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Target’s Powerful Acceleration Stage
Robin Lewis
March 12, 2018
Back in August of 2016 when CEO Brian Cornell was beginning to frame his strategy for Target’s turnaround and accelerated growth, I wrote that he ...
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“Retail Store” – A Mental Barrier to Radical Behavior
Robin Lewis
March 12, 2018
Now more than ever, radical behavior is what traditional retailers need. I was fortunate last week to have met with the incoming CEO of Kohl’s, ...
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Amazon’s Luxury Beauty Play: Are They In It To Win It?
Dana Wood
February 26, 2018
In an “if a tree falls in the forest” way, is an announcement of a business alliance between two companies really an announcement if neither ...
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Retailings Game Show Pricing
Len Lewis
February 21, 2018
Warren Buffet always said, “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” That may be true in the rarified atmosphere of mergers, acquisitions ...
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Walmart’s “Last Ten Miles” – Quicker and Cheaper Than Amazon
Robin Lewis
February 21, 2018
Amazon has been struggling to decrease the cost and increase the speed of the pesky “last mile,” as it defines the last leg of delivery ...
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The Amazon Squeeze: You Choking Yet?
Robin Lewis
February 1, 2018
One painful moment will tell us when Amazon has devoured the world. As they continue to squeeze all the growth oxygen out of everybody’s lungs, ...
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Crate Expectations
Warren Shoulberg
January 23, 2018
It was the best of locations. It was the worst of decisions. With apologies to a Dickens mash-up. the news that Crate & Barrel is ...
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Product Management, Not Product
Chris Walton
January 17, 2018
Mickey Drexler, the former CEO of the Gap and J. Crew, and the man once dubbed the “Merchant Prince,” and frankly one of my iconic ...
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