The Sunday Trading Stooshie
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The Sunday Trading Stooshie

High-street retailers now vie with their round-the-clock online rivals, for whom national regulatory borders are rendered largely irrelevant. With eCommerce continuing to exert pressure on ‘bricks-and-mortar’ retailers, why hamper their ability to compete?...

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NRF16 - NYC Store Tour
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NRF16 - NYC Store Tour

What does it take to create memorable store experiences today? Being sidewalk-blocking out-of-towners, we took it upon ourselves to don the metaphorical pith helmet, head off into SoHo and Midtown, and get stuck into a little retail safari of our own...

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NRF16 - Retail's BIG Show
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NRF16 - Retail's BIG Show

Join us on a short tour of the standout technologies and their applications showcased at NRF16 that we believe are likely to shape retail in the coming months and years...

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ThisIsRetail's 2015 Wipe
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ThisIsRetail's 2015 Wipe

It has been a pretty exciting year in the world of retail so, as we wave goodbye to 2015, it’s probably a good idea to run through what has been another special year at RMC...

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ThisIsRetail #22
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ThisIsRetail #22

Looking at the concept of stores as media and of packaging as stores, the nature of commercial authenticity, and why it is that cities like Lucknow, Bogota, and Mexico City are now so important to the music biz.

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ThisIsRetail #19
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ThisIsRetail #19

This week we're waving our flag for Reggae's love affair with Clarks, Uzbek electonica, and, as Pride Month ends, we find out what happens to all that rainbow merch once the party's over.

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ThisIsRetail #18
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ThisIsRetail #18

This week we're serving-up consumerism & museum collections, writing & retail, slow-fashion & slow-art, TV imitating life imitating TV, and the sporting iconoclasts who dared to confront Wimbledon.

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ThisIsRetail #17
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ThisIsRetail #17

This week includes a definitive history and evolution of 'Brand Twitter', how Raymond Loewy's distinctive "cleanlining" style sold products - and himself, and how a new 3D printer might just turn the world of product design upside-down.

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ThisIsRetail #16
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ThisIsRetail #16

This week we're looking at models for how to run a business as viewed through the prism of rock and/or roll, to the weird (but weirdly inevitable) world of computer-generated influencers, and, with the release of Toy Story 4, we indulge in some childhood nostalgia.

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ThisIsRetail #15
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ThisIsRetail #15

This week we're looking at the inexorable rise of drag (and we're not talking motorsport) - from the fringes to high-fashion runways, an incredible case of cross-over technology, and then there's the story behind those 🐝🐝🐝...

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ThisIsRetail #14
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ThisIsRetail #14

We're looking at the fight for domination in the escalating Sino-American trade tussle (and what it means to you and me), waving iTunes off into the digital sunset, and sending a culinary love bomb to the South of Italy.

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ThisIsRetail #13
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ThisIsRetail #13

Take a taste of Primark's special sauce, a technological joust in the beauty industry, and check-in with robots' improving grasp... and I, for one, welcome our new mechanical overlords.

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ThisIsRetail #12
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ThisIsRetail #12

The rise and fall of Jamie Oliver's food empire, the commercial and cultural re-birth the 'grimmest town' in Eastern France, and the increasing role of 'social supermarkets' in civil society.

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ThisIsRetail #08
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ThisIsRetail #08

In a quickie this week, we have Notre-Dame's role as one of the poles by which the fashion world orients itself, and the state-of-the-art railway revolutionising landlocked Ethiopia’s access to the Red Sea.

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ThisIsRetail #07
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ThisIsRetail #07

How a British fashion designer shook-up the industry in the 1960s, an evocative tale of a SoHo street photographer, and, as elections get underway, how India has fared under Prime Minister Modi.

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ThisIsRetail #06
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ThisIsRetail #06

Looking at a fascinating cultural and architectural arms race in the Gulf, why keeping as open as possible to as many knowledge flows as possible is advantageous, and an root around the issues overshadowing Dubai's property market fuelled business model.

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ThisIsRetail #05
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ThisIsRetail #05

Delving into the psychology of video game music and whether it changes how you play, explore coders' primordial urge to eliminate inefficiency wherever it lurks, and take a peek at a side of Seoul where, for now, time stands still: Clock Alley.

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