Future of Retail
June 17, 2024
By Doug Stephens As you prepared for work today, did you do so with the belief that your company was working to save humanity? If you’re […]
August 11, 2023
By Doug Stephens Over the last 20 years, technology has transformed retail. Mobile phones have become essential conduits for communication, entertainment and commerce. Technologies like augmented […]
April 13, 2023
By Doug Stephens Companies across the global retail sector are poised to become the beneficiaries of a historic windfall: an unprecedented boost to the bottom-line […]
July 18, 2022
In the post-Covid era, the rethinking of risk offers profound competitive advantage, argues Retail Prophet founder Doug Stephens. If a single image has come to […]
January 17, 2018
By Doug Stephens On October 25 of this year — on an otherwise quiet day in retail news — Nike chief executive Mark Parker fired a […]
January 17, 2018
By Doug Stephens In 2011, in what has now become retail folklore, Ron Johnson, one of the brains behind the Apple Store, was hired to resuscitate […]
March 18, 2014
By Doug Stephens This is a just partial list of retailers who have closed or plan to close significant numbers of stores in the near […]