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Walmart's iPhone Application

By David Dorf on November 5, 2009 2:03 PM

I downloaded two more iPhone applications from retailers and played with them a bit. The first is Gucci's app, which is unique presumably because their customers are unique. They run "iPhone only" specials like $500 designers sneakers (limit one per...

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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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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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Best Buy Goes Social

By David Dorf on January 26, 2009 6:31 PM

Realizing that the Web is becoming more social, Best Buy made a great move by exposing their on-line product catalog to developers on the Web. Now website developers can include pictures, prices, searches, and reviews from www.BestBuy.com in their own...

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Circuit City Liquidates

By David Dorf on January 16, 2009 10:11 AM

As a former Circuit City employee, I was saddened to hear that CC will be liquidating after not securing a buyer interested in preserving the retail chain. All remaining 567 stores will be liquidated in order to settle its substantial...

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Blogging in Retail

By David Dorf on October 6, 2008 7:25 AM

One of my favorite computing topics these days is the use of Web 2.0 technologies for enterprise software. Things like blogging, tagging, and collaboration open up many possibilities for the way in which we go about our jobs. Information has...

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