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Why Banana Republic, Boll & Branch and Others May Have Picked the Wrong Time to Get into Furniture
Warren Shoulberg
November 1, 2023
During the pandemic, American consumers bought furniture like they didn’t have a stick of the stuff in their homes. Ever since, not so much. Among ...
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Best Buy Sounds the Death Knell for DVD and Blu-ray
Arick Wierson
October 26, 2023
After the upcoming holidays, around the time when retailers bid goodbye to garlands, Christmas décor and the occasional Menorah, Best Buy will be removing DVDs ...
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Grand Theft Retail? Maybe…Maybe Not
Warren Shoulberg
October 24, 2023
It’s the retail crisis du jour: Crime.  Specifically, in-store theft and robberies are what the industry still refers to as shrinkage. Theft seems to be ...
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Are Major Drug Chains Losing It to Walmart?
Warren Shoulberg
October 19, 2023
For years, the big national drug chains led by the biggest of the big – Walgreens, CVS and the now bankrupt Rite-Aid – have been ...
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Luxury Brands Expand U.S. Footprint: Good Thing or Too Much of a Good Thing?
Pam Danziger
October 17, 2023
Luxury retailers leased a record-breaking 650,000 square feet of retail space last year, according to a new report from JLL. Turning their attention stateside, luxury ...
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America Isn’t Ready to Say Goodbye to Tupperware…Just Yet
Arick Wierson
October 3, 2023
Way back in May of this year – I know that’s only a few months ago but with the entirety of summer sandwiched in between ...
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Breakthrough Technology Shifts Circularity
Mark Faithfull
October 2, 2023
Cyndi Rhoades is the CEO of UK-based Worn Again and she believes that the inherently unsustainable fast fashion industry can be sustainable, and more importantly, ...
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New York Not Exactly Going to Pot
Warren Shoulberg
September 27, 2023
New York State legalized the sale of recreational marijuana in April 2021. But now, nearly 30 months later, anyone trying to buy legal pot in ...
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