I’ve joked for years that I’m always the last retailer off the show floor—could count on me still writing an order somewhere (usually in the Constance Kay booth) when the a/c turned off, the lights came down, and the carpets began to roll up…literally.
So, of course, it made complete sense I was sitting in the conference area of the Epson booth, enjoying a debrief with Patrick and the lead engineers from Japan an hour after show closed. While walls were deconstructing around us, we shared the things we’d seen, the possibilities ahead (can’t tell you what those are, sorry), and the projects that could be launched most quickly.
Suffice it to say, when things begin rolling out this next couple of years, you’re gonna be happy.
Happy happy.
I come away from this show feeling really good about where we’re all headed—in part because the last blast of enthusiastic desperation at my final NSS Advisory Board meeting several years ago is now bearing fruit in a big way. Laurie Robinson, Kelly Bristol, and later Patti Stracher, all listened to my pleas about needing technology at this show, understood the reasoning, and fought to bring it in. What Epson talks about today will completely change our industry tomorrow…and I mean that, with total sincerity.
It’s time. We’re there. And I couldn’t be happier to be part of the process.
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