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Beyond Recycling: How to Mend Apparel’s Unsustainable Ways - Judith Russell - The Robin Report

The Next Industrial Revolution

Over 250 years ago the textile industry was the catalyst of the Industrial Revolution. It’s time for the industry to start an environmental one. In ...
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Judith Ruseell - Beyond Recycling: How to Mend Apparel’s Unsustainable Ways - The Robin Report

Beyond Recycling: How to Mend Apparel’s Unsustainable Ways

Ask any consumer how to be more environmentally conscious when buying apparel, and he or she will almost certainly tell you to buy products made ...
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Shoulberg - Coronavirus - The Robin Report

The Chinese Supply Chain for U.S. Goods Is About to Get Unhinged

It\’s May 1, 2020 — do you know where your goods are? For retailers and the vendors who supply them, the calendar may only read ...
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David Merrefield - Walgreens - Kroger Alliance - The Robin Report

The Strange Ever-Growing Walgreens-Kroger Alliance

The Walgreens and Kroger alliance started nearly a year and a half ago when these two retailers agreed that a selection of Kroger private brand ...
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ShouldbergW-Papyrus Bose Closing

What Do Closings of Bose And Papyrus Stores Say About Physical Retailing?

At first glance, the two couldn\’t be more different. One sold high tech audio equipment, the other stylish, nostalgic paper products. One was a pioneer ...
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Sarah Holdbrook - NRF 2020: It’s a New Decade and We’ve Finally Put the Retail Apocalypse to Bed - The Robin Report

NRF 2020: It’s a New Decade and We’ve Finally Put the Retail Apocalypse to Bed

In early January, the global retail tribe marched past the Hudson Yards\’ towers, the Vessel, The Shed and construction cranes to cloister themselves in the ...
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Harnessing Retail’s Girl Power

We\’ve all heard the statistics: Women account or influence between 70-to-80 percent of all household spending. In retail, women outnumber men on the sales floor ...
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A Look at the DCs

One can imagine headlines about the death of retailing a few generations ago when discount stores first burst upon the scene and supplanted long-standing department ...
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