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Retail
From groceries to placemaking, retail is becoming more immersive, expressive, dramatic and hyper-personalised.
Micro Trends
Luxury Listening Rooms
Luxury brands are staging listening experiences that resonate on an emotional, sensorial and cultural level. These sonic activations operate as community hubs, emotional coders and temporal expressions of brand DNA.
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Viva Tech 2025: Five Sustainable Fashion Start-ups
From algorithmic upcycling to traceability tools, LS:N Global spotlights five fashion tech start-ups reshaping the future of sustainable production.
Communities
New Codes of Value: Future:Poll
Our latest Future:Poll research reveals how shifting consumer priorities around quality, trust and financial insecurity are reshaping the meaning of value – and what brands must do to keep up.
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NRF 2025: Escapism Retail
Escapism retail invites shoppers to step into another world, offering immersive experiences that provide a welcome escape from everyday life.
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Residential Retail
The home is shifting from a fundamental comfort and security shelter to a dynamic commercial hub bubbling with retail innovations.
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Luxury Listening Rooms
Luxury brands are staging listening experiences that resonate on an emotional, sensorial and cultural level. These sonic activations operate as com...
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Repair Renaissance
Retail spaces are transforming into skill-sharing hubs, embedding circularity through community-led repair workshops.
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EQ-Beauty
AI is redefining personalised beauty, shifting from data-driven logic to emotionally intelligent tools that bring empathy, intuition and expert car...
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Bougie Basics
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Culture-coded Retail On-demand Webinar
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FT Business of Luxury 2025: The New Shape of Global Luxury
Luxury is evolving through post-purchase care, storytelling in resale and digital product passports, all in service of building deeper connections ...
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Viva Technology 2025: Decoding a Decisive Moment for Tech
At VivaTech 2025, AI took centre stage – but conversations about climate, care and connection revealed where the future of tech must lead: human-fi...
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Culture-coded Retail
Digital commerce may offer consumers convenience, but a new generation of in-person retail experiences energised by cultural relevance and built on...
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Trust as the Ultimate Currency: World Retail Congress 2025
As the retail industry navigates economic uncertainty and cultural transformation, trust, technology and adaptability transpire as key drivers of s...
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Time as Luxury: Walpole British Luxury Summit 2025
In an era when time is the ultimate luxury, brands are rethinking what it means to feel, create and care in more human-centric ways. LS:N Global un...
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The Value Vanguard
Meet the consumers redefining value through imperfect sustainability, emotional spending and radical pragmatism, offering brands a glimpse into the...
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New Codes of Value: Future:Poll
Published as part of our Communities report, The Value Vanguard, our latest Future:Poll research reveals how shifting consumer priorities around qu...
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