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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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Discount Retailers Make a Move

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

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

“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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