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With the explosion of pop-up retail spaces and events, it certainly seems like this temporary format, sometimes referred to as flash retailing, is now a permanent element of the retail industry. Muneerah Bee finds out more from Adrian Chan, co-founder of retail space rental agency PopUp Angels.What is the appeal of visiting a pop-up retail store?  Adrian Chan: Pop-up stores are most appealing when they deliver an experience that consumers cannot get elsewhere. It is common nowadays to see the same stores and brands across shopping malls wherever you go. Consumers are therefore drawn to stores that offer products and experiences that are different from the usual chain stores.

 

 For the first time ever, Amazon’s "highly-anticipated" annual shopping event, Prime Day will be available for Singapore Prime members.

 E-commerce platform Shopee has partnered with Nanyang Polytechnic’s Singapore Institute of Retail Studies (SIRS), to offer full-day e-commerce workshops.

Cloud service provider Akamai Technologies and Japanese financial services company MUFG announced plans to offer a new blockchain-based online payment network enabling next-generation payment transaction scale and responsiveness.

 American coffee company Chameleon Cold-Brew announced recently the debut of its sustainability programme, which in its inaugural year will establish five community-driven projects in four countries to empower farmers with the technical assistance and resources to improve the quality of organically produced coffee and their livelihoods as well.

 Alibaba Group has announced the launch of ‘Malaysia Week’, a special online promotion initiative that seeks to attract Chinese consumers to buy all-things Malaysian from the 6-12 July this year.

 

 

 Software company MuleSoft announced recently that international food retail group Ahold Delhaize is leveraging MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform to build personalised digital capabilities that will enhance direct-to-consumer relationships and enable further growth of its e-commerce businesses. MuleSoft added it is enabling Ahold Delhaize to securely scale these new digital capabilities across its local brands.

 

 To help reduce the 300,000 tonnes of clothing which gets sent to landfill each year in the UK, in an industry first, department store company John Lewis is piloting a service in which customers can have any unwanted clothing bought from its 50 shops and website, collected from their home, and be paid immediately for each item regardless of its condition.

 

 

 Starbucks Corporation has announced that Howard Schultz is stepping down as executive chairman and member of the Board of Directors and will take on the title of chairman emeritus effective June 26 this year.