March 26, 2013
By Doug Stephens Earlier this year while at the National Retail Federation Conference in New York, I listened to Walmart U.S. President Bill Simon talk at […]
February 5, 2013
By Doug Stephens Retail is dead! At least, that’s how Marc Andreessen sees it. The entrepreneur and tech investor was recently quoted saying that all physical […]
February 1, 2013
By Doug Stephens Human beings are fundamentally resistant to change. Most of us would be happy carrying on with an as-is world that is largely free […]
December 31, 2012
By Doug Stephens 2012 was an absolutely remarkable year in the retail industry. We saw the meteoric rise and cataclysmic fall of companies like Groupon. We […]
November 14, 2012
By Doug Stephens Imagine a world without marketing. No really… imagine a world where no one tries to sell you anything. Not because they don’t want […]
November 5, 2012
By Doug Stephens I saw a tweet last week that caught my attention. It linked to an article that outlined a new line of retail store […]
June 14, 2012
By Doug Stephens There have always been two “shelves” in retail. The first can be found in the retail store and is where the product is […]
February 23, 2012
By Doug Stephens Bloomberg recently suggested that F-Commerce (as it’s come to be known) has been failure. They pointed to retailers like GAP and JCPenney […]
February 21, 2012
By Doug Stephens The concept of pop-up retail has been around for more than a decade. Vacant, a company out of Los Angeles, California is credited […]