Retail

November 27, 2014

The Robots Are Coming. And They Mean Business.

  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

From Clicks to Bricks: Why Amazon Is Opening A Store

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

To Sell Big Data, Tell Big Stories

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

Are Bad Products Good For Business?

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

Discovery Is Dying And Data Is The Disease

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

5 Coming Crises In The Retail Market

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

If You Don’t Understand Why Apple Bought Beats That’s A Good Thing

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 […]
April 15, 2014

The Near Future Of Ecommerce

By Doug Stephens   Last Cyber Monday, Amazon was logging sales at the dizzying rate of 426 transactions per second – a 39 percent increase over […]
March 18, 2014

The Future Of Retail: Experiences Per Square Foot

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 […]