Serious and Sometimes Comic Musings on the Future of Retail
An an interview with Shoptalk’s Chief Global Content Officer, Forbes Contributor Chris and Anne learn why now was the exact right time for Shoptalk to put the entire retail industry on notice with its announcement that 100% of its 2020 speaker lineup will be women.
Evidence abounds to suggest that Amazon’s reported new grocery store concept could be unlike and better than anything the grocery industry has ever seen before.
While CNBC reported last week that Amazon has begun talks to license Amazon Go technology to airports, movie theaters, and sporting events, these moves are simply early stage child’s play in relation to the long-term impact Amazon Go could have on the retail industry.
The latest reported statistic that Jetblack has only 600 members is nothing short of embarrassing and yet another sign of the ineffectiveness of Marc Lore’s innovation work at Walmart.
The shopping mall industry is in rough shape, but it doesn’t need to be. There are fresh approaches, inspired by technology and the discipline of experience design, that could reverse the downward trend.
From its Sam’s Club Now store in Texas to the way it is utilizing technology to change how employees communicate with each other, Sam’s Club, under John Furner, has broken some hallowed ground on new ideas that most retailers are too scared to touch.
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.