A view of the Hera mission’s spacecraft arriving at Didymos (Image: ESA) As much as we all go on about hating humanity, there’s little doubt we’re the best thing about Planet Earth. So it would be a dreadful shame if a whopping great space rocket smashed into our homeworld and send us into extinction. Luckily, […]
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Overcoming the ‘Retail Apocalypse’ CIO As retailers wrestle with monumental changes in the industry, they are adopting artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to pinpoint what customers will … Source link
The second half of the year always gives way to a retail rush. A decade ago, this involved holiday shoppers flocking to retail outlets. Today, more and more consumers ditch physical stores in favor of online shopping, and mobile continues to up the ante. Amidst countless classic store closings in 2017 and 2018, it seemed
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If you were paying attention, 2017 might have seemed like the year that industry pundits’ predictions about the death of retail finally came to fruition. The traditional Main Street took some major blows last year. Shopping mall mainstays like Wet Seal, Payless ShoeSource, BCBG Max Azria and Gymboree were among the casualties. Even behemoths
2017 was supposedly the year ecommerce pummeled the brick-and-mortar retail sector, creating what analysts called a “retail apocalypse.” Yet, according to research firm Statista, ecommerce contributed only 9.1 percent to total retail sales in the United States and 10.1 percent globally. In other words, there is room for much ecommerce growth. However physical stores will
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Perhaps as many as 4,000 brick-and-mortar stores have closed in the United States since last year, creating what some are calling a “retail apocalypse.” This would-be industry-wide meltdown can teach other, still operating, retailers at least three lessons about growth and investment. It could be argued that many of the floundering retail chains failed to
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