Author Archives: Lee Wright

“Would you consider yourself a shopper?”

A good friend of mine, legendary retail entrepreneur Gary Hoover . . .

. . .  read some of Buying in a Post-Store World and sent a note that included this question:
Lee, would you consider yourself a shopper or not?   Do you like stores, hate stores, etc?
I love finding a great store, but there are so [...]

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Buying in a post-store world

The web is the store—marketplace, really—and the search engine is the interface, right?
It wasn’t always this way, and it’s instructive to consider the underlying forces that drove this and the role of some of the Web’s largest companies in this evolution.
Buyer behavior today
Here’s the way in which I buy most things, which I imagine is [...]

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