This week, I contributed to Chain Drug Review with a piece titled, “As baby boomer generation ages, its needs will change,” in which I examined how retailers will need to evolve to keep up with the changing needs of the… Continue Reading
Here we identify the most important retail tech trends for 2016 and share our thinking on what to watch for and why. These include virtual reality, robots, mobile payments and 3D printing. Here we summarize the top 16 trends, for our… Continue Reading
We recently attended a three-year planning meeting for Li & Fung, an affiliated company within the Fung Group, which got us thinking about how the retail industry will look in 2020. To gain insight, we looked at data from market… Continue Reading
The Fung Global Retail & Technology team attended the Global Retailing Conference 2016 last week in Tucson, Arizona. The event is supported by the Corporate Advisory Board of the University of Arizona’s Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing. This year,… Continue Reading
One-click physical “Buy” buttons allow users to seamlessly restock household essentials, and Amazon Dash first started offering these buttons in April 2015. Now, Israel-based startup Kwik is challenging Amazon Dash by allowing consumers to automatically reorder items from more of… Continue Reading
This week, the Fung Global Retail & Technology team attended the World Retail Congress 2016 in Dubai. We have published individual flash reports following each day of the three-day conference, so please see those for highlights of the event’s many… Continue Reading
Lululemon Athletica opened its second Lululemon Lab in Lower Manhattan, where all the clothes are designed in house in small batches. The company has seen robust growth of 16.9% in the fourth quarter and reported earnings in March that were… Continue Reading