Industries: Retail/Marketing

Mar
8

A Tailored Fit: The Future of Retail

(Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, 20/20 Foresight: A Futurist Looks Ahead to the Ten Trends That Will Shape the World of 2020, that I am writing with the able assistance of fellow futurist Simon Anderson. This chapter takes a look at the future of retail.) In the summer of 2011, Tesco, [...]

Mar
2

Virtual Grocery Stores

This past December in my annual list of predictions for 2012, I forecast that a major retailer would establish a virtual grocery stores. (See prediction #7) Much as I predicted, commuters in Philadelphia will soon be able to shop while waiting for the next subway car. P.S. If you’re interested in the future of retail, [...]

Feb
2

Moderating the Future Via Twitter

Late last year, I released my annual list of predictions for 2012. In Trend #3 on “Augmented Political Reality” I wrote: “a new wave of social media political consultants will monitor live Twitter streams and use the feedback to adjust candidates’ teleprompter speeches in real time.” To this end, this article (Why Viewers Could Soon [...]

Jan
30

The Future of Retail Isn’t So Foreign

I speak to a great many retailers and retail associations and in the past year I’ve delivered keynote presentations to Target, HEB Grocery, Hy-Vee, the Food Marketing Institute and, early next month, I’ll be traveling to Chennai, India to speak on future trends to a small group of executives at PepsiCo’s Asian Region President’s Leadership [...]

Jan
27

Is the Future of Retail Here?

Watch this recent video from Tesco about its innovative approach to entering the South Korean retail market and I believe you might see a glimpse into the future of retail: Related posts by retail futurist Jack Uldrich: Oh Say Can You See … the Future of Retailing Get Algo-”Rythm”