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Black Friday is Dead

Long in a state of decline, 2020 provided the final nail in the coffin to kill off Black Friday as we have known it. While ...
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The Mattress Business Gets Woke

Ever since they put that pea under the princess\’s mattress a long, long time ago the bedding business has been pretty sleepy… and yes, the ...
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An Evolutionary Reinvention of Retail

PrePan…Pan…Not-Yet-PostPan. What does the world of retail look like now? What did we learn? What did we let go of …and what changed us? Here\’s ...
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Why Nordstrom Needs to Go Home

You know the expression \”Go Big…or Go Home?\” Well, for Nordstrom, it\’s more like \”Go Home…and Go Big.\” As the upscale department store faces the ...
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Specialty Retail’s Reformation

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?

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

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

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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