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Over the River and Through the Woods…to Black Friday We Go

The sleighs are ready and waiting for a Black Friday kickoff. But hold on a second! This is old world thinking. A retail expert, who ...
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The Children’s Place – A Case Study For Winning

There’s such a dark cloud of bad news for most general merchandise and apparel retailers today that when I examined how The Children’s Place rose ...
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Toy Story…the Sequel

The game isn’t quite over…but the fun has certainly stopped. As Toys”R”Us slogs through what looks like a fling with bankruptcy, it once again points ...
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Transforming Retail to (R)Tech

Over the centuries, retail has blossomed into an industry that supports millions of store employees, tens of millions of people in ancillary industries, and hundreds ...
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Amazon and the Parking Problem

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

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

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

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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