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Volume 3 - Issue 39
10/13/2009
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Organics, Acufest, Community, and the Next Generation of Retailing
By Paula Rosenblum, Managing Partner
Several forces have started to come together to provide a vision for post-recession life. I suppose what we see is our own version of the “green shoots” of economic recovery the media talks about. But more than that, it’s another vision of the (tired phrase alert!) “New Normal” we’ve been hearing and postulating about.
Notwithstanding obvious new price sensitivity, fear of personal economic meltdowns and concern over the... Read more
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A Software Company Creates ‘Version-Lock Insurance’
By Nikki Baird, Managing Partner
In terms of future-proofing software, there has not been a lot of innovation. SOA - services-oriented architecture - is probably as close as we've gotten as an industry, and there is still a long way to go before SOA becomes a standard, must-have-it, no-questions-asked part of the average retailer's infrastructure.
In the meantime, retailers are still implementing a lot of technology... Read more
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CTIA 2009: Mobile Technology Revalidates the Store
By Steve Rowen, Managing Partner
Last week I attended and spoke at the annual CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment Conference, an event specific to wireless technologies and one that none of the partners at RSR had ever been to before. A crowd of more than 15,000 packed into the San Diego Convention Center to learn how – across multiple verticals – mobile devices are both upsetting and improving how business is conducted in the digital age. On the expo floor, vendors trotted out next-gen end-user devices (for a real trip, check out the Bond-meets-Star Trek smartphone wristwatch - a video clip of it taken from the show floor is available on YouTube here), as well as demonstrations of technologies and programs that retailers are rolling out – (Nokia and Best Buy have some very cool projects underway, including “Point and Find”) - the majority of which are designed to leverage the devices customers already have in their pockets.
However, some of the most interesting takeaways from the event came... Read more
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