The National Retail Federation Convention & Expo kicked off this week, and with it, conversations about modern retail and what it will take to bring the industry into a …
As we gear up for 2013 and this year’s NRF Annual Convention & EXPO, JDA has entered a new and exciting phase in its history. The merger of JDA …
Everyone knows you have to crawl before you walk. What some may not realize is that knowing how to walk does not mean you can run a 26-mile marathon …
To effectively compete, retailers are using new generation of algorithms to change the price of products from toilet paper to bicycles on an hour-by-hour and sometimes minute-by-minute basis to compete with the likes of Amazon and stay ahead of the online price war.
Retailers: remember the good old days when you controlled nearly every aspect of the customer’s purchase journey and customer experience was relegated to in-store interaction? Those days are long …
Are We Witnessing the Death of the Big-Box Store? Following Best Buy’s headlong decline, Christopher Matthews of Time asks this very observant question. He notes: “It’s possible that the forces of e-commerce and advancing technology are too great to effectively combat and that specialized superstores are no longer efficient.” Are we really entering “the death of retail 2.0?”
I recently came across an interesting article in Financial Times on Amazon, Google and Microsoft attempting to move into the brick and mortar retail space. In my opinion, this …
With 2011 now behind us, it safe to say that the past year saw the consumer taking a much more active role in the shopping process, investing heavily in …
