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New Omnichannel Opportunity from Covid-Complicated Fulfillment
Omnichannel fulfillment has always been a challenge for retailers and its complexity is only growing. Covid-19 changed our world and retailers have faced renewed difficulty ...
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What Do You Do If Your Big Box is Empty?
Somewhere, in that great classroom in the sky, Adam Smith is standing there behind his lectern, saying “I told you so.” As you probably may ...
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Are You Willing to Give Up Your Career?
Is anybody else waking up in the morning now thinking “What is it that I do and will I still be doing the same thing ...
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Lowe\’s Latest Move in Its Battle with Home Depot
It’s not easy being number two. Ask Avis or Pepsi…or for that matter Gimbel’s. Second place been the retail cross that Lowe’s has had to ...
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Retail as It Was, Destroyed in One Decade
There was a meeting at FIT in the Fall of 2009 themed the CEO Roundtable. It was an urgent gathering of many of the major ...
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Off-Price is Dead-On When It Comes to Store Expansion
A funny thing happened on the way to Retailageddon: they forgot to tell some retailers. And while there’s no denying the past year has been ...
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Walmart’s $350 Billion Impossible Dream
Do the math: Walmart says that over the next decade it wants to move $350 billion of its merchandise buying activity to American-made products. Easier ...
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Is Amazon Awesome…Apocalyptic…or Disruption 2.0?
Amazon as awesome or apocalyptic is a trick question. The answer requires a distinction of Amazon being awesome or apocalyptic to whom and why. If ...
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