This is the story of Kevin Plank: who went from a dusty basement in Washington D.C. to Broadway in 18[…]
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This is the story of Kevin Plank: who went from a dusty basement in Washington D.C. to Broadway in 18[…]
Read moreThe golden era for brand marketers was the time of “Mad Men” ‑ when a snappy slogan or a cute[…]
Read moreIn the midst of a ‘soft’ retail environment, one store is persuading customers to queue for up to 20 minutes[…]
Read moreEver since Piggly Wiggly (true name) launched the world’s first “self-service grocery store” in Memphis in 1916, the game for[…]
Read moreThe Cannes Lions bills itself as the biggest creative communications festival in the world. Starting out as an advertising show[…]
Read moreFMOT, SMOT, ZMOT…WTF? The first three acronyms are from the lexicon of “shopper marketing,” the last one a humble retailer’s[…]
Read moreDetroit is at once the American Dream and the American Nightmare. Built on automotive manufacturing, and turbo-charged by the construction[…]
Read moreSome retail outings fill the shopper with sheer dread. “Horrorstör*” takes that notion one step further, by setting a “traditional[…]
Read moreThere’s a word for South African (SA) retail: wild (which can be both positive and negative, as I’ll reveal later[…]
Read moreIf there were an Olympics of shopping, the US would win hands down. This year, American shoppers will spend in[…]
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