Mobility Hub Concept & Return on Community (RoC) – A brief sustainable framework for common carrier parcel locker networks

“Common carrier lockers are consistent with the mobility hub concept and are a potential tool for mitigating the challenges of Final 50 Feet delivery—most urgently, the need to reduce both dwell time (the time a truck is parked in a load/unload space in the city) and the number of failed first delivery attempts.”

Fast Grocery Retail – The Growth of Smaller Footprint and Micro-Shopping Food Models (Part II)

By Lulu Chang  July 6, 2017

Millions of small, family-operated retailers known as nanostores are the main source of consumer-packaged goods (CPG) for many consumers in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In China, nanostores have managed to compete successfully with larger retailers. Many large Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers and distributors such as Unilever, P&G, Nestlé, struggle with how to efficiently supply thousands of nanostores that are typically found in large cities of developing countries. 

Mad Retail: the emerging role of retail entertainement

Getting the market's and especially your customer's attention is paramount. Let's start by creating retail insanity with duality. The new duality points to the many ways to sell and deliver to customers, both online and physical locations. Experts call this omni-channel. Consumers know it as convenience. Retail pro's see the duality of inbound and outbound supply chains since retail is fundamentally distribution. 

Breaking Bad Data : Living in the Age of Machines

The removal of intimate connections and experiences with each other and the natural world takes its place along with the obliteration of mind, our social contract and sacred trust with the earth. They are mere footnotes to the digital abolition of our well-being and our world. It’s clear that digitization continues to be value-destroying with AI now leading the charge to reinvention, dissemination of labor and growth. The hyper-determination of ‘digital’ with virtual worlds that we find – disruption, manipulation, disordering, fake and innovation – all ambiguous terms for technological progress. The need is for further deep analysis into each of its core elements starting with its replacement for value. 

The Reimagined Connected Business Process: Customer Experience, Last Mile and the Digital Imperative

“It’s a fundamental principle that the consumer (human) side is the single most important factor in deciding on a flexible, dynamic infrastructure for omnichannel strategy, execution, fulfilment and last-mile optimization.”