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Mitigate Worker Shortages by Streamlining Recruitment and Hiring Processes

Retail TouchPoints

Supply chain issues have made consumers short-tempered and frontline workers in retail often are on the receiving end of those frustrations. Holwell: Supply chains are easing and will help level-set consumer and employee frustrations. Eric Holwell is SVP, Strategy, at Bayard Advertising.

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Data Capital: The Competitive Weapon Most Retailers Have Yet To Fully Monetize

Retail TouchPoints

That weapon is an immensely valuable yet often underappreciated asset: data capital, specifically around consumer insights and demand forecasting. With incremental investment, they can ingest, enrich and harvest valuable customer and product insights to improve operational capabilities and monetize data with trade and advertising partners.

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The Road from Brand Safety to Corporate Responsibility

Retail TouchPoints

We’ve seen advertisers react quickly: pausing campaigns, pulling spend and using massive keyword lists to block content they don’t want to be associated with. Advertisers want brand safety, but today’s method of keyword blocking is like bringing in a sledgehammer when you need a scalpel. Check your tech.

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Behind Abercrombie & Fitch Co’s record results lies a decade-long reinvention

Inside Retail

Its popularity was built upon a “cooler-than-thou” image that included highly sexualised but popular advertising, high prices and limited size ranges. In a now-infamous 2006 interview, Jeffries stated, “We go after the cool kids. What went wrong In the 90s and early 2000s, Abercrombie & Fitch was at the peak of the mall scene.

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Carhartt, cowboys and the romanticisation of the middle class

Inside Retail

They have realigned their strategies to target older consumers with higher incomes who are typically less affected by economic downturns and spending more than pre-pandemic levels. Consider bundling key items and basics in multi-packs to offer value as consumers are tightening budgets. billion in revenue for Q2 2023 and 2.5

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How ex-Uniqlo global creative director Ken Leung got his start in fashion

Inside Retail

I started off in newspapers, and then I [was part of the team that] launched Monocle magazine in London back in 2006. KL: My background is actually in magazines. I worked in editorial for a long time. I wanted to move to New York and do something different, so I got on a plane, went to New York, and just went door knocking. .

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It is time to deprecate and replace Wi-Fi (un)Protected Setup!

Cisco Retail

Industry created WPS because they believed the end users/consumers were not savvy enough to configure security on their home or small office network – how can they expect those same users to understand the risks that arise from enabling WPS? However, the reality is that WPS is not “best in class” security.