Jan16
As a loyal Shop.org Summit attendee, I was excited to attend Sucharita Mulpuru‘s “A Look Back…and Forward…at Retail eCommerce Trends, 2011-2012″ session today at Retail’s BIG Show, especially on the heels of such a successful digital shopping season. The session offered a positive overview of how the holidays played out for retailers and a look [...]
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Jan16
The retail analyst outlook for 2012? “Calm and clear,” according to Deborah Weinswig, Managing Director, Citi Investment Research. Retailers are back on the offense after a defensive few years. And many attributes of this switch are due to better investments in technology. This optimistic outlook, Weinswig shared, is the result of heavy technology investments during [...]
Jan16
NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay took to the main stage today at Retail’s BIG Show to update the industry on, among other things, trends for the coming year that will shape retail. While the economy has been a trending topic over the last several years at Retail’s BIG Show, Shay noted that with the [...]
Jan16
Store 3.0 is already here. And retailers who are leveraging all channels and technologies are in a prime position to grab those essential sales from the highly-connected and savvy consumer. Let’s take a step back. What is Store 3.0? The initial retail experience, or Store 1.0 for our uses, is a traditional visit to brick-and-mortar [...]
Jan16
Today, here in New York, we’ve been celebrating the constantly evolving and innovative retail industry. From Macy‘s Terry Lundgren’s remarks on retail as an economic engine to Bill Clinton’s keynote where he mentioned that his first job ever was in the industry (to quote Clinton, “I could have been one of you”), retail’s role in [...]
Jan16
Being an independent retailer in a sea of big-box stores can be daunting, but there’s an upside: the ability to be creative. The first session at Retail’s BIG Show‘s Independents’ Day featured two retailers who know a thing or two about creativity. Linda Hundt of Sweetie-licious and Dave Ratner of Dave’s Soda and Pet City [...]
Jan16
It was an all-star panel at this afternoon’s Retail’s BIG Show Super Session, but it was a computer who stole the show. In the session, Critical Developments in Retail Marketing: Understanding Consumers, Building Brands, Fortune‘s Geoffrey Colvin moderated a panel that included executives from IBM, Abercrombie & Fitch, Gilt Groupe and IBM’s Watson Technologies. Then, [...]