Year in review: What topped our list for 2017

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Data, data, data - This year we decided to mine some of our data for some interesting (yet quick) ways to put the year in prospective.

We generated the following list of posts that were awarded the most stars and highlight the post that earned top spot for greatest engagement. 

The 10 most-recommended posts

Here are the Brick Meet Click 2017 posts that got the most “stars” (aka recommendations) on our site.

1. Measured/loyalty marketing and the digital age: Q&A with Brian Woolf
2. How to survive a price war: Harness the power of localization, attributes and automation
3. Fresh Food vending solves several issues for local food products
4. What do you think Amazon will look like in 5 years?
5. Where and how subscriptions can make dollars (and sense) for retailers
6. Alibaba & JD.com invest in delivery start-ups to expand Chinese online grocery market
7. Grocery eCommerce: Play by play on the race to win share of wallet
8. Why retailers and suppliers need to map customer experience: Q&A with Marise Kumar
9. Learning from the “Lidl of the future” stores
10. Walmart Lake Nona: Reinventing the Supercenter experience

This list shows that the industry is working hard to find ways to ride this next wave of digital disruption and provide better service and experiences to the customers where and when they want it.

And the award for the most engaging post to . . .

Last but not least, Brick Meets Click likes to encourage robust conversations about the future of shopping and retail and the post about What will the grocery business look like in 5 years? generated the most comments and clearly underscores how starting to answer a question like this help business align resources and investment in the right direction. 

Our mission for 2018 is understand the bigger shifts happening and what they mean for your business.

Editors note: This is our last official post for 2017. We wish everyone a very happy new year and look forward to returning in January with more thought provoking posts that help make sense of the changing industry and to helping clients chart out how they should best adapt to this changing marketplace by delivering more value and realizing efficiencies when possible.

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