by Jeff Roster | December 24, 2008 | 1 Comment
2008 has been a very difficult year to cover the retail industry for many reasons. In this post I won’t go any further down that road. But one of the very interesting trends that took on steam this year has been to see retail embrace social media. Don’t know what that is? Before 2009 is [...]
Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Tags: Christmas shopping, Loyalty, retail social media, Twitter
by Jeff Roster | December 22, 2008 | Comments Off
How many of us have dreamed of coming up with a solution for the pesky “Reply All” problem. Don’t know what that is? Lucky you. Here’s the scenario: Someone gets an email and because they think their answer is: A. either so witty or B. executing a CYA flanking maneuver they hit “Reply All” with their [...]
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Category: Retail Observations Tags: Add new tag, retail blogging, social media, Twitter
by Jeff Roster | December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
This year I’m going to participate in a Gartner series of reports titled “Cool Vendors” It’s designed to look at small emerging vendors. In my case they need to have a significant focus on retail. The definition is fairly squishy. See below: “Gartner’s annual Cool Vendors Special Report focuses on lesser-known, emerging vendors that may [...]
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by Jeff Roster | December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments
I have been very privileged to work on this study for the last 8 years. I started with Dennis Eskow as a wobbly kneed Analyst 2. Now under Joe Skorupa’s leadership I believe this is the finest study in the business, but I might be just a little biased. Under normal circumstances the data gathered [...]
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by Jeff Roster | December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments
Wednesday, the day before the US Thanksgiving holiday, was to be a quiet day of writing. I had no inquiries scheduled and definitely needed to get several reports completed as well as peer review several colleagues documents. Then the email arrived. It was a note from Timothy Kasbe, CIO of Reliance Retail, India describing his [...]
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