Malls Are Dead
Who said “malls are dead“? Did they mean, only for the best of the best stores? (But, not for all of them?) Did they mean in every city, in every remote town? (But, not for the mega malls?) Did they Read More …
Category: retail
At The Pumpkin Patch
There can be some late nights at the pumpkin patch. Not just to save the harvest from a frost either…just regular, every day, in the middle of the season, evenings. I drove by one at dusk today and thought that Read More …
5 Kinds of Sugar
Is it really necessary to have 5 kinds of sugar in any one product? I doubt it very much. In fact, any more than 1 or 2 is excessive. Dextrose, fructose, sucrose…all the oses Table sugar Confectioners sugar Brown sugar Read More …
Blind Taste Test
When I was a kid, the grocery stores were big into the blind taste test. It seemed like they were always trying to get us to try a new brand, or another brand of our favorite products. Admittedly I have Read More …
Product Placement Matters
Marketing 101 tells you that product placement matters. …the red mark on your forehead will tell you whether or not you paid attention when you went shopping. Foiled again. Not paying attention can cost you – the consumer. Not paying Read More …
Easy Tech
Companies today try to make things better for their customers, adding easy tech tools to improve the customer experience. If the choices you make, the software and the apps – however – are not working when the client or customer Read More …
Rain Causes Traffic
We all know that rain causes traffic. We experience it. We lament it. We rue the rainy Monday. Certainly, if the traffic associated with evacuating, leaving home, or emergency stocking of your refrigerator preparing for a storm; that is overall Read More …
Lost In The Aisles
Part of why you can spend hours, even days in a hardware store is because it is easy to get lost in the aisles. Things are categorized in an organized fashion, just not 100% intuitively. For example, If kitchen and Read More …
Can Get Lost
It is fun to hear my daughter tell me that she can get lost in the same kind of stores that I love to visit. I am not talking about: Target; Clothing boutiques; or, Gift shops. Those are expected. The Read More …
But, It’s Free
The argument “but, it’s free” doesn’t work on everyone. Sure, sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn’t. Free samples of wine at the liquor store on a Friday night. Probably works. (Even if you don’t buy the wine that was being Read More …