Karen Herman

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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