Articles on
Management
Amazon’s Migraine: Walmart
Robin Lewis
November 21, 2019
Let me start with Walmart\’s Q3 2019 results, which by now, you are aware of. I will repeat the highlights only as a segue way ...
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Stop Planning for Gen Z: They Have Arrived and This Is Where to Find Them
Sarah Holbrook
November 19, 2019
It begins now. The elders of the generation labeled \”Z\” will enter the active consumer class in 2020. This generation, born between 1996 and 2010 ...
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Kohl’s Returns to Manhattan
Deborah Patton
November 13, 2019
One thing you can guarantee, put a pop-up in New York City, and they will come. In droves, actually. Kohl\’s came to town, albeit briefly, ...
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McKinsey Launches a Flashy New Store
Chris Walton
November 12, 2019
Late in September, McKinsey & Company, the famed consulting firm that every year hires left-brained Ivy League MBAs off campuses like a drug addiction, went ...
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Is Kevin Plank Into “Alt-Facts?”
Robin Lewis
November 6, 2019
I wrote an article on February 22, 2017, commenting on Under Armour\’s Q4 results that year. I reported, \”His (CEO Kevin Plank), steady stream of ...
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When Will You Take Back Control?
Deborah Patton
November 5, 2019
What business are you in? This has become the existential crisis of retail. Talk to digital natives and they\’ll tell you in no uncertain terms ...
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Nordstrom\’s Love Song to New York
Deborah Patton
October 28, 2019
Nordstrom\’s first day in business on Manhattan\’s West Side was a well-behaved, well-dressed mob scene of customers who were making the most of every shopping ...
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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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