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Is Free Shipping Dead?
Tom Rittman
April 11, 2022
Everyone knows shipping is costly. Return shipping can be even costlier. In an effort to give consumers what they want, when they want it (aka ...
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SXSW Rises Again
Sarah Holbrook
April 6, 2022
The masked and the unmasked joined forces in Austin after a two-year South by Southwest (SXSW) drought. The sidewalk terror normally caused by the Lime ...
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The MetaMall: The Next Big Retail Development Will Be in Cyberspace
Sanford Stein
April 4, 2022
Two unrelated events took place 30 years ago in 1992 that altered our world. The first involved Charles M. Stack who started Book Stacks Unlimited, ...
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Is This the Beginning of the End for Retail Salespeople?
Warren Shoulberg
February 14, 2022
Forget about factory worker, coal miner and taxi driver jobs being in jeopardy. They are nothing compared to the emerging threat to the jobs of ...
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Climbing the Food Chain in an Ever-Expanding Pet Food Universe
Nadir Islam
February 9, 2022
More people adopted pets during the pandemic than ever before, and in a category where humans are championing brands based on their pet’s perceived experiences, ...
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Balmain, Barbie and the Blockchain
Sarah Holbrook
February 1, 2022
Barbie may have struggled with math in the 1990s, but now she is minting NFT’s and logging some entries to the blockchain. Barbie’s latest luxury ...
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Five Takeaways for Retailers from CES 2022
Arick Wierson
January 18, 2022
Well, that was interesting. When CES 2022 came to a close, one day ahead of schedule; attendees were dismissed early as “an additional safety measure” ...
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Livestream Selling: Channel Agnostic Nirvana
Sanford Stein
January 12, 2022
QVC managed to hook the baby boom generation 35 years ago to buy things on TV. It became the birth of “retailtainment” and proved to ...
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