Articles on
Management
Does a Brand Need to Die Before It Can Be Resurrected?
Jasmine Glasheen
July 30, 2019
Many of the legacy brands that recently shuttered stores are relaunching under new concepts: from Milwaukee-based retailer Boston Store relaunching as an online-only brand with ...
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How Chief Medical Officers Can Help Food Retailers
David Merrefield
July 17, 2019
Imagine you\’re a retailer selling a line of product that well-informed customers increasingly perceive can confer substantial benefit on them. Well, supermarket retailers are in ...
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Walmart’s Losing Money in Its e-Commerce Business! So What?
Robin Lewis
July 9, 2019
Is Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart beginning to buckle under the pressure from last century\’s comfortable mindsets and a culture that has succeeded by doing ...
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It\’s Time for Retailers to Broadcast Their Deficiencies
Jasmine Glasheen
July 8, 2019
Radical transparency is disrupting the retail industry. In the past, retailers could pick and choose what information they shared with potential customers. However, due to ...
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Bad Experience
Warren Shoulberg
July 7, 2019
Ask any retailing expert, guru or know-it-all worth their weight in consulting fees and they will all tell you the same thing: the future of ...
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Four Pain Points Can Kill Physical Retail
Robin Lewis
June 26, 2019
Retailers still don\’t get it. How many times and in how many ways do I have to rant and rave about the one enormous competitive ...
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Creating Diets Beyond the Diet
Kate Newlin
June 23, 2019
I was interviewed the other day by a reporter for the Commercial Observer, asking me about the \”fast food\” salad chain, Sweetgreen. Described by Wikipedia: ...
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The Future of Retail Discovered in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
David J. Katz
June 19, 2019
In the 1960s, before the term \”retail experience\” existed, CEO and industry icon, Marvin Traub, created \”retail as theater\” at Bloomingdale\’s on 59th Street. Traub ...
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