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Intel’s Open Retail Initiative: A Catalyst to Future Success
Robin Lewis
March 10, 2019
I\’d like to think of my role in the retail industry as an advocate and messenger, supporting the transformation and advancement of the industry by ...
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Beauty’s Great Beyond
Dana Wood
February 3, 2019
If the reports are accurate – that he intentionally plunged to his death from the balcony of his 32nd story downtown Toronto penthouse – it ...
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Casino Royale
Debra Scherer
December 3, 2018
When we tell the story of the development of digital technology through the turn of the last century, we often talk about the cultural and ...
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Tech-Powered Open Innovation
Robin Lewis
November 30, 2018
As I have often said, and continue to do so, we are in the third phase of the \”technology revolution.\” The first phase was a ...
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In the Day of Digital, Retail’s Very Human Problem
Roberto Ramos
September 12, 2018
We have all been there. The minute you decide to abandon the items you were thinking of buying because of a long line. Or the ...
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Brandless – A Fad Like Shake Weight® or the Next Big Thing?
Chris Walton
September 4, 2018
With just a single year under its belt, Brandless, which prices all its roughly 300 products at $3, is reportedly valued at nearly $500 million, ...
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Silicon Valley: Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
Robin Lewis
August 29, 2018
The refrain in William Shakespeare’s Song of the Witches from Macbeth was originally written: “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” It ...
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Unmanned Stores
Len Lewis
August 19, 2018
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 ...
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