It's been a tough quarter for regional retailers based here in the Pacific Northwest. They've all suffered from the same soft sales that the economy has imposed on national retailers, and we had a …
Miller Zell study is Great, but is it True?
Miller Zell is one of the top firms in the retail marketing and design industry. In the first half of the 90's they were a terrific vendor of mine at Blockbuster. Among the clever things …
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Microsoft returns to retail. Blogosphere already assumes it will fail.
Last week Microsoft announced plans to open its own retail stores to "transform the PC and Microsoft buying experience," the company said Wednesday as it hired David Porter as corporate vice …
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Vacant Stores as Digital Signage
MediaPost's Marketing Daily has an article about how some advertisers are setting up digital signage networks in the windows of out-of-business vacant retail stores. I have no problem believing …
Harrods goes live with innovative digital signage in window display
Adrain Cotterill who writes the excellent Daily Digital out of Home blog, sent me a heads-up this morning about a new window display being unveiled at Harrods. For US centric readers, Harrods is …
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Context Sensitive Advertising
In a world in which most of us are exposed to over 3000 advertisements today, and are enticed to read/listen/watch almost 300 of them, you have to take your shoes hat off to advertisers that can rise …
