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What If We Reimagined Retail?
Kate Newlin
September 5, 2022
I offer you a cautionary tale. Let us take a moment in the waning days of yet another summer we cannot bear to admit is ...
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Pete Nordstrom Is a True Innovator and Storyteller
Pam Danziger
August 24, 2022
Earlier this year, Pete Nordstrom, president and chief brand officer of the retailer that bears his family name, launched Nordy Pod, a podcast or as ...
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The Reinvention of Curation
Paco Underhill
August 22, 2022
The display greeting you at the doorway is a huge geode of crystal amethyst; the asking price is $2000. Behind it is a mannequin wearing ...
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Will Gen Z’s Mental Health Challenges Bring About Societal Change?
Jasmine Glasheen
August 10, 2022
What does it take to create revolution? The answer, in part, is the willingness to buck against societal norms in ways that put one’s own ...
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The LARPing World Comes to Mainstream Retail
Jasmine Glasheen
August 1, 2022
LARP or Live Action Roleplay is no longer relegated to creative high schoolers in parking lots. As we emerge from the pandemic, consumers of all ...
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The New Age of Wellness: Retailers, Listen Up!
Sanford Stein
July 25, 2022
Amidst rising inflation, crippling student debt, unaffordable housing, rounds of layoffs, a lingering pandemic, and a looming recession, workers of all ages are reaching a breaking ...
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Glossier’s Next Chapter
Dana Wood
July 10, 2022
Readers, let us not forget this: Emily Weiss, after founding a wildly successful blog that spawned an even more wildly successful beauty brand, is still ...
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Is Best Buy Unplugged?
Warren Shoulberg
June 28, 2022
Best Buy, under Hubert Joly’s run as CEO, defied the odds and became one of the great turnaround stories in recent retail history. Ever since ...
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