It’s late Sunday night in the remote Swedish village of Viken and you suddenly realize you’re out of baby food. Local stores are closed, the weather is iffy and the odds of getting a delivery… Read More
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E-Commerce: If You Build It, Will They Come? Part 2
In the first of this two-part series, we looked at the performance discrepancies we see through our data in the various online categories and the possible reasons behind their unequal performance. In this second article,… Read More
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Amazon Started It
Amazon coined “the last mile” as the most important, complex and costly last leg of distribution. Their goal: speed of delivery within hours, or less. They also started free shipping. Both moves have had huge… Read More
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Handle with Care: A Roadmap to Successful Tech Adoption
I’ve been to enough trade shows and conferences to know how excited people get about new technology. Whatever’s freshly minted and has a couple of cool brand names attached to it is going to be… Read More
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Track Report: Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s and Nordstrom
There are a lot of naysayers around these days, particularly aimed at the big box and department store models. And I would usually tend to side with them. In fact, many times I have been… Read More
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Invasion of the Homebots
How many of you are following the conversations between Vladimir and Estragon? I doubt many have the time to get involved in yet another inane online activity. But about 400,000 people have tuned into twitch.tv… Read More
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Making the Case for Blockchain in Retail
Blockchain continues to be a topic in boardrooms as brand leaders explore new ways to unleash the power of technology to drive authentic conversations with their consumers. This isn’t surprising, as the World Economic Forum… Read More
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The Digital Iceberg: Is Your Brand Fit For Success?
Digitization’s impact on fashion retailers’ and brands’ ability to stay competitive in a rapidly changing industry is hard to ignore. We’ve reached the point where if brands don’t adapt to new production strategizes and technologies,… Read More
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Facebook and Creepy Tech
I spoke to a class of about 20 millennials this week at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology). When I got to the part where I was speaking to the choir about an AT Kearney study… Read More
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Technology is Rewriting the Rules of Retail
Retail today continues to change at lightning speed, and technology is helping leaders to rewrite all the rules. Taking into account shifting consumer expectations and an unrelenting flood of data, a single digital core is… Read More
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