Tag: retail

  • Local Search in 2019

    Local Search in 2019

    What’s in store (pun intended) for 2019? The Local Search Association kicks off each year with a compilation of its members’ predictions. This is our third consecutive year submitting predictions. While our 2017 prediction proved way too optimistic, our 2018 prediction, and the two we submitted this year, resonate well among those of our peers.…

  • Facebook, it’s time to “share” your view of the customer

    Facebook, it’s time to “share” your view of the customer

    At the 2017 Place Conference, on the Rx for Retail panel, Trace Johnson of Total Wine & More eloquently summarised his problem, one faced by so many modern retailers today: “we need a unified view of our customer” And while the panel concluded that there is no single vendor that can offer that solution, conference…

  • BYOD RTLS

    BYOD RTLS

    While the terms bring your own device (BYOD), coined when employees started bringing their own phones and laptops to the office, and real-time location systems (RTLS), coined when RFID tags started to be tracked, may be unfamiliar to many, together, these concepts promise to have an impact that will soon become familiar to us all…