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Five Forces Shaping Retail’s Post-Pandemic Future
Ken Hewes
April 28, 2020
This is a precarious time for all retailers, but particularly those deemed non-essential: Inventories are piled up and on-orders slashed; relationships with suppliers, landlords and ...
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Food Retailing and Our New Fate
David Merrefield
April 12, 2020
When it comes to retailing, maybe the most unexpected surprise is that food retailing is just about the only enterprise that remains more or less ...
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Coronavirus: The Changing of the Guards, Still Not the Apocalypse
Jasmine Glasheen
April 1, 2020
The retail industry is in such a tumultuous state that it has most of us remembering fondly when we could call a few department store ...
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Lemons to Lemonade
Mark Cohen
March 31, 2020
It\’s increasingly clear even to those with their heads in the sand (or somewhere else where their vision is impaired) that this pandemic is the ...
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Get Lots of Cash Now!!!!
Robin Lewis
March 29, 2020
As a reader of The Robin Report, you are a knowledgeable and Important participant of the retail and related industries, and many of you are ...
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Food Fight: Self Feeding Shortages
David Merrefield
March 18, 2020
Is it time to panic? The answer isn\’t farther than your nearest supermarket. You\’ll find that shoppers are voting with their shopping carts. Driven by ...
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How Do You Measure Consumer Engagement?
Daniel Hodges
March 15, 2020
According to the experts, the coronavirus pandemic will end at a time of its own choosing. How do retailers adjust to business in the post-coronavirus ...
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Econovirus: An Ironic Opportunity
Robin Lewis and Margaret Bishop
March 11, 2020
Econovirus opportunity: and I\’m not talking about investing in opportunistic products like toilet paper, hand sanitizers and bleach. I\’m not talking about an ironic opportunistic ...
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