At the most basic level, retailers seek to change consumer behavior. They want to incentivize an individual to browse, to click, to find a promotion — say a card-linked offer — so stirring that they cement a relationship with the merchant by clicking the buy...
In the annals of retail history, few phenomena have captured the imagination quite like Cyber Monday. Born in the early days of eCommerce, Cyber Monday has evolved into Cyber Week and quickly outgrew its Black Friday cousin, which is starting to look positively archaic in...
As consumer expectations change and digital technologies advance, the holiday shopping season itself is evolving. It’s going beyond its revenue-maximizing frenzy of deep discounts and promotional blitzes to become a strategic proving ground to test innovations, refine customer targeting, and cultivate loyalty in ways that...
The seeds were sown long ago for Chris Faught, CEO of Neon, to create a direct-to-consumer (D2C) platform for the gaming industry in 2022. He had been a gamer for his whole life and had been fascinated by the business and developer angles. And through...
October 19, 2024
Oct. 20, 2009. The United States was starting to see daylight out of the darkness of the worst financial crisis since the great depression. The Wall Street Journal reported that companies were starting to see profit improvements but weren’t ready to hire workers laid off during the crisis. Many analysts speculated whether the Dow Jones […]
June 19, 2024
As so many people learned back in 2020, digital platforms provide a wide range of amusements that can be enjoyed from the comforts of one’s home when going on an...
March 30, 2024
Baseball is back, and this year, more stadiums are tapping frictionless checkout to cut labor costs while meeting fans’ demand to spend as little time out of their seats as possible....
March 26, 2024
Did the mobile device kill the bank branch? Not quite, but as the world moves increasingly toward digital rather than physical banking channels, the banking sector may have already crossed...
June 07, 2017
Picture a car that’s smart enough to know it’s running low on gas and prompts the driver to stop at the nearest gas station. There, a pump is activated as the car approaches. After the fill-up, the driver simply pulls away. Or a device that’s affixed to the side of a trash can that can […]
