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Ralph Jacobson's RetailWire Blog
August 26, 2010
It only took 100+ years, since the original supermarkets and department stores sprung up, however, this is an idea whose time is long overdue. Great app!...
August 26, 2010
Perhaps the first naming rights in North America may have begun when the Anheuser-Busch company in 1953 proposed re-naming Sportsman's Park, occupied by the St. Louis Cardinals, to "Budweiser Stadium." When this idea was rejected by Ford Frick, the Commissioner of Baseball at that time, Anheuser-Busch then proposed the title ...
August 13, 2010
It is great to see that games other than video games have a market in the US. I can't remember (LOL) the last time I played a game like this with friends or family. Long live non-video games!...
August 11, 2010
Fascinating that we are still talking about this, even though this has been an issue for decades. 1) Make true "express" lanes. If your average transaction size is 12 items, then a "15 item or less" lane is not an "express" lane. 2) Make lanes flexible: Install signing ...
August 10, 2010
Every grocery retailer needs to step back and view their center store shelves from the shopper perspective. Does it look like "everything's on sale"? Then that's the first issue. The store loses credibility if that's the case. Then take a look at the signing. Even one ...
August 10, 2010
Online shopping is increasing in all categories. The challenges in the past with online food retailing have been mitigated in many cases. Other organizations are making this work, and the audience (busy young people, aging boomers, etc.) is growing in size and desire for this in our ever-increasing ...
August 9, 2010
I can't knock wealthy people for donating to their causes, and these actions can help stimulate and guide the rest of society. However, Americans are already far and away the most generous society on the planet. We have given more of our earnings to charities since the dawn ...
August 9, 2010
There will always be a section of consumers whom hold on to traditional comforts of tangible books. Just like vinyl LP record that are still produced today, books will continue for the foreseeable future. This reminds me of a sci-fi short story written in 1951 about ...
August 9, 2010
It's great to see this is finally going mainstream. Around the globe, like in Tokyo where GPS has been used for a couple years now to not only identify when a customer enters a retailer, but also on a social basis where (get this!) when two people who are ...
July 12, 2010
Bottom line, right or wrong, this promotion gets AE publicity. And that's what it's all about....
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