I’ve been playing around with the data visualization tools at IBM’s Many Eye’s project and came up with a visualization in a treeview that shows the top 500+ ecommerce sites split by category of retailer with google page rank. It’s an interesting way to look at the data as you quickly see that apparel & […]
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Beginning Jan 30th, Walmart says that they will charge suppliers a $2 fee for every pallet shipped without an RFID tag to their Sam’s Club distribution center in Texas. According to an article in InformationWeek, Walmart still has 15,000 suppliers that have not complied with the mandate of RFID tag usage. It appears that they […]
Today I was able to walk the conference floor at NRF and see what’s new and by far the most interesting (and busiest) demo was in Microsoft’s booth of their new Surface technology. The person running the demo ran through several applications with a constant crowd surrounding his area. I was able to get close […]
I’m in NYC for NRF’s Big Show. It’s pretty chilly in NYC staying between 30-35F, although it’s considered warm for most NRF shows. We got very lucky this morning as forecasters yesterday were predicting up to 9 inches of snow during the night. Fortunately, when I woke up, only about an inch had fallen and […]
Google just release Google Checkout Trends. Similar in nature to Google Trends where you can compare the popularity of search terms, here Google is allowing you to compare sales of products or brands that were paid for through Google Checkout.
After playing with it a bit, I started to think about how it might be used by retailers […]
While surfing I came across Beyond Alt Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilitiesfrom the Nielsen Norman Group. It’s normally $124, but they are giving it away for free for the holidays. Accessibility design has become increasingly important over the last few years with ecommerce websites due to rulings in the courts […]
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 […]
Bestbuy.com gets a C+ for their holiday widget strategy
Posted in Analytics, Ecommerce, Retail, Stores, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0 on Dec 19th, 2007
I’m giving Bestbuy.com a C+ for their holiday widget strategy this holiday season. They provided two widgets, one in the form of Yahoo Widgets for your desktop and the second for igoogle. Both are identical in look and functionality. The visual design was well done, although the functionality came up short IMO. Details below.
This is the first […]
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 […]
Strong words from the CEO of Ikea. Furniture Today has an article today that says that a memo is making the rounds in Sweden from Anders Dahlvig, CEO and President.
“According to the memo, which came from Anders Dahlvig, Ikea’s CEO and president, the Swedish company will focus on the in-store experience as “the only sales channel,” […]
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