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, ...

When Mark Tritton shows up for his first day of work as the new president and CEO of Bed Bath & Beyond on November 4th ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 1974, Wilson Bryan Key published Subliminal Seduction exposing the ways marketers use subconscious images to manipulate consumers, like the word \”sex\” hidden in ...