancketill’s trends keynote at the NRF Big Show 2018, and is the final part of a series in which we explored how technology is remaking the retail…
We’re thrilled to announce that GDR’s CEO Kate Ancketill will be giving the trend keynote presentation at the NRF’s BIG Show in New York for the second year in a row on Sunday. Addressing 35,000 of the world’s…
In our latest exclusive conversation with Intel, GDR’s SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella finds out how brands can harness the power of technology. Part 1: Back to the Future: The Evolution of Retail Part 2: Smarter…