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Amazon’s Migraine: Walmart

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

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

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

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?”

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?

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

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

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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