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Yesterday I completed my national civic duty to the economy and to the retail industry by finishing up my shopping for the holidays and spending twice the amount I budgeted. It started at 4am on black Friday and finished up yesterday at Circuit City for a few last minute stocking stuffers.
My wife was able to […]
Dillards escorts out a disabled vet with his service dog
Posted in Blog, Retail, Stores, Viral Marketing on Dec 19th, 2007
I’m not sure I can think of a worse story to come out at Christmas time for a retailer. Right in the middle of the peak of the holiday shopping season, a store manager at Dillards in Texas decided to eject a disabled Marine Iraq war veteran out of the store because he had a […]
Mashup App for Tracking Top Ecommerce Sites for Design Analysis & Best Practices
Posted in Analytics, Blog, Ecommerce, Resources, Retail, Social Networking, Web 2.0 on Dec 13th, 2007
I haven’t been writing much over the past couple weeks because I’ve been focused on developing a new mashup app that will track the top 500+ ecommerce sites on the web. Trying to keep up with what the top companies are doing is always a difficult and time consuming task so I decided to pull […]
Store Search - Google Custom Search Engine
Posted in Blog, Ecommerce, Resources, Retail on Oct 20th, 2007
I just created a Google Custom Search Engine for searching the top retail ecommerce sites on the net. Hopefully this will be useful in finding that special gift with the holidays coming up. I added it to the navigation bar up top.
Personally, I’m having fun looking at the search results that google is providing. It’s […]
I’ve been sick this past week so I haven’t been up to posting much, but I did find these two articles that are definitely worth sharing.
Werner Vogel’s(CTO of Amazon.com) attached an architecture paper on his blog All Things Distributed. The paper covers the architecture in place for Amazon’s distributed storage system.
If storage system architecture for extremely scalable ecommerce […]
After a hiatus, I’m back to blogging and collecting resources related to the retail industry. Unfortunately, I lost all of my previous posts so I’m starting from scratch. I’ll use this site to share thoughts and ideas as well as collect alternative ideas, news, useful links, and experiment with some of the latest trends in […]
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