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Retail innovation: shopping by app while taking the train
You’re heading home from work on the train. You scribble a shopping list, head for the supermarket, buy your chosen...
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How are drugstores coping with the pandemic? We talked to Christoph Werner, CEO of leading German retailer dm
He is the boss of 62,500 employees: Christoph Werner is CEO of dm, Germany’s leading chain of drugstores, with 3,700...
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What impact does panic buying have on the flow of goods?
Consumers are not accustomed to the sight of empty shelves, and for good reason: in normal times, just-in-time manufacturing ensures...
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The changing retail landscape: how can physical and digital stores successfully converge and combine?
More and more people are taking their shopping online. In 2019, nearly four billion customers across the world made purchases...
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How can goods in transit be secured in an eco-friendly way?
In an age dominated by Fridays for Future, driving bans, and carpets of plastic in the oceans, the focus is...
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How can retailers jump onto the e-commerce bandwagon?
The relentless rise of e-commerce continues. And while most distribution centers are located at key transportation intersections outside of cities,...
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Is home delivery worth the hassle for food retailers?
You can order pretty much anything online: from furniture to clothes, shoes, books and garden tools – the Internet shopping...
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To shop online, or offline? What is better for the environment?
Picture 2,200 vehicles driving from Hamburg to Moscow each and every day. That is the estimated impact of online returns,...
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What standards apply to goods distributed via physical stores?
It’s one thing to have great products. It’s another to ensure they are available in brick-and-mortar stores. And that is...
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