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December 11, 2014

The Future of Retail In The Age of Abundance

By Doug Stephens In an astonishingly short period of time (about two decades), the developed world has evolved from a scarcity-based retail economy to one of […]
November 27, 2014

The Robots Are Coming. And They Mean Business.

  By Doug Stephens In my 2013 post, Ten Trends to Watch for in 2014, I said this would be the year we would hear much […]
November 21, 2014

Amazon Is Going To War With Walmart On Price. But Is It A Battle Either Can Afford To Win?

By Doug Stephens Amazon has begun making some very aggressive price moves in the grocery and consumer packaged goods categories, showing its clear intentions to hit […]
November 11, 2014

Thriving In The Golden Age Of Retail

By Doug Stephens While I was in Iceland earlier this year I shared some thoughts on the future of retail and on the characteristics and competencies […]
October 29, 2014

From Clicks to Bricks: Why Amazon Is Opening A Store

By Doug Stephens Amazon.com has announced that it will be opening it’s first brick and mortar store later this year, on New York’s iconic 34th Street. […]
October 20, 2014

To Sell Big Data, Tell Big Stories

By Doug Stephens I defy you to find a marketing conference today that doesn’t have at least one track focused on big data analytics. Big data […]
September 29, 2014

Are Bad Products Good For Business?

By Doug Stephens It seems hardly a month passes without yet another retail brand being called out for carrying a product consumers see as either gratuitously […]
August 25, 2014

Discovery Is Dying And Data Is The Disease

By Doug Stephens   I, like you, don’t actually see everything my friends are posting on Facebook.  Instead, I see only what Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm deems […]
July 24, 2014

5 Coming Crises In The Retail Market

By Doug Stephens If you’re a retailer, you may not be sleeping very well these days and that’s understandable.  Tectonic shifts in demographics, economics, technology and […]