Articles on
Operations
Why ‘Made in USA’ Could Really Become More of a Reality
Catherine Schetting Salfino
July 14, 2020
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
Robin Lewis
July 7, 2020
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
Rich Pedott
July 1, 2020
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
Pam Danziger
June 23, 2020
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
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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