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Walgreens’ Drones Will Make Your Personal Deliveries
David Merrefield
September 30, 2019
Surprisingly, Walgreens has a few new tricks up its sleeve. In fact, there are two major new-world developments in the works. Walgreens is poised to ...
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Field Report on Startup Culture
Deborah Patton
July 15, 2019
How do you know when you\’re in the vortex of a retail tech summit? You\’re surrounded by stylishly dressed, enthusiastic, happy millennial-youngish men and women ...
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The Tech Hunters
Robin Lewis
May 23, 2019
The next big thing is being rolled out by the thousands on almost a daily basis. To name them in the aggregate, we\’re calling them ...
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Amazon Go Stores Will Go: Walmart Eats Their Lunch
Robin Lewis
May 1, 2019
For sure, Amazon took all the oxygen out of the room and the breath away from the entire retail industry. And it continues … except ...
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Calling the Retail Innovation/Disruption Bluff
Kate Newlin
April 22, 2019
One of the debilitating downsides of having been a card-carrying futurist with Faith Popcorn\’s BrainReserve is learning the dirty little secret of big companies\’ off-stated ...
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Data + 3D = Efficiency!
Jackie Lewis
April 3, 2019
It\’s denim season again and we are anticipating what\’s next. How will trends in eco-responsible production and gender adaptability in styling and innovations deliver true ...
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Retail, Culture, and Everything
Sarah Holbrook
March 24, 2019
Shoptalk and South by Southwest ran consecutively this year. In spending time at both, certain correlations stood out. The implementation of artificial intelligence in retail ...
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Speeding Up on the Information Superhighway
Len Lewis
March 20, 2019
Do you remember the term \”information superhighway?\” In the early to late 1990s it was the go-to expression used by every journalist, techno-geek and politician ...
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