Highlights from World Retail Congress 2019

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20 June 2019 à 18h05

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Publication: 20 June 2019 à 18h05

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Publication: 20 June 2019 à 18h05

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For three whole days in May 2019, we attended the World Retail Congress at the RAI in Amsterdam. Retailers from all the world joined heads, insights and ideas on how to approach and adapt today’s well-informed and speedy consumers. The overall theme for congress was High Velocity Retail and it is no secret that it is going extremely fast, not only in the retail industry, but globally.

According to the World Retail Congress, there are six rules of high velocity retail:
1. Be the best at something

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