Serious and Sometimes Comic Musings on the Future of Retail
The second Groceryshop conference will take place in Vegas next week and promises to be a showcase of just how quickly the grocery industry will change over the next few years.
Last week the Carlyle Group and former Domino’s CEO Patrick Doyle formed a landmark partnership that signals just how much retail is going to change.
The grocery business has remained largely unchanged for the past 100 years, but three changes are coming soon that will alter grocery retailing forever.
Bringing Amazon 4-star closer to home in Seattle could be exactly what unleashes the concept’s fullest potential.
In the latest version of Story at Macy’s, the grass is greener but the business model is not. Outdoor Story is a microcosm of everything wrong at Macy’s.
The Kroger, Walgreens grocery experiment shows why the grocery industry soon may not need ‘grocery stores’ in the way the world knows them today.
Amazon’s decision to kill the Dash Button program shows that it is one step closer to understanding how the next commerce platform will emerge.
Food can be an important part of a retailer’s in store experience, but just because consumers like to eat does not mean that consumers will want to eat at a retailer’s store. A side-by-side analysis of the recent introductions of food by Lululemon and Crate & Barrel illustrates this point.
Amazon’s latest move and partnership with Realogy shows that the strength of Amazon’s long-term retail hand may not be as strong previously thought.
The latest Amazon Go store in New York City shows that convenience store retail may not be the only thing within Amazon’s sights. Amazon Go could soon change the face of local coffee shops and coworking spaces too, writes Forbes contributor Chris Walton.
Prime Day could one day be to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos what the nuclear bomb was to Harry S. Truman.
This year Amazon Prime Day is bigger than ever before, but is this only the beginning?
Walmart’s Marc Lore has the media believing his Jetblack initiative is one of the hottest new ideas in retail right now, but a careful examination of Lore’s recent claims shows just how little the public really knows about another one of his innovation programs.
Despite Walmart’s recent success, Marc Lore’s innovation trail at Walmart leaves much to be desired, and his recent PR stunt to launch grocery delivery into customers’ homes may be the sell job on which history looks back and laughs the most.
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon is doing a masterful job of managing innovation across a wide asset base, and Walmart’s latest experiment in Canada is further proof.