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What is the Future of Subscription Services?

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As digital technology enables new opportunities for automation across various industries, it makes sense that subscription services have evolved and gained popularity in recent years. These services, such as Netflix and Birchbox, are essentially automated shopping – improving efficiencies in the lives of their customers while generating recurring payments and building strong brand relationships. According […]

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How to Create a Positive Retail Environment

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Emotions are very powerful drivers in purchase decisions, and positive emotional experiences will build brand loyalty. The following five strategies can help retailers create a strong and memorable connection with customers, including eliminating key friction points, telling a compelling story, ensuring a coherent omni-channel strategy, delivering a unique experience, and catering to the senses. Strategy

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Five Important Factors in Achieving Brand Authenticity

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The importance of brand authenticity came to the forefront more than ten years ago when demographers started to raise awareness of the buying power of Millennials. With the failure of banks in 2008, and many corporate scandals making the headlines, it’s not surprising Millennials were looking for brands that were authentic and approachable. The Mirriam-Webster

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Will Subscriptions Work for Traditional Retailers?

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The subscription trend began online with platforms like Netflix and Spotify, companies that provided access to information over the internet. As delivery costs drop and customers become more comfortable with e-commerce, e-retailers have begun successfully using subscriptions to sell everything from shaving supplies to groceries. Clever bricks-and-mortar retailers are getting in on the action by

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Emerging Industry Disruption Trends and New Business Models

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Every industry, from trucking to healthcare, is being disrupted by non-traditional competitors, or by direct competitors that have reinvented their business model. To ensure relevancy, it is critical to create effective strategies and to understand the driving factors fuelling this disruption. Disruption happens in two different varieties, each driven by specific dynamics in the marketplace.

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Banking on the Ultimate Millennial Experience

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Millennials are entering an important life stage for banks as this segment of the population is starting to build wealth while driving potential sales growth in financial products and services. As Millennials provide banks with continued growth opportunities, banks must understand their needs and expectations in order to create a strong affinity with these future wealth generators.

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How the Sharing Economy Can Help Retailers Diversify

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The “Sharing Economy,” also known as “Collaborative Consumption,” is certainly generating a lot of buzz these days. In this model, underused assets, such as a car, a boardroom, or even ideas, are shared by multiple people. The asset is generally owned by one person or group, who charges a fee for its use or receives

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A Year in Review – Recapping the top retail stories of 2015

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We asked two of Canada’s top retail columnists — Hollie Shaw of the National Post and Marina Strauss of The Globe and Mail — what they thought were the biggest retail stories of 2015 and what those stories might tell us about the future of retail in Canada and North America. Here’s what they said: What were

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Everything Retailers Need to Know About Writing a Design Brief

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Fundamental Elements to Design Briefs The foundation of any design project is the design brief. The two major facets included in effective design briefs are the landlord/base building requirements and the client requirements. The information below briefly outlines the key elements required to rollout an existing retail design concept into a new or existing space.

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Retail Banking: Potential Transformations to Serve the Underbanked

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With 20.0 percent (24.8 million) of U.S. households falling into the “underbanked” market segment of the retail banking (2013 FDIC report), almost 25 percent of bankers see this segment as a growth opportunity. To serve the underbanked, there are several transformation opportunities in retail banking trends around process, structure and message worth considering. Process The first lever for

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