As we look ahead to the beginning of the holiday shopping rush, with a consensus expectation of a low single digit increase in sales over 2022, we see a mixed picture in retail.
The need for high-volume recruiting typically arises from rapid growth, seasonal demands like the upcoming holiday season, or industries that require a constant influx of talent.
The back-to-school shopping rush is a time of opportunity for brick-and-mortar retailers, marking the start of the most lucrative time of year for many.
Recently, “Barbie” crossed $1 billion at the global box office, making director Greta Gerwig the first-ever solo female filmmaker with a billion-dollar movie.
Self-checkout is a great asset to any store, reducing labor cost and improving checkout options, especially with retailers continually facing labor shortages.
After years of uncertainty about the transition to lower global warming potential refrigerant alternatives, it’s crunch time for many supermarket retailers.
As retailers head deeper into the summer, many hope for a break from several stressful months of crowded inventories, rising inflation, and timid customers.
Organized Retail Crime incidents are on the rise and crime groups are becoming more violent, making tackling ORC a priority for the retail industry and the communities they serve.
Given that the UPS strike deadline is still several weeks away, and so many potential strikes are resolved in the 11th hour, our customer base has not yet expressed significant levels of anxiety over the threat.
The long-standing belief that back-to-school shopping is a multi-month window is outdated. In reality, the back-to-school period has a slow ramp-up, yet a surprisingly brief peak.
Use of stores for e-commerce fulfillment, staffing shortages, rising crime, growing shrink, and supply chain troubles have all made headlines as challenges to retail.
Store formats are shrinking fast—from Express Edit, Market by Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s Bloomie’s concept, to diminutive offerings by the likes of Kohl’s, Ikea, Publix, Barnes & Noble and Sprouts.
Of the many challenges retailers continue to grapple with — high costs of goods, transit, managing out-of-stocks and more — the labor shortage could be the most worrisome.
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) used to be a specific retail segment, but now all brands, including traditional B2B brands (the ones selling at your local grocery store, superstore or toy store), are getting in the game.
Online shopping and tap-to-pay methods have slowly introduced shoppers to the future of tech-powered retail, prioritizing convenience and contactless efficiency.
With the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic—and its social and economic side effects—seemingly behind us, retailers are anxious to rebound during what we can expect to be the most robust holiday shopping season in three years.
Experiences have always been the driving force behind retail, and yet many brands still struggle to understand and implement this transformation in today’s new economy.
In June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that over the last year prices surged, exemplifying a key post-pandemic challenge facing retailers.
As we begin to emerge from the pandemic, one of the most important learnings about commerce is that people want to shop their values and build more genuine relationships with businesses.
Despite the tremendous gains made by e-commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic, brick-and-mortar locations remain a critical part of Americans’ shopping habits.
Regardless of how you study the competition, I urge everyone to watch quick-service restaurants/fast-food restaurants. If you are not, you are missing some critically important information.
It has been 20 years since The Home Depot introduced plans for a smaller format store. Its intention was to address urban areas where their traditional store concept wouldn’t fit.
With COVID-19 having forced even reluctant grocers to operationalize e-commerce, it seems that the industry has finally reached an omnichannel tipping point.
Walk into any shopping center, restaurant, or convenience store, and you’re sure to experience some degree of inconvenience that can almost always be traced back to COVID-19.
While the wild surging of e-commerce sales has finally tempered, there’s no denying that several years of pandemic-induced consumer behavior shifts will have a lasting impact on the retail landscape.
For almost two decades, our firm has conducted its Annual Litigation Trends Survey, analyzing litigation trends to assess the state of the legal landscape and consider their impact on organizations.
For anyone with a finger on the pulse of the retail industry, they will have noticed long ago that we have entered the age of e-commerce, and it is clear that it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
We’ve all seen videos of customers being abusive to airline personnel, in grocery stores, in banks, and … also, bad customer service examples are everywhere.
The Supreme Court decision to put OSHA’s vax or test Emergency Temporary Standard on ice is notable for a number of reasons beyond its immediate ramifications of staying the ETS.
As we approach a third year under the shadow of COVID-19, companies, developers and investors are still measuring the significant impacts the pandemic has had on commercial real estate, retail businesses and the global supply chain.
Despite ongoing fears regarding e-commerce contributing to the demise of brick-and-mortar stores, it is clear that doomsday predictions have underestimated the consumer demand for visiting physical stores.