Since 2005, we have published the Global Retail Trends & Innovations Report in collaboration with Ebeltoft Group, a consortium of international retail consultancies of which we are a founding member. In this year’s report, Retail Innovations 2020, we explore stores and concepts on the cutting…
Greg Foran, the former CEO of Walmart U.S. said that “Retail Will Change More in the Next Five Years Than It Has in the Past 50 Years”. If he is even remotely correct, expect to see a rapidly shifting retail landscape as we enter a…
CHICAGO, IL- Aug. 5th, 2019 In this report McMillanDoolittle details shifting consumer expectations across all retail categories – and the blind spots the leaders of both legacy retailers and digital natives must overcome as they adapt to an integrated retail landscape. In Different Leaders /…
As I’ve written several times before, there are multiple reasons why the grocery category is well under-penetrated relative to other e-commerce categories. Multi-temperature products, awkwardly sized and shaped products, product and SKU proliferation, delivery challenges, combined with razor-thin margins have kept e-commerce penetration today to…
Adding foodservice to a retail environment is hardly new. Department stores have married retail and restaurants for well over a century and drugstores routinely had soda fountains. Brands like Ikea have become almost as well known for their meatballs as their dressers and have contemplated having…
Seoul is a global leader in technology, beauty, food, music, and increasingly, world-class retailing. During a recent project with our clients in Seoul, our team visited major and up-and-coming shopping districts in this bustling metropolis and weighed in on an impressive array of pop-up retail…
Finish Line has its struggles. A mall-based retailer – in a crowded space and previously focused on “just shoes” – Finish Line lost share for five years to the lifestyle merchandised Foot Locker and its own supplier’s direct-to-consumer efforts. A strategy to place 300+ shop-in-shops in…
2018 was another banner year for private label. In a report issued by the PLMA utilizing Nielsen data, store brand sales across all outlets grew to $128.6 billion, up 4.4% from a year prior. Total market share from a dollar perspective grew to 18.5% in…
New York-based beauty brand Glossier has joined the ranks among the growing list of startup unicorns. What started as a beauty blog by then Vogue fashion assistant Emily Weiss, is now valued as a $1.2 billion company after recently raising $100 million in Series D funding led by…
8,400 of retail’s senior leaders converged on Las Vegas to attend this year’s Shoptalk. The conference showcased 286 speakers, 100+ sessions, and powerful keynotes from CEOs of Pinterest, Lowes, Dollar Shave Club, and Nordstrom to name a few. The content from the conference covered the…
