Category Archives: Retail News

For the benefit of your retail store, we’ve got a story about immersive story telling and how you can inject that into your store’s narrative. Great little story about a campaign built around being an antidote to the fast-purchase culture of black Friday, all in the effort of supporting the independents. A big pay jump […]

Get ready for the conversation around five key emerging retail trends to watch in 2022 and beyond. How is your omnichannel payment experience for your customers. We chatted about ensuring your payment processes are ready for all customers.  If you like data, we dive into some charts for Retail sales in Canada and Dan talks […]

Interesting chat around the story about the Canadian sale of 81 Toys R Us stores. What retail executives are saying about the widespread bottleneck in supply chains and what you and your store can do to overcome this issue. The story of Amazon planning their own boutique department stores and and interesting conversation about the […]

Are you the face of your retail business? This week Dan discusses a story about the importance of being the face of your business and how that can lead to your business success. For your retail showroom, we talked about an interesting story about creating a unique showroom model for your store. Many are facing […]

Do you like stats? We’ve got them on this episode…and so much more. This week we discussed a story about retail statistics and some numbers you should know.  Great story about six ways to protect your business from the next disaster and we talked about these points and how your retail store can be better […]

There’s some great reasons why consumers are not seeing as many ‘sales’ these days. It’s not bad news at all and Dan dives into the topic to share his thoughts.  As things begin to really open up, we’re really seeing that ‘Feel good’ spending is on the rise.  A DTC conversation as Dan shares his […]

As summer starts, Dan has put together the Summertime 9. If you’re an independent retailer, this is a great list of nine things you can do and think about to get ready for the last half of this year and fully ready for what looks to be a scorcher in 2022. Listen to the podcast […]

Retailers embracing their role as community stewards to succeed in the next normal was our first conversation on this week’s podcast. Dan shares his thoughts on the importance of your retail position within the community.  While the retail scene is starting to show new signs of life, there’s ‘shrinkage’ in the footprints and a new […]

As a retailer, do you share your opinion on many things socially? Dan shares his thoughts on this story that talks about the author’s view of how careful businesses need to be about the causes they align with.From the big retailers to the independents, we discussed a story about how the retail workforce has changed […]