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In the Day of Digital, Retail’s Very Human Problem

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?

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

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

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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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. ...
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Kroger’s Little Car Experiment

Every now and then news crosses my desk that seems so unlikely that I suspect it might be a hoax. Of course, that happens with ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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