WGSN to host live Twitter Q&A on the future of shopping – send your questions to #askwgsn

Trend forecaster WGSN might be best known for its design and product development work (seasonal colours, silhouettes, consumer insights and more), but it also analyses forward developments in retail strategy, digital marketing, merchandising and store design.

Sat under the umbrella of its market intelligence team, these are experts in their field on all things to do with the business side of the industry – note I’m shamelessly referring to myself in this category as WGSN is of course my employer. I’m a global senior editor on all things media and marketing related, by that I mean brand strategy, digital communications, in-store technology and more (of course in each instance always weighted towards how it pertains to the fashion and retail space).

But I also head up the social media content strategy for the company, overseeing our output across Twitter, Tumblr (award-winning!), Facebook, Instagram and Google+ (where you may have seen my mug hosting our business-focused monthly Hangouts).

To that end – I bring you the latest campaign, and urge you to get involved. On Tuesday, June 10 we will be hosting a live Twitter Q&A with Lorna Hall, head of the WGSN market intelligence team and resident retail expert. Hall brings with her a wealth of experience on exactly what is shifting the landscape and will be able to talk to absolutely anything to do with the future of shopping.

I’m talking legacy retailers and their moves to omnichannel; new focuses on innovation and integrating start-ups; big data, beacons and personalisation; search, shop and go, or the new paths to purchase re-engineering the ‘impulse buy’. Not to mention a bunch of other keywords and phrases like mobile, phy-gital, service, footfall drivers, experiential and more. You name it, Hall has the answer.

So please get stuck in, send us your thoughts using the hashtag #askwgsn – Hall will be online responding from 4pm GMT / 11am EST. The more you ask, the more we respond and the more content we regurgitate back out again. It’s a win win.