Articles on
Experience
Helicopter Parents Drag Down the Frontline Retail Workforce
Jasmine Glasheen
July 31, 2023
Helicopter parents are nothing new. From the first Cro-Magnon child that ventured out into the hunt, there was certainly an anxious mother standing behind that ...
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Barbie: The Doll, the Movie, the Stuff…Your Life
Warren Shoulberg
July 17, 2023
The intersection of movies and merchandising is a long, tortured road with more than its fair share of boffo success stories and bombs…both at the ...
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The Gen Z Communication Crisis
Jasmine Glasheen
July 6, 2023
It’s time for some straight talk about Gen Z and retail. This isn’t about their ethical, social justice, and climate issues. It’s about a current ...
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Airports: The New Mall
Paco Underhill
June 22, 2023
The modern airport has become a version of cold war Berlin — a city divided. In the biz it’s called landside and airside, separated by ...
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Quiet Luxury: The New Face of Normcore
Jasmine Glasheen
June 21, 2023
In 2023, simplicity is a rebellion. Let’s talk about the trend that TikTok is calling the “old money aesthetic.” If #BarbieCore is the antithesis of ...
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Pop Goes the Retailer
Warren Shoulberg
June 19, 2023
If you look up the word “Pop-tailer” in the dictionary, you will find…well, actually you won’t find anything. It doesn’t exist…until now. That’s because we ...
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The Dubai Retail Scene
Paco Underhill
June 11, 2023
In the first Star Wars movie there is a scene where Luke Skywalker and Obi-Won Kenobi walk into a bar looking for Han Solo. The ...
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The 20 Million Dollar Man: Johnny Depp Re-Ups With Dior Sauvage
Dana Wood
June 6, 2023
It must feel pretty great to be Johnny Depp right about now. Not only was the heavily tattooed, 59-year-old bad boy lavished with a raucous, ...
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