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120 Days of Retail: Day 91 - Why Some Retailers Are Still Flourishing

How retailers like Lululemon are expanding fast and adding physical stores despite the consumer slowdown

120 Days of Retail: Day 83 - Nike Leverages Website and BOPIS to Increase Sales

How you can be like Nike and use buy online pickup in-store to increase sales

120 Days of Retail: Day 79 - Simon Properties' Searchable Inventory: Revolutionizing Retail and Amplifying Sales Growth

How Simon Properties' Commitment to Innovation Empowers Retail Partners and Drives Success

120 Days of Retail: Day 78 - Tech-Enabled Stores Gain Momentum as Consumers Embrace the Future of Shopping

BOPIS Emerges as a Catalyst for Retailers' Success in the Digital Age

120 Days of Retail: Day 77 - Important Economic Indicators for Physical Retail Stores

The Vital Role of US Economic Indicators in Physical Retail Stores and their Synergy with BOPIS

120 Days of Retail: Day 72 - Retail Sales Are Growing

New data show the retail industry is growing in the US despite stormy seas in other parts of the economy

120 Days of Retail: Day 67 - Why Having a Pick-Up Option is the Future for Local Retail

59% of consumers said they were more likely to shop with a retailer that offered a buy online, pick-up in store option

120 Days of Retail: Day 65 - Selling Local to Compete with Ecommerce

Neighborhood businesses can leverage their location to beat ecommerce companies to the sale

120 Days of Retail: Day 62 - A Few Retailer Successes with Buy Online Pickup In-Store

Outlining why it's a crucial part of a successful omnichannel strategy and will only grow in importance over time

120 Days of Retail: Day 60 - Progress Recap

Recapping ListIt's progress over the last 60 days

120 Days of Retail: Day 58 - Credit Card Companies are a Monopoly. How Ordering Online Can Help Fix It

Well, a duopoly actually.

120 Days of Retail: Day 56 - What's Your Local Ecommerce Strategy?

The previous generation of retail tech was all about moving online and shipping from afar, the next wave will connect businesses with their local shoppers online

120 Days of Retail: Day 54 - Picking up Hot Coffee and Cold Ice Cream with an app

I used pickup options twice today. Change is happening

120 Days of Retail: Day 53 - How Airport Retailers are Using Click-and-Collect to Attract More Shoppers

Airport retailers are embracing digitization to bring more shoppers into stores before their flights

120 Days of Retail: Day 52 - Target Rolls Out Curbside Returns at All Locations

Retailers who increase their pickup and dropoff options see greater customer loyalty

120 Days of Retail: Day 51 - The Covid Online Shopping Bump Was Temporary

Covid-19 shifted shopping away from local stores online. That trend did not stick around.

120 Days of Retail: Day 50 - Bed Bath Begone

As Bed Bath & Beyond closes, Ikea expands. Takeaways from 2023 retailers' deaths and births

120 Days of Retail: Day 49 - Why the Founder of Costco Threatened to Kill the CEO Over a Hot Dog

And other tropes about keeping prices low

120 Days of Retail: Day 48 - New Blog Functionality

A new blog and a prototype coming tomorrow

120 Days of Retail: Day 46 - Do the US Top 10 Retail Stores All Have a Pick Up Option?

Answer: Yes

120 Days of Retail: Day 45 - BOPIS in the news

Taking a look at Buy Online Pick Up In-Store in the news

120 Days of Retail: Day 44 - If It's the Retail Apocalypse, Why Are People Starting New Stores?

Digging deeper into brick and mortar retail trends reveals a thriving and healthy local retail ecosystem

120 Days of Retail: Day 43 - New ListIt Web Spec for MVP

Exploring the spec for the ListIt MVP

120 Days of Retail: Day 42 - New Marketing Plan for ListIt Launch

A new marketing and launch plan for after beta testing

120 Days of Retail: Day 41 - Sprint 1 - Web MVP Available Sunday April 23

Making the web MVP available next Sunday

120 Days of Retail: Day 40 - e-Commerce growth is predicted to edge out in-store purchase growth in 2023

According to the National Retail Federation, e-commerce and non-store purchases are growing faster than in-store, and what small stores can do about it

120 Days of Retail: Day 39 - The Amazon Pick-Up Strategy and How Independent Retailers Can Compete

A look into the new Amazon.com "Pick Up" option and what it means for small retailers

120 Days of Retail: Day 38 - Early Investor in Uber Prefers to Pick Up In-Store!

On a recent episode of This Week in Startups, early Uber investor Jason Calacanis says he prefers to pick up his meals than get them delivered

120 Days of Retail: Day 37 - Doing for Retail What Substack Did for Blogging

When we remove technical barriers, we let ordinary people contribute more

120 Days of Retail: Day 36 - An all-new slogan for ListIt, and new verbiage for the site

Refreshing how we explain the service to retailers to include the value-add to them

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120 Days of Retail: Day 34 - Why Retailers Should Adopt Buy Online Pickup In-Store

The option to buy online and pick up in-store is incredibly popular among shoppers and increasing 15% each year.

120 Days of Retail: Day 33 - How Not to Invent a Horse

A discussion of user testing on the cusp of a totally new retail concept

120 Days of Retail: Day 32 - BOPIS! Why Buy-Online Pick Up In-Store is Becoming Essential

Everything points to BOPIS, or curbside pickup, becoming the next important piece of omnichannel sales

120 Days of Retail: Day 31 - How to Actually Help Retailers in South Brooklyn

A discussion of options for South Brooklyn retailers looking to improve their online presence

120 Days of Retail: Day 30 - Installed Google Analytics

Just checking in

120 Days of Retail: Day 29 - Making the Landing Page Appealing to South Brooklyn Retailers

A quick check-in on the ListIt website homepage

120 Days of Retail: Day 28 - A 90 day launch plan for ListIt

Mapping the plan for a public launch of ListIt for shopping in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

120 Days of Retail: Day 27 - Starting a Shopping Site for Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Or, how I stopped being a hater and learned to love South Brooklyn