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Inside Best Buy’s 5-Year Effort to Evolve with Today’s Consumer

Retail TouchPoints

One of the core values of Dick Schulze, Founder of Best Buy , was learning from challenge and change a prescient insight from a retail leader in the 80s who realized even then that in retail, especially in consumer electronics retail, there would be constant change.

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Navigating the Tariff Era: A Strategic Roadmap for Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

While policymakers often champion tariffs as a mechanism to protect domestic industries, their ripple effects are far-reaching, inflating costs, disrupting supply chains and, ultimately, burdening consumers. The Scars of the 2018-2019 U.S.-China consumers, driving up prices across key retail categories.

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Three trends shaping the luxury retails sector in 2025

Inside Retail

Moving further into 2025, Driscoll affirmed that the luxury [retail market] needs to address its ubiquity, lack of innovation and the last few years of double-digit price increases without a corresponding increase in dream fulfillment and experience, product quality and innovation.

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Exclusive Q&A: B2B Cruise Retail Player Comes Ashore to Support Resort-Based Luxury

Retail TouchPoints

Stacy Shaw: I joined the company in 2019 to create a luxury division; Starboard had been discussing this as a strategic move even back then. In Las Vegas, for example, its not just travelers staying at the resort theres also the potential to capture some local [consumers]. Think about Las Vegas and what people enjoy about it.

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Alfamart: Southeast Asia’s quiet retail giant with 22 million loyalty members

Inside Retail

The Alfagift ecosystem: Where data meets distribution To understand Alfamart is to understand the nuance of Southeast Asian geography and consumer behaviour. The company has also launched dark stores to further streamline low-cost fulfillment, reaching new demographics with a broader range of SKUs. “We This creates an additional 1.5

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MAPIC 2024: Highlights of the 2024 Edition

Retail Focus

There is now a clear distinction between the retail of 2019 and that of 2025. Fashion, for instance, reflects our projection of a better future and fulfils a need for optimism. Inclusive retail fosters unique consumer relationships while demonstrating that business and social conscience can coexist.

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How accessories brand Hello Updo is challenging traditional beauty standards

Inside Retail

IR : Since launching in 2019, what have been some of the biggest ups and downs you’ve experienced along the way? Yet, with this excitement also came concern about fulfilling the order. I used some personal savings, and a family member stepped in with a small investment to help fulfill the first order.