The home furnishings industry, if you’ll excuse the expression, is scared silly. Virtually every product that you plug in, sleep on, dry yourself off with, ...

Imagine if Home Depot and Whole Foods decided to open a store together…and got Deepak Chopra to run it. What you’d have is something not ...

A friend wanted to recreate a delicious pasta dish we had in Sicily last spring. It was a strozzapreti—“strangled priest” or “priest strangler,” an elongated ...

Hey kids, let’s start a new retail business. First off, let’s go after Amazon, the most ginormous startup in retailing history and the 800-pound gorilla ...

The long-anticipated merger of two powerhouse European supermarket operators finally happened this summer. The merger of the two firms—Ahold of The Netherlands and Delhaize of ...

The end of the beauty-retail “starchitect” era is upon us. And nudging it out the door is Christopher Skinner, a buzzy young brand-builder who cut ...

Should supermarket executives start ripping out their hair in despair because of Amazon’s new Amazon Go food-store format in Seattle? Well, judging by some of ...

In the ultra-competitive world of retail, sometimes innovation and a sustained competitive advantage can be hard to find. Especially when it comes to winning the ...