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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]