The 2018 trade show circuit has all but come to a close. Gone are the Shoptalks, IRCEs, eTail Wests, Shop.orgs, and so many other acronyms. The industry saw high-highs (Shoptalk) and low-lows (NRF), with much in between. It is only […]
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With just a single year under its belt, Brandless, which prices all its roughly 300 products at $3, is reportedly valued at nearly $500 million, which is more than what Walmart paid for Bonobos. Some pundits have even touted Brandless
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Zombie apocalypses are not so good. But many would argue that retail is right in the middle of one – Patient Zero has been infected and a nasty zombie virus is about to spread at an exponential rate. This zombie
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2018 has lived up to its billing. The year promised zaniness amid the industry-wide “crack-up,” and it has not disappointed. The last six months have raised as many questions as answers. It is appropriate that we now pause and pull
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NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay recently published an article on LinkedIn entitled, The 3 Worst Articles on the Retail Apocalypse – And Why They’re Wrong. While I run the risk of biblical-sized smiting from the gods of the retail
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Do we have amnesia? A mere six months ago at Shop.org in Los Angeles, I remember sitting amidst heated debates, akin to the Miller Lite “Taste Great, Less Filling” ads from the 1980s. The sticking point was about whether the
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Mickey Drexler, the former CEO of the Gap and J. Crew, and the man once dubbed the “Merchant Prince,” and frankly one of my iconic heroes back “in the day,” recently made some really Mickey Mouse statements. Back in May,
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Mark Twain once remarked, “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” If the word “omnichannel” had a voice, it would say the same thing. Recently, numerous pundits have urged that we close the lid on the coffin and inter
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