Either driven by passion, demand or the unstoppable trend. We have found our ways to do a new way of retailing, integrating new digital factors that are essential to keep up with the times. 

With Garry Burrows, Managing Partner of ACR Partners. We will go through what are the new innovative techniques and retail-tech in the market.

Data is the new oil driving digital retail

Swiftly offers the same tools that retail and e-commerce giants already deploy to give brock-and-mortar businesses everything they need to compete in the market, particularly with increasing costs and competition

The Swiftly® digital ecosystem empowers retailers to grow sales and build loyalty, while enabling brands to reach more shoppers through retail media networks. Swiftly’s technology harnesses the power of AI to help retailers build strong digital relationships with customers and deliver amazing sales results. Swiftly-powered Retail Media Networks enable America's leading brands to influence consumers across their shopping journey and provide the closed loop reporting that drives high-performing advertising campaigns.

EP. 232-01-Brick-and-mortar grocery store savior

Since the advent of digital technology, it is no longer uncommon for companies to have their entire business model operating via online channels. Indeed, digitization has removed barriers in trading across borders by creating platforms where end-to-end transactions can be consummated with ease. One area that has benefited from this is the e-commerce space. Beyond the initial benefits of the convenience provided by allowing customers shop from anywhere in the world and have it delivered to them, the space is perhaps becoming the fastest adopter of digital technology in innovating its offerings.

We invited Luther Lawoyin, the founder of PricePally to share his story. Luther Lawoyin is the Founder, PricePally and an entrepreneur with a passion for social impact. He leverages technology to build innovative business models and platforms to serve the next one billion people in Africa's burgeoning digital economy.

Reaching Customers Everywhere: The E-Commerce Revolution

Leverage Scopex ERP for your Retail-sales-wholesale distribution sector and perform the business operations effortlessly. Automate work to reduce human errors.

Retail-sales-wholesale distribution software

The pandemic has rapidly accelerated consumer adoption of online purchasing. To meet customer expectations, brands need PIM solutions to support the entire process of collecting, validating, enriching, and syndicating product information. What does product information management (PIM) mean for your brand and your success in the marketplace? Anup Prasad, VP and Market Leader of Retail and Consumer Goods, Cognizant and Stephanie Wiles, Senior Director of Consulting in Retail and Consumer Goods, Cognizant, discuss and dive into why PIM is key to staying relevant with consumers, how it is evolving, and why your brand could lose market share if it doesn’t embrace PIM today.

Why product information management (PIM) is key to your e-commerce success

Julie Allinson didn’t just create a company; she invented a new product category in 2000 with the launch of Eyebobs, the eyewear brand that turned reading glasses into a fashion statement. With its bold colors and daring shapes, Eyebobs developed a cult-like following that included celebrities from Elton John to Lauren Hutton. Today, Eyebobs offers both prescription glasses and readers that are sold in hundreds of stores nationwide as well as online and at three company stores in and around Minneapolis, where the company is based. Allinson sold Eyebobs to Northwest Equity Partners in 2015 and is no longer involved in the company. She offers a rare look back at her unexpected entrepreneurial journey from recognizing the opportunity idea, to finding the right audience, to knowing when it was time to step aside. 

Allinson started her career in finance at Piper Jaffray. She had moved on to a startup that she was helping to raise money when the numbers on the spreadsheet started to look a bit fuzzy. So Allinson went shopping for readers and was shocked to find the only alternative to $500-plus optical shop frames was cheap drug store readers. She set out to create something in between that would show personality and style. It took two years for Eyebobs to catch on. Allinson shares the fundamental learnings that were key to her success: 

1.	"Get your feet on the ground and figure things out." Allinson traveled to China to learn eyewear manufacturing before developing her line. 
2.	"Stay away from the naysayers." Go to the people thinking about a new day; not yesterday. When optical shops couldn’t sell Eyebots, Allinson took the line to a high end men’s store where customers who dressed in designer suits saw the value in accessorizing with distinctive reading glasses.
3.	"Know what’s going on in the marketplace, but be true to yourself." When you try to please everyone, you end up with something bland, Allinson says. 

After our conversation, we go Back to the Classroom with the University of St. Thomas Schulze School of Entrepreneurship professor John McVea who offers advice on thinking creatively and recognizing a big opportunity. “It’s not what she knows, but how she thinking about it,” McVea says of Allinson. He shares lessons for other entrepreneurs: 

1.	"There are no wrong answers, but data can prove the things you shouldn’t do."
2.	"The answers are unlikely to be found in publicly available information. You need to get out there and find original information and insights that only you know."
3.	"Expect plans to fail, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make them. You have to plan."
4.	"Remember that you are the world’s leading expert on yourself. Start with what you need, what you want, and what you know is unique. You won’t find that on the internet."

Eyebobs Founder Julie Allinson

In August 2022, I filled in for the Dunkin' Radio sports guy to do daily reports that run in Dunkin' stores across the country.

2022 Dunkin' Radio Sports Demo

Sustainability continues to be a hot topic in the fashion industry, both in ads and in lawsuits related to those ads. Last month, a plaintiff filed a proposed class action against H&M arguing that the company makes various false claims about the sustainability of its products. The lawsuit seems to be prompted by a June 28, 2022 article published in Quartz with the results of an investigation which allegedly demonstrated that “H&M showed customers environmental scorecards for its clothing that were misleading and, in many cases, outright deceptive.”

www.adlawaccess.com/2022/08/articles/hm-sued-over-sustainability-claims/

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H&M Sued Over Sustainability Claims

In this week’s episode, we share our results from our CRE Sentiment Survey, covering macroeconomic, CRE and CMBS, and business-specific takeaways and impacts on market participants. We discuss recent positive CRE and CMBS developments in terms of issuance, pricing, and property type news. 

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With Bill Kistler, Founder and Managing Partner at urbanOvation. This episode will tackle the causes and effects of disruption for the retail industry and what we can do to face it.

Disruption is the Mother of Innovation

Scopex Apps to revolutionize the way you run your business operations.
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