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Management
Amazon, Yada, Yada, Yada
Robin Lewis
February 15, 2017
Are we having fun yet? I don’t think so. Every day, and usually more than once a day, some new tidbit about Amazon blazing new ...
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Ralph Lauren: The Great American Brand Takes a Look in the Mirror and Decides to Change
Jane Singer
February 13, 2017
Earlier this fall I ran into a friend who is well connected and well versed in the chic Manhattan universe of society, celebrity and fashion. ...
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Amazon is the New Walmart…Or Is It?
Jan Rogers Kniffen
January 30, 2017
Hey, if orange is the new black, then anything is possible. Given the impact of Amazon.com and online on traditional retailers, maybe bankruptcy is the ...
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NRF Takeaways – Education, Technology and Personalization
Marie Driscoll
January 24, 2017
1. Education Finally, retailers have come together as an industry to stem the Race to the Bottom, a phrase TRR coined in the 90s based ...
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Rallying ‘Round the Consumer
Michael Dart
January 18, 2017
A Conversation with David Campisi, CEO & President, Big Lots Big Lots is a compelling turnaround story in the off-price retail segment. Same-store sales have ...
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Asking Why Gen Y Shops the Way It Does?
Paul Conley
January 17, 2017
Many retailers have spent hours worrying about millennials. And with good reason. The generation, also known as Gen Y, has exhibited some distinctly different shopping ...
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Hit the Bricks
Dana Wood
January 11, 2017
For gutsy, focused beauty brands, freestanding stores can be lucrative showcases. While there’s little chance that the young whippersnappers swarming the 24 boutiques in Covent ...
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Unleashing the Retail Muse
Len Lewis
January 9, 2017
I am not Amish, a Luddite or one of those people who long for the simple agrarian life of the 19th century when the most ...
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