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Retail’s Growing Channel…Recommerce

Although companies have been talking about sustainability and the circular economy for years, and retailers have been trying to make the production process more sustainable, ...
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The New Asian Invasion: How Miniso and Daiso Are Reinventing the Dollar Store Concept

The urban legend in the retailing business is that the precious space surrounding checkout lanes and around cash registers represent the most productive sales-per-square-inch territory ...
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As Amazon Closes Bookstores, B&N Bounces Back: A Sweet Irony

What did I tell you a couple of weeks ago? I’ll remind you. I said the reason Amazon was closing most of their physical retail ...
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Measuring Offline Traffic is Critical to Retail Success

In the dynamic world of retail, regularly quantifying and characterizing traffic – online and offline – is key to tracking performance. While most retailers understand ...
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The “Re” in Retailing Now Stands for Repurposing

Retailers have been remerchandising their stores almost since the invention of the SKU. But reinvention to take them beyond just places where shoppers buy things ...
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Macy’s Solid Plan…on Agile Footing

At last week’s JP Morgan Chase Annual Retail Roundup, Macy’s CFO Adrian Mitchell laid out a very clear-eyed path forward, recognizing the obstacles and issues. ...
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Discounting, Sustainability, and the Grey Economy: A Reconciliation

How do we reconcile consumers’ sustainability obsession with booming off-price sales? Recent data from Meta show that consumers are 1.3 times more likely to purchase ...
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Old Anti-Union Tactics Will Not Work with Today’s Workforce

Amazon workers’ recent warehouse unionization win Is one small step for workers and one giant leap for labor unions. Christian Smalls, a former Amazon employee ...
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