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Thursday, November 12, 2026
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM GMT+1 Amsterdam
Zoom
Hosted by Michell Zappa
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The Future of Retail

The Future of Retail

A live STEEP scan on returns, resale, and reverse logistics flipping from cost center to strategic lever.

About this event

Join us for a live Signals session on the future of retail.

We'll run one strategic question live and read it through a STEEP lens (social, technological, economic, environmental, political): "How are returns and resale reshaping retail margins, and which models win as circular becomes the default?" Signals are generated across every frontier AI model, each checked against open-web sources so what you keep is sourced rather than speculative, then deduped, convergence-scored, and turned into a foresight radar and report.

You'll watch the analysis fill out across STEEP dimensions on a real theme that touches retail, consumer goods, logistics, sustainability, and finance, and see how to aim the same STEEP scan at your own strategic questions.

Want to come prepared? Start with our research: Fabric, our Apparel & Textiles hub.

For strategy, innovation, foresight, research, and intelligence teams working with emerging change.

All attendees receive an event-only discount code for their first Signals plan.

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