Looking Back

This past holiday season, the American consumer could have been called anything from finicky to punctually challenged. But at the end of the day, they quit their procrastinating and spent…

The Retail of Now: Millennials

Holiday 2015 Retail

A show of hands for everyone who felt like a winner after driving to the area shopping center thinking it would be a zoo and finding manageable (as opposed to…

Beating the Uninstall

More than any other time of the year, everyone is shopping and nobody wants to overpay because they missed out on a coupon or promo code. Customers have found the…

2015 Holiday Shopping Trends

Always On, Always Open

When it comes to getting what they want, consumers don’t really care what it takes for retailers to deliver it. So in modern retailing, where hyper responsiveness is becoming the…

Jumpstart on the Holidays

Now that everyone is filled with Halloween sugar regret, it’s time to focus on something more positive. And right now, that’s the holiday retail outlook. Both the National Retail Federation…

Taking Time to Shop

In talking with a Millennial recently about going to the movies, she said she hadn’t been to a theater showing in about a year. Why? She doesn’t like the movie…

Sharing Economy

From the time they are teens going to prom, up through attending their own children’s weddings, men have been renting tuxedos, returning them, and thinking nothing of it. Women, on…

Mall Evolution

Since the advent of digital commerce, the demise of the department stores, chain stores and the mall in general has been a popular prediction. Yet, shoppers, being social creatures, still…