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Are Your Managers Mediocre?

Store managers need to do the right things more consistently. Excellence requires discipline, resisting the urge to react, instead to proactively lead. Great stores are ...
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How Professional Resellers Are Killing the Circular Economy

We’re entering an era in which resellers compromise apparel value, rather than enhance it. Customers are competing for repurposed goods, but their intentions go beyond ...
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Uber Eats: The Robin Report Retail Hit of the Week, 6.27.26

By continuing to expand its partnerships with more and more retailers, Uber Eats is rapidly becoming the de facto leader in same day delivery services ...
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The Retail Ground Has Shifted

TRR’s special report, The Ground Has Shifted: A Framework for Retail Strategy in a Disoriented Economy, details the retail landscape of mid-2026 defined by a ...
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Amazon Prime Days: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week, 6. 20. 26

I bet we're not alone when we say we're getting a little tired of the never-ending Amazon Prime Day promotion. Data service Numerator just reported ...
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Signal or Noise? The Grey Swan Problem No One Wants to Solve

A business built around a single geography, a single distribution channel and a single supply chain scenario is not lean. It’s exposed. That is the ...
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Pros Give Home Depot and Lowe’s a Lifeline

Two giants continue to serve the average homeowner’s projects, but with the housing market stuck in neutral, Lowe’s and Home Depot are increasingly turning their ...
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Are Your ORC Forensics Up to Date?

Join Shelley and Gary Sankary, Retail Lead at Esri, as they discuss risk assessment and reveal the strategies and forensics tools retailers can use to ...
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