Before most children take off their Halloween costumes, the holiday shopping season starts with an influx of commercials flooding our favorite TV shows and retailer emails flooding our inboxes. Although I admit to partaking in those Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday deals, part of me always feels guilty that the real meaning of the [...]
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No one used to love shopping in stores on Black Friday more than I did. It was a ritual that started with my mother on Thanksgiving morning, before the turkey and stuffing even made it into the oven. Getting the morning paper was like Christmas Day, with the anticipation of shopping. We’d map out our [...]
Nov 06, 2012 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Marketing, Media, Social Media, Technology | Tags: Amazon, Best Buy, Black Friday, cloud, Deloitte, holiday sales, holiday shopping, IBM, mobile, mobile apps, mobile shopping, National Retail Federation, online shopping, retail, retailer, shopping, shopping stampede, SOASTA, the economy | Leave A Comment »
This is the 11th in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter. How does a trend get legs? Some trends start small and grow elephantine as if by force of nature, like the rise [...]
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