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 27, 2014
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 […]
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. […]
October 20, 2014
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
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
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
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 […]
June 12, 2014
By Doug Stephens I read an intriguing article this morning by Denise Lee Yohn that asks the provocative question: Is the Apple Corporation we once knew […]