Technology

March 30, 2016

Want To Survive Amazon? Stop Thinking Like A Retailer

By Doug Stephens   At an investor conference in March of this year, Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren stated that while Amazon may be a threat in […]
February 9, 2016

Retail And The Economics Of Boredom

By Doug Stephens Today’s retailers face a tsunami of problems but none, in my opinion, is more deadly than the pandemic of sheer consumer boredom that […]
January 22, 2016

Retailing Through The Trough Of Disillusionment

By Doug Stephens It seemed that just a year or two ago the retail world was bracing for technology to turn it on its head. From […]
November 11, 2015

The Future Of Retail Might Get Under Your Skin

    By Doug Stephens Early this year the staff at Epicenter, a Stockholm based high-tech company, were given a choice; they could either be issued […]
October 1, 2015

There’s No Such Thing As A Digital Experience

By Doug Stephens       When you drive your car to work are you enjoying a combustion engine propulsion experience or simply driving your car? […]
August 17, 2015

Welcome To The Replenishment Economy

By Doug Stephens In 2009 Procter & Gamble began briefing its agencies on, what was at the time, a completely different and somewhat radical marketing strategy. […]
June 9, 2015

The Real Problem With Retail

By Doug Stephens Every day our consumer behavior is being steadily reprogrammed by digital inputs. For the nearly 70% of us who own smartphones, this reprogramming […]
May 28, 2015

The Future Of Brands In A One-Touch World

                            By Doug Stephens   Only a short time ago, the value that […]
February 3, 2015

The Future of Retail Is The End Of Wholesale

By Doug Stephens Retail is facing a monumental problem that no one seems to want to talk about.  It’s that the entire economic model of revenue […]