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CSP Magazine

Editor's Note: Welcome to CSP’s Reinvention

Why does your CSP look different? You told us that CSP was your No. 1 most-trusted brand and the first publication you read. But you also told us we could do better.

Technology/Services

Top Tech Stories of 2014

Tools, standards, apps and security issues that every retailer should be watching

Gummy Bear vapes, Paul Ryan's tax plan and more

Leader of North America business retiring June 2015

The word insight is one of the most misused and misunderstood terms in marketing, but it’s also one of the most important. Insights are the key to success for brands and retailers in the long term. The more deeply you understand the emotional drivers of your shoppers’ behaviors, the more successful you will become. But first, you must understand the difference between a “generalization” and an “insight.”

The history of technological advancement shows that once we experience progress, we never like returning to the status quo. One of my favorite examples of this is a significant western states convenience retailer that began reviewing sales margins by item multiple times per day.

Startup aims to create "transaction stations" for filling up, paying bills, more

Installs new truck parking area made from sustainable recycled materials

Today’s c-store proprietor is a modern Diogenes perpetually beseeching vendors for shopper insights and being consistently disappointed.

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