GDR SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella explores how the potential use cases for Blockchain are multiplying rapidly. Last month I went to the IoT Tech Expo 2018 in London’s Olympia, which also incorporates the Blockchain Expo…
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…
GDR Innovation Researcher Charlie Lloyd explores how Walmart’s latest initiative mirrors the convergence of retail and finance in China This month, US grocery giant Walmart announced the launch of a new programme, Walmart2World. The scheme…
Italian clothing brand United Colors of Benetton launched a vibrant, tech-enhanced new flagship in London’s Oxford Street last month. GDR’s Hannah Hunt paid it a visit to see how the brand immerses shoppers in its activist…
Last weekend, brands in a number of sectors engaged consumers with playful Easter campaigns. Hannah Hunt explores how a variety of approaches were used to reinterpret the traditional Easter egg hunt and to inject some April…
After online fashion giants ASOS revealed this week that augmented reality is behind its latest innovation, GDR’s John O’Sullivan explores how brands are starting to use the technology to enhance customer touchpoints and streamline backend logistics…
At noon today, Citymapper began trialling Smart Ride, a bus-taxi hybrid that the company hopes will change the way Londoners and other city dwellers travel. We hopped on a free ride to experience Citymapper’s new concept…
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…