3 Big Ideas Retailers Won’t Achieve by 2013

| Dan Darnell

Looking back at 2012, a handful of trends have dominated headlines in the ecommerce and retail space. These include the so-called omnichannel experience for consumers across all touchpoints, heightened privacy concerns and the use of big data to increase customer engagement and drive sales. While progress has been made in all three areas, none of them will come to fruition by the end of 2013.

How to Excel in the Holiday Season Ecommerce Frenzy

| Scott LiPera

The best laid plans at times fall short without timely feedback loops using real-time data paired with rapid decision-making. Even top Internet Retailers struggle to map adequate bandwidth, resources and skillsets at critical holiday season. Many ecommerce companies have found an answer, they partner with knowledge processing outsourcing companies (KPOs).

NRF: Retailers Will Hire Half a Million Seasonal Workers

| MCM staff

Retailers are expected to hire between 585,000 and 625,000 seasonal workers during the 2012 holiday season, according to projections compiled by the National Retail Federation. That is comparable to the 607,500 seasonal employees retailers hired last year, NRF said in a statement.

#shoporg12 Storified: The Day 1 Tweets

| MCM staff

#shoporg12 Day 1 Here’s a collection of tweets by attendees of the Shop.org Summit in Denver on Sept. 11, 2012. Storified by Tim Parry

Jerry Storch: Bricks and Mortar Stores Not Dead

| Erin Lynch

In his keynote address at the National Retail Federation’s Shop.org Summit in Denver, Storch debunked the myth that Internet shopping means the demise of the brick and mortar store due to the fact that traditional retail stores just don