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“Digital Anthropologist” Identifies Amazon-Driven Trends in Consumer Behavior

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Advertisement. So two decades ago, providers saw what Amazon had done and proclaimed, ‘We want to become the Amazon of healthcare,’ or ‘We want to be the Amazon of finance.’ Advertisement. That becomes their new standard; fail at it at your peril. I guess much of that is the result of Amazon. In every way. And then came Covid.

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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

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From store windows to interiors to props and display to visual merchandising to store design to in-store technology to online marketing to AI and digital diagnostics, the magazine has steered retail designers, architects, educators, builders and even “digital” visual merchandisers through best practices, illustrated examples and analyses.