Etsy – Maintaining a Competitive Marketplace
How will Etsy maintain and grow its marketplace in light of competition from Amazon Handmade and Ebay?
Retail
How Did We Decide Where to Eat before Yelp?
Yelp connects users, local businesses, and developers through an online platform to provide what the Yellow Pages used to: a comprehensive directory of businesses. Yelp has grown through encouraging community generated reviews, and developing value added services on top of the original platform to drive usage, traffic, and advertising revenue. Since 2004, users on the platform have generated over 148M reviews across the globe.
The Modalist – Getting Paid for Retail Therapy
Combining the world's top fashion brands and retailers, a robust search engine, and a compelling cash back loyalty program, The Modalist aims to elevate the online shopping experience.
What Retail Apocalypse? Farfetch and the Store of the Future
As the death knell sounds for traditional fashion retailers, the UK-based digital native is making considerable strides both on- and off-line.
GLOSSIER: A Direct-to-Consumer Beauty Disruptor
How digital winner Glossier rose to cult status by using social media and digital content creation to establish a beauty community platform.
GameStop the Ride, I Wanna Get Off
GameStop has been thrust unceremoniously into the 21st century, and it is very grumpy about it.
Retail is(n’t) dead (for all) – Nike is Just Doing It
Nike is bucking the "retail is dead" trend by integrating digital disruptions into their strategy and effectively meshing the offline and online worlds through experiences such as Nike Soho.
Walmart – Blurring the lines between digital and physical
Despite starting out slow against Amazon, Walmart is increasingly becoming a “digital winner”, as it builds out a fast-growing ecommerce business and also leads in digital innovations when compared to other brick-and-mortar retailers.
Amazon | To Go Or Not To Go
Amazon has been one of the clear winners in the digital age, but will it also win in the grocery shopping space? Or will it be forced to share its technology and level the playing field?
Death to American malls?! It’s 2018 and the largest mall operator in the US refuses to agree
Death to American malls?! It’s 2018 and the largest mall operator in the US – refuses to declare the death of malls