Topic

Experiential

  • CONVENIENCE STORES: Marketing to Go

    Convenience store retailers have spent most of the last 20 years sitting and watching. They’ve sat around as CPG makers focused first on grocery stores,

  • Mall Hopping

    Limited Too, Inc. proved this summer that a little advertising as in nearly none can sometimes go a long way. The Columbus, OH-based apparel retailer

  • Warped Views

    Go backstage at The Vans Warped Tour and you come home with Yoo-Hoo on your lips. It’s funny how a guy can get to like Yoo-Hoo in one afternoon. The distinctive

  • WHAT A TRIP!

    As experiential marketing moves from buzzword to mainstream strategy, brand managers are intensifying their quests to connect with consumers in new ways

  • TRADE PROMOTION: Going for Broke

    Tom Christal’s first job in retail was to throw away all the P-O-P that never got used: the stuff that came too late, or was the wrong size, or was never

  • Clutter: Mall Bawl

    The Mall of America home to three Victoria’s Secrets and five Gap stores just got better: General Mills’ Cereal Adventure is open, blaring out its contribution

  • Straight to the Source

    Getting out of the office much this summer? No, we’re not talking about the 19th hole, the beach, or the endless stream of barbecues filling up the date-book.

  • Clutter: Station to Station

    When Bruce Springsteen sang, There’s 57 channels and nothing’s on, he may have been speaking about the advertising. There certainly is plenty on. While

  • DEPARTMENT STORES: Fashion and Compassion

    Few retail sectors have it tougher than department stores these days. As mass merchandisers enhance soft goods and cosmetics offerings, niche specialty

  • Clutter: More Than Meets the Eye

    Don’t blink or you’ll miss them. Seriously. PROMO’S four-hour run through one of Stop & Shop’s Norwalk, CT, stores was a lesson in the clean store policies