Luxury Brands, Fast Fashion, Treasure Hunt, Localization, Super Value Untouchable The TJX business model is not easily copied. In fact, one could make the case ...

Activist Lightweight Attacking Children\’s Place I like being an activist myself, but a special kind.  I like attacking financial activists who assume they understand the ...

VP, Group Publisher, Women\’s Wear Daily Remembering Ralph is delightfully easy because he is delightfully unforgettable. First, as my professional colleague at WWD, and then very ...

Forget Weed, Maybe It’s Ecstasy A week ago, I suggested that Tadashi Yanai, President and CEO of Fast Retailing (parent of Uniqlo), must be smoking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...