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Digital retail is not just about buying online.
Offers of interest-free loans may sound appealing, but there are many risks as well.
Actions you can take to ensure modern slavery and child exploitation are not a part of your Christmas.
How safe is the toy you may be buying for someone this Christmas? New research suggests that toy companies often take too long to issue recalls after they become aware of safety hazards.
Novelty items, candles, pamper products and pyjamas top the list of unwanted Christmas gifts. So why not choose a better, greener option?
The retail sector relies on a little festive excess.
We are addicted to consumption during these holidays, which leads to a massive amount of landfill waste. Giant retailers like Walmart could help the problem, but they haven’t.
The holiday window is laden with nostalgia and associations of childhood traditions and a longing for drawn-out moments.
Innovation is integral to the success of Canadian retailers and encouraging consumers to shop in stores as well as online. The big strategic risk is not innovating and failing, but failing to innovate.
Now in its tenth year in the UK, the great American post-Thanksgiving bonanza is starting to look like a turkey.
For Victorian shop workers, Christmas could be a miserable time of long hours and low pay.
Six questions to ask yourself before you buy that last minute Christmas present.
The idea of pop-up shops has been around for ages, but now even established high-street retailers are being forced to buy in.
Rather than simply trying to trick people, the masters of marketing know it’s much easier to understand and work with innate human flaws.
’Tis the season for online shopping – which means a month of shipping. Here’s how to reduce your delivery footprint.
A mix of economic unease and fears of the growth of online shopping is pushing retailers to offer ever-steeper discounts, but there’s a better strategy to make it through the holidays in the black.
While some pundits claim the much-hyped shopping day that follows our Thanksgiving feasts has lost its relevance, the reality is a lot more complicated, as four important facts show.
You might think the people who grow Christmas trees get to put their feet up for most of the year. You’d be wrong.
Still don’t know what to get your loved one? Here are four gift-giving taboos meant to be broken.
Top contributors
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Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University
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Director, Master of Business Administration (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Sustainable Logistics Researcher, Vienna University of Economics and Business
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Professor of Retail Studies and Deputy Principal, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Huddersfield
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Associate Lecturer in Marketing, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, Northeastern University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Washington University in St Louis
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Senior Research Associate, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Academic Head of Enterprise Management Track and Senior Lecturer of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Associate Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing and Branding, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Retailing and Marketing, Manchester Metropolitan University
