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It’s a silly game to keep tracking Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  Just as same-store sales became a meaningless measure of performance once e-commerce took ...

Inching or Sprinting To Social Commerce? Not long after Facebook was launched in 2004 as a social network, retail industry experts were bantering about whether ...

Bring It to Me, Just for Me, New, Now & More Often Listen to this. And, listen with great attention to what I’m about to ...

In April 2014 I wrote, Walmart Can Crush Amazon.  I focused on all of the competitive advantages Walmart has over Amazon. and if leveraged, implementing ...

In 2012, JC Penney’s new CEO, Ron Johnson, made a huge bet. With a grand strategy to fundamentally transform JC Penney’s business model, his opening ...

What’s old is new again. It’s back to the future. Mobile phones are the new stores. These and many other metaphors reflect how the technology ...

Zara’s Process Innovation Trumps Product Innovation Zara was first in envisioning what the newly emerging techno-empowered 21st-century consumer would be demanding of the fashion world. ...