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 | 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
