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Management
Fixing Macy\’s: Possible and Impossible Solutions
Adam Levine-Weinberg
July 21, 2020
Macy\’s was struggling even before the Covid-19 pandemic decimated fashion retailers, with profitability falling almost continuously since peaking in 2014. Earlier this year, management announced ...
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Can Bed Bath & Beyond Recover…And How Will They Do It?
Warren Shoulberg
July 19, 2020
Perhaps no American retailer\’s fall from grace has been as swift or dramatic as has Bed Bath & Beyond\’s. Legacy retailers like JC Penney and ...
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Crate & Barrel Has a New CEO
Warren Shoulberg
July 8, 2020
Here\’s a fascinating development in retailing: Replace a good merchant with another good merchant. What a concept. Crate & Barrel, the iconic lifestyle home furnishings ...
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Shoptalk Meetup: Another First from Anil Aggarwal
Robin Lewis
June 29, 2020
Shoptalk Meetup was announced less than two weeks ago and with more than 2,000 attendees from over 1,000 companies registered, it\’s already the fall\’s largest ...
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It’s Now or Never for Wayfair
Warren Shoulberg
June 24, 2020
You can find just about anything for your home on Wayfair.com. But what you can\’t find is any black ink. In the middle of what ...
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Beauty Gets Ugly
Dana Wood
June 17, 2020
Admittedly it was a very \”Barbie In Her Beauty Bubble\” stance to take, but this was my first thought when Forbes dropped its \”Kylie Jenner ...
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Pandemic Planning Is No Panacea
Shelley E. Kohan
June 14, 2020
Business continuity planning alone is not enough to survive a global pandemic. There is no amount of planning that could have prepared retailers for what ...
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Under Armour: More Than a Covid-19 Bump
Robin Lewis
June 2, 2020
Let\’s hear it one more time: Those who were at-risk before Covid-19 are more likely to succumb and die from it. And Under Armour came ...
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