Posted in Retail on May 1st, 2008
Home Depot announced that they are closing 15 underperforming stores affecting ~1300 store associates. It appears that the housing market problems have gone on for too long and Home Depot has to make adjustments. They say that they are still planning on opening 55 new stores in their 2009 fiscal year.
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 [...]
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,” [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday I attended the JeffNJoe MSDN .NET Tiki Hut Roadshow in Palm Beach. Jeff and Joe presented Expression Web, Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1, and a mash-up using Virtual Earth. By far, the most interesting topic was Silverlight, Microsoft’s new Rich Internet Application(RIA) cross browser, cross platform plug-in. The 1.0 version available now, definitely looks and feels [...]
On my way home Friday night, I picked up Halo 3, Limited Edition from Best Buy. Once I got home I opened the metal trifold case to find both DVD’s banging around inside the case. On both discs were deep scratches from them floating around while in transit. It appears that Microsoft didn’t do a very good [...]
Posted in Analytics, Ecommerce, Retail, Social Networking, Stores, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0 on Sep 18th, 2007
shop.org in underway and it’s grown 10x in the last 6 years. 6 Years ago, shop.org had about 200 attendees and for 2007 the unofficial attendee number is about 2000 consisting of about 500 retail organizations with a 70% larger exhibit hall than last year. The show is focusing on 4 main areas that were requested by its [...]
Nikki Baird of Retail Systems Research has written a great article about implementing buy online & pick up in store in their weekly column Retail Paradox. She talks about the ROI potential and if it is necessary for retailers to implement these capabilities.
“Is buy online/pick-up in the store (BOL/PUIS from here on out) the cross-channel [...]
