The World’s Largest Counterfeit Market One can find fake or counterfeit brands in shops and on the streets of every major city in the world. ...

Hey! It’s a Store in Every Closet As if the traditional industry’s beaten and battered retailers don’t already have enough angst sitting on top of ...

Last week, the fiber, textile and apparel industry lost one of its most revered leaders and a dear friend of all. Bruce Roberts was a ...

Charade is a nice way of describing what I believe to be the biggest issue in mainstream retailing today. The charade? “Spinmeistering,” including many of ...

Here is one more glaring example of the absurd and frankly, stupid “short-termism” of Wall Street and the investment community.  Doug McMillon, Walmart’s relatively new ...

Retailers Must Hope for a Lot of Blind-Hope Consumers It’s speculation season again, a time to hope that consumers will temporarily forget about the economic mess around the ...

Primark’s value proposition sets the pricing bar so low that it will be almost impossible for competitors to crawl under it. And, they’ve set the ...

If So, Is Stefan Larsson Up to Chief Navigator? Let’s take a minute and talk about the three major storm fronts that seem to be ...