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 | 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 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Today the NRF released the below forecast for Holiday 2009 2009 holiday forecast, projecting holiday retail industry sales to decline one percent this year to $437.6 billion.* While this number falls significantly below the ten-year average of 3.39 percent holiday season growth, the decline is not expected to be as dramatic as last year’s 3.4 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 | February 11, 2009 | 5 Comments
The Industry Market Strategies team has just finished the first installment of the 2009 forecasting exercise. The complete WW Industries forecast cube can be found at Forecast: Industry Market Strategies by Vertical Industry, Worldwide, 2006-2012, 1Q09 Update and is now available. You will need to be an IMS client to gain total access to the [...]
Category: Retail Observations Retail Retail IT Marketing Retail Spending Tags: Communications IT spend, Financial Services IT spend, Healthcare IT spend, Industry, IT Spend, Manufacturing IT spend, Retail IT spend, Transportation IT spend, Utilities IT spend
by Jeff Roster | January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
I just launched the study yesterday and the data is streaming in. Already I’m seeing some interesting and counterintuitive trends in the data. Each year this study is important. It gives us a unique view into the retailer mindset on IT spending patterns. However this year the importance is off the charts. If you haven’t [...]
Category: Retail Observations Retail Retail IT Marketing Retail Spending Tags: IT spending
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 | 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 | 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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