Talk about “race to the bottom,” what’s happening on a global economic scale should scare the heck out of all of us. Listen to this. It’s no longer just the devaluing of goods, through discounting or growing through the expansion […]
The Bottom: Where Is It? Read More »
I ask you, is this the face of innovation or death (or both)? Most of you elder statesmen out there, like myself, know this guy. He’s Kenneth Walker, architect, retail design consultant, speaker, teacher and industry gadfly at large. He’s
It’s zombie-land out there. Nobody talks anymore. They tweet and text. Nobody meets anymore. They tweet, text, email and occasionally have phone conferences. And, we don’t need the Manti Te’o hoax (“catfishing” or whatever it is), to know that tweeting,
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To Go “Down With The Ship?” Or Just Another Abracadabra Strategy? I just got all twitchy and excited when I heard the news. “Fast Buck Eddie” just hasn’t given me anything really fun to write about for a long time.
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More on Insane Pricing \”Wars\” Once again, we’ve got even better disruptive technology tools, among what seems like a never-ending stream of them. If the almighty consumers figured they were cleverly outwitting and being disruptive to retailers by so-called “showrooming”
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Peapod has a new PUP. Unfortunately, it may be a biter. Peapod is the big grocery delivery service with major operations in the Northeast and the Midwest. It has never been hugely successful, so it sometimes casts around in different
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It may be a little premature to warn Amazon that there are some loudly accelerating footsteps just behind them. But, in today’s digital, wide-open world of warp-speed innovation, disruption and fierce competitive races to preemptively establish dominant positions, even front-runner
ebay…From Disruptee to Disruptor Read More »
In my last article we gave you three shops that were bellwethers of an emerging trend: a bottom-up trickle effect that has innovative brands skewing small. Here are three more bellwether retail stores that are becoming the go-to brands for
He’s Got It: Menswear in the Information Age Read More »
Where will retailers find their next big growth opportunity? Supply chain advantages are maturing and lifestyle marketing is no longer novel. For national retailers, beautifully merchandised stores are located in about every mall and on every street corner in the
A New Strategic Growth Opportunity Read More »
The Shift To E-Commerce May Be Too Much, Too Soon On a recent afternoon I spent 20 minutes doing errands that a year or two ago would have taken me about eight hours to do. Instead of jumping into my
Are Apparel Retailers Shooting Themselves in the Footprint? Read More »
