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🎙️ Episode 137: Beyond the Front Door - Jenny Crittenden and Matt Wagner on Main Street Retail (opens the original)
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A neighborhood coffee shop can become part of a family’s weekly routine. A first job in a local store can introduce someone to a career they hadn’t considered. For an owner, opening the door can mean taking on a responsibility that reaches well beyond the business itself.In this episode of Retail Relates, Rich Honiball and Jaime Lynn Curley sit down with Jenny Crittenden and Matt Wagner to explore those connections - and what they mean for the future of Main Street retail.Both guests came to thi
Which Moments Should Never Be Automated? (opens the original)
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At the end of every semester I ask my students what retail will look like in the decade ahead. Last December I shared what the fall cohort believed, and their answers arrived as a list: personalization, automation that removes friction, stores that matter for different reasons, sustainability as a baseline. I ranked the themes and thanked the Retail Relates guests whose episodes had become part of our discussion boards.This summer, forty students in my Retail and E-Commerce Management course at
🏍️ August 29, 1885 — Gottlieb Daimler Patents the First Motorcycle (opens the original)
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On August 29, 1885, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach filed a patent application in Germany for the Reitwagen — literally “riding car” — a vehicle consisting of a single-cylinder petroleum-fueled engine mounted to a wooden frame with two main wheels and two smaller stabilizing wheels. It was technically the first internal combustion engine vehicle capable of independent locomotion. Daimler’s son Paul made the first test ride in November 1885, traveling about 3 kilometers at approximately 12 k
📻 August 28, 1922 — The First Paid Radio Commercial Airs (opens the original)
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On August 28, 1922, radio station WEAF in New York City broadcast the first paid radio advertisement in American history. The advertiser was the Queensboro Corporation, a real estate company, and the “commercial” was a 10-minute spoken presentation by a company representative promoting apartments for sale in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens. The cost was $50 for the time slot. Station WEAF — owned by AT&T, which had envisioned radio as a “toll broadcasting” service where businesses pai
🍍 August 21, 1959 — Hawaii Becomes the 50th State (opens the original)
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On August 21, 1959, President Eisenhower signed the proclamation admitting Hawaii as the 50th state of the Union, ending a 59-year campaign for statehood that had been consistently blocked by southern senators who feared the racial composition of Hawaii’s population. The islands had been a U.S. territory since 1898, integrated into the American economy through sugar, pineapple, and military contracts without enjoying the political representation that integration implied. When the vote for stateh
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