by Jeff Roster | December 14, 2009 | Comments Off
I find this project to be the highlight of my year for a couple of reasons: 1. Working with Joe Skorupa and the RIS News team is a real pleasure. They are a terrific group of professionals and all really love this industry. 2. There’s not an event I go to where I don’t meet a respondent to [...]
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Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Retail Retail IT Marketing Retail Spending Tags: retail, Retail events, social media, trends, Utilities IT spend
by Jeff Roster | December 13, 2009 | Comments Off
My schedule for NRF is filling up quite nicely. At this point all my day slots have been spoken for. But my long standing habit is to attend public or semipublic events in the evenings instead of attending private dinners. So if you happen to be at any of the below events come by and [...]
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Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Retail Retail IT Marketing Tags: NRF, Retail events
by Jeff Roster | November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
In all the noise surrounding these to events the one that caused me to stop in my tracks and think for a minute was the below tweet from Nicole Maestri of Reuters: With all these Thanksgiving day and pre-Thanksgiving sales, I wonder how much longer Black Friday will actually mean anything? She asks a very provocative [...]
Category: Mobile Commerce Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Retail Spending Tags: Black Friday, Retail events, social media, Twitter
by Jeff Roster | October 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Next week I will be attending the first two days of Oracle OpenWord. Most of my two days will be spend at the Palace Hotel where the retail sessions are. So if you plan on being at OOW and at any of the sessions or events listed below please feel free to come by and [...]
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Category: Retail Industry Events Tags: Retail events, Retail Technology Conference, Twitter
by Jeff Roster | September 24, 2009 | 6 Comments
Yes it’s been awhile since my last blog. I have spent to much of my blog time exploring Twitter and other social media, but that’s another post. In the retail world 2009 has turned out to be the year of cost containment and a borderline bunker mentality. The one glorious exception has been retailer’s embrace [...]
Category: Mobile Commerce Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Retail Retail IT Marketing Tags:
by Jeff Roster | March 12, 2009 | 3 Comments
Below are excerpts from the Executive Summary for the Gartner/RIS News Tech Study . We’ll be releasing the study and presenting the data next month at the Retail Technology Conference 2009. Follow the runup to the conference on Twitter at #RTC The year 2009 will long be remembered as a time of great challenge for [...]
Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Retail Retail IT Marketing Retail Spending Uncategorized Tags: Retail Technology Conference
by Jeff Roster | January 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
Another NRF has come and gone. I thought I’d share some of the recurring questions and my answers. 1. How is attendance/floor traffic at the show- Any time you talk about numbers or percentages it’s critical to properly define what you are talking about. When the NRF talks about attendance they are referring to registrations. [...]
Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Retail Retail IT Marketing Retail Spending Tags: NRF, trends
by Jeff Roster | January 11, 2009 | Comments Off
Weather delays had some impact on attendees but not nearly as much as feared. Easily the most asked question I’ve fielded today was on attendance. Will the recession steal the joy out of NRF’s Big Show? The answer to that I say is no. I would expect attendance to be off last years pace but [...]
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Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Tags: NRF
by Jeff Roster | January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
As promised here’s my NRF evening schedule. Hopefully I won’t regret doing this. But like the great NRF Twitter experiment 2009 we’ll see how this goes. If you are a reader to this blog feel free to look me up and say hi if you’re at any of these events. I’d love to hear your [...]
Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Tags: NRF, Retail events
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
