Calling the Retail Innovation/Disruption Bluff

APRIL 22, 2019 by Kate Newlin

One of the debilitating downsides of having been a card-carrying futurist with Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve is learning the dirty little secret of big companies’ off-stated quests for innovation and their vociferous lip service championing of disruption. Here it is: Like the weather, everyone talks a great deal about retail innovation, but nobody (in these big clunky companies) ever does anything about it. Except, of course, when they swallow up some startup and then dumb it down.

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Breakfast Fight Club: Toast with Meta-media and jam.

Siciliana Trevino Follow Apr 28, 2018

When ARVR Women and Allies member Melanie Wagner announced she was visiting from New York City and wanted to meet for coffee, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to have a Breakfast Fight Club in the city.

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