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Pam Danziger - Amazon’s Luxury Folly - The Robin Report

Amazon’s Luxury Folly

No question, every successful entrepreneur has a certain amount of madness and the more successful they are, the madder. Using that measure, Jeff Bezos, who ...
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The Next Wave of Wellbeing

For nearly a century, retailers and other businesses have relied on television advertising to promote their products. And while advertising for some customers has been ...
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A Shiny Penney Opens Amidst the Tarnish

Imagine a JC Penney store where the layout is modern and cool, where there are extras like hair salons, shoe repair, video games, copious seating ...
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Field Notes from the Midwest

There was a bright light shining during the post-holiday mall doldrums in St. Louis, Missouri. This midwestern city (full disclosure, my hometown) is constantly reinventing ...
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Doing It Right: Mixed Use Retail Spaces for Millennials

It\’s time that retailers learn what real estate investors already know: Mixed use retail spaces are the mall of the future. Mixed use retail spaces ...
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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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