Articles on
Management
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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Ongoing Transformation
Michael Dart
January 3, 2017
A Conversation with Eric Wiseman, CEO of VF Corporation “Businesses that thrive over time are generally great at changing,” says Eric Wiseman, CEO of VF ...
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Cupcakes Worth Waiting For
Jane Singer
January 2, 2017
I called Two Little Red Hens, my go-to bakery, to order four or five dozen mini-cupcakes for a holiday party I was giving on December ...
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Is Bigger Better?
Robin Lewis
December 28, 2016
A Conversation with Ken Hicks, former CEO, Foot Locker Conventional wisdom in the retail industry today is that smaller stores are better—they better fit into ...
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Campbell’s Soup: Old World? I Don’t Think So
Robin Lewis
November 14, 2016
By the way, there’s a strategy point and breakthrough concept for everyone in this article. Campbell Soup Company is a first-mover in the implementation of ...
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