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Only RFID Can Solve Specialty Apparel’s Inventory Visibility Problem
Marshall Kay
June 16, 2020
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
Warren Shoulberg
June 15, 2020
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?
Robin Lewis
June 10, 2020
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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The Great Reopening?
Sarah Holbrook
May 19, 2020
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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Farmers Markets During the Time of Coronavirus
Paco Underhill
May 18, 2020
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?
Rebecca Fitts
May 17, 2020
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 the Gap Turn into Old Navy?
Jasmine Glasheen
May 11, 2020
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
Warren Shoulberg
May 4, 2020
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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