January 30, 2019
We kicked off 2019 at NRF in New York City where we met with retailers and brands eager to understand the challenges they’re up against. We […]
February 2, 2018
The following is an excerpt from Reengineering Retail: The Future of Selling in a Post-Digital World By Doug Stephens “Software eats retail.” This was technology investor […]
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 30, 2016
By Doug Stephens At an investor conference in March of this year, Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren stated that while Amazon may be a threat in […]
December 22, 2015
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 […]
July 10, 2015
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. […]
May 28, 2015
By Doug Stephens Only a short time ago, the value that […]
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 […]