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Updated Playbook for Retail Success
Whether it is to make quicker business decisions, improve the customer experience, deliver operational efficiencies or reduce return rates, once the right data is in ...
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Optimizing Online Beauty Sales in a Changing Business Environment
This report highlights reasons behind the success of beauty e-retailers and brands from April 2021 through April 2022, despite supply chain disruptions, shifting consumer demands, ...
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What’s in Your Vending Machine?
The jury is still out on the long-term value of NFTs as a digital ownership model, but SXSW 2022 was steeped in NFT hype. The ...
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Retail Playbooks to Win
Winning sports teams have great playbooks. In the age of AI, coaches and teams have access to immense amounts of data, from discovering key insights ...
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Is Free Shipping Dead?
Everyone knows shipping is costly. Return shipping can be even costlier. In an effort to give consumers what they want, when they want it (aka ...
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SXSW Rises Again
The masked and the unmasked joined forces in Austin after a two-year South by Southwest (SXSW) drought. The sidewalk terror normally caused by the Lime ...
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The MetaMall: The Next Big Retail Development Will Be in Cyberspace
Two unrelated events took place 30 years ago in 1992 that altered our world. The first involved Charles M. Stack who started Book Stacks Unlimited, ...
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Is This the Beginning of the End for Retail Salespeople?
Forget about factory worker, coal miner and taxi driver jobs being in jeopardy. They are nothing compared to the emerging threat to the jobs of ...
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