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What Can Today’s Retailers Learn from the Captain of the Titanic? Plenty.

It may not be as bad as it seems. Despite the painful passing and decline of retail industry stalwarts including Linens \’n Things, RadioShack, The ...
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The Cultural Mic Drop: Harnessing the Power of When

It takes precise intuition to own a conversation these days. In a sea of re-tweets and short-lived news cycles, there is power in making a ...
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The Feel Better Store

The legal cannabis business is opening up new doors for recreation as well as the healthcare industry. Just below the retail radar screen of Walmart ...
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Happy Days Are Here Again? Redux or the Folly of Fools?

It\’s appropriate and timely to speculate on the sustainability of all the wonderful U.S. economic news coming out at the end of the second quarter ...
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The New Drug Cartel

When I was 12 years old I got my first job working at the corner drug store, stocking shelves and making deliveries. After a few ...
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Field Report from the Frontiers of Shopping

The airport in Doha, Qatar is packed at midnight. The arrivals hall has a huge yellow teddy bear in the center. Duty free stores are ...
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Which Retailers Get Passing Grades in The Back-to Campus Business?

Most retailers have fully embraced the short season of offering home merchandise to kids heading back to college. However, it’s an educational process. If you ...
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Innovation for the Risk-Averse Retail Radical

Micro-Risks The Lean Startup approach, based on the book by Eric Ries, is about starting small and testing until your ideas are fully baked. The ...
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