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Amazon/MGM – Not What You Think
Over the past decade I’ve been blathering on about this being the distribution century, meaning that consumers and retailers, both armed with technology, would drive ...
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Macy\’s Off-Price Gambit Is the Only Way Forward
In recent weeks, Macy\’s has resumed expanding its Backstage off-price chain, following a pause while the department store giant fought through the worst of the ...
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Inflation Worries? Not a Chance!
I feel safe aligning my economic view with that of Janet Yellen, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, ...
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NRF Holiday Forecast at Risk
For the last 25 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) has kicked off the holiday shopping season in early October with its forecast for holiday ...
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Beauty’s Shifting M&A Landscape
As a beauty journalist who came of age in the 1990s, I was shocked and a little sad to see that Perricone MD, a proto ...
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Heading into the Homestretch, It’s Sycamore by a Mile
During this whirlwind of retail bankruptcies, while the pandemic rages on with no end in sight, it should be a field day for private equity ...
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What’s Money Got to Do with It?
There are certain commonalities, trends, and uncertainties we should (hopefully) have top of mind as we take this epic journey that increasingly looks to be ...
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J.C. Penney May Survive Covid-19 (For the Wrong Reasons)
The moment of truth is nearing for J.C. Penney. The struggling department store chain faces a July 15 deadline to gain lenders\’ approval for its ...
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