Category Archives: Mobile

Feb11

More online and mobile shopping for Valentine’s Day 2013

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: February 11, 2013
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Following all the buzz around the Super Bowl, Valentine’s Day is just a few days away, and it looks like shoppers are primed to treat family and friends. The online data from NRF’s 2013 Valentine’s Day consumer survey conducted by BIGinsight shows more than one-quarter (26 percent) of consumers who plan to mark the occasion [...]

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Feb06

The Walgreens path to omnichannel success

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: February 6, 2013
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If you haven’t been paying attention to Walgreens of late, you might be surprised to see that this 112-year-old (and No. #32 on the Fortune 500 list) company has in fact transformed itself to be a model 21st-century retailer and leader of multichannel convergence and “omnichannel.” At Shop.org’s First Look at Retail’s BIG Show 2013, Walgreens Vice [...]

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Jan15

How to be ‘flaw-some’ with socialnomics

By Tony Fontana, Manager, Communications & Public Affairs | Published: January 15, 2013
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Social and mobile. They’re no longer emerging technologies, they’re here to stay and they’re changing the way people shop. As IBM’s Vice President for Global Industry Leader for Retail Jill Puleri pointedly stated in her opening remarks at the first afternoon keynote at Retail’s BIG Show, “The revolution is over, and the customer is in [...]

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Jan15

Online leaders of the pack: Lessons from Amazon, Nordstrom and Walmart

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: January 15, 2013
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Few can rival the experience and e-commerce “chops” of Fiona Dias, who offered her perspective on “Lessons from the Leaders of the Pack” at Retail’s BIG Show. Currently Chief Strategy Officer with ShopRunner, Dias has been involved in and observing our industry’s evolution from senior leadership vantage points ranging from her current gig to GSI [...]

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Jan13

The rise of digital and mobile: What we’ve learned from Holiday ’12

By Margaret Case Little, Senior Director, NRF | Published: January 13, 2013
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There’s no arguing with the stats. Digital retail, and more specifically mobile technologies, have never been more impactful in the retail landscape − a fact very apparent as you review stats from the 2012 holiday season. Ahead of the first session of Shop.org’s First Look track at Retail’s BIG Show today, Executive Director Vicki Cantrell [...]

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