🏷️ The Rise of Branded Shopping Bags: Carrying Status Home The logo didn’t go in the bag - it was the bag.

🏷️ The Rise of Branded Shopping Bags: Carrying Status Home
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🏷️ The Checkout Lane Impulse Buy: How Candy Bars and Magazines Rewired Patience Standing still was never supposed to be free

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🏷️ From Farmers’ Markets to Supermarkets: The Birth of Self-Service Shopping Before customers browsed aisles, they waited behind a counter.

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#balls

Breaking the Box: Why Retail’s Future Belongs to the Experience Makers By Rich Honiball | Co-Host, Retail Relates

Breaking the Box: Why Retail’s Future Belongs to the Experience Makers
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Bluesky needs to come up with something that is not a ❤️ but acknowledges this news…

It depends on the day - but lately Decisive Duck. Find what you can control, who you can work with, and make decisions that can drive forward progress.

It’s 9:00 pm.

Do we know where the heck empathy went??

We need more of this

#MLKDay

Oh no. TikTok is out. And of course playing politics on bended knee…

I guess I will find more important things to do.

#besocial #dontliveonsocial

Life moves pretty fast. Sometimes it pays to look back. In 2024…

1. We traveled to Turkey and Croatia

2. I started teaching #Retail at GMU

3. Started a Retail #podcast with a couple of BFFs

4. Concerts… Post Malone, Pink, P1 Harmony.

5. Ribbon cutting for three new concepts

Bring on 2025!

Enjoying a sports weekend…

After a thrilling win at Chelsea, Fulham FC earns a hard fought draw with Bournemouth. Great game!

In the other football, why exactly are the Giants trying to beat the Colts??

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There needs to be a reason why…

Absolute pleasure spending time with @natalieberg.bsky.social!

Every year, for the last ten years, I come across a group with coordinated outfits, a wonderful spirit, and who love to shop at the #NavyExchange during the holidays. It always lifts my mood and reminds me what is most important!

#truth

I love what this brand is doing - it would be great to bring them into the Navy Exchange and introduce them to the military consumer!

Now I just need tickets!

This was a great conversation and I’d love your feedback.

Go Giants! (Sorry)

Can’t be upset when 2.5M are trying for it. Maybe in a couple of years.

Congrats!! We never made it past two bars.

Good luck!

a man playing a guitar in front of a crowd at a music festival with the word coachella on the bottom ALT: a man playing a guitar in front of a crowd at a music festival with the word coachella on the bottom

So in the random post of the day category - I’m getting up in four hours to jump in the queue for Glastonbury Festival 2025 tickets.

Odds are not in my favor but worth a shot!

Hello everyone. How’s the water?