The death of retail — of the brick-and-mortar kind — is nowhere, really, in sight, even as some might say the physical shopping experience is losing its spark. But it helps to take the pulse and temperature from time to time to gauge retail’s health. Skava says...
What has a pre-season, post-season, and championship playoff? If you said “football,” you’re not wrong – but the terms could also apply to the holiday shopping season, which has swelled so much in recent years that it has almost become three seasons in one. There...
RIP retail. Or, maybe not. To paraphrase Mark Twain, a mustachioed author famous for quips and no small amount of wisdom, rumors of a demise have been greatly exaggerated. Consider the case laid out by Skava, a cloud-based, microservices digital commerce platform. In a recent whitepaper,...
When is milk not milk? This is no trick question — it’s a distinction that artificial intelligence (AI) is going to have to learn to make in order for eMerchants to fully leverage the potential of machine learning. To one customer, “buy milk” means buy a...
December 07, 2017
The death of retail — of the brick-and-mortar kind — is nowhere, really, in sight, even as some might say the physical shopping experience is losing its spark. But it helps to take the pulse and temperature from time to time to gauge retail’s health. Skava says that physical stores are evolving, not dying. But evolution comes […]
November 24, 2017
What has a pre-season, post-season, and championship playoff? If you said “football,” you’re not wrong – but the terms could also apply to the holiday shopping season, which has swelled...
September 27, 2017
RIP retail. Or, maybe not. To paraphrase Mark Twain, a mustachioed author famous for quips and no small amount of wisdom, rumors of a demise have been greatly exaggerated. Consider the...
September 19, 2017
When is milk not milk? This is no trick question — it’s a distinction that artificial intelligence (AI) is going to have to learn to make in order for eMerchants to...
