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It\’s the Distribution Century, and Macy\’s Gets it
It’s coming guys. It’s looming large. And Macy’s $210 million acquisition of the Bluemercury spa and beauty chain indicates that they see it, and are ...
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Shoppable’s “Distributed Commerce”
The Ultimate In Preemptive Distribution In my co-authored book, The New Rules of Retail, one of the new rules is preemptive distribution. Simply stated, it ...
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Uniqlo and Forever 21: What Are They Smoking?
I don’t know if “weed” is legal yet where CEO Tadashi Yanai, (Tokyo-based Fast Retailing Company, including the Uniqlo brand), or CEO Don Chang, (Los ...
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Not Your Grandmother\’s Neiman\’s
Neiman Marcus is not wasting any time as it marches into the new frontier, or the “wild west,” as many are calling it. And it’s ...
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Richard Baker Is Smarter than Eddie…or Is He?
Now that Eddie “sell the assets” Lampert is turning his dying retail business into a real estate play, he should retain Richard Baker as a ...
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Michael Jeffries – A&F Genius Rides Into The Sunset
Michael Jeffries is no Gary Cooper by any stretch of the imagination. When Cooper rode into the sunset, he was leaving behind whatever victory he ...
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The Bottom Is Near: Thanks to the Millennials
It came in with a bang! And it will end with a whimper. I’m talking about the now over-used phrase “the race to the bottom” ...
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Sears\’ Last Gasp: In the Asset Leasing and Loan Business
I thought I wrote the final word and all that was worth saying two weeks ago about the inevitable collapse of Sears in my article ...
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