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December 31, 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 […]
December 11, 2014
By Doug Stephens In an astonishingly short period of time (about two decades), the developed world has evolved from a scarcity-based retail economy to one of […]
November 27, 2014
By Doug Stephens In my 2013 post, Ten Trends to Watch for in 2014, I said this would be the year we would hear much […]
November 21, 2014
By Doug Stephens Amazon has begun making some very aggressive price moves in the grocery and consumer packaged goods categories, showing its clear intentions to hit […]
November 11, 2014
By Doug Stephens While I was in Iceland earlier this year I shared some thoughts on the future of retail and on the characteristics and competencies […]
October 29, 2014
By Doug Stephens Amazon.com has announced that it will be opening it’s first brick and mortar store later this year, on New York’s iconic 34th Street. […]
October 20, 2014
By Doug Stephens I defy you to find a marketing conference today that doesn’t have at least one track focused on big data analytics. Big data […]
September 29, 2014
By Doug Stephens It seems hardly a month passes without yet another retail brand being called out for carrying a product consumers see as either gratuitously […]