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How Cotton Can Help Protect the Planet
Unlike synthetic, petroleum-based textiles like polyester, nylon and acrylic, which produce microplastic pollution and can take hundreds of years to decompose, cotton biodegrades quickly, something ...
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Why Banana Republic, Boll & Branch and Others May Have Picked the Wrong Time to Get into Furniture
During the pandemic, American consumers bought furniture like they didn’t have a stick of the stuff in their homes. Ever since, not so much. Among ...
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Best Buy Sounds the Death Knell for DVD and Blu-ray
After the upcoming holidays, around the time when retailers bid goodbye to garlands, Christmas décor and the occasional Menorah, Best Buy will be removing DVDs ...
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Grand Theft Retail? Maybe…Maybe Not
It’s the retail crisis du jour: Crime. Specifically, in-store theft and robberies are what the industry still refers to as shrinkage. Theft seems to be ...
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Are Major Drug Chains Losing It to Walmart?
For years, the big national drug chains led by the biggest of the big – Walgreens, CVS and the now bankrupt Rite-Aid – have been ...
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Luxury Brands Expand U.S. Footprint: Good Thing or Too Much of a Good Thing?
Luxury retailers leased a record-breaking 650,000 square feet of retail space last year, according to a new report from JLL. Turning their attention stateside, luxury ...
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America Isn’t Ready to Say Goodbye to Tupperware…Just Yet
Way back in May of this year – I know that’s only a few months ago but with the entirety of summer sandwiched in between ...
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Breakthrough Technology Shifts Circularity
Cyndi Rhoades is the CEO of UK-based Worn Again and she believes that the inherently unsustainable fast fashion industry can be sustainable, and more importantly, ...
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