Mark Pilkington Boeken

This book provides a thorough analysis of the evolving forces reshaping consumer purchasing and brand experiences. It features in-depth interviews with innovative companies, including John Lewis, Nike, and Patagonia, to extract valuable insights for the global industry. Additionally, it offers crucial guidelines for governments aiming to rebuild society after recent crises. The retail sector, long familiar to consumers, has faced devastation due to the internet and the impacts of the Coronavirus lockdown, resulting in the downfall of numerous prestigious brands and a significant recession affecting employment and incomes. Many discretionary items have become unaffordable for average consumers, leading to empty high streets and shopping malls that create a void in communities. There is an urgent need to revitalize local shopping areas to instill hope in struggling regions. The book explores how retailers and brands can address this crisis, highlighting emerging recovery trends from the remnants of the old retail landscape. It discusses new brands, technologies, and innovative strategies for delivering value and generating excitement to attract consumers, all of which hold the potential to rejuvenate the retail economy.

An insightful review of the collapse of the traditional retail sector in the West, and a roadmap for its potential recovery.

The return of the Strange Attractor Journal, offering a characteristically eclectic collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture. After seven years of silence, the acclaimed Strange Attractor Journal returns with a characteristically eclectic collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture. Covering previously uncharted regions of history, anthropology, art, literature, architecture, science, and magic since 2004, each Journal has presented new and unprecedented research into areas that scholarship has all too often ignored. Featuring essays from academics, artists, enthusiasts, and sorcerers, Journal Five explores matters including the folklore of foghorns; the occult origins of the dissident surrealist secret society the Acéphale; the pleasures of heathen falconry; the dark cosmological mysteries of Bremen's Haus Atlantis; a provisional taxonomy of animals with human faces; a twentieth-century crucifixion on Hampstead Heath, and an unpublished horror script by David MacGillivray and Ken Hollings. Journal Five sees Strange Attractor continuing in its mission to celebrate unpopular culture. Join us.