Proven Retail Winners: IKEA, Williams Sonoma, Crate + Barrel
Sanford Stein
March 28, 2024
The home furnishings industry has received shockwaves over the past three years. First Covid lockdowns fueled a home retrofit movement that injected billions of dollars into the U.S. economy. Then ...
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While Macy’s Shrinks, Bluemercury Is Up for Retail Expansion
Dana Wood
March 27, 2024
Read about how Macy's is planning to close 150 underperforming stores and bluemercury is poised for a major retail expansion.
Generation Alpha Comes of Age in the Workforce
Shelley E. Kohan
March 26, 2024
Read on to learn how generative AI and the fact that Generation Alpha has now come of age are heralding unprecedented changes in the workforce.
Cool Storage Is the Hottest Space in Retail Logistics
Arick Wierson
March 25, 2024
Cool storage is becoming the hottest space in retail logistics, network of massive, windowless buildings, humming with the white noise of massive refrigeration and cooling ...
Experience
5 Cultural Marketplace Disruptions
Roberto Ramos
March 11, 2024
We’re going to be navigating a Wild Reckoning in 2024. This is the result of the upheaval of shifting sociocultural ...
High Performance: World Retail Congress in Paris Takes on the Olympics Challenge
Ian McGarrigle
February 21, 2024
In preparing for the World Retail Congress in Paris, foresight is our imperative to help the global retail industry move ...
Are TikTok Videos Killing Instagram Reels?
Jasmine Glasheen
February 20, 2024
To do Instagram Reels or TikTok Video? That is the question for brands doing social media and influencer marketing in ...
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Opinion
True Crime Retail Podcast
There was a time we could still envision when going to the mall used to be a joyous activity. Even an aspirational one. Even a ...
Kate Newlin
February 13, 2024
Where Is Black Leadership in Corporate Retail?
Over the next 50 years, Nielsen research predicts the Black population is expected to grow by 22 percent while the White (non-Hispanic) population is expected ...
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10 Top Brands to Watch in 2024
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March 4, 2024
Everyone loves a winner. And we’re all intrigued by why top retail brands are scoring big with consumers, and why ...
Where An Oil-Driven Past Gives Way to a Consumer-Driven Future
Robin Lewis
December 19, 2023
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2/19-2/20 No, it’s not about golf. Yes, there’s that. More importantly, it’s where you should plan to ...
Technology
7 Ways Retailers Are Doing SEO Dead Wrong
Jasmine Glasheen
February 26, 2024
The last five years of accelerated advancements in SEO marketing haven’t given retailers and brands time to even catch their ...
Retail AI in 2024: The Next Paradigm.
Sarah Holbrook
January 30, 2024
To kick off retail’s transformative year, NRF was a one-stop shopping moment to take the pulse of the industry. If ...
Indonesia’s eCommerce Economy Driven by Innovation
Ross O'Brien
December 11, 2023
After China, Indonesia is Asia’s largest digital ecosystem retail battleground, currently dominated by GoTo, Grab and Shopee. Indonesia’s 250 million ...
Management
Generation Alpha Comes of Age in the Workforce
Shelley E. Kohan
March 26, 2024
Read on to learn how generative AI and the fact that Generation Alpha has now come of age are heralding unprecedented changes in the workforce.
Now Wendy’s Has to Eat Its Words on Pricing Snafu
Warren Shoulberg
March 20, 2024
Read more about the pricing snafu that forced Wendy's to eat its words and other retail management mistakes that had a big impact on business. ...
Operations
Proven Retail Winners: IKEA, Williams Sonoma, Crate + Barrel
Sanford Stein
March 28, 2024
The home furnishings industry has received shockwaves over the past three years. First Covid lockdowns fueled a home retrofit movement ...
Cool Storage Is the Hottest Space in Retail Logistics
Arick Wierson
March 25, 2024
Cool storage is becoming the hottest space in retail logistics, network of massive, windowless buildings, humming with the white noise of massive refrigeration and cooling ...
Why Is Walmart Buying Vizio?
Warren Shoulberg
March 14, 2024
Learn more about why Walmart is spending $2.3 billion to buy Vizio, one of its biggest supplier of TVs.