future
September 30, 2010
By Doug Stephens I had the pleasure of being a guest on the Competitive Futures podcast series. Competitive Futures, based in St. Louis was founded by […]
September 23, 2010
Imagine this…. You drive a moving van outfitted with retail fixtures, signs, a cash register and loads of jewellery up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, park directly […]
February 17, 2010
By Doug Stephens I was reminded recently of a really good book I read several years ago called Going Shopping by Ann Satterthwaite, a city planner […]
January 8, 2010
By Doug Stephens I had coffee recently with a friend who works in the mobile technology sector. We were talking about how much progress had taken place […]
December 21, 2009
By Doug Stephens For our final blog post of 2009, I wanted to share something different. Something that I hope might help rocket you into the New […]
December 11, 2009
By Doug Stephens As the recession drags on, it’s become clear that few in the retail sector are being spared its wrath. In separate stories this […]
November 18, 2009
By Doug Stephens You know business is tough when you have to sell off parts of your parking lot to make your revenue numbers. However, news […]
November 11, 2009
In 1998 Wired published an article authored by the now famous Nicholas Negroponte, called The Future of Retail. I recently re-read it to determine how many of the prognostications have actually been realized these eleven years later.