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How Fashion Looks Inward During Climate Week
Now that New York Fashion Week has wrapped, the city is experiencing Climate Week NYC. And while the former event is full of glamor and ...
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Is 2022 Back-to-School Back to Normal?
It may seem like only yesterday that you heard kids singing, “No more pencils, no more books…” but here we are again deep into the ...
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Victoria’s Secret: Is a Turnaround Possible?
I coined the phrase, “positioning drift” to define the collapse of A&F about eight years ago, following about 25 years of incredible growth under the ...
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Claims Abuse and Fraud: Bigger than Chargebacks?
The uptick in ecommerce has inspired many trends for businesses of all sizes and stripes —and not all of them are positive. While most omnichannel ...
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Amazon and the Big Boxes
Amazon’s Anguish The “defining” pure-play ecommerce behemoth Amazon flourished over its first two decades, despite lacking storefronts and retail real estate. But that was then. ...
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More is More for Expanding Home Stores
Don’t believe everything you read about the home furnishings business having fallen off the cliff and can’t climb back up. Plenty of big retailing companies ...
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Key Merchandising Strategies for Economic Uncertainty
We keep hearing about the impending recession which would mean a pull back in consumer demand just in time for the holiday season. But recent ...
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Inventory Apocalypse
As the famed retail icon, Mickey Drexler once said, “Inventory is the enemy of every retailer in the world.” And in today’s totally unknown and ...
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