February 3, 2015
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 […]
December 31, 2014
By Doug Stephens 2014 was yet another remarkable year for the retail industry. Big box players like Target and Walmart continued the frantic search for their […]
December 11, 2014
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 21, 2014
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 […]
October 29, 2014
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. […]
July 24, 2014
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 […]
April 15, 2014
By Doug Stephens Last Cyber Monday, Amazon was logging sales at the dizzying rate of 426 transactions per second – a 39 percent increase over […]
December 4, 2013
By Doug Stephens Analysts and consumers alike are becoming increasingly accustomed to Amazon’s announcements of bold and daring new projects. Most recently it was the Jeff […]
September 19, 2013
By Doug Stephens Global ecommerce is set to top 1.2 trillion dollars this year. And if that doesn’t seem astonishing, then consider that the figure represents […]