Every time I wander through the TV section across various retailers; a similar thought surfaces – Whilst TV technology has certainly come a long way from my grandmother’s B&W 14″ CRT… it’s overall value proposition; particularly the purchase & ownership experience hasn’t seemed to change all that much! Surely the rapid commoditization of the broader…

The internet is abundant with Millennial related articles & studies; particularly their impacts on broader socio-economic changes to come The vast majority of these studies & articles we come across today seem to focus on the overall Millennial segment and their generalized attributes These include social causes, social media, spending behavior, environmental concerns, affinity towards shared economy and so on…

Physical Retail is not dead… …it is merely undergoing a facelift! According to PwC’s global survey, approximately 40% of consumers still make purchases in-store at least once a week, compared to just 27%  for it’s online counterpart Another research from eMarketer forecasts a significant growth of worldwide online purchase share from 5.9% in 2014 to 8.8% in 2018; yet it would…

Loyalty/Reward Programs – Why? Acquisition vs. Retention studies say… statistically speaking the cost of acquiring new customers could be anywhere in the range of 5X – 15X vs. that of retaining existing ones – According to Bain & Co., 5% increase in customer retention can increase a company’s profitability by 75% – Gartner says that 80% of a company’s future revenue will come from…

Sounds oxymoronic right? But it is one of the numerous diversified strategies Retailers can adopt to actually beat the ‘Show-rooming’ effect (one where consumers visit physical retail stores only to purchase elsewhere online) We now know that product & in-person interactions are one of the best trump cards brick & mortar Retailers have  over their ‘e-commerce only’ counterparts… thus, it is imperative for Retailers to educate…