Author
Robin Lewis
Imagine Robin Lewis: author; visionary, retail guru and founder/CEO of The Robin Report, enjoying a martini at Louis Backyard, way down in Key West. That’s the picture of a totally relaxed man and his pup. This is where he loves to write and would welcome all retail and brand executives for a slowed-down chat about what they need to do to be successful. So, come on down to the Conch Republic, as the locals call it. And you might not ever want to leave.
Is Sonia Syngal Gap’s Fourth “Hail Mary?”
Mickey Drexler left the helm of Gap in 2002, after he had guided it through almost two decades of meteoric growth from $480 million in ...
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What Do Circuit City and Best Buy Have in Common?
How ironic it would be if the same decisions that drove Circuit City into extinction ultimately will do the same to Best Buy? Circuit City ...
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Distribution Always Overrules
My overused statement that this is the distribution century still dramatizes the point that in a world of excess (short-term supply chain disruption aside), only ...
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Will Covid Heal an Industry Disease?
For over three decades of giving industry presentations, and after three co-authored books The New Rules of Retail (plus a revision) and Retail’s Seismic Shift, ...
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Supply Chains in Free Fall
The global supply chain disruption and destruction has been widely covered here in the U.S., obviously chilling retail C-suites to the bone. However, as it ...
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Is Delta the 2021 Holiday Grinch?
In our September 18th podcast we discussed six major issues that retailers and brands are wrestling with going into the 2021 Holiday season. At the ...
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Primark’s Now Questionable Value Proposition
When Primark, the next-gen’s fast-fashion retailer of choice, opened its first U.S. store in Boston’s Downtown Crossing in October of 2015, I said, “Primark’s value ...
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Two Things Changing Retail Forever
Triggered by Walmart’s recent announcement that they are launching a delivery service called Walmart GoLocal (that can be shared with any, and all other retailers, ...
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