Just like those cute little squirrels, we too are making an app. Our app for members and registrants will allow them to more easily and quickly interact with important information, including their orders.
Sam Gross, who drew many cartoons for The New Yorker, passed away this month at the age of 89. I've been a The New Yorker cartoon fan for years, and often include them in the footer of our emails to clients.
I'd not thought of the people behind those cartoons, but it's people like Sam that labor over them.
In a 2007 article in The New Yorker, Atul Gawande, a surgeon and an author, advocatedthat more hospitals use checklists. He cited many medical studies showing how checklists save lives (and money). Implementing one checklist, a hospital "…prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in costs." The startling part: the list was only five steps long! In other words, people don’t consistently follow...
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Businesses like Walmart, Disney, and Discovery are bundling services and adding the “+” suffix to denote them (e.g. Disney+, Discovery+, W+, etc.). In a recent article in RetailDive, we learn that Walmart is giving its customers free, six-month trial Spotify accounts. I think W+ bundling services is smart. Last week, I compared running a gym to offering software. I spoke about bundling services with things that people like to increase their usage, such as work ...
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In this week's New Yorker magazine, Charles Duhigg explores how venture capitalists may be harming our businesses. The article shares that instead of the best company winning, the charismatic charlatan with the most venture capital backing may be winning. In WeWork's case, the company almost won by reaching its IPO. Yet, even bottomless buckets of money couldn't save the company from the economics of office sharing--and its wildcard CEO Adam Neumann.
We have a few businesses in our retail ...
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October 29, 2019
October 29, 2019
How 'scary' is retail these days? This Dean & Deluca cartoon from the New Yorker magazine sums it up.
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August 31, 2019
August 31, 2019
Bridge helps 450 brick-and-mortar, Main Street stores in the U.S., Canada, and Caribbean. Our ‘bricks’ are HTML and our ‘mortar’ is hard-working store owners.
PS - Thanks to the New Yorker for this clever cartoon.
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October 19, 2017
October 19, 2017
What does a future with Amazon look like for you and your kids? The New Yorker paints an interesting picture on its front cover this week.
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January 30, 2017
January 30, 2017
Slack, the business messaging service, is running an advertising campaign in the New Yorker and Wired. Slack says that it is “where work happens.” You can use the service to message coworkers and share files.
I imagined what Bridge’s ad would say: Bridge is where retail happens. Bridge is a retail app for groups of people that work together to share products, price lists, promotions, and ordering tools so that everyone is in the loop.
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December 21, 2016
December 21, 2016
The New Yorker talks about the power of social media in this article about Facebook. Excerpt:
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It’s easy enough to support someone in private but far harder to voice that same support publicly—and the public support is a much stronger sign of actual support... If Facebook had stayed in its original incarnation, it might indeed have gone the way of other, forgotten sites like Friendster. But it went beyond that. The wall and its comments, all those “likes” and “shares,” and, yes, even...
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April 17, 2016
April 17, 2016
How does the Supreme Court affect us as consumers? We know that it deals with same-sex marriage, but what about Amazon.com ripping us off? Both these topics are influenced by the Court - and who is appointed to it. One issue that consumers are facing in dealing with big online entities is that they're signing fine print that prohibits them from suing. So if Amazon steals $1 from millions of people, people most likely will just have to accept it. Lawsuits are not allowed. Only arbitration, a path...
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December 18, 2007
December 18, 2007
Two Insights Into How Consumers Are Shopping for Tableware
James Surowiecki in this week's The New Yorker offers some insights into how buyers shop–thereby helping us serve this audience. He writes:
In an experiment in the early nineteen-nineties, people were first asked whether they preferred a $110 microwave oven made by Emerson or a $180 oven made by Panasonic. Only forty-three per cent chose the Panasonic. But when a higher-priced Panasonic model, costing $200, was introduced into the mix, ...
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September 11, 2007
September 11, 2007
What the Tableware Industry Can Learn From Rupert Murdoch's Takeover of the Wall Street Journal
This past August Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. captured the crown jewel of the publishing word by purchasing The Wall Street Journal from the Bancroft family for $5 billion. What does this event have to do with us in the tabletop industry? I propose that there is a lot the industry can learn from Murdoch's coup. The main lesson is that investing in technology-and in particular online operations-is ...
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