Retail

December 22, 2015

Trend Forecasts Are Trending. And That’s A Problem.

By Doug Stephens Suppose for a moment there’s an asteroid heading for earth. You’d likely want to know a few things. How big is it, how […]
November 11, 2015

The Future Of Retail Might Get Under Your Skin

    By Doug Stephens Early this year the staff at Epicenter, a Stockholm based high-tech company, were given a choice; they could either be issued […]
October 1, 2015

There’s No Such Thing As A Digital Experience

By Doug Stephens       When you drive your car to work are you enjoying a combustion engine propulsion experience or simply driving your car? […]
August 17, 2015

Welcome To The Replenishment Economy

By Doug Stephens In 2009 Procter & Gamble began briefing its agencies on, what was at the time, a completely different and somewhat radical marketing strategy. […]
July 10, 2015

The Sharing Economy: A Return, Not A Departure

By Doug Stephens Sharing is getting a lot of attention and for good reason.  Uber now has more drivers in New York City than Yellow Cabs.  […]
June 9, 2015

The Real Problem With Retail

By Doug Stephens Every day our consumer behavior is being steadily reprogrammed by digital inputs. For the nearly 70% of us who own smartphones, this reprogramming […]
April 2, 2015

The Fall Of The Retail Empire

By Doug Stephens Walmart is doomed. And they’re not alone.  Macy’s, Tesco, Target and BestBuy – to name only a few – are also coming to […]
February 3, 2015

The Future of Retail Is The End Of Wholesale

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

Our Top 5 Posts of 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 […]