Tag: blockchain

February 22, 2023

Amazon is reportedly set to unveil its NFT initiative in the Spring, joining the list of Fortune 500 companies. The world’s largest online retailer plans to introduce a “digital assets enterprise,” according to a report published by Blockworks. The programme […]

January 24, 2022

Almost every big technological innovation has its skeptics. Smartphones and social media were no exception. But what’s unique or different about the metaverse is that it’s not a single innovation but the culmination of many that is now propelling it […]

March 31, 2021

PayPal has announced it is giving customers the chance to ‘checkout with crypto’ at its 29 million merchants for everyday purchases. The service, which is currently only available to consumers in the US, will enable the payment of goods with […]

December 21, 2018

2018 was an interesting and exciting year in retail. The overall market was strong, unemployment was low, we did not see as many store closings as in previous years. Traditional malls continued to spiral while new live-play-work-shop experiential shopping concepts […]

September 5, 2018

For several decades now, new technologies have been grafted onto the supply chain with varying degrees of success. Sure, some have had enormous impact. Just try to run any aspect of a supply chain without a computer today or to […]

April 23, 2018

Walmart is getting closer to the possible implementation of blockchain technology for payment processing and beyond. While these patents do not point to a creation of a Walmart cryptocurrency, the company is looking to maximize the potential of blockchain, meaning […]

April 22, 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already used on a large scale in retail, and big companies are experimenting with developing new ways to use it in the entire product and service cycle, from the moment a product is developed and created […]

December 21, 2017

Four years ago, I was invited to Dallas to meet with the merchandising, marketing and store operations executives at what was then called “JCP” to discuss how Coca-Cola might be a part of JCP’s re-envisioned store concept – a store-within-a-store […]

December 12, 2017

Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, has become well known among some circles because of its relationship to bitcoin. Conceived as a way to record transactions among those involved in a transaction without the use of financial institutions, blockchain’s secure technology […]

April 21, 2017

Blockchain is a digital ledger. It’s a distributed database that allows trustworthy and permanent record keeping. Each record, or block, is timestamped and links back to a previous block. Blocks are permanent once they are created because each transaction is […]

December 22, 2016

2016 was an exciting year! Brexit. Trump. Syria. Interest rate increases. Market rallies. Strong job market. Low consumer product material and delivery costs. Consumer mobile maturity. More free data. Increased competition for share of consumer discretionary spend. Channel bleed. Continued […]

December 19, 2016

Wal-Mart is set to begin a broad-reaching international test of blockchain shared digital ledger technology, using the highly encrypted tech to track produce transactions in the U.S. and pork-related transactions in China in an effort to improve food safety, according […]