There’s a lot to disagree with in this perspective by a senior leader at Starcom, but there’s also a lot worth reading. My perspective: brands will be relevant for a long time to come, but what brands represent and how […]
Sometimes it’s easy to get myopic, forgetting that there are many great retailers outside of the US market. This Bloomberg article highlights A.S. Watson Group, which plans to open 1,400 stores this year – a third of them in China. […]
Buy Online Deliver From Store (BODFS). The acronym sucks, but the service is a big deal. Now the retailer has digitized everything about it to make it even more efficient. |learn more
Remember when retailers like Best Buy were getting clobbered by Amazon because people would look at products in store then buy online for less? Now, Amazon holds a patent for tech that prevents the practice called showrooming. While this author […]
Some years back, I heard a story about the McDonald’s in Williston, ND (home of the somewhat recent oil boom). The manager would drop by the oil workers’ camp in the AM to pick up dinner orders, then drop them […]
The Atlantic definitely grabbed my attention with this headline. The article is all about how websites (and even vending machines) are using dynamic pricing to capture as much of the price/demand curve as possible. | learn more
Brad Stone (author of The Everything Store) details the battleground that these two giants are going to fight over. Wal-Mart has made major investments, but what happens next? | learn more
“Flexe finds spare warehouse space for e-commerce merchants, including mattress seller Casper, and is set to offer overnight delivery all over the U.S.” | learn more
Managing inventory efficiently is a challenge that each retailer (and wholesaler) must figure out how to work through. Managing a broad assortment of inventory gets really hard for a team of humans. Otto has applied AI to automatically order over […]
Last week we learned about 3D knitting enabling real-time creation of clothing. This week Amazon makes the news with its patent around on-demand clothing manufacturing. From the patent: “By aggregating orders from various geographic locations and coordinating apparel assembly processes […]