Retailers as dependent on a brick-and-mortar footprint as Macy’s don’t always have the luxury of fixes to pick from if their stocks experience the continuous slide that the former tentpole brand’s has. As such, much of the pool of innovative tools currently being used by...
Anyone who has really tried to get themselves in shape has heard of the plateau – it’s that phase when your current exercises just don’t seem to be working as much as they used to, and even though you’re sticking to a schedule, you’re not...
Paris is famed for its culture, and the City of Light is almost as well-known for its attempts to preserve that culture. And with Amazon taking on the book-reading community on two fronts with both successful brick-and-mortar bookstores and thriving Kindle sales, one Parisian bookshop...
There is a new reality in apparel retail, and the designer-focused markets of the past have given way to a hyphenated tour de force: fast-fashion apparel. For a while, it was the thought of traditional fashion execs that it was just young shoppers with flighty...
In business and poker, it’s important to know, in equal parts, when to hold them and also when to fold them. And it looks like Naspers, one of the leading media outlets on the African continent, is taking the latter route with one if its...
Where Lyft goes, it seems Uber will follow (and vice versa). Just about a month after the rival ride-sharing service announced it would allow riders to schedule their pick-ups in advance in some areas, Uber has decided to offer a similar service. Launching worldwide, Scheduled...
Long before in-home robotics were anything but the filler material of science fiction, the KISS mantra helped product developers stick to the basics of design and implementation. However, other than a few standouts, it’s proven hard, so far, for the growing spate of in-home automated...
If they have the resources, retailers will gladly spend millions of dollars on data processes that pinpoint who they’re critical customers are and how they can get their products in front of them at the right time. If they don’t have the resources, they’ll pay...
For anyone who has yet to pay their respects to the dearly departed Sports Authority brand, there’s still time. June 29 has been set as the date when 320 of the defunct sporting goods brand’s 450 retail store fronts will be put up for auction...
