Often used as to discuss religion, at its core the word heresy is a “truth about something that is taken to an untruthful extreme.” History is rife with examples of a principle or discovery for one thing that was then extended to an area it was never meant to be […]
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Amazon has changed retailing with Amazon Prime… how much? What percentage of the population has Prime. How do those shoppers react differently? And how must retailers respond in this new world. Click for webinar replay Download white paper Download the slides from the webinar For […]
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If you have updated your iPhone or iPad you might not have realized this change to the way the Control Center handles WI-FI and Bluetooth settings. In previous OS releases, when you turned off these settings in the Control Center, it actually turned off the radios. But the change in […]
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If you go to any trade show or look up a technology directory you see hundreds of vendors that promise that their products help increase sales for retailers. But which ones, once deployed, can actually show a correlation to increased sales? We’ve done the research. We looked at 30 categories […]
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I can confidently say that my very first exposure to artificial intelligence happened about thirty years ago. I was strolling through the computer engineering building on campus at Georgia Tech and happened onto a computer screen facing out onto the hallway. On the screen was a changing array of symbols […]
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FAKE NEWS, FAKE NEWS…. At the risk of going political on you, if you read the mainstream news after the latest US Department of Commerce report you see headlines like “Retail Apocalypse” and “Retail Death Spiral”. At best these show lazy reporting, at worst absolute fake news. Somewhere along the […]
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The single biggest problem that retailers are facing today is how to compete with Amazon. While retailers have been arguing over whether the company is profitable in retail, Amazon has changed the game. They are both a technology company and an endless aisle retailer with options for delivery in less […]
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I know the headline reads like a cruel joke. But did you go out on Black Friday this year? Oh, of course there are the obligatory crazy Walmart videos each year. At the time of writing this, I’m sort of stunned we haven’t yet heard of a death happening after […]
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When you attend the number of events that we do at IHL, you hear a lot of buzzwords and often roll your eyes while playing Buzzword Bingo when the overused terms come up in presentations. But every once in a while you hear a new description that actually does a better […]
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The U.S retail sector of late has been much maligned. While dramatic headlines suggest online retailers will be the death of traditional brick and mortar stores, the evidence suggests otherwise. A look at U.S. Economic Census numbers for retail during the last seven years (excluding food service and automobiles) shows […]
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