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DAvid Merrefield - Food Shortages - The Robin Report

Food Fight: Self Feeding Shortages

Is it time to panic? The answer isn\’t farther than your nearest supermarket. You\’ll find that shoppers are voting with their shopping carts. Driven by ...
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How Do You Measure Consumer Engagement?

According to the experts, the coronavirus pandemic will end at a time of its own choosing. How do retailers adjust to business in the post-coronavirus ...
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Econovirus: An Ironic Opportunity

Econovirus opportunity: and I\’m not talking about investing in opportunistic products like toilet paper, hand sanitizers and bleach. I\’m not talking about an ironic opportunistic ...
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Is Amazon Finally on Its Way Out?

Amazon is the most controversial retailer of the modern era. It has become many consumers\’ guilty default for convenience purchases. In fact, 49 percent of ...
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Trade Shows canceled Coronavirus - The Robin Report

Industry Trade Shows Wary of What Happens Next

The Covid-19 coronavirus claimed another victim last week: The Inspired Home Show, the largest U.S. trade show for the housewares and related industries. Show organizers ...
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Whole Foods: Amazon’s Huge Mistake - Robin Lewis

Whole Foods: Amazon’s Huge Mistake

At some point just around the birth of Amazon, Jeff Bezos said he must get big fast, (to own unreachable market share ahead of copycats) ...
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Sarah Holbrook - Eco Policy Gets Mainstreamed - The Robin Report

Eco Policy Gets Mainstreamed

We like our decade benchmarks. In 1961, JFK had his end-of-the-decade moonshot. Now after a stretch of corporate shoulder shrugging and lip service, CEO after ...
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Warren Shoulberg - The Robin Report - Bed Bath and Beyond - Tritton

Hey Mark, What About the Stores?

Mark Tritton most certainly learned a lot of good things during his three-plus-year tenure at Target where he helped lead one of the most impressive ...
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