Retail Operations

Latino buying power, social shopping, location services, and germ free clothing.

Some interesting retail ideas and trends from around the web:

Hispanic buying power

Thirty major consumer, sports and services brands such as Subway, Clorox, H&R Block and the NBA have joined the Latinum Network. These companies pool their database information and cross reference Hispanic buying preferences, patterns, and demographics. The idea is to develop a deeper [Read More]

Retail Operations

Q4 Ecommerce Spending Up 3%

Here it is straight from the horse’s…comScore’s… mouth

RESTON, VA, February 9, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its Q4 2009 U.S. retail e-commerce sales estimates, which showed that online retail spending reached $39 billion, up 3 percent versus year ago. Total retail e-commerce spending reached $129.8 [Read More]

Retail Trends

Retail Trends for 2010

Here is a great look at trends impacting retail in 2010 from our friends at TrendSpotting. Consumer Trends 2010 contains over 30 slides featuring the distilled insight and wisdom of a dozen trend watchers, entrepernuers and futurists. There is a lot to take in, use the Full Screen icon to get the slides full size. [Read More]