The Holiday Shopping Results Are In!
Holiday shopping results are rushing in and the winner? E-commerce, online or whatever you care to call customers browsing and buying via the Internet. Here’s some early retail reporting over the past...
View ArticleLarger-Than-Life at Holt Renfrew
Get ready to YouTube this digital “sign.” Holt Renfrew, the tony Canadian specialty department store group, has installed a towering pair of LED displays at its Yorkdale location and it’s, well,...
View ArticleAmazon Dreams It, Drones It
Yes Amazon is hitting prime time again. News outlets across the globe are getting a glimpse of Amazon “Prime Air.” From the mind of Amazon Founder/CEO and famous tight-lip Jeff Bezos, along with his...
View ArticleCake Crush: Easy-Bake Oven Celebrates A Golden Anniversary
In honor of a significant milestone, we extend hearty good wishes to the Easy-Bake Oven on the big 5-0! Since its November 1963 debut, Easy-Bake has been on many a girl’s Christmas wish list. And...
View ArticlePublic Art, Private Good
It’s fair to say vacant storefronts benefit no one. Two Atlanta-based artists concur and started a business to fill those voids with art. Voyeur Designs, which creates site-specific sculptures...
View ArticleMannequins Get Real
Who knows if it started with those Dove soap campaigns using “real” women, or if it’s the popularity of reality shows like “The Biggest Loser” or “Girls,” but there’s a movement trending to better...
View ArticleWake Up And Smell the Bacon
Smell-O-Vision and Odorama are so very last millennia. But in a nod to today’s iPhone-toting consumer, Oscar Mayer is deploying not only an iPhone alarm app, there’s a compatible plug-in to emit the...
View ArticleOne Giant Step for Mankind
The corporate culture at Kenneth Cole Productions, the New York-based footwear and apparel brand, is known for its heart and “sole.” Since designer Kenneth Cole made waves back in the ‘80s for sincere,...
View ArticlePot Retailing and All That ZaZZZ
Get ready to deal with it. This post is about marijuana retailing in Colorado. The Centennial state welcomed its first marijuana vending machine last week, although it’s not actually operational…yet....
View ArticleA New Spin on Where the Customers Are
Bike Month is nearly over. How could you have missed it, you ask? Backpedal to 1956, the League of American Bicyclists established National Bike Month as a coast-to-coast celebration of cycling’s many...
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