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Retail’s new normal: How retail needs to evolve in 2020
The retail industry has changed—and you need to change with it. This whitepaper explores the six key areas of your business model that need to be evaluated with a strong bias for agility and digital enablement in order for you to successfully adapt to a new normal.

The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a profound impact on Retail and “Normal” may not return any time soon. Besides, it’s likely there will be future events, big and small, that cause market shifts. Retailers will have to make strategic adjustments to be competitive.

This Week’s Must Read is an insight piece from Slalom on how retail needs to evolve in 2020.

Beata Rycharski and Rupender Malik @Slalom

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Thought Leadership

Store Design in a Post-Pandemic World | Retail Tomorrow by GMDC
When the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic recedes, it will leave behind a retail landscape that is likely to be vastly changed. What retailers need to decide is whether their stores will be better for the experience – more in touch with consumers’ needs and desires, more focused on providing differenti…

Retailers need to decide whether their stores will be centered around the customer experience or more focused on providing differential advantages.

Andrew McQuilkin@BHDP for Retail tomorrow

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Retail design in a post-pandemic world
Keeping employees and shoppers safe and comfortable.

The article present key suggestions on how retail design might change post-Covid-19.

 Bruce Horovitz @NRF

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The Future of Retail Post COVID-19: “Brigital”

Now, COVID-19 is accelerating these shifts and necessitating deeper transformation as customers are not able, or willing, to visit physical stores and increasingly look to digital channels.

COVID-19 has profoundly changed customer buying preferences . What are the solutions to answer these new customer expectations and how can digital help?

Suraj Ramaprasad, Alex Pigliucci, Natalia Kim and Tom Coldwell @Teneo

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Post-COVID Strategies for Retailers: Reopening Stores
Explore post-COVID retail strategies, and how retail executives should re-think in-store and online customer experience and engagement when reopening stores.

The author explains that the effects of COVID-19 are an opportunity to assess your business model and implement drastic changes.

Jean-Emmanuel Biondi @Deloitte

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This week’s Consulting News

PwC to cut 400 roles in consulting, financial advisory, support
Partners and lower-level staff are set to go from the big four consultancy as the pandemic slices into demand for consulting and financial advisory services.

| Edmund Tadros@Financial review

TIA and GfK to hold webinar on COVID-19 and what’s next for tire retail
The Tire Industry Association (TIA) and market research firm GfK US will hold a webinar about what comes next for the U.S. retail tire marketplace as the nation begins reopening from the coronavirus lockdowns. “Beyond the Crisis: A Roundtable on COVID-19 and What’s Next for Tire Retail,” will take p…

| Traction News Staff

EY Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Cryptocurrency Reporting App
/PRNewswire/ -- Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announced today the launch of EY CryptoPrep, a cryptocurrency application that assists with US tax filings. This new...

| PRNewswire

British Business Bank hires Deloitte, KPMG and PwC
Three of the Big Four accounting firms have won contracts to support the British Business Bank, which will pay out £20 million in consulting fees for their work.

| Consultancy.uk

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