January 12, 2011
By Doug Stephens Blogging live from the National Retail Federation conference in New York This morning I attended one of the opening super sessions of the […]
January 11, 2011
By Doug Stephens Blogging Live from the National Retail Federation Conference It’s day one at North America’s largest retail industry gathering, the NRF conference in New […]
January 9, 2011
By Doug Stephens Unfortunately, the future isn’t as simple as the headlines might have us believe. It can’t be neatly summed up in the words recession […]
January 4, 2011
By Doug Stephens The Good If you’ve been reading business media lately, you’d be inclined to believe in Christmas miracles. By some accounts, the positive holiday […]
December 15, 2010
By Doug Stephens When we talk about the future of the retail experience the conversation often turns to obvious trends in technology, media and consumer behavior […]
November 19, 2010
By Doug Stephens Chapter 1 Here’s the way it is… Any specialty retail business that stands on selection, price or convenience as its point of competitive […]
November 10, 2010
A new poll from Harris Interactive suggests that 90 percent of adults ages 18-34 believe that the advertising they see is truthful (at least some of […]
October 26, 2010
At this point any headline touting Apple dominance is almost a declaration of the obvious but when it comes to location based marketing, the reasons for […]
October 20, 2010
By Doug Stephens If you saw the movie The Social Network, then you may remember the scene where Mark Zuckerberg’s character, says to his business partner, […]