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 five years (2021-2025); and academia where she teaches retail, entrepreneurship, and equity analysis at Baruch, FIT and The New School. Marie also is President of the Retail Marketing Society (RMS) and sits on the RMS board and NRF’s IPC (Industry Partnership Council) board, and is X-Coresight, X-S&P/CapIQ
Department Stores: From Complacency to Urgency
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
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
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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The Continuing Handbag Saga
Michael Kors disappointed investors last week (February 7) with its sixth consecutive quarterly comp store sales decline along with a glum outlook, which calls for ...
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NRF Takeaways – Education, Technology and Personalization
1. Education Finally, retailers have come together as an industry to stem the Race to the Bottom, a phrase TRR coined in the 90s based ...
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Coach, Kors & Kate: The Handbag Wars
The North American handbag market, which achieved mid-to-high single-digit growth through most of this millennium, saw its 2015 rate cut by more than half to ...
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Fashion Tech Forum Field Report
Someday soon, everything will be smart and we will live happily ever after. For now, we still need to collaborate and communicate the old-fashioned way: ...
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Ubiquity Versus Exclusivity
The Evolution of Luxury Taste Disruption in a myriad of forms impacted luxury brands in 2015, slowing growth to a glacial pace globally and forcing ...
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