11 Jun 2019 Interview

Video: What’s the biggest challenge impacting retail in 2019?

Caroline Baldwin Editor, Essential Retail

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Essential Retail quizzes a number of industry experts at RetailEXPO 2019 – including Alibaba, Mamas & Papas, JML and Michel Roux Jnr – to ask them what they believe is the biggest challenge facing retailers today.

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Video: What’s the biggest challenge impacting retail in 2019?

Caroline Baldwin Editor, Essential Retail

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