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The one constant for the retail industry is changing. Just as the industry seemed to get its heads around re-inventing itself to meet the expectations of tech-savvy Millennials, there is a new demographic of consumers flexing their buying power – Gen Z. Who is Gen Z? Now, all 22 or younger they consist of a mix of students and youngsters entering their first jobs and represent one-third of the world’s…
Kiwis shelled out $442 million over the Black Friday weekend, that’s an 85% increase from 2017! https://vimeo.com/303612231 Watch the Energi Shopper Vlog for the breakdown of the 4 key ingredients that make Black Friday the mega shopping festival that New Zealand has fully embraced.
Blockchain, one of the biggest buzzwords of 2018, has been tipped to impact a number of industries all across the world. In retail alone, the blockchain market size is expected to grow from USD 80.0 million in 2018 to USD 2,339.5 million by 2023, at a growth of 2,924%. This just shows that even though there is a lack of awareness and technical understanding coupled with an uncertain regulatory and…
Now the largest online shopping event in the world. 2019 will see a growth in global ‘shopping day’ events Singles’ Day originated from a Chinese university with the intent of breaking away from the monotony of being single. It was to be a day filled with events and celebrations in the honor of being single, a day that quickly took its place in the wider Chinese society which then took…
According to a Wall Street Journal article, tech companies now have their eyes on the next billion internet users mostly from the developing world. But the new users are going to be different from the first billion in the sense they are more likely to favor voice and video rather than typing and text. Averaging around a billion searches a month as of Jan 2018, the future is going to…
Stop, and think about the entrance to your local supermarket for a moment. What do you see? Are you in the fresh produce department? Do you see large mounds of brightly coloured fruit? Then, are you drawn into fresh, red meat, or maybe the aroma-rich bakery? These are powerful and deliberate sensory marketing triggers that encourage us to buy more. Why do they work? It seems that our brains have…
A year ago there was an article in the New Zealand Herald claiming that “$6 out of every $10 spent on groceries was going on items which are on sale or promotion.” What’s more, we are internationally way ahead of the curve, with Australians spending $4 out of $10 on promoted items, the British $3, Germans $2 and the French just $1.80. This tallies with our traditional love of bargains…
The overuse of digital devices from a work perspective has been blamed for everything from burnout to sleeplessness as well as relationship problems, with many employees uncertain of when they can switch off. Employees are more and more connected during hours outside of the office and the boundary between professional and personal life has become tenuous. The so-called “always-on” work culture has led to a surge in usually unpaid overtime,…
Finding out you’re going to become a mother for the first time can be an extremely joyous if not overwhelming situation to find yourself in. So many things start to whiz through your mind like OMG is this really happening? What does this mean? What is going to change? What do I need to do? How am I going to do this? Can I do this? These are but a…
Talk about eyes wide open! Moving here from South Africa a little over a year ago, I wanted to find ways to submerge myself into this ‘whole new world’. Subscribing to anything and everything `New Zealand’ was my go-to. I mean I literally had to start all over again. This took form in many ways, one of which was finding “my brands”. Being in SA all my life, I had…
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