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Why ‘Made in USA’ Could Really Become More of a Reality

When COVID-19 ground everyday life to a halt, the impact on the retail industry was immediate and severe. The fashion industry, which offers anywhere from ...
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Signals of a New Normal

The Robin Report recently conducted a survey among readers to check the retail industry’s pulse regarding how their business is being affected by the three ...
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Measuring the New Normal: Retail’s KPI Challenge

The media has been busy proclaiming the coming death of both the store and experiential retailing in a voice that has grown progressively louder over ...
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Retail Is Sick: It’s Time for Wellness

I recently participated in a retail webinar on wellness. My main message was that retailers limit themselves if they think of wellness just in terms ...
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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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