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  • Is technology wagging the business?

    Speaking as a relatively non-technical person, I have certain expectations of technology. I expect that my email client will work smoothly, my internet browser will let me do what I want, and that my media player will let me play all the music I want, when I want. I don’t expect to have to modify my behaviour to suit the applications I use – I ...
    Posted to Retail Reality (Weblog) by dan.wilkinson on November 28, 2008
  • Storm's A-Comin'

    We’re all doomed. According to some of the more alarmist news publications, we in the UK are plunging headlong into a recession which will have families out on the streets and so on and so forth. No one will be able to afford to pay their astronomical fuel bills and spiraling mortgage costs, let alone having cash they could call ...
    Posted to Retail Reality (Weblog) by dan.wilkinson on October 28, 2008
  • Back to Basics

    As someone who relies on the health of the online retail market to pay his rent every month, I’m probably not the first person you’d expect to welcome a forecasted slowdown in the annual growth in online sales. However, Verdict have recently announced that this growth is currently in the neighbourhood of 30% which, whilst still robust, ...
    Posted to Retail Reality (Weblog) by dan.wilkinson on October 8, 2008
  • Left Hand / Right Hand Disconnect

    A recent blog entry by my colleague Richard got me a bit worked up recently, and as usual I'm keen to add my two cents. His experience with Empire Direct is a perfect example of a multiple channel business not working as a genuinely integrated multichannel retailer, something that’s unfortunately all too common. Whilst the business ...
    Posted to Retail Reality (Weblog) by dan.wilkinson on September 24, 2008
  • Less ‘Big Brother’, more ‘Mr Benn’

    ”… and suddenly, as if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared!” Talking to an ex-colleague recently, the subject of behavioural analysis came up, provoked by an intriguing little habit Facebook’s got into recently, where it’s been advertising merchandise to me from some of the bands in my music collection. The crux of the ...
    Posted to Retail Reality (Weblog) by dan.wilkinson on August 7, 2008
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