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Putting Black Friday 2022 in Context
Shira Petrack
December 12, 2022
Last year saw a resurgence of retail foot traffic, as consumers were excited by the easing of Covid restrictions and looking to spend their stimulus ...
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One Size Does Not Fit All at Ikea Anymore
Warren Shoulberg
December 11, 2022
Ikea, the retailer known for those gargantuan shopping emporiums out on the edge of town, is in the midst of a retail reinvention to rethink ...
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Chexit: The Great March Out of China
Warren Shoulberg
November 28, 2022
You could call it the ultimate Chinese take-out order: American companies are in the process of an unprecedented migration out of China, seeking new places ...
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How Web3, NFTs & the Metaverse Fit in With Fashion
Catherine Schetting Salfino
November 27, 2022
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) recently announced it will be celebrating its upcoming 60th anniversary by “looking to the future” with a ...
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This is How Fashion Can Help America Recycle
Catherine Schetting Salfino
November 14, 2022
The slogan “reduce, reuse, recycle” has been around for decades. But it’s only more recently that the fashion industry has begun examining how such actions ...
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Miss Martha Is Still in the Thick of It All
Warren Shoulberg
November 13, 2022
In the song “Martha, My Dear,” the Beatles sing “When you find yourself in the thick of it, help yourself to a bit of what ...
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What Is Shein’s Physical Store Strategy?
Robin Lewis
November 8, 2022
For those millennial and Gen Z readers who comprise the group of frenzied addicts of the hottest of hot Shein fast-fashion brand, there’s good news ...
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Furniture Tricks & Treats in High Point
Warren Shoulberg
October 31, 2022
Halloween came early this year for the furniture industry which wrapped up its twice-yearly market in North Carolina earlier in October. The tricks were plentiful ...
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