By American Express open, helping you get business done. Hi everyone, im j. J. Ramberg and welcome to your business, the show dedicated to growing your business. Small business saturday is only a couple of weeks away, and small retailers across the country are gearing up their marketing plans to get customers through their doors. But thats an issue even big retailers have been struggling with. We met two Online Companies who say the problem isnt that people arent shopping, its that businesses are stuck in the old way of doing things when Shopping Patterns have changed. Both m. Gemi and parachute are trying out approaches to retail that has online and offline sales booming. Youve seen the headlines. The 5 trillion retail industry. Macys, sears, toys r us have all closed locations. Smaller stores are struggling to get customers in the door. Seems like a bad time to open a retail shop. Right . The founder of m. Gemi and parachute feel otherwise. We always thought that it would come to lif
Hi there, everyone. Im j. J. Ramberg. Welcome to your business, the show dedicated to growing your business. Small business saturday is only a couple of weeks away. And small retailers across the country are gearing up their marketing plans to get customers through their doors. But thats an issue even big retailers have been struggling with. We meet two Online Companies who say the problem isnt that people arent shopping, its that businesses are stuck in the old way of doing things when Shopping Patterns have changed. Theyre trying out alternative approaches to retail, and it has both their online and offline sales booming. Youve seen the headlines. More bad news this week for the 5 trillion retail industry. Macys, sears, toys r us have all closed locations. Smaller stores are struggling to get customers in the door. Seems like a bad time to open a retail shop, right . The founders of this store feel otherwise. We always thought it would come to life in a physical way. Sheryl kaplan is