Retail Marketing – New Retail Blog

The American (Retail) Dream

This is the story of Kevin Plank: who went from a dusty basement in Washington D.C. to Broadway in 18[…]

The golden era for brand marketers was the time of “Mad Men” ‑ when a snappy slogan or a cute[…]

In the midst of a ‘soft’ retail environment, one store is persuading customers to queue for up to 20 minutes[…]

Ever since Piggly Wiggly (true name) launched the world’s first “self-service grocery store” in Memphis in 1916, the game for[…]

The Cannes Lions bills itself as the biggest creative communications festival in the world. Starting out as an advertising show[…]

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[…]