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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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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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