As SKU noted last week, beacons and their application to retail are getting a lot of press these days – good and bad. On the one hand there is a lot to love about the possibilities beacon technology potentially unlocks – better customer communication,...
A weakened Chinese economy has certainly sent a ripple effect across the global economy, but it may also be causing some of China's largest investors to pull their money out of the country to invest overseas.
Well, it’s finally come upon us. The last “official” week of summer has arrived. And after last week’s thrills and spills on the stock market, most of us are hoping to ease into the last week doing positively normal things like wearing white (it is...
Facebook this week made it over a finish line it has been eyeing for some time. Just under three years ago, Facebook officially hit the billion mark when it came to active users. However, as anyone who has ever tried to plan a family reunion...
The buzzword in retail today is personalization. The concept at its most basic level is nothing new or innovative, but retailers like to toss around the word as much as they do the term “customer experience.” After all, without personalization, what is customer experience? But...
August began with a big bet on beacons by Target, just one of many retailers that have made similar bets in the last 24 months. Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, Major League Baseball, Apple Store, SXSW — and that’s just a very short list of some...
As most of our readers have probably heard, eCommerce is the wave of the future. For 10 to 15 years — depending on how tech savvy the crowd one runs with is — people have been writing physical retail’s obituary and bemoaning/cheering loudly for the day...
“Who are you wearing?” is a line Amazon executives want people asking. “Where did you get it?” is the follow-up question those execs are hoping for. And if Amazon continues to grow its investment in the fashion space, the answer to that question might increasingly...
Between Apple’s falling share prices, Amazon’s HR woes and the great Ashley Madison data dump of 2015, last week was an all-around great time for gossip in America. And with so much scurrilous (and potentially spurious) data floating free in cyberspace, it might have been...
