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Pier Pressure

What do you have when you’re a retailer that didn’t really know who its customers were? That had confusing, difficult-to-navigate stores…and too many of them…and ...
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A Roadmap to Innovation

Change the Culture Several major themes at the Retail Innovation Conference emerged, but one of the most dramatic was that for the largest retailer in ...
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Why Zara Wins, H&M Loses in Fast Fashion

Fast fashion is the darling of the fashion retail today. Whereas women’s clothing store sales have declined 2.7 percent from 2016-2017 in the U.S., a ...
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Kohl’s Amazon Shops Gain Traction

As posted last September in The Robin Report, I congratulated Kohl’s for having the vision to initiate a test of Amazon shops in 10 of ...
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Amazon’s Trojan Horse

Could Jeff Bezos have a new strategy for his physical retailing plans: rent rather than own? Jeff Bezos may be outsmarting the rest of the ...
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On The Firing Line

How many of you out there have been fired during the course of your career? How many of you have fired others? Having sat on ...
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Recipe for Subscription Marketing Success

Ever since the success of Dollar Shave Club, which sold to Unilever for $1 billion, the subscription marketing model is viewed as the path to ...
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Retail in Turmoil

I had a great conversation this week on a podcast with my friend and co-author, Michael Dart, who is also a partner at AT Kearney. ...
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