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Old Power Brands Are Asleep

Sephora Leads a Wake Up Call One thing the overly heralded tech-driven start-ups do not have is brand recognition. They do not have the indelible ...
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Stores Are the New Black

Terry Lundgren, CEO of Macy’s, borrowed this quote during his opening remarks at the University of Arizona Global Retailing Conference in Tucson back in April, ...
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Jet.com: Reefer Madness

Pardon my ‘60s pot metaphors of late.  There’s just maniacal, seemingly drug-induced behavior happening and it seems to be going viral across many industries. In ...
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There Is No Gap Déjà Vu

More Like A Slow, Sears-Like Descent To The Bottom? Glenn Murphy exits.  Art Peck takes over.  It matters not who the players are because there ...
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Small Is the Next Big Story in Retail

By now, you\’ve heard the news that Target is launching new smaller stores under the CityTargets name. Likewise, Walmart continues to introduce smaller-scale stores as ...
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Home Stores are Living Large

While everyone and his realtor knows all about McMansions and the oversizing of the Great American Home, hardly anyone is paying attention to the fact ...
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By Design: The Studio Xfinity Experience

When the Department of Commerce began tracking online sales in 1998, e-commerce made up about only 0.2 percent of all retail sales. By 2013, online ...
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Birth, Life and Death: A Retail Cycle

Rob Kaufelt walked into Murray’s Cheese on Bleecker Street in New York’s Greenwich Village in the early ’90s and noticed a sign saying the store ...
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