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Is Walmart Losing Touch with America?
Chris Walton
January 13, 2019
Nowhere was the confusion more confusing this year than in the case of Walmart. Every week Walmart appeared to be doing its damnedest to stay ...
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Macy’s: Charade on 34th Street? (Part 2)
Mark Cohen
January 9, 2019
Note: This is the second of a two-part series. The article is strictly the opinion of the author and not necessarily the viewpoint of The ...
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Amazon as The Largest Pop-Up in Distribution’s Third Wave
Robin Lewis
January 7, 2019
In the July 2004 edition of The Robin Report I wrote a prophetic article titled, Pop-Ups: Not Just Ads — Do the Poppers Get It? ...
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First, The Bad News. Then 2019: Tough, Tougher or Toughest
Robin Lewis
December 12, 2018
The state of our economy is currently a paradox of \”good\” and \”iffy\” as we enter 2019. Low unemployment and slightly rising wages do not ...
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Black Friday: Now Onward to Holiday Bells
Robin Lewis
November 28, 2018
Bah, Humbug! This dispatch is all about the Grinch lurking in what is predicted to be your best holiday sales performance in years. The Grinch ...
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Big Three Set the Table for the Future of Food
David Merrefield
November 27, 2018
As food retailing\’s big three go, so goes all of food retailing. That\’s not as extravagant a claim as it might seem. Walmart, Kroger and ...
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The Grocery/CPG Business Wakes Up to A New Reality
Warren Shoulberg
November 4, 2018
[two-thirds-first]\”It\’s cheese-moving time.\” Both the figurative and literal meanings of those words spoken by Groceryshop CEO and founder Anil Aggarwal could not have been truer ...
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Taking Stock of Ulta: With Peak Store-Saturation and Amazon Breathing Down Its Neck, Can It Continue to Rock?
Dana Wood
October 29, 2018
If you\’re a beauty retailer, it\’s unquestionably fantastic news when Kylie Jenner tweets to her 25.5 million Twitter followers about how psyched she is that ...
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