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 | 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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Category: Retail Observations Tags: Add new tag, retail blogging, social media, Twitter
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
