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Trending in 2022, Disruptive Retail is Thriving

2025-04-17T12:58:13-04:00By |Categories: Marketing|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

2025-05-07T06:53:20-04:00By |Categories: Technology|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

2025-04-17T12:59:54-04:00By |Categories: Gustie Creative, Product|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 [...]

Embracing Disruption with Strategic Solutions at Gustie

2025-04-17T13:00:45-04:00By |Categories: Strategy|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Embracing Disruption with Strategic Solutions I’ve been a contributing writer to Simply the Best Magazine for three years now, sharing insights on Disruptive Retail, and today, I am honored to share the full digital edition, to lend a little creative spark to your day, as we all Stay Safe and Stay Home, and practice social distancing to lessen the spread of COVID-19. Click on this link to read – Simply the Best Magazine, May_June 2020 This issue features a great interview with Matthew McConaughey, fun Spring tips and trends, and my latest article, “Embracing Disruption with Strategic Solutions.” Our mission at Gustie Creative [...]

Our “Experiences” Disruptive Retail Workbook is Here

2025-04-17T13:06:16-04:00By |Categories: Gustie Creative, Product|Tags: , , , , , , |

  Our first workbook, The Definitive Guide to Disruptive Retail - Experiences is currently in-stock.  This workbook is a step-by-step guide that offers detailed and useful information on our Experiences marketing strategies and design paths. This workbook is ideal for brands, businesses, agencies and non-profit organizations. In Spring 2020, we will make available for purchase at the Create Disruptive Retail Store a series of workbooks called The Definitive Guides to Disruptive Retail.  Each workbook is based on one of our five pillars of strategy - Experiences, Destinations, Structures, Vehicles and Altered Realities. Our workbooks are designed to complement our design platform, [...]

Pop Up Retail and Pop Up Hybrids, the Evolution of Disruptive Retail

2025-04-17T16:25:27-04:00By |Categories: Disruptive Retail, Gustie Creative|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

Gustie Creative Interview in Off-Price Retailing Magazine

2025-04-17T16:25:58-04:00By |Categories: Disruptive Retail, Gustie Creative|Tags: , , , , , , , |

GC Q&A in Off-Pricing Retailing Enjoyed talking with Katy Albrecht, Publishing Editor,  about our research into disruptive retail and the new era of retail ahead in From Ruin to Reinvention; Gustie Creative Explains the New Era of Retail in the upcoming January 2019 issue of Off-Price Retailing Magazine. We delve into today's retail landscape and how disruptive retail bridges online-to-offline retailing. At Gustie Creative, we are experts in disruptive retail and we share insights on disruptive retail and how our design platform, Create Disruptive Retail works. With questions ranging from "There's a lot of attention on the death of the store. What do retailers [...]

Voice Makes Summer Shopping a Breeze

2025-04-17T13:16:26-04:00By |Categories: Technology|Tags: , , , , , , |

While shopping online can be quick and easy, summer shopping is better offline, getting out and about, exploring new retail destinations and experiences. In other words, summer is a great time to enjoy disruptive retail! Today, with the benefit of a voice assistant on your smartphone, in your car, in your house, or the office, it has never been easier to find a fun new disruptive retail experience. Read our latest article, "A Summer Guide to Disruptive Retail; Let Your Voice Assistant Lead the Way" and share your comments, and hopefully experiences, below. Cheers! Karen  

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