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Hello, I'm Karen Herman, CEO of Gustie Creative, a boutique full service design and strategy firm that specializes in Disruptive Retail. I'm also Founder of Create Disruptive Retail, your exclusive online source for Disruptive Retail resources and solutions to grow your brand, business, agency, or nonprofit. Visit www.gustiecreative.com to learn more!

Pop Ups Are Here to Stay: How a Temporary Store Concept Has Become Permanent

By |2023-03-06T17:45:56-05:00March 6th, 2023|Categories: Blog, brick and mortar, Disruptive Retail, Gustie Creative, Offline Retail, retail design|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Pop Up retail began as a traveling and temporary store concept in the 1990’s and has grown ever more popular with brands and businesses over the years. Today, Pop Up retail is thriving and definitely here to stay. Pop Up stores serve many purposes in business and are popular with consumers because they are exclusive, creative, informative, and highly social media driven. Clients seek me out to learn more about Pop Up retail and at Gustie Creative we handle all details from concept to execution. If you are thinking of a Pop Up store, our latest Good Advice article in Simply [...]

Disruptive Retail: Smart Delivery Robots

By |2022-10-03T13:05:53-04:00October 3rd, 2022|Categories: Blog, business growth, Disruptive Retail|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A new type of food delivery service has landed in local restaurants, and it is not the Uber Eats or DoorDash that may come to mind. Ah, this new type of restaurant delivery service is sleek and efficient, plays music and changes facial expressions as it glides from table to table, carrying freshly prepared dishes for your server to set in front of you. It’s a smart delivery robot that is full of cutting edge technology and operates on an algorithm that maps the restaurant floorplan. And it's a disruptive retail solution. I [...]

Collaboration, Co-Creation and the New Consumer

By |2022-08-01T21:50:11-04:00August 1st, 2022|Categories: Blog, co-creation, collaboration, Solutions for Disrupting Disruption|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Collaboration, Co-Creation and the New Consumer; Insights with Deanna Lawrence COVID-19 has permanently transformed the way we use technology to connect with others in a visual way. Most consumers likely never heard of Zoom or Team chats prior to the pandemic, perhaps other than as novel business applications that you hoped the person that you were interacting with also used. Now, technology and visual connection are indispensable to the way we work, communicate, celebrate, visit a doctor, go to school, perform, collaborate, and shop. Just as we do with [...]

Trending in 2022, Disruptive Retail is Thriving

By |2021-12-22T23:38:40-05:00December 22nd, 2021|Categories: Blog, brick and mortar, business growth, covid-19, Disruptive Retail, Gustie Creative, Online-to-Offline Retail, retail strategy, Virtual-to-Physical Design|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Disruptive Retail Trends in 2022 If you are like me, you probably cannot wait to get 2021 behind you! We are already looking toward the New Year of 2022 here at Gustie Creative and to wrap up this year, I'm delighted to share the holiday issue of Simply The Best magazine. This is always a fantastic issue to read, with interesting celebrity interviews and rich insight on the South Florida lifestyle. This issue features my latest Good Advice article, "Trending in 2022; Disruptive Retail is Thriving." Due to the lasting effects of the coronavirus pandemic on consumer behavior, it is estimated [...]

Today’s Consumer and Technology

By |2022-08-01T15:48:24-04:00March 3rd, 2021|Categories: Blog, covid-19, COVID-19 Handbook, Gustie Creative|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Today's Consumer and Technology, The Impact of COVID-19 In my latest book, Solutions for Disrupting Disruption, COVID-19 Handbook, The Essential Guide for Brands and Businesses, I talk about the fact that COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on American consumers. One is economic, with a widening income gap that is leading to dual growth in discount shopping and luxury spending. And another is technological empowerment. Today’s consumers like grab-and-go, scan-and-go, curbside pickup and frictionless checkout. They are exploring mobile apps with AR to try cosmetics and they go to Virtual Stores to buy products in the real and virtual [...]

Gustie Introduces Disruptive Retail Handbook for Brands and Businesses

By |2021-02-20T20:53:11-05:00February 17th, 2021|Categories: Blog, COVID-19 Handbook, Disruptive Retail, Gustie Creative|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I am pleased to officially introduce Solutions for Disrupting Disruption, COVID-19 Handbook, The Essential Guide for Brands and Businesses, 2021 Edition. This business handbook is now available as a digital download and also in book format here. Hope you enjoy reading the press release below and learning more about the handbook and its contents. This is a business handbook with real life examples and highly curated content to help get you through these very challenging times. In a month or so, I look forward to starting research on a 2022 Edition, to showcase the exceptional disruptive retail solutions that come to [...]

Solutions for Disrupting Disruption, COVID-19 Handbook, Available Now!

By |2021-10-25T08:53:59-04:00December 14th, 2020|Categories: Blog, COVID-19 Handbook, Disruptive Retail|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Solutions for Disrupting Disruption, COVID-19 Handbook, Available Now! Solutions for Disrupting Disruption, COVID-19 Handbook, The Essential Guide for Brands and Businesses is a highly visual business handbook that delves into the impact of the novel coronavirus on our lives, our economy, our society, and our retail experience. I highlight the top 10 disruptive retail solutions that are trending globally and the reasons why these disruptive retail solutions are working for the agile entrepreneurs who are using them. New visionary brands, technological innovation, and societal shifts are at the core of today’s retail disruption and [...]

Gustie COVID-19 Handbook for Brands and Businesses, Launch Updates

By |2020-12-15T15:13:14-05:00December 2nd, 2020|Categories: Blog, COVID-19 Handbook, Disruptive Retail|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Gustie COVID-19 Handbook for Brands and Businesses, Launch Updates Solutions for Disrupting Disruption, COVID-19 Handbook, The Essential Guide for Brands and Businesses, 2021 Edition is a highly visual handbook that delves into the impact of the novel coronavirus on our lives and society. It gives real life examples of innovative brands and the personal journeys of the people behind them. These innovative founders are stepping up to disrupt disruption and create unique shopping experiences or launch new digital products for individuals, educators, companies and retailers. Solutions for Disrupting Disruption, COVID-19 Handbook, The Essential Guide for Brands [...]

Retail Tech in the Spotlight

By |2020-11-30T13:25:51-05:00November 25th, 2020|Categories: Blog, covid-19, Disruptive Retail, Entrepreneur, retail strategy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Retail Tech in the Spotlight Recently, I celebrated National Entrepreneurs Day by hosting a BrainTrust LIVE on RetailWire with founders of South Florida based retail technology startups. It was a pleasure to talk with Haniff Brown, founder of FIT:MATCH and Melodie van der Baan, co-founder of SwapRetail. These founders are hard at work, around the clock, pushing retail forward as we all navigate the coronavirus and our changing retail experience. As retail technology startups, they are using AI and the latest technologies to create seamless online and offline experiences for customers. Click on the video above to watch [...]

Gustie COVID-19 Handbook is Coming Soon

By |2020-12-15T19:08:12-05:00October 30th, 2020|Categories: Blog, business growth, covid-19, Disruptive Retail, Gustie Creative|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Gustie COVID-19 Handbook is Coming Soon At Gustie, we are putting the finishing touches on Solutions for Disrupting Disruption, COVID-19 Handbook, The Essential Guide for Brands and Businesses, 2021 Edition and I'm taking a little bit of a break here to share a 3D photo from Facebook. Solutions for Disrupting Disruption, COVID-19 Handbook, The Essential Guide for Brands and Businesses, 2021 Edition is a highly visual handbook that delves into the impact of the novel coronavirus on our lives and society. It gives examples of innovative brands and the personal journeys of the people behind them who are [...]

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