Retail Trends – 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[…]

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[…]

Detroit is at once the American Dream and the American Nightmare. Built on automotive manufacturing, and turbo-charged by the construction[…]

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[…]

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

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