Any professional observer of retail trends and every shopper in the U.S. would tell you that retailing, and retailers changed dramatically during the pandemic. But many of those changes were already in the works before the pandemic even started. One of […]
Did the Pandemic Change Retailing Dramatically? Read More »
Remember when we (along with me and every other financial exec in department store land) all sold our receivables portfolios? I studied that every year for about 20 years (literally) when I was an executive at the May Department Stores
Hudson Yards I wrote this shortly after visiting Hudson Yards a couple of weeks ago. I have been back again (and again) since, and I have not seen anything that has changed my views. Yes, it\’s new. Yes, it\’s pretty
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I recently attended Shoptalk Europe in Copenhagen with 350 retail and retail tech CEOs and another 2,050 retail practitioners and investors who were interested in hearing what those CEOs had to say. Here are a few aha moments I had
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Hey, if orange is the new black, then anything is possible. Given the impact of Amazon.com and online on traditional retailers, maybe bankruptcy is the new black. Will it help or hurt Amazon to drop reference pricing from their website?
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I think athleisure is rolling over for fall and its growth rate will dramatically slow, and then stall out. Let’s take a look at current market darling Lululemon. Admittedly, Lulu has great technical product for yoga. And, it makes pretty good
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The Boston Consulting Group, which I think is pretty good, is not on my wavelength when it comes to online sales. Here’s an excerpt from comments in the study they recently conducted regarding consumers\’ intentions about future online purchasing: \”A vast majority of U.S.
I recently spent some time looking 25 years into the future of retailing. Coincidentally, I played this game almost 25 years ago, exactly. I think it was July of 1989 when I was an executive at the May Department Stores Company.
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