Branding

Amazon.com is planning to publish a holiday toy catalog in an effort win the toy business that has come up for grabs after the demise of Toys“R”Us, according to a report in Bloomberg. People familiar with the strategy told Bloomberg that the catalog will be mailed to millions of U.S. households and handed out at Whole Foods locations, the grocery…

Signage is something the average customer doesn’t think about when pulling up to a store, but without it, most customers wouldn’t know whether they were in the right place. From a business perspective, getting your signage right requires more than merely making it visible. How to Make the Most Out of Physical Signage Physical signage,…

The yellow price tag isn’t going away, but it’s no longer front and center in an updated logo Best Buy revealed this week. The first refresh of the logo in nearly three decades is part of a new marketing strategy as the electronics chain increasingly focuses not just on products and prices, but also the value…

Walmart is testing a new dress code that gives employees more freedom in what they can wear on the job. Under the pilot program, which has been rolled out to fewer than 100 stores, workers can wear solid color blue jeans instead of khaki-colored or black denim pants. They also can wear a solid-color shirt of…

Political polarization, voter tribalism, and more recent and fervent social movements like #grabyourwallet, #MeToo and #TimesUp have changed the face of brand engagement and consumer loyalty in the retail category, according to new consumer values and insights identified in the Brand Keys 23rd Customer Loyalty Engagement Index® (CLEI). The annual survey conducted by the New…

The luxury market has undergone significant changes over the last couple of decades as investors have discovered the new gold mine: small and medium-sized luxury businesses with impressive profit margins. Totally lacking operational efficiency and appetite for big expansion, those businesses were focusing on one thing only: developing outstanding products. Family run for generations, these…

In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Joe Keenan and Caitlin Sullivan discuss L.L.Bean's decision to change its famously generous return policy, the implications it may have on the brand, and what it means for its competitors.

Total Retail and sister brand Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) are proud to present our eighth annual list of the Top Women in Retail. This year's list features a who's who of top female executives in the retail industry. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about some of the brightest minds and leaders retail has to offer.

I smirk when anyone tells me that "branding" is the core of any campaign. Branding is to measurement what superstition is to science. You advertise to do one thing: move product — period. That product is sold either online or offline. Online measurement, while not perfect, is evolving. Offline, up until recently, not so much.…

CVS Health will ban photo manipulation in its store-brand makeup marketing, store aisle displays and social media posts by April 2020. The announcement was made by Helena Foulkes, president of CVS Pharmacy and executive vice president, CVS Health, during her presentation at the National Retail Federation's Big Show in New York yesterday. "As a woman,…