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
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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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 [...]
Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Uncategorized Tags: retail blogging, social media, Twitter
by Jeff Roster | November 28, 2008 | 2 Comments
6:44AM Morgan Hill, CA I’ve covered retail for 10 years and and have never been in the habit of enjoying Black Friday festivities. Perhaps it was the many, many years I’ve spent in the business end of the Christmas season, first as cheap child labor working in my dads meat shop, later at Mervyn’s. Once [...]
Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Tags: Black Friday
by Jeff Roster | November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment
This time of year means 3 things to me: 1. Have I made my hotel reservation for NRF? 2. What to get my wife for Christmas 3. Which retail exec’s should I nominate for the slew of articles being written this time of year. So this year I’m going to ask all of you to help [...]
Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Tags: retail, retail IT executive
by Jeff Roster | November 4, 2008 | Comments Off
I was reading this weeks’ EyeRIS newsletter and came across the EyeRis Readers Poll . If you are not familiar with the newsletter it’s an excellent biweekly recap of all dvelopments in retail IT. The readership tends to be IT director and above. This group typically has a higher income so one would expect different results from the presedential election then [...]
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by Jeff Roster | November 3, 2008 | Comments Off
“Consumer spending fell over the course of a quarter for the fist time in 17 years. It’s really an Obit for this debt fueled era. Even through the last recession and the stagnant income growth of the current decade consumer spending continued to rise because we went into debt in many cases to do it. [...]
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by Jeff Roster | October 30, 2008 | Comments Off
Well most of us feared this day was coming but the US Dept. of Commerce just confirmed it. Real gross domestic product–the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the united States–decreased at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the 3rd quarter of 2008. Now it is important to [...]
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