Today at Gustie Creative, we are celebrating the second anniversary of Create Disruptive Retail with a very special read in the latest issue of HFN Digital called The Pop-Up Story Continues.

Beautifully written by Joanne Friedrick, The Pop-Up Story Continues is an insightful article covering today’s retail landscape, the impact of pop-up retailing, and how pop-up’s are evolving into hybrid models. I am pleased to be quoted in The Pop-Up Story Continues and, yes, I clearly believe that pop-up’s are the easiest point of entry to disruptive retailing and that everyone should have a disruptive retail presence. You will have to read the article to find out more :-)

At Gustie Creative, I have been researching the evolution of pop-up retailing into hybrid models for the last eight years. These hybrid models are types of disruptive retail. When we launched Create Disruptive Retail on April 5, 2017, our intent was to provide an online design resource where brands, businesses, agencies, and non-profit organizations could learn about disruptive retail and find new solutions to move from online-to-offline retailing, increase their competitive advantage, open new marketing channels, innovate or embrace new technologies.

Now, two years later, to the day, Create Disruptive Retail is just that, and growing into a delightful ecosystem for disruptive retail.

I hope you enjoy reading The Pop-Up Story Continues and be sure to visit Create Disruptive Retail to learn more about disruptive retail.

Also, check out HFN Digital and their excellent editorial content on design, retail and business trends.

As always, if you have a project that you would like to discuss, or a comment or question that you want to share with me, kindly leave a message below.

Cheers!

Karen

This blog was first published on Create Disruptive Retail on April 5, 2019

One Comment

  1. Lynn R June 3, 2026 at 2:42 pm - Reply

    I enjoyed reading this and I like pop up stores, it seems there are more of them now.

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About the Author: Karen Herman

Karen Herman is CEO of Gustie Creative, an award-winning, full-service design consultancy that specializes in Disruptive Retail solutions across physical locations and online platforms. Karen helps owners, operators and stakeholders grow brands, businesses and nonprofits with flexible and functional design, retail and marketing solutions. Karen is the author of “Solutions for Disrupting Disruption” and “The Definitive Guide to Disruptive Retail Experiences.” Her latest book, "The Disruptive Retail Field Guide" will be available in January 2027. She supports design innovation as a member of the Authors Guild, The Clayton Christensen Institute and the RetailWire BrainTrust. Karen blogs about design, disruption, innovation, strategy, retail and technology.