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Barnes & Noble Revamps Loyalty Program, Adding Free Option

Retail TouchPoints

Barnes & Noble has reconfigured its loyalty offerings for the first time since the program began in 2001, launching its first free program and enhancing the benefits of its paid Membership program.

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Success Program Insights: Your digital guide to a better customer experience

Cisco Retail

However, our partner experience team has found some Cisco partners are still leading customers manually, with little or no customer success practices in place, when the opportunity is there to take a more digital approach with Cisco Lifecycle Advantage Success Program Insights (SPI).

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Can Asda veteran Allan Leighton return the supermarket to its former glory?

Retail Gazette

Leighton helmed Asda from 1996 to 2001 and is credited with turning around the struggling chain, alongside current M&S chair Archie Norman – pulling the grocer from the brink of insolvency to orchestrating its bumper £6.7bn sale to Walmart in 1999. “But

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Customer experience: Nostalgia, the weapon of the future post-crisis?

365 Retail

In 2001, a US billboard showed a picture of the first iPod alongside the slogan “1,000 songs in your pocket”. Nostalgia allows experiences that provoke an emotional reaction. Brands will have to work hard to use their heritage to make sure their customers experience this nostalgia positively.

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Former Asda CEO Allan Leighton returns as chair to lead recovery effort

Retail Gazette

Leighton, was Asda CEO from 1996 to 2001 and chaired the Co-op for almost a decade. The group, which was sold to the Issa brothers and TDR in a £6.8bn deal in 2020 by Walmart, has been busy making improvements for customers in recent months in a bid to revive its poor sales.

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A Post-Pandemic World Requires Digital Innovation

Retail TouchPoints

While technology’s role in retail has been apparent for some time, the current post-pandemic ecommerce environment demands that retail incorporates innovative solutions for both owner and customer. Jamie Volk is the VP of Strategic Development at Velociti.

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Inside Johnny Cupcakes’ ‘Fakery’: Gourmet Retail Theater Thrives in Boston

Retail TouchPoints

And it’s what inspired him to start his T-shirt line, Johnny Cupcakes, in 2001…before he even turned 20. “It It’s the reason why he started 16 businesses by the time he was 16 , whether he was doing magic tricks at birthday parties or selling candy in school hallways.