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iPhone Application Recipe

By David Dorf on October 20, 2009 8:30 AM

RetailWire ran articles yesterday and today on the success of iPhone applications for the retail industry. Apps from Amazon, Target, Gap, and Whole Foods seem to be getting traction, but all of them had shortcomings. Here's my list for what...

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Retail Has Changed Forever

By David Dorf on May 14, 2009 8:01 PM

I read an interesting article in Forbes called Why Retailing Will Never Be The Same Again. It says that the industry is splitting into three camps: those that compete on price, those that compete on uniqueness, and those that can't...

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The Pulse of the Economy is Retail

By David Dorf on April 22, 2009 11:00 AM

Everyone wants to know if the economy has hit bottom, and we're all looking for the signs. Retailers have been hit particularly hard by the recession, with many reporting sales slumps not seen in years. Several retailers have recently announced...

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The 1962 Virus Continues to Spread

By David Dorf on February 24, 2009 9:30 AM

Those in the retail industry probably know the significance of 1962. For those that don't, that's when Walmart, Kmart, and Target first opened their collective doors. Since then, those three chains have changed the landscape of retail forever. Dayton-Hudson (which...

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Shopping on the iPhone

By David Dorf on December 8, 2008 9:45 AM

I've had my iPhone for a while now, and my favorite non-Apple applications are Facebook, Evernote, and More Cowbell. But its not all fun and games. In a previous post I discussed some of the research we were doing with...

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