“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower If you’re lookin…
Brian Walker is founder and chief executive of retail consulting and advisory company, Retail Doctor Group and the Australian elected member of the global retail expert's alliance Ebeltoft Group.
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower If you’re lookin…
“The internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the internet so that all the companies could make money off the …
Hollister, Topshop, Costco, Williams Sonoma, River Island, and Zara share one common characteristic and that is that they are fit retailers …
While we are all busy hanging our stockings and trimming our trees, it’s easy to get lost in the excitement of Christmas and forget the si…
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde. It’s getting harder for many of our retailer…
“You must spend money to make money.”– Plautus Many retailers are going to waste money and some will even fail at omni-channel impleme…
Have you ever heard of the sayings ‘tougher times call for tougher measures’ or ‘when times get tough’? Building the net worth of your franc…
Retail is detail; retail is a brand game; retail is about the numbers. Heard it all before? Well, so have I, and I’ve actually said these …
How often have you walked out of a store because the music was too loud, the service was bad or non-existent, or you simply couldn’t find …
At the risk of showing my age, I recall a pop song when I was younger that was entitled Stuck in the Middle with You. Perhaps that title…
This week, I would like to introduce my fellow Ebeltoft Group member, Jim Okamura, the managing partner of Okamura Consulting (Chicago). Jim…
The architect Philip Johnson once observed, “All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddl…
