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ABG, SPARC and JCP Fading Into The Sunset
Robin Lewis
June 2, 2021
Great brands don’t die, they just fade away. And where do they go to expire? Authentic Brands Group, of course. Talk about rolling up a ...
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SPARC: A Losing Combo
Robin Lewis
May 12, 2021
SPARC: Maybe this acronym for the Simon Property Authentic Brands Retail Concepts was purposely crafted to send a message that many of the withering Simon ...
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Eat Your Credit Card
Robin Lewis
May 5, 2021
What would it take to get you to eat a credit card every week for an indeterminate amount of time? Answer: You’re already doing this ...
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The Future of Air
Nick Graham
March 23, 2021
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
Paco Underhill
February 28, 2021
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
Pam Danziger
January 26, 2021
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
Kate Newlin
January 18, 2021
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
Robin Lewis
January 13, 2021
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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