Serious and Sometimes Comic Musings on the Future of Retail
A pickup only store not only prepares for the worst, but it also helps a retailer’s employees sleep better, its customers breathe easier, and its executives experiment for the future better than many other solutions out there right now.
While much has been confirmed about Amazon’s new grocery store set to open in Woodland Hills, CA sometime in 2020, there is still one big and unanswered question upon which its entire success could depend — is there an app for that?
The coronavirus has already pushed retail quickly into new and more impersonal directions, but there are still far more and far bigger dominoes to fall, writes Store of the Future expert and Forbes Senior Contributor Chris Walton.
In his latest contribution for the Robin Report, Chris Walton shares his take on all the light he sees at the end of the retail transformation tunnel following the coronavirus.
Last week Fleet Feet announced a new inventory-less concept store in Portland, Oregon. The store, aptly dubbed the “Fleet Street Drop Shop,” will carry shoes for try-on in 35 of the most popular men’s and women’s shoe sizes, offer 3D foot scanning, and ship to customers in two days, free of charge. It is a move that should be roundly applauded.
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