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Technology
Retail as Endangered or Evolving Species?
Kate Newlin
October 25, 2017
As we consider the ever-quickening pace of retail brand decline and retailer retrenchment, I am reminded of the professional experiences that have molded my world ...
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Here Comes Alibaba
Jan Rogers Kniffen
October 23, 2017
I recently attended Shoptalk Europe in Copenhagen with 350 retail and retail tech CEOs and another 2,050 retail practitioners and investors who were interested in ...
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Startups with Big Retail Impacts
Marie Driscoll
August 23, 2017
The Robin Report has written extensively about the many retail business models that are rooted in the 80s, mostly oblivious to the technological advances that ...
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Algorithms “Can’t Buy Me Love”
Robin Lewis
July 11, 2017
Both Tina Turner and the Beatles got it right about the power of love in our lives above all else. And according to the Beatles, ...
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Video Shopping Comes of Age
Marie Driscoll
July 1, 2017
Online, exacerbated by Amazon, may be destroying the business model of many retailers. But ask most shoppers and they will tell you e-commerce sites do ...
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From Green to Clean: The Pricey, Status-Driven Evolution of Natural Beauty
Dana Wood
March 28, 2017
When I was still on the payroll at Condé Nast, I used to attend an annual pow-wow hosted by a global beauty company (I’ll let ...
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Data: The New Currency for Retail Marketers
Gwen Morrison
March 13, 2017
Data has quickly become the most powerful tool in today\’s marketing world. As social media and other digital platforms proliferate, purchase intent analytics help marketers ...
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Best Retail Advice – Go Hack Yourself!
Len Lewis
March 7, 2017
When did baby monitors and election booths become weapons of mass disruption? At what point did a GPS or our own F-16 fighter jets become ...
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