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Tim Baxter: Insights from a Retail Visionary

Reimagining the retail model has often been a fool’s errand, constrained by resources and lack of imagination. Short-term goals often cloud the vision required to ...
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Chip Wilson: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week, 3.14.26

Chip Wilson is an ex-retailer, ever since he sold and then gave up control of the company he founded, Lululemon. It was a brilliant retail ...
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Lead Like Her: Marcy Schaffir, Turnaround Legend

Marcy is a customer-centric strategist and innovator; founder of Schaffir Consulting in 2022 she has been one of the most successful leaders in the industry ...
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How Barnes & Noble Made a Comeback

The Barnes & Noble strategy of deferring to local taste over stock-wide uniformity and treating stores as community hubs rather than depots of inventory stands ...
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Richard Baker: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week, 2.27.26

OK, play it again one more time. At first, I thought I was reading the satirical Onion when I saw an interview with former Saks/Neiman’s/HBC/Lord & Taylor/etc., self-styled ...
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Southdale Center Turns 70; Then What? 

Repositioning malls from single-purpose points of transaction into dynamic community forums promoting human interaction is the sustainable reinvention of irrelevant malls. But, given the ginormous ...
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The Only Female Leader in the Room Becomes a Disruptive Tech CEO

Melissa Gonzalez didn't plan to revolutionize retail. The Principal and founder of MG2 and author of The Purpose Pivot, left her Wall Street career for ...
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Walmart: The Robin Report Retail Hit of the Week, 2.7.2026

Take that Amazon and Google and all the rest of you entitled Magnificent Seven: You've got a new trillionaire member, and it’s not another tech ...
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