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How Smartphones and Social Media have forever changed the way Consumers Shop Overview: For the last decade, there has been more change and disruption in the Retail Industry, than across the last century. At the core of these changes, is a consumer base which is younger, technologically-enabled and socially-savvy. Mobile Disruption: Mobile devices first changedRead more

3 Ways to Make Your Brick and Mortar Store Stand Out Brick and mortar stores are facing more challenges than ever to compete in the digital age. The fast and convenient shopping experiences offered by online giants like Amazon has led many shoppers away from physical stores. With the rapid and ever-increasing popularity of e-commerce,Read more

Is Your Retail Startup Scalable? 3 Questions to Ask Yourself Scalability refers to the capacity of your business to grow. Any retail startup that expects at some point to receive outside investment will have to be able to show their growth potential. Unfortunately, many new startups struggle to figure out effective strategies that will allowRead more

5 Key Omnichannel Retail Strategies New Start-ups Need to Consider We are currently living in an age where online interconnectivity has provided new start-ups with unprecedented opportunities to reach their target markets. As such, omnichannel retail strategies are increasingly becoming the norm for most businesses. While launching a start-up is still an enormously challenging pursuit,Read more

Customer Retention: Proven Ways to Build Customer Loyalty in Retail It is a well-known fact that retaining your current customers often requires less investment of both time and money than finding new customers. However, many retailers currently struggle to build effective customer retention strategies in today’s overcrowded marketplace. There are several key benefits to customerRead more

Looking Forward: The State of Retail in 2018 The countdown to 2018 is upon us. Retail has evolved significantly over the past year, which means that we’ve also seen multiple store closings from legacy retailers including: Staples, Banana Republic, Kmart, Sears, Gap, JCPenney, Ann Taylor, Teavana and Gymboree, among others. While uninspired reporters are callingRead more

Overview: We are well into the holiday rush and a few things have already become apparent about consumer shopping patterns. First, is that Black Friday doesn’t have the pull it once did for brick and mortar retailers. CNN reports a decrease in Black Friday foot traffic of less than 1 percent, compared to a 16.9Read more

4 Retail Trends That Show No Sign of Slowing Down As the world of retail continues its steady progression and innovation, many trends seem to come and go on a regular basis. There are, however, certain retail trends that won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. In an increasingly digital landscape, today’s social media-savvy consumer hasRead more

Is Augmented Reality the Next Addition to Omnichannel? Overview: Last month at the Shop.org conference solution providers showcased some of the newest tech in the business. Among the many exciting technologies, augmented reality has some of the most practical implications that will come to affect how retailers structure their business operations. Augmented reality is definedRead more

Retail Survival 101 Three things Retailers can do Today, to prepare for the Customer of Tomorrow Overview:   The Retail Industry has changed. The last five years have more greatly impacted the industry as a whole, than all the changes across the last fifty. This year alone, as we previously reported in our article “TheRead more