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Nordstrom 57th Street Opening Night
Paco Underhill
October 27, 2019
A cast of thousands mostly well-dressed New Yorkers poured into Nordstrom\’s on 57th Street and Broadway on opening night to celebrate and examine the new ...
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Costco’s Ancillary Services Are a Poster Child for the Future
Robin Lewis
October 22, 2019
Costco\’s ancillary services strategy is a major traffic and membership builder, which they continue to expand on, particularly gas stations. It\’s also a big business, ...
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11 Lessons Learned from Target (and a few others) the New CEO at Bed Bath & Beyond Will Need to Apply
Warren Shoulberg
October 20, 2019
When Mark Tritton shows up for his first day of work as the new president and CEO of Bed Bath & Beyond on November 4th ...
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Forever 21: Cut Your Losses and Die Happily
Robin Lewis
October 9, 2019
Of course, Forever 21 is now on life support. On January 28, 2015, I wrote an article titled \”Uniqlo and Forever 21: What Are They ...
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Gender Norms in Retail Alienate Gen Z
Jasmine Glasheen
October 8, 2019
The dissolution of gender norms is one of the most contentious topics in retail today. Next-gen consumers see gender as a construct. Generation Z and ...
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To Your Health: Retailers See It as the Cure for Business
Warren Shoulberg
October 7, 2019
Health\’R\’Us? In an age when something like 20 percent of the American population is over the age of 65, and twice that number say health ...
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Everything Old is New Again, Retailers! Time to Imagine Reimagining?
Kate Newlin
October 5, 2019
I wrote Shopportunity! in 2006 as a plea to retailers and fashion brands to stop discounting the value of their wares. I pointed out the ...
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Is Marc Lore a Walmart Dilemma?
Robin Lewis
October 2, 2019
In my article in July of this year, I opened with a question, \”Is Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart beginning to buckle under the pressure ...
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