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Amazon and the Parking Problem
Paco Underhill
August 28, 2017
Driving from the Jacksonville, Florida airport into downtown, you pass by one of Amazon’s new distribution centers: a mammoth building of more than a million ...
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Retails’ Core Problem
Bob Stec
August 21, 2017
Traditional retailers have been in panic mode for a while now. The shifting consumer landscape is rapidly destroying what years of sameness has built. The ...
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Amazon Brings It to You
Robin Lewis
August 16, 2017
Amazon is continually finding ways to better implement Bezos’ “last mile” (the most costly and often the slowest delivery distance from final distribution point to ...
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Surviving Merger Mania
Len Lewis
August 9, 2017
I ask retailers lot of questions and one of my favorites is, “What keeps you up at night?” One of the most telling answers came ...
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Discount Retailers Make a Move
David Merrefield
August 7, 2017
When you’re in the retail business there’s no end to the way competitors and disruptors can derail you. Online competition has to be top of ...
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Not All Retail Jobs Created Equal: Thinking Outside the Bot
Kate Newlin
July 25, 2017
One of the hot topics in business today is the “whither retail jobs” question. On the one hand, there’s a remarkable story in The New ...
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What’s Brewing Over at Ralph Lauren, and It’s More Than Ralph’s Coffee
Pam Danziger
July 12, 2017
“Double, double toil and trouble,” wrote Shakespeare, and I can’t think of a better description of the situation at Ralph Lauren Corporation. “Double, double,” refers ...
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Rough Trade
Len Lewis
June 27, 2017
Remember Ronald Reagan’s farewell address from the Oval Office? His vision of that “shining city on the hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere ...
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