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Only RFID Can Solve Specialty Apparel’s Inventory Visibility Problem

Even before the dreadful coronavirus pandemic, most specialty apparel retailers were already playing a dangerous game. They continued to operate their online and brick-and-mortar businesses ...
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Dissolved: “Partnership” Between Retailers and Their Suppliers

In the wake of the most devastating period in modern American retailing history when the coronavirus pandemic shut down more than two-thirds of the stores ...
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The Dollar Stores: Exploitive or Empathetic?

Ten miles is the average distance that 90 percent of the U.S. population would have to go to reach one of Walmart\’s roughly 4,700 stores. ...
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Great reopening - Sarah Holbrook - The Robin Report

The Great Reopening?

The great American closing was straightforward. Stores, restaurants, and the bulk of the economy switched to sleep mode; waking up will be a different matter. ...
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Paco Underhill - Farmers Markets - The Robin Report

Farmers Markets During the Time of Coronavirus

In the sea of the coronavirus, I\’ve made my bi-weekly pilgrimage to the Union Square farmers market in New York for fresh food. Whatever the ...
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What Will Retail Real Estate Be Without Department Stores?

The possibility of losing one or more major department stores is looking more and more like a reality as Covid-19 wreaks havoc on these already ...
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When did Gap turn into Old Navy - The Robin Report

When Did the Gap Turn into Old Navy?

Gap is struggling. CNBC reported that Gap’s stock had fallen by more than 25% over the past year before the coronavirus outbreak. Gap’s former CEO, ...
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Good News, Bad News Times for Off-Price Retailers

For off-price stores it is a Dickensian Dilemma: the best of times and the worst of times. When physical stores start to reopen over the ...
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