Reasons to be cheerful...Christmas planning, innovation and driving positive change in retail with Dr Sarah Montano

Independent Thinking - Exploring a new era for retail and the high street

Now, it’s fair to say this year has thrown its fair amount of challenges at retailers. Covid restrictions, Brexit.. just to name two hugely important factors this year of course. But to this we can add; wider global economic uncertainty, global heating and climate change becoming more acute... all making us consider our decisions as consumers and in fact what it means to ‘consume’.

We are of course in the midst of a huge amount of change.

So at this point in the year, I wanted to check in again with Dr Sarah Montano of University of Birmingham to help us unpack the complexities and help us understand how the past year has impacted our habits and what the future could look like as we continue to adapt to living through a pandemic. Sarah brings some much needed groundedness to these discussions, talks about small changes we can all make, what innovation we can look forward to in the future and why we have much to be hopeful about.

It’s always a pleasure to speak to Sarah, we could have chatted all morning when we recorded this! Hope you enjoy!
The 'What is the Metaverse?' article we mention: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/style/metaverse-virtual-worlds.html

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