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Clicks and Cliques: Understanding Modern Shopper Tribes

Knowing your customer is essential in the best of times. In a post-pandemic world, it will be the difference between survival and failure. I had the pleasure to work with Klarna on their latest report Clicks and Cliques: Understanding Modern Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 3 months3 months ago
Retail trends

The Retail Exchange Podcast: 2020 Review & 2021 Predictions

Natalie Berg joins Karl McKeever, MD of Visual Thinking, as co-host of The Retail Exchange‘s final podcast episode of the year.  If you were trying to end this year by winning a prize for its greatest understatement, you could describe Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 3 months4 weeks ago
Retail trends

Future of Retail 2020

What will shopping look like in 2021, 2025 and 2030? I had the pleasure of speaking to Raconteur for this annual supplement in The Times. Always an interesting read but especially this year given that we are in the middle Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 3 months4 weeks ago
Retail trends

DTC: 2020 Review and 2021 Expectations

Ding dong, Avon calling! The direct selling channel is one of the few bright spots in retail right now. But how does a model that is based on human interaction adapt to today’s challenge of social distancing? This week, I Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 3 months3 months ago
Consumer

Peak Car And The Hyper-Local Retail Opportunity

In my latest long read for Forbes, I explore how London’s green recovery will create opportunities for local retail: Across the UK, city streets are quietly undergoing radical transformation. Temporary cycle lanes have popped up, footways widened to enable social Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 5 months3 months ago
Amazon

They know exactly what you want. Can anyone stop Amazon’s domination?

What is the secret to Amazon’s success in a nutshell? A relentless dissatisfaction with the status quo. Love or loathe it, we have to credit Amazon for stamping out complacency in retail. Fast and free delivery, one-click shopping, user-generated reviews, checkout-free Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 7 months4 weeks ago
Store closures

COVID-19’s Devastating Impact on Retail Jobs

Last night, I spoke to the BBC about the 12,000 job cuts announced in the UK this week. Retail will certainly not be spared: Harrods, an iconic brand but reliant on international visitors, and Arcadia, a retailer that has quite Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 8 months8 months ago
Consumer

When Non-Essential Stores Reopen, Will Shoppers Accept The Friction?

As Britain’s ‘non-essential’ retailers prepare to reopen their doors in the coming weeks, one of the biggest challenges they face will be convincing shoppers to walk through the door. And, no, I don’t just mean from a safety perspective; I’m Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 10 months9 months ago
Consumer

Coronavirus – What Retailers Do Now Will Define Them in the Future

As 21st-century consumers, we’ve gotten used to having the world at our fingertips. Then seemingly overnight, all the stuff we take for granted is in question – access to healthcare; groceries on shelves; the ability to travel, go to school, socialise Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 12 months9 months ago
Amazon

Amazon Go Grocery – Learning From Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Failure

Picture this – a radical new grocery concept designed to revolutionize how Americans shop. The store is much smaller than your typical supermarket, around 10,000 square feet and stocking an edited range of just several thousand products. The store doesn’t Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 1 year10 months ago

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