Doug Stephens The end of the beginning of e-commerce
Global e-commerce is set to top 1.2 trillion dollars this year. And if that doesn’t seem astonishing, then consider that the figure represents a massive increase over 2018 levels. This, while brick and mortar retail slogs along at an anemic single-digit pace. Giants like Walmart, Target, JC Penney, Office Depot and others are all feeling what has gone from being a pinch from online to an all-out bludgeoning at the hands of Amazon, eBay and a never-ending pipeline of hungry and innovative digital pure plays.
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Attendees will learn:
- The current state and magnitude of global e-commerce
- The technologies that will propel the next generation of commerce growth
- Strategies to help conventional retailers to keep pace with the evolving market and prepare them for what's to come
Details on the speaker
Doug Stephens is one of the world’s foremost retail industry futurists, authors and speakers. His intellectual work and thinking have influenced many of the world’s best-known retailers, agencies and brands. Doug is the author of two books – the international bestseller Reengineering Retail: The Future of Selling in a Post-Digital World and The Retail Revival. Doug is the syndicated retail columnist for CBC Radio and sits on multiple corporate and academic advisory boards.
Language: English