Marketing
At NRF, this exhibitor’s lure was a free 2-carat diamond…but where is it now?
To learn if their “diamond” was real, attendees were beckoned to the trade-show booth.
Andrew Adam Newman
Andrew is a senior reporter for Retail Brew. He’s been a frequent contributor to The New York Times and had stints as senior editor for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen and as editor in chief of alternative newsweeklies in Pittsburgh and Boise.
Marketing
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Marketing
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Marketing
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E-Commerce
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