Trends

January 30, 2019

January 2019 – In Review

We kicked off 2019 at NRF in New York City where we met with retailers and brands eager to understand the challenges they’re up against.  We […]
February 2, 2018

Software Eats Retail

The following is an excerpt from Reengineering Retail: The Future of Selling in a Post-Digital World By Doug Stephens “Software eats retail.” This was technology investor […]
January 17, 2018

To Save Retail, Let It Die

By Doug Stephens In 2011, in what has now become retail folklore, Ron Johnson, one of the brains behind the Apple Store, was hired to resuscitate […]
March 30, 2016

Want To Survive Amazon? Stop Thinking Like A Retailer

By Doug Stephens   At an investor conference in March of this year, Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren stated that while Amazon may be a threat in […]
December 22, 2015

Trend Forecasts Are Trending. And That’s A Problem.

By Doug Stephens Suppose for a moment there’s an asteroid heading for earth. You’d likely want to know a few things. How big is it, how […]
July 10, 2015

The Sharing Economy: A Return, Not A Departure

By Doug Stephens Sharing is getting a lot of attention and for good reason.  Uber now has more drivers in New York City than Yellow Cabs.  […]
May 28, 2015

The Future Of Brands In A One-Touch World

                            By Doug Stephens   Only a short time ago, the value that […]
February 3, 2015

The Future of Retail Is The End Of Wholesale

By Doug Stephens Retail is facing a monumental problem that no one seems to want to talk about.  It’s that the entire economic model of revenue […]
December 31, 2014

Our Top 5 Posts of 2014

By Doug Stephens 2014 was yet another remarkable year for the retail industry.  Big box players like Target and Walmart continued the frantic search for their […]