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On the Wild Side: South African Retail

There’s a word for South African (SA) retail: wild (which can be both positive and negative, as I’ll reveal later[…]

If there were an Olympics of shopping, the US would win hands down. This year, American shoppers will spend in[…]

In 1993, a US scientist named Vernor Vinge wrote an essay entitled “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in[…]

“If you build it, he will come.” So said the disembodied voices in the iconic 1980s baseball fantasy Field of[…]

Over the last few years, “showrooming” has received a bad rap. This is the practice where a smartphone-enabled shopper goes[…]

Business is often about ‘exploring the limits of compromise’, as a colleague of mine used to say. This is particularly[…]

For some, the annual “Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity” is a throwback to the “glory days” of advertising. Oceans[…]

Something weird happened on an otherwise ordinary Wednesday in July in New York City. A switch flicked. A baton was[…]

“There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” The lyrics to the 1967 Buffalo Springfield protest anthem popped[…]

To find surprising retail in a foreign city, you often have to do a little digging. You have to be[…]