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Specialty Retail’s Reformation
Ken Hewes
December 13, 2020
Being declared nonessential during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns perfectly captures the literal truth about mall-based specialty retail. In fact, specialty stores only exist in the ...
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Will LVMH Recreate an Identity for Tiffany?
Anthony DeMarco
December 8, 2020
At some point in the last decade, the great American luxury retailer Tiffany & Co. lost its identity. Its many attempts to redefine its brand ...
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A Smaller Nordstrom Footprint
Adam Levine-Weinberg
December 2, 2020
Retail analysts and executives have long known that the U.S. is \”overstored,\” with far more retail space per capita than other countries. More specifically, one ...
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Grey Is the New Black
Shelley E. Kohan
November 26, 2020
An increasing number of major brick-and-mortar retailers-led by Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and The Home Depot-will not open their doors on Thanksgiving, giving employees the ...
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Can Off-Price Retail Recover from Covid-19?
Adam Levine-Weinberg
November 15, 2020
Over the past quarter-century, the growth of off-price has been one of the biggest long-term retail trends in the U.S. Neither the 2000 tech bust ...
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JC Penney: Another Rescue Effort
Eric Hertz
November 3, 2020
Alas…JCPenney was rescued from Chapter 11 by two of its largest landlords this week. Simon Property Group and Brookfield Asset Management now have the responsibility ...
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Coronavirus Shakes Up and Reshapes the Retail Ecosystem
Shelley E. Kohan
November 1, 2020
The pandemic that took the U.S. retail market by storm in March changed how consumers shop and will have long-term effects on the retail industry. ...
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JC Penney: Too Big to Fail
Robin Lewis
October 18, 2020
I\’m no Andrew Sorkin, who given the chance, could probably make another blockbuster book, Too Big to Fail: JCP the Sequel. However, he would probably ...
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