Mercedes drivers to get Amazon Echo, Google Home; Midwesterners more likely to fork out cash for wedding gifts; and is Apple going after the satellite/broadband niche?
Whatever the commercials tell you, DIY hair dying can go wrong in a multitude of ways. But the team at Madison Reed is out to fix that – one head at a time – with better products and better technology to match consumers to those products. We talked with Chief Product Officer Maureen Watson about the efforts the company is making, including a partnership with Ulta and a useful chatbot.
Whole Foods share continue to rise amid investor activism kick, and while CVS has seen sales struggle since quitting tobacco, the national pharmacy chain aims to double down on health and wellness to reinvigorate the brand. Read More...
Customer Acquisition
How Retailers Can Reclaim A Month of Lost Sales
Retailers say they lose out to Amazon for many reasons. One of them is their inability to enable last-minute gifting. Loop Commerce CEO Roy Erez tells Karen Webster how innovations in gifting, now, can help retailers gain at least 30 days of sales they lose each year and help issuers drive more transaction volume. Read More...
Weird Commerce
Smart Traveling With Barracuda
Traveling anywhere today can be a pain with all the devices people have in addition to clothes and toiletries. In today's Weird Commerce piece, we talk with San Francisco-based startup Barracuda's founder about how its collapsible smart carry-on is changing the travel industry. Read More...
