Just as the Shop.org Annual Summit has grown in strength and popularity over the past ten years – increasing ten-fold from just 400 attendees in 2002 to over 4,000 in 2012 – the online retail industry has boomed as well. E-commerce has grown from a $40 billion dollar industry in 2002 to an anticipated $225 [...]
Starbucks’ iconic logo is recognizable globally and today, Shop.org Summit attendees were offered a peek at the decision-making process behind the latest iteration. During this RAMA session, Starbucks’ Steve Murray described the evolution of the brand’s logo, which was first designed in 1971 when the company opened its first location – which didn’t sell your [...]
At long last…the two political conventions are over. While the two party conventions were vastly different in style, substance, tone and rhetoric – the one, unifying voice heard in the halls at both conventions – was the voice of retail. At the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina, Costco Wholesale Corp. co-founder and former CEO [...]
While most Shop.org Summit attendees were still on their way to Denver, hundreds – including myself – convened a day early for the Digital Retail Boot Camp. While being my first ever boot camp, and retail conference for that matter, it turned out I was in for more than a crash course in digital tactics. [...]