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 | 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 | October 20, 2008 | Comments Off
I came across the following press release this morning from the NRF. NRF Partners with Department of Homeland Security and ICSC to Create Emergency Response Guide for Retailers “Washington, October 20, 2008 – As a part of its efforts to educate and protect retail customers, merchandise and employees, the National Retail Federation’s loss prevention team [...]
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Category: Retail Observations Tags: National Retail Federation, NRF
