Author
Marie Driscoll

Marie is a retail analyst, consultant and thought leader. Her career spans equity analysis on Wall Street where she won Best on the Street three times; industry analysis where she is considered one of RETHINK Retails top analyst Influencers for the last three years (2021-2023); and academia where she teaches retail, entrepreneurship, and equity analysis at Baruch, FIT and The New School. Marie also sits on the Retail Marketing Society’s Board and NRF’s IPC (Industry Partnership Council) board. X-Coresight, X-S&P/CapIQ
Authentic Brands Group, The Brand Doctor
Marie Driscoll
December 28, 2017
Ever wonder where your once-beloved brand went when you no longer see it in your department store of choice? Did it get acquired, go bankrupt, ...
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Un-Amazonable Retail Concepts, For Now!
Marie Driscoll
October 24, 2017
For too long, consumers have had too few fashion shopping choices. Department stores morphed from emporiums of the latest designs to vast undifferentiated caverns of ...
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Startups with Big Retail Impacts
Marie Driscoll
August 23, 2017
The Robin Report has written extensively about the many retail business models that are rooted in the 80s, mostly oblivious to the technological advances that ...
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Customer Lifetime Value
Marie Driscoll
August 2, 2017
The constant flurry of news emanating from Amazon about fashion and appliances, Prime Day results and the Whole Food acquisition triggers the concept and value ...
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Video Shopping Comes of Age
Marie Driscoll
July 1, 2017
Online, exacerbated by Amazon, may be destroying the business model of many retailers. But ask most shoppers and they will tell you e-commerce sites do ...
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Department Stores: From Complacency to Urgency
Marie Driscoll
June 14, 2017
Robin Lewis, CEO of The Robin Report kicked off the program with an opening visual of a tsunami about to wipe out the entire legacy ...
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Angela Ahrendts’ Apple is No “Store” – It’s a Community
Marie Driscoll
April 26, 2017
Selling stuff in an Apple store is nowhere to be found in Angela Ahrendts’ vision for Apple’s retail business, which she is in charge of ...
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Retail Board Governance in the Age of Disruption
Marie Driscoll
March 15, 2017
How do boards of traditional retailers cope with the need for governance and guidance in this moment of disruptive change? Capitalism may be at its ...
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