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Retail: One Piece in the U.S.-China Trade War Puzzle

Retailers are battening down the hatches, preparing for a tsunami of tariff-related price increases that are threatening their businesses and consumers\’ pocketbooks. According to an ...
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Next up for Amazon…Fashion

On a busy Saturday, the radio was tuned to a cultural trivia game show called Ask Me Another. The segment I heard was called \”Closing ...
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Retailers Are Relying on the Wrong Numbers to Tell the State of Business – Here’s How to Get Them Right

As a market researcher, I have always been intrigued by what is known as the \”observer effect,\” whereby the mere observation of a phenomenon changes ...
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Down-Market Luxury Brands Trudge Their Way Back Upstream

It\’s a challenging market for luxury brands. Although the United States is still estimated to be the global leader in luxury goods, the luxury market ...
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Target Leverages the Physical Store

Great strategy is one thing; implementing it is another. I hear the leaders of many of the great retail icons deliver great strategies. They are ...
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Why Those Store Closing Numbers Are so Very Misleading

The sky is falling…but it\’s really not. Amidst all the doom-and-gloom about the death of physical retailing and the demise of oh-so-many stores, it turns ...
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Retail by Design

Note: Kevin Roche was a featured speaker at The Robin Report Columbia Business School Annual Forum, Thriving in a Digital Economy, held on campus in ...
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The Robin Report - Jasmine Glasheen

What Comes After the Thrifting Trend?

Thrifting has taken over. The resale market has grown at 21x the pace of the mainstream apparel market in the last three years, and more ...
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