Insight-Driven Retailing Blog

The Eye in the Sky

By David Dorf on August 3, 2009 3:31 PM

Not long ago I was in a Walmart with my three kids to pick up a few bath items as a gift for my wife. For some reason the self-checkout lanes had been removed, so we were forced to use...

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Tesco's API

By David Dorf on July 17, 2009 1:34 PM

Best Buy's Remix API (described in a previous posting), seems to be catching on with developers. There are now several applications displayed in their sample gallery. I think they've proved that if you built it, they will come. Now I...

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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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Retail Space Management

By David Dorf on January 8, 2009 10:15 AM

Oracle's recent acquisition of AVT, a UK-based provider of 3-D visual macro space planning solutions, adds end-to-end space management to Oracle's existing footprint. But what does that really mean for retailers? Once a retailer decides what to buy from vendors...

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