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Joe Keenan is the executive editor of Total Retail. Joe has more than 10 years experience covering the retail industry, and enjoys profiling innovative companies and people in the space.

Warsaw, Poland -- Gap opened its debut store in Poland on Thursday to some 200 people waiting in line to shop Central Europe’s first Gap store. The store, located in Warsaw’s Arkadia mall, was opened by Gap’s Polish franchise partner Ultimate Fashion, which plans to open additional stores in Poland in 2012.

With today's consumers deluged with new media and messages — on any given day, the average consumer will be exposed to nearly 3,000 media messages, of which they'll pay attention to 52 and remember four — marketing campaigns need to be as close to one-to-one conversations as possible. At last month's Digital Marketing Days Conference & Expo in New York City, Christa Carone, chief marketing officer for Xerox, provided strategies to help retailers shift their marketing efforts from one-way conversations to true dialogs with consumers.

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