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To Dream the Possibly Impossible (American) Dream

Talk about tilting at windmills…in the midst of the biggest challenge physical store retailing has ever faced, someone has built the largest shopping and entertainment ...
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Wayfair is Way, Way Away from Profitability

Wayfair, your WeWork/Uber/Slack/et al. wake-up call is here. After yet another quarter of dramatically increasing losses and despite an equally dramatic increase in revenue, Wayfair ...
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Retail’s New Hypebeast: Instagram Product Launch Alerts

As if social media didn\’t have enough of an impact on consumer behavior, Instagram is rolling out a new pilot program in the U.S. to ...
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The Diva of Decluttering Now Wants Us to Buy Stuff…Her Stuff

From the person who said we all have too much stuff and if you pay me some money, I\’ll show you how to get rid ...
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The Dirty Little Secret of the Furniture Business

Did you know there was an Ernest Hemingway collection of furniture? Or one inspired by Disney for kids? How about Oscar de la Renta? Ever ...
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The Day Without Yesterday

Author\’s Note: When Robin asked me to write an article for The Robin Report, he said just do it about whatever\’s important to you right ...
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As We Reach “Peak CBD,” What, If Anything, Is Really & Truly In It for Beauty Consumers?

For the past year and change, my inbox has been pelted with notices of at least – at. least. – five new cannabis-related beauty brand ...
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Can Retailers Pander to Gen Z Without Scaring Off Boomers?

It\’s easy to talk about different generations as though they are diametrically opposed. Especially when those generations are on opposite ends of the age spectrum–like ...
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