Daniel Taub President, DLC Management Corp. My takeaways from ShopTalk…. Omni or Multi-channel is dead, there is NO channel, there is only ONE customer, Her; the customer needs to…
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Brian Lutz Senior Director of Marketing & Retailer Services, CBL Properties ShopTalk continues to be my favorite show. The show outgrew it’s previous venue at the Aria and took…
Scott Bitney Broker, L3 Corporation. I was pleasantly surprised at how upbeat the show was compared to recent events that I have been to. It was the first time…
Back in 2011, Forbes ran a column under the headline “Best Buy Gets Amazoned: Is it Doomed?” The author recounted how a friend’s dog had chewed up a printer cord…
In our industry, all too often people see functions such as Leasing and Marketing as separate enough to be placed in silos, always and forever. When you think about it,…
Bordering somewhere between creepy and cool, Bonobos has recently updated their app to give you outfit suggestions based on a mix of your local weather, clothes you’ve purchased from the brand…
Special thanks to Ari Kurtz, Google’s Head of Industry, Retail and Pano Anthos, Founder and Managing Director of XRC Labs, a retail start-up incubator, for joining me for the Open…
Consider two experiential initiatives launched in recent weeks. In the first, American Eagle installed a bank of free washers and dryers in its New York flagship. The hope was that…
Companies tend to overestimate their ability to anticipate and respond to the changing marketplace. They think they’re in a delicate dance with consumer expectations and demand when, in fact, they’re out…
“My advice to anyone starting a business is to remember that someday I will crush you.” That’s the opening line of a satirical column, putatively written by Jeff Bezos, in…
