Merchant Innovation

Did Brands At CES Get Millennials Right?
Did Brands At CES Get Millennials Right?
January 13, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Despite now covering consumers roughly between the ages of 18 and 34 years of age, many brand managers still consider millennials to be some kind of...

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New Study Shows Click-And-Collect Purchases Jumped During The Holiday Season
New Study Shows Click-And-Collect Purchases Jumped During The Holiday Season
January 12, 2016  |  News

Despite wide-ranging and fast-moving changes, the retail industry is still getting used to living in an eCommerce-dominated world. The same goes for consumers as they...

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Can Oculus Survive Its $600 Price Tag?
Can Oculus Survive Its $600 Price Tag?
January 12, 2016  |  eCommerce

For innovators with entirely new products to sell, nailing down a tangible price point can be a little like walking on water – when few...

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Airline Fares Jumped Last Week (Almost No One Noticed)
Airline Fares Jumped Last Week (Almost No One Noticed)
January 12, 2016  |  International

The concept of “monkey see, monkey do” usually doesn’t lead a middling retailer to the top of the sales charts, but in the aviation industry,...

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GM Turns To Hackers For A Helping Hand
GM Turns To Hackers For A Helping Hand
January 12, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

From ride-hailing apps like Uber to traditional manufacturers like General Motors, change is coming to the old-fashioned automobile from more directions than the Model T....

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Finish Line Shows How Warehousing Goes Wrong
Finish Line Shows How Warehousing Goes Wrong
January 11, 2016  |  eCommerce

If anyone out there is still looking for signs of how accelerated just about every timeline has become in the modern retail world, look no...

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CES ’16: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (So Far)
CES ’16: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (So Far)
January 08, 2016  |  eCommerce

It’s somewhat ironic that though the Consumer Electronics Show regularly brings thousands upon thousands of new gadgets to the floors of Las Vegas’ convention centers,...

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Barcode Readers Go Back To The Drawing Board
Barcode Readers Go Back To The Drawing Board
January 08, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

In a world filled with smartphones and self-driving cars, the barcode seems like an archaic holdover of some other digital retail age. However, the scaling...

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