by Minter Dial | Jan 11, 2022 | Retail
Over the Christmas period, I went to visit the mall in Towson, Maryland (USA). Outside of having difficulty in actually finding bona fide tennis shoes at several dedicated sports shoes stores (you can find all manner of fancy “running” and basketball...
by Minter Dial | Aug 31, 2021 | Digital Transformation, New Tech
For the last ten years or so, it felt like the QR code was struggling to make its mark in the West. I was forever bearish on the survival of the crowded square QR code. But it turns out I was dead wrong. The QR code is alive and well, and has indeed landed in the...
by Minter Dial | Jan 6, 2021 | Digital Transformation, Health
I like this quote by actor Denis Leary: “Crisis doesn’t create character; it reveals it.” Denis Leary, Irish-American actor and writer Have you noted that during the various locked down phases where we were condemned to Zoom calls for our outside...
by Minter Dial | Nov 18, 2018 | Minter Dialogue, Podcast, Retail
Minter Dialogue with Doug Stephens Talk about a timely podcast! Jeff Bezos apparently told his employees: “‘One day, Amazon will fail’ but our job is to delay it as long as possible” [from CNBC on Nov 15 2018]. That’s exactly the...
by Minter Dial | Oct 16, 2018 | Retail
In New York, there are now two full-fledged Amazon Books stores, both of which were opened in 2017. I visited both sites, one at the Time Warner Center (Columbus Circle) and the other downtown (34th Street). I wanted to record my thoughts about the experience....
