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While financial challenges following the lockdown orders have forced many small and medium-sized-businesses to shut shop, there are others who are reinventing the traditional ways of retailing to attract consumers.

But while Sephora continued with product trials, they had to pause their Mini Flash Makeovers, a free 15-minute ‘mini-makeover’ service that the retailer offers.

“Retailers need to engage across all channels and the brands those who are able to do it will succeed,” points out Nott.

“Demand for open footwears is going up due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are trying to increase production to meet that demand. We have planned investment of Rs 150 crore this financial year. Majority of this amount will go for setting up a new manufacturing facility in Bhiwadi,”Ramesh Kumar Dua, Managing Director, Relaxo Footwears told PTI.

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“There’s a real opportunity here for brands and retailers to win consumer trust, and that will involve revolutionising how technical knowledge is translated into an understandable consumer language on websites, product tags and labels.

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Following an almost washout quarter in June in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, September quarter showed signs of swift recovery across businesses, ABFRL said.

Apart from the eco-conscious approach, we also want to work towards being socially conscious within our streams of production. Less environmental pollution leads to a cleaner and safer society for individuals to reside in. In times of the overriding pandemic, and even moving forth, we will work towards giving the craftsmen behind the clothes the importance and security, along with the recognition they deserve.

*Data is from GlobalData’s How Britain Shops 2020 survey of 10,000 nationally representative UK shoppers.

Figures from GlobalData research suggest 37.3% of UK consumers agree that retailers that place greater emphasis on sustainability are more appealing, and that retailers ought to capitalise on changing attitudes as the shift towards ethical retail gains more momentum.

Its total income declined 49.60 percent to Rs 1,171.32 crore during the quarter under review from Rs 2,324.35 crore in the corresponding quarter of last fiscal.

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“To establish a new normal, we needed to resort to ways which can help us carry on with our pre-pandemic practices but with caution. And virtual store tours enable that for us. They encourage people to shop from their homes after screening through the entire store and collection virtually. They further aid them in selecting the right pick with the executives assisting them on video calls and later with the home-cum-trial room service offered by various labels; thus making virtual store tours imperative in instilling the new normal,” Malik states.

Lifestyle International Pvt. Ltd, part of the Dubai-based retail and hospitality conglomerate, Landmark Group, announced the appointment of Kabir Lumba as Chairman of the Board, effective 1st April 2021. Lumba, CEO designate, Landmark Retail, Middle East, will be taking over the role from Ramanathan Hariharan, who will be retiring on the 31st of March 2021.

As per the company, Reliance Retail’s success in bringing such a huge repertoire of traditional handcrafted products to its modern retail formats is also an indication of existence of demand for such products, as long as consumers’ expectations of quality, style and convenience of modern retail buying can be met.

“It has been more about how we can get a lot more efficient in what we do. Efficiency has definitely gone up. Shorter meetings, clearer objectives – we have gone into this mode of enablement and as a company we have to enable our employees to work from home better as a lot of them have gone home, so we have introduced burn-out holidays where people are asked to take 3-4 days off during a month compulsory just to take some time off as the screen time has increased drastically and the horizon between work and home has completely faded. There is no demarcation anymore. From the brand’s side and consumer’s side also, it is again enablement. The one word theme for us as an organisation is enablement. Even for the brands today, for the first time ever, we have more brands approaching us than the any other time. Earlier, it has been always us asking the brands to come online, now it is other way around,” adds Sudhakar.

“You need to look at the overall picture and the impact of digital on retail as well rather than just a pure play online transaction,” says Sambhav resonating the same thoughts.

“In 2018, we started shipping out of our stores. Our website has been connected to our stores for a while now and we also do a bit of order booking in the store with the objective of improving conversions if customers are not getting the product that they are looking for. We did a fairly large number of transactions from our stores on a day-to-day basis even before the pandemic. However, the current situation has pushed everyone to get there at the earliest. The whole urgency behind becoming truly Omnichannel has never been so high. Consumers are coming back slowly and steadily but we need to ensure that we serve them in a way that they used to like it in the stores earlier. We are not using our stores as dark stores. but we have equipped our stores to handle our website orders, to book orders from our stores and have also connected them to the marketplaces. Before the pandemic, the focus essentially was on how to map customers and make sure each moment they spend in the store is fantastic and delightful. However, now we have started going into the catchment area. Bata is opening its kiosks in the societies since past couple of months. We have tried to reach out to customers as they want the products. Customers have a need right now and the need might be governing the purchase but there is still some fear moving out and our thought behind our shop-on-wheels was why put consumers at risk, so we decided to take these stores closer to our consumers and that has really helped us. The big shift in the retailers mind now is to figure out a channel to give a very easy and accessible service to consumers,” explains Kumar Sambhav Verma, Sr Vice President and Head Omnichannel, Asia, Bata.

Peush Narang, CCI’s India representative added, “The U.S. cotton industry has a history of strong relationship with India. For the year 2019, cotton was the second highest exported agricultural

The Raymond group, which has its majority business interests in textile and apparel sectors, also operates in segments such as FMCG, Engineering and Prophylactics.

Modern barbeques, which are portable, don’t take up too much space and can be handled by home chefs, were being picked. Kettles and egg boilers are another winter favourite. Users are also buying beds, jackets and fish-based food for their pets. The demand for winter products is highest in north India as well as parts of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, said the e-commerce site.

sharper focus on health and hygiene, demand for home textile products will continue to grow. Demand is expected to stay strong in the third quarter as well due to the festive season, when these retailers launch large-scale programmes.”

There has been a growing consciousness and preference among consumers for sustainable offerings over the years. Consumers are mindful about what they are consuming and the impact it has on planet and people. The current pandemic has made people look inward at their own life choices and in a way accelerated this mindfulness and inclination towards sustainable products. Buyers are actively seeking information on sustainable options before making purchase decisions. This has led brands to expedite their attempts to appeal to this growing and evolving market, thereby bringing sustainability front and centre in how they conduct themselves and operate their businesses.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 global health crisis and its impact has made us rethink how we were consuming and what we were contributing to our society. This thought has brought a special focus on ‘Homegrown’. Homegrown, as the name suggests, refers to produce in one’s locality or country. The crisis has made many of us pause and introspect about our choices, their impact, our future, and that of our society. This is strongly reflected in a consumer survey undertaken by Wakefield and Lenzing AG across nine countries including India, where over 80% of respondents expressed a strong inclination towards sustainable fashion and purchasing clothing made from sustainable raw materials.