Point of Sale: Retail & Travel Weekly #13

Here’s this week’s roundup of links of inter­est in Retail & Travel, from the thought lead­ers on our retail & travel con­sult­ing team:

• Track­ing Cus­tomers for Retail Pro­fil­ing [Cool Infographics]
• In-Store Shop­ping Will Only Get Bet­ter With Apps [Mashable]
• UPS & FedEx raise ship­ping rates for 2013 [Inter­net Retailer]
• The Future of Shop­ping (Lux­ury in Brick & Mor­tar; Best Buy) [The Daily Beast]
• Sta­ples Will Offer In-Store 3D Print­ing [Busi­ness Insider]
• Ama­zon launches a high-end fash­ion site in the U.K. [Inter­net Retailer]
• Britain’s Biggest Retailer is Ready to Aban­don its US Expan­sion [Busi­ness Insider]
• Lowe’s ele­vates the sta­tus of web & mobile chan­nels (Online ‘now a core busi­ness’) [Inter­net Retailer]

 

If you’re in the retail or travel indus­try, are you tak­ing full advan­tage of the indus­try & dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing experts on our retail & travel con­sult­ing team? Most of our con­sul­tants have 4+ years of work and/or con­sult­ing expe­ri­ence in the retail or travel indus­tries, plus expert knowl­edge and skill with our Adobe Mar­ket­ing Cloud solu­tions and with nur­tur­ing, men­tor­ing, and devel­op­ing mature dig­i­tal ana­lyt­ics and opti­miza­tion prac­tices within our clients. We’re eager to engage with you more deeply to help grow and mature your analy­sis and opti­miza­tion of your dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing and online prop­er­ties, and to fur­ther inte­grate both the online and offline views of your cus­tomers for max­i­mum optimization.

Michael Hal­brook is a man­ager in Adobe Con­sult­ing focused on dig­i­tal strat­egy, ana­lyt­ics, and opti­miza­tion in the retail & travel indus­try. His team serves retail & travel clients with the Adobe Mar­ket­ing Cloud, help­ing retail­ers with online & offline mea­sure­ment of retail & travel acqui­si­tion, opti­miza­tion, and con­ver­sion, and devel­op­ing & exe­cut­ing on new dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing strate­gies. He tweets at @Hal­brook.