What the retail industry can learn from Google and Amazon teaming up on technology standards.
September 19, 2023
Google, Amazon, and an array of home appliance companies are teaming up to make it easier for you to dim your home’s lights and lock your front doors. They are adopting a standard called Matter that allows devices to communicate and work together, shares The Wall St. Journal. This allows a giant like Amazon, creator of Alexa devices and Ring doorbells, and Tuo, a small home device tech creator, to use the same platform yet keep their internal, proprietary code base. This standard is like a...
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Some people like to sit on the sofa and eat Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. I roll my eyes at this because I’m very different: I like to read the Wall St. Journal’s Christopher Mims …while eating an entire pint of Ben & Jerry’s on the sofa. This past weekend, Mr. Mims suggested companies may be reassessing where they source products, some even considering more domestic production. The motivation for this started a few years ago with the U.S.-China trade war, ...
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In today's WSJ, Christopher Mims writes about a service whereby sales reps. can be hired like an Uber - temporarily, for certain short-term routes. That may work for a some brands, but I'm not sure that this would work for the home goods brands that I know.
The sales reps. that I know like A La Carte and Rosse & Associates have spent years building their retailers' trust. To walk into a retail store, not know the owner, not know their buying history, nor know other important variables just ...
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