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The Future of Air

First, a Word from Robin Lewis While we typically choose articles more directly related to the major events of the day occurring in retail and ...
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Reflections from an Ex-Urban

Suburban Stories In our post-pan world, the choices of where and how we spend our money have changed. The inequities of our American culture are ...
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NRF’s Confounding Holiday Growth Pronouncement

Early in the morning, just as soon as the Census Department released its Advanced Monthly Retail Trade Survey for December 2020, I took a cursory ...
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The New Consumer Faces an Anxious Future

Conventional wisdom insists the world as we’ve come to know it this past year balances precariously on a polarizing precipice: economic instability vs. the stock ...
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That Was the Year That Was…and Wasn’t

The genesis of the state of the retail industry today in the U.S. began about a quarter century ago as a slowly rolling transformation resulting ...
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Opinion: Do Prestige Beauty Brands Need to Pivot?

As an industry observer for many decades, I believe the prestige sector of the $532 billion global beauty industry is desperately working to find new ...
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Amazon and Walmart Go Deeper into Apparel: But Why?

While retail sales of apparel were getting hammered before Covid was even part of our common vocabulary, it soared to the rank of number-one loser ...
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For Whom the Retail Bell Tolls

Recent news headline: Retail CEO announces that luxe retail is the new normal. Another recent news headline: Real estate empresario comments on how overbuilt and ...
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