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Onboard the Digital Wave

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation all across industries and retail is no different. From adaption of the right tools to changing the internal policies and working style to budget, there is a lot of consideration and over the last year and a half these transformations have been a part of every retailer’s journey. How has the industry responded to digitalisation?

Retail in a Click

COVID19 has forced the retail industry to shift its business model and focus on online capabilities. The pandemic has also altered the consumption volume in the retail sector, with higher consumer preference for home deliveries rather than visiting stores.

Retailers are Looking Forward to June 2021 for Improvement in Sales: RAI

Economic revival is intertwined with the revival of retail businesses especially large formal retail spaces, which are the drivers of consumption. The only way of getting rid of the economic impact of pandemic and saving livelihoods is by everybody participating in sharing of the cost burden and acting to revive retail business activity.

How E-Commerce Has Been A Gamechanger For Indian MSMEs

Internet was once the weakness of MSMEs in India but with the passage of time, the weakness turned into the strength of MSMEs and eventually e-commerce proved to be a gamechanger for Indian MSMEs

How The Jewelry Industry is Riding The New Normal

Technology, particularly social media, has also played a crucial role in helping the gems and jewellery industry to regain what it lost in the year since the pandemic. Many companies have taken a leap of faith by continuing to power on with their businesses along with their partners and consumers, using the digital platform to bridge the gap between the real and physical world as seamlessly as they can…

Organised Retailers Can Partner in Vaccinations

Organised retailers like supermarkets and shopping centres can play a major role in fostering rapid vaccinations. Governments will disburse vaccines to corporations and private organisations, as availability improves, for administering them…

Second Wave of Ad Hoc Localised Restrictions Begin to Hurt Indian Retail Industry

There is a need for a coordinated effort at handling the second wave of the pandemic rather than creating diverse restrictions at the local levels like the local weekend lockdowns, shutdown after a de nite time period, arbitrary testing inside malls, among others...

Social Media Retail: How New Age Brands are Earning Big by Creating & Sharing Their Stories

Having a strong social media strategy in place, these brands are creating a ripple in retail, the effect of which has forced many big brands to pay more attention to their social media presence…

Fabric & Apparel Revenues Up In 2021, Other Sectors Follow Suit

While operating margins for spinners are likely to revert closer to pre-COVID levels, those for apparel exporters may remain marginally lower than the pre-COVID levels amid a competitive operating environment, wherein buyers could be expected to negotiate for steeper discounts…

The Evolving Roles Of Gold Jewellery: Recent Trends & What The Future Holds

With its universal value and stature, gold is often regarded as the best investment for common people. Gold is, and will always be at the top of the pyramid, and therefore India’s appetite for jewellery is pretty considerable…

Permanent Shift in Consumer Behaviour Pushes Retailers Towards E-Commerce, Technology

Global retailers to focus on virtual try-on experiences, AI, technology and e-commerce to provide seamless user experience while maintaining the highest level of accuracy to the consumers…

Phygital Retail Convention: What's Next – CEOs Talk Strategies, Solutions

Consumption is an such an integral aspect of modern lives that even a pandemic of the catastrophic proportions of COVID-19 couldn’t abate it. It did, however, create a big dent in consumer behavior and consumption patterns. Industry titans talk to solutions and strategies which can used to abate the negative effects of the pandemic…

The Unexpected Opportunity: How COVID Accelerated the Digital Journey of Brands & Retailers Along with Customer Experience

COVID has accelerated the digital journey of brands and retailers across industries and catalyzed innovations to offer customers unparalleled assurances and conveniences. IMAGES Retail brings views of leaders in the digital space from across retail verticals on how their organisations found opportunity in adversity and created innovation benchmarks that will define their growth and leadership even beyond COVID…

Pandemic Learnings: Upcoming Mall Developers Talk Consumer Behaviour, New Mall Design

The pandemic-led shutdown of all economic activity threw the Retail and Shopping Centre industries into chaos. Mall supply was severely impacted, and the future of many projects still remains ambiguous. Those who managed to overcome the worst of the pandemic spoke to IMAGES Retail Bureau about how different the future is for them – namely, building agility and resilience to face uncertain times, being fit for growth by aligning costs with priorities and investing in differentiated capabilities and digital levers…

Rewarding Customers for Walking-In is the ‘IN Thing for Retailers Today'

Retail therapy is the best therapy to beat the blues. Post an overextended period of lockdown, as much as everyone seemed enthusiastic to go and shop to their heart’s content, there were many safety concerns. However, the retail community in India ensured that they not just addressed these worries but also designed enthralling marketing strategies to entice people back into their stores. Here’s a quick look at things that worked to create sales way above the expectations of the retailers…

IKEA Focuses on Stronger Omnichannel Play, Local Sourcing in COVID Era

As a purpose-led company, during this time IKEA focused on safety and security of their people, building digital capabilities, meeting customers in new ways as the home became the center of everything in everybody’s lives. The brand aims to reach 100 million people in India online by 2022…

Why Building Omnichannel Capabilities are Crucial for Retail Businesses

In the wake of pandemic, as digitalisation accelerates and consumer buying habits constantly evolve, the need for a sound Omnichannel strategy seems more important now than ever before…

E-Commerce Order Volume in India Clocks 36% Growth in 2020 Q4

E-commerce as an industry saw a significant uptick in demand. The last quarter showed the real reflection of changing consumer behaviour, and highlighted the actual shift to online shopping even after the lockdown was lifted...

HUGE STEP TOWARDS RECOVERY: BRANDS RECORD PRE-COVID LIKE SALES DURING FESTIVALS

Better consumer incomes and demand patterns over the past few months suggest a better situation for Tier III/IV geographies. E-commerce trends also suggest a similar pattern…

URBAN SQUARE UDAIPUR WILL CHANGE THE RETAIL LANDSCAPE OF RAJASTHAN – Uddhav Poddar

In an exclusive chat with IMAGES Retail, Uddhav Poddar, Managing Director, Bhumika Realty, talks about how Rajasthan can be a new hub for modern retail with infrastructures like Urban Square and other malls. He also emphasised on the vision, progress and road ahead for the brand.

GROWELL'S 101 MALL CELEBRATED THE RETAIL SUPERHEROES ON 'RETAIL EMPLOYEES DAY 2020'

AMAZON REPORTS 60 PERCENT INCREASE IN WORLDWIDE SALES, BLACK FRIDAY REPORTS IN-STORE SHOPPING DROP

The economic downturn and uncertainty caused by the Coronavirus pandemic means 65 percent of people feel a high level of economic insecurity and are less willing to spend money. Contreras believed that for the moment, the crisis means it is appropriate to consume wisely…

Ad-Hoc Local Lockdowns Detrimental to Recovery of Indian Economy

Although the intentions are that of citizen safety and social distancing, the recent instances of local lockdowns and ad-hoc restrictions being imposed in UP, Maharashtra, AP and Karnataka are making a distressing impact on retail businesses, says RAI...

Indian Retail Sector Gears Up For Festival Season, Big Players Announce Big Offers

The industry is seeing the upcoming festival season as a big opportunity to maximise on sales and footfalls

4 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Demand Forecasting In Retail

The past decade will be reminisced as an era where machines began their journey on the path of intelligence - proficient in learning, executing, and ‘thinking’ like humans do…

Research: The New Retail Reality

A report by KPMG in India and Retailers Association of India (RAI) sheds light on how the pandemic has led to a change in consumer behaviour and more importantly how the retail space is undergoing a complete makeover…

Parivartan: A Platform to Collaborate & Innovate for Retailers

The event by TRRAIN was a virtual open forum where retailers from across formats and departments came together to brainstorm about the ‘new normal’…

Gender-Neutral Beauty Brands Shatter Traditional Retail Stereotypes

Over the years, there has been a gradual change in consumer preferences towards cruelty free, natural, and organic products. This change has now evolved enough to include gender-neutral beauty products as well…

Contactless Technology & the Future of the Foodservice Industry

The dine-in sector saw a drop of 6 percent in the number of restaurants in the first week of March, another 20 percent in the subsequent week. It all came to a standstill from April and lasted till mid-June. The only option left for many restaurants amidst the chaos was to become takeaway and delivery only outlets, explain foodservice industry leaders, while outlining their strategy to overcome the COVID era…

E-COMMERCE REPORTS STEEP INCLINE IN Q2 PROFITS GLOBALLY

Riding on the surge in demand in the COVID-19 times, online retail sales in Asia will grow from US$ 1.5 trillion in 2019 to US$ 2.5 trillion in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.3 percent…