But what has retailers salivating is CoCyph's potential to revolutionise Japan's e-commerce markets, whose growth has so far been greatly hampered by consumers' unwillingness to use their credit cards online.
He also spent on staffing, adding 275 new executives and 540 associates, for a total of 35, 500 employees globally to support the idea that what makes Foot Locker valuable in an industry increasingly dominated by e-commerce is hands-on service.