"Wow.. here it is"- my surprise
On Saturday I walked into a Whole Foods grocery store. This is my second time to walk into this brand store.
What I noticed surprised me. As I walked down the isle I saw price tags that were adaptive. The price could be changed electronically instead of replacing a paper tag with another paper tag. The electronic change could be done adaptively from an office by an algorithm.
You are probably wondering, "So what!". Well, this was an idea that I considered implementing almost 10 years ago. I could see the writing on the wall that all stores would need to go to this system. I do not know why I lost interest in the idea. The idea was brilliant but my execution was non-existent.
How many of my ideas do I see like this? Unfortunately many...
Recently I was in a Forever21 department store. They have a million articles that are marked down. Women are fighting through a million dresses without any order. The items are not sorted at all but thrown in different rooms. It has to be a nightmare for the store when they want to change the price of an item.
The adaptive price tag is the answer to all of their troubles. I wonder if they know it even exists.
Today's question is:
"How do you force yourself to execute a brilliant idea?"
On Saturday I walked into a Whole Foods grocery store. This is my second time to walk into this brand store.
What I noticed surprised me. As I walked down the isle I saw price tags that were adaptive. The price could be changed electronically instead of replacing a paper tag with another paper tag. The electronic change could be done adaptively from an office by an algorithm.
You are probably wondering, "So what!". Well, this was an idea that I considered implementing almost 10 years ago. I could see the writing on the wall that all stores would need to go to this system. I do not know why I lost interest in the idea. The idea was brilliant but my execution was non-existent.
How many of my ideas do I see like this? Unfortunately many...
Recently I was in a Forever21 department store. They have a million articles that are marked down. Women are fighting through a million dresses without any order. The items are not sorted at all but thrown in different rooms. It has to be a nightmare for the store when they want to change the price of an item.
The adaptive price tag is the answer to all of their troubles. I wonder if they know it even exists.
Today's question is:
"How do you force yourself to execute a brilliant idea?"
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