Monthly Archives: April 2018

The Future is Accelerating Innovation labs are out, tech accelerators are in. Why are retailers investing in technology companies instead of pursuing innovation in-house? The trend Farfetch, itself a luxury fashion etail unicorn, has just launched a start-up accelerator named Dream Assembly in partnership with Burberry, through which it will make its expertise available to promising start-ups.Continue reading “The Future is Accelerating”

How McDonald’s is tech-savvier than most retailers In HK’s traditional retail landscape, the only consumer-facing technology is often an iPad with a lookbook to flick through, and all of a sudden a retailer earns itself a line in the press for being “tech-savvy”. (Newsflash, millennials did not even notice the iPad in the first place)Continue reading “How McDonald’s is tech-savvier than most retailers”