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Retail

Automation nation

UK – Some 33% of retail jobs in the UK will vanish by 2025 as a result of automation and increased labour costs, according to the British Retail Consortium.

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Marketing & Branding

Role reversal: Target aims to learn from collaboration with small retailer

New York – Retailer Story has joined forces with North American supermarket chain Target to create its Christmas concept Home for the Holidays.

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Retail

Retailers yet to meet demand for digital services

Study shows retailers not meeting needs of omni-channel consumers

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Retail

Philips launches lighting for targeted grocery shopping via mobile

Philips launches an intelligent LED lighting system for grocery retailers

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Luxury

Sneakerboy

The crowds in Paris gasped this week as the models for Chanel’s summer 2014 couture collection strode down the catwalk in, of all things, sneakers. ‘Look at their SHOES!’ cried Suzy Menkes, queen of fashion critics, in the New York Times.

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Retail

UK Post Office presents pop-up for Christmas

UK Post Office presents pop-up for Christmas

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Technology

White wash: Winning designs only revealed through tablets

Warsaw – OperaLab is an interdisciplinary studio that is one part gallery, one part think-tank. For its Design of Identity/Identity of Design competition, it asked designers to submit ideas for a mobile pavilion for the Grand Theatre National Opera house in Warsaw. The 10 finalists were displayed in a unique exhibition where none of their work…

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Food & Drink

Frying high: Bakery puts dessert on a pedestal

Barcelona – Self-styled chocolate kitchen Chök holds chocolate confectionery in such high regard that it displays doughnuts as if they were fine jewellery.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Moment Factory

Airports are undergoing an unexpected renaissance, turning from stressful no-man’s lands into attractive destinations in their own right.