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ABG, SPARC and JCP Fading Into The Sunset

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

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

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

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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