First there was Sleep No More, an immersive production of Macbeth that redefines theater, staged in the multi-storied McKittrick Hotel on West 27th Street in Manhattan. It opened in 2011 and ever since, Venetian Carnival masked guests wander around the […]
Three clicks on your mobile device or laptop will deliver (most often for free) whatever you want the same day, or in a day or two, wherever you want it sent or to be picked up in a place near
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Wow! Another huge disruption coming out of McMillon\’s Walmart. They seem to have one speed only: meteoric. One could say I spend too much time covering their warp speed, almost-daily initiatives. But, how can I not? As the largest retailer
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People are born curious. It\’s in our DNA. Actually, there is a curiosity gene. Researchers postulate that humans are driven to explore new things and pursue new experiences because it floods our brains with dopamine, the pleasure hormone. Curiosity is
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I have often said and written that the traditional retail sector has a huge untapped advantage over e-commerce. They can they create a compelling “Starbuckean third place,” full of experiences that cannot be created online. Additionally, they have the potential
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Did Marvin Ellison leave JCP to become CEO of Lowe’s, fleeing the emergency room sensing Penney’s impending death, or did he take flight to a new and more fitting opportunity? His prior 12 years at Home Depot ended as EVP
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NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay recently published an article on LinkedIn entitled, The 3 Worst Articles on the Retail Apocalypse – And Why They’re Wrong. While I run the risk of biblical-sized smiting from the gods of the retail
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Wait a second! Just last week I wrote on the race for global dominance between Amazon and Alibaba. And shame on me for not even mentioning Walmart, especially since I’ve been on a rant about how Walmart is rapidly becoming
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Radical thinking leads to radical behavior, leads to radical change. And now more than ever, radical change is what traditional retailers need. These three radicals — (clockwise from upper left in image, Chris Duffy, VP of In-Store Environment, Home Depot,
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The facts from 2017 are in! We have officially moved from an economic engine in which the retailer possessed the power and the consuming masses followed to an environment that is clearly controlled by the consuming public itself. The scales
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