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Retail Rules at Cannes

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[…]

Some retail outings fill the shopper with sheer dread. “Horrorstör*” takes that notion one step further, by setting a “traditional[…]

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[…]

Is there anything truly original in this world? The TED Radio Hour podcast on America’s NPR asked that question recently[…]

“Clean underwear on demand.” That’s the pitch for FlyCleaners, a New York-based laundry and dry cleaning start-up, currently prowling the[…]

The single most motivating notion in retail today can be boiled down to a single word – “Convenience.” I was[…]

Delivery drones are so 2013. The big news in technology in retail in 2014 and beyond is robots replacing humans.[…]