retail marketing
March 14, 2013
By Doug Stephens In the old age of business the goal for most companies was continuous improvement. The idea was to keep the engines of innovation […]
January 3, 2012
By Doug Stephens Amid the sounds of tearing gift wrap and popping champagne corks, ailing giant Sears Holdings Corp. announced over the holidays its intent to close […]
September 18, 2011
By Doug Stephens Technology has been steadily reducing the number of human service interactions we require in an average day. For at least the last decade, […]
June 6, 2011
Many of the headlines we read would have us believe that consumers are running rampant, begging for opportunities to browse, shop and even transact retail purchases […]
April 21, 2011
Via Computerworld By Matt Hamblen Nobody expects the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to sell as well as the iPad 2. Still, Research In Motion seems to have taken […]
April 20, 2011
The days of abundant demand and easy sales are over and it appears Sony is facing that music head-on. The company has not only unveiled it’s […]
February 5, 2011
By Doug Stephens I sat on a panel discussion this week that explored how social and mobile media is changing the way customer feedback is collected, […]
January 15, 2011
One of the hottest topics at the 2011 National Retail Federation Conference was that consumers are increasingly using brick and mortar stores as mere showrooms to […]