Archives for the 'Trends in Retail' Category
Michael Tchong TrendShow
Interesting video about trends with trendspotter Michael Tchong.
Impressive Video about the Consumption Society
Here is “The Story of Stuff”: an excellent video about the consumption society and about how we are destroying our planet. It criticizes specially the United States.
At least the end is kind of positive because it mentions some “green” trends taking place…
An interview with Kevin Roberts
An interview with Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, has been published by Knowledge at Wharton.
Kevin provides very interesting concepts. For example:
Brands were invented to charge premiums.
The power has switched from the big companies (such as P&G) to big retailers (such as Walmart) to the consumer.
There are three things that we think make a […]
The Declination of the CD
An interesting article published in The Economist talks about the transformation of the music industry. It says that “In America, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the volume of physical albums sold dropped by 19% in 2007 from the year before—faster than anyone had expected. For the first half of 2007, sales of music on CD and […]
“The Rise and the Fall of the Shopping Mall”
The Economist published a very interesting article about how Shopping Centers are disappearing in the US, or at least changing their public. It seems that the changes in the habits of the different social classes and races of the US, are having an influence on the development, the nature, and the declination of Shopping Malls.
More Customized Products: Now, Little Cars
After the success of Build-A-Bear, the same business model is being used by another company: Ridemakerz. The details of their story have been published on Business Week these days.
The Power of Corporate Kinetics
In 1998, Michael Fradette and Steve Michaud wrote the book “The Power of Corporate Kinetics”.
In that book, 9 years ago, the authors already talked about the death of predictability, originated in the continuous changes of the environment. They stated that companies must be prepared to react instantaneously to market dynamics, and they gave recommendations to […]
Interactive Advertising
Catchyoo is a family of interactivity products for floors, walls, tables and 3D spaces. A great application is interactive advertising. We recommend visiting their website (which by the way, it’s fantastic) and watch the demos of their products. They are awesome!
As a sample, here is a video of an interactive table:
Japanese are really good for […]
