Once a month, our team gathers a selection of the latest news about Retail, CPG & Luxury.
Discover below the articles that have held our attention!
The Press Review Team: Flore Gradassi, Léa Korenian, Pierre Le Hegarat and Albane Rouaix - Consultants in Retail / CPG / Luxury
Top News
An high tech clothing store in about to open by Amazon in Los Angeles. The distribution leader has implemented technologies in its logistic centers enabling to combine the online and the physical shopping.
Fashion Network - 2022/01/22 - More details
In 2017, Decathlon, the French sport equipment company, had opened a store in California, trying an other entry in the American market. After 3 years, and 2 stores total, the company has decided to close up both of them to concentrate its activity on online sales and on partnerships with other distributors. This new strategy has been announced to be a way to answer the current market.
Fashion Network - 2022/01/25 - More details
Latest global announcements
The American supermarket chain Schnuck Markets has just annouced that it was about to launch a new loyalty program, Good For You, which aims at ecouraging its customers to buy healthy products. The program enables customers to assess the healthiness of their consumption and helps them to improve it.
Je Bosse en grande distribution - 2022/01/01 - More details
Notable Trends
To reinforce the brand's sustainability image, Levi's is committing to NFT technology. Indeed, for the launch of its new range designed in organic and recycled/recyclable cotton, the brand is developing a limited edition of its iconic 501 jeans scheduled for early 2022, which it guarantees for life thanks to an NFT certification. Each 501 NFT jean will be accompanied by its 3D digital duplicate, allowing the buyer to have exclusive ownership of the model, thanks to the attribution of unique and unfalsifiable characteristics. This innovation is part of several initiatives to encourage consumers to give a second life to their Levis jeans: donation and recycling service, upcycling workshops etc.
Latest announcements in France
Maze's solution arrives in France. This solution allows to measure the customer satisfaction after a purchase by sending an email and to deliver all the collected data to the stores the next day. Store managers can then train themselves and their team to improve the customer experience thanks to specific modules offered by Maze.
LSA - 2022/01/11 - More details
The Swedish furniture Group IKEA announced that it will open its first second-hand furniture shop in France. The project shoud become true au cours in 2022. This announcement goes with the objective of Net Carbon Zero by 2025. The shop will be supplied with damaged pieces of furtinures which will be repaied by traidtional Ikea shops near by.
Version Femina - 2021/12/29 - More details