🛒🎁🎄𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. On the latest episode of Traffic Talk, Jeanne Ingersoll (Fairchild) and Grant Gustafson share insights on what retailers can anticipate and how to prepare for the busiest day of retail’s busiest season!
To learn more about the 2024 Top Busiest Days and see the full global list, click here: https://ow.ly/b9Qa50UbogH#SensormaticHolidays
Check out my latest blog! As a kid, I loved going to department stores, but they have certainly lost their luster over time. What does the future hold for department stores? I'd love your feedback!
🤷♀️ Oh department store, where did you go? 🤷♀️
In her latest audio blog, president and CEO of Ketner Group, Catherine Seeds, highlights the good, the bad and the future of retail department stores, while mixing in personal experiences of these retail giants.
⏯️ Watch the video below or read the transcript on our blog!
https://ow.ly/F20h50U2h5R#retailtech#retailtrends#departmenstores
I mean…. it doesn't get better than this!
With some of the biggest names in retail looking to connect with solution partners in Digital Marketing, Customer Experience, Technology and e-commerce and Sustainability. If you are a retail tech business that has thought leadership within one of these 4 areas then you need to be there! 💥
The countdown is on!
RetailJamThe Retail Hive
Last night kicked off National Retail Federation's 2025 show in style with the legendary Cathy Hotka's Retail Insiders event - a tradition I've cherished for 25+ years! On my way and after 9p, I witnessed the power of exceptional execution at Joe's Pizza. The scene was electric: packed store, full benches, and a line wrapping around the block. It's a testament to delivering top-notch products with uncompromising quality and stellar service.
The Retail Insider's event was a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with many industry veterans and meet some new faces. As we dive into NRF 2025, let's take inspiration from Joe's Pizza on how to create engaging, experiential retail experiences that keep customers coming back.
Returns emerged as a hot topic during my discussions with multiple retailers. If it's on your radar, be sure to check out Newmine for innovative solutions and a great analyics platform to help address yor returns at the root cause.
If you're attending NRF 2025, what are your top priorities for the show? Are returns management on your list of challenges to tackle? If you are here and want to meet up, DM me or we can schedule some time after the show.
Now, LETS GO!!!!
#NRF2025#RetailExcellence#CustomerExperience#RetailInnovation
Mouseflow is heading to eTail🌴Palm Springs! I am looking forward to meeting fellow retail analytics enthusiasts. Drop a comment or DM if you'd like to connect while we're there! #eTail#RetailAnalytics#RetailTech
Retail’s biggest festival is coming to Palm Springs!
With headliners like Target, Nordstrom, and H&M, eTail is THE place to be for retail professionals ready to take their game to the next level.
Want YOUR brand to be part of the buzz? It’s not too late to join the lineup and share the spotlight with industry legends.
Get in on the action now: https://bit.ly/4cD4dlF
CSP’s Category Manager of the Year voting is now open, and it’s the perfect opportunity to recognize the exceptional work of your favorite category managers who you believe has made a difference in the c-store industry.
Please take a moment to cast your vote here and celebrate all the nominees at CRU 2025!
Just over a year ago, our very own Ollie Shayer, Boots UK Omni-Media Director and Samuel Knights,, SMG CEO, joined The FMCG Guys to talk all things Retail Media including:
💙 Best Practices when setting up a Retail Media Network
💙 How FMCG companies can better leverage this channel
💙 Connecting Retail Media Data with an overall Data Strategy
💙 How Retail Media benefits the consumer
To recap on this memorable discussion, tune in on the link below 👇
#RetailMedia#Retail#Media
Time flies when you're having fun!
It's already 1 Year Ago that. Ollie Shayer from Boots UK and Samuel Knights from SMG joined the show in a memorable conversation about Retail Media. Always a good one to listen to for a good time & learnings: https://lnkd.in/ed3qExFH
We at Superconnector Studios agree with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Neal Zuckerman's fundamental premise: that the world's leading brands create content that attracts and engages audiences rather than interrupts and annoys them.
But, David Freeman, we politely disagree with the idea that "Reaching audiences no longer requires a Network, Film Studio or even a Streamer" and find it odd (and bold) that Creative Artists Agency would take this position given the importance of Networks, Film Studios and Streamers to your clients and therefore to CAA's business?
We at Superconnector Studios guide our clients -- who, full disclosure, include the world's leading brands and the world's leading Networks, Studios and Streamers -- to develop **new models for collaboration and mutually beneficial business benefit.** In fact, we often work with our friends at CAA and other talent agencies to facilitate these models!
The inter-dependence of the Brand Ecosystem (brands, ad agencies, media agencies) and Entertainment Ecosystem (talent, production companies, management, talent agencies, distributors) is not, in our opinion, ripe to be discarded by the democratization of content creation and distribution. It is ripe to be reinvented.
Nike's Waffle Iron Entertainment, LVMH's 22 Montaigne Entertainment and AB InBev's draftLine Entertainment and more all work WITH Networks, Studios and Streamers, not around them.
By co-developing, co-producing, strategically and sparingly co-financing, co-promoting and, yes, even by supporting entertainment content with good old fashioned advertising where appropriate, Brands and Entertainment become partners in shared success, evolving beyond the transactional (brand money for entertainment attention) to the transformational (creating resonance, relevance and ROI together).
As always in my posts and re-posts, discourse welcome!
Senior Partner and Chair, Global Institute for the Future of Television (GIFT), at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
We at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)’s Global Institute for the Future of Television (#GIFT) are deeply invested in this new concept: Every Company Wants to be a Media Company. We have seen it in retail (Starbucks, Hallmark Cards healthcare (Northwell Health), beverages (Red Bull), consumer products (Away, Harley-Davidson Motor Company), marketplaces (Airbnb) and others.
Now they are joined by Costco Wholesale! Costco is using content to further connect their audiences to the brand and to each other. And they are doing it through an old school physical magazine, #3 in total circulation. Telling stories, revealing truths, sharing how Costco can help in their audiences’ lives. Great piece Mattie Kahn
Why has Costco and other companies done this? Media—the creation of content—builds audiences through the 4 Es: Entertainment, Education, Engagment, and Enlightenment. We know of no other way to authentically build connection.
If you find your company is simply pushing itself on its customers, if your company wants to figure out how to truly CONNECT, use content. Not simply advertising. Not simply messaging, but building an AUDIENCE, talk to us. We have a plan. And real partners that KNOW how to do this. Nathan Micon Simon Bamberger Shelby SenzerDerek RodenhausenRobert DerowHaley RaphaelDaniel WaylandFelix StellmaszekPeter DeweyNidhi Sinha#everycompanywantsmedia
We at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)’s Global Institute for the Future of Television (#GIFT) are deeply invested in this new concept: Every Company Wants to be a Media Company. We have seen it in retail (Starbucks, Hallmark Cards healthcare (Northwell Health), beverages (Red Bull), consumer products (Away, Harley-Davidson Motor Company), marketplaces (Airbnb) and others.
Now they are joined by Costco Wholesale! Costco is using content to further connect their audiences to the brand and to each other. And they are doing it through an old school physical magazine, #3 in total circulation. Telling stories, revealing truths, sharing how Costco can help in their audiences’ lives. Great piece Mattie Kahn
Why has Costco and other companies done this? Media—the creation of content—builds audiences through the 4 Es: Entertainment, Education, Engagment, and Enlightenment. We know of no other way to authentically build connection.
If you find your company is simply pushing itself on its customers, if your company wants to figure out how to truly CONNECT, use content. Not simply advertising. Not simply messaging, but building an AUDIENCE, talk to us. We have a plan. And real partners that KNOW how to do this. Nathan Micon Simon Bamberger Shelby SenzerDerek RodenhausenRobert DerowHaley RaphaelDaniel WaylandFelix StellmaszekPeter DeweyNidhi Sinha#everycompanywantsmedia
