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What Do Closings of Bose And Papyrus Stores Say About Physical Retailing?
Warren Shoulberg
January 26, 2020
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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NRF 2020: It’s a New Decade and We’ve Finally Put the Retail Apocalypse to Bed
Sarah Holbrook
January 22, 2020
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
Pam Danziger
January 19, 2020
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
Warren Shoulberg
December 10, 2019
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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Autos, Apparel and Resale
Robin Lewis
December 8, 2019
When the race to the bottom hits…well, the bottom (read: when there are no more costs to cut and when pricing cuts into margins) there ...
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Peloton Outpaces SoulCycle: What this Means for Retail
Jasmine Glasheen
December 3, 2019
Peloton is giving the cult of SoulCycle a run for their money. A quick debriefing for the uninitiated: Peloton is an at-home stationary exercise bike ...
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High-Spending HENRYs Will Pull Holiday Retail Out This Year
Pam Danziger
November 7, 2019
I\’m the first to admit that I am skeptical about the overly optimistic holiday sales forecasts that are filling my inbox. This year I am ...
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Retailers Companies Must Make Weather Work for Them not Against Them
Pam Danziger
October 28, 2019
We’ve all heard it thousands of times in earnings calls. “Unfavorable weather conditions” are a popular excuse as to why sales are down, and profits ...
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