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The Long Tail Theory
Robin Lewis
January 27, 2016
Can Be Reality for Traditional Megabrands A decade has passed since Chris Anderson wrote The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling More ...
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Amazon – The Rock and a Hard Place For Third-Party Merchants
Robin Lewis
December 2, 2015
From a real-time perspective, a snapshot of Amazon reveals a sprawling marketplace with the potential to become the largest transactional agent in the history of ...
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The Big Alibaba Bamboozle
Robin Lewis
November 18, 2015
The World’s Largest Counterfeit Market One can find fake or counterfeit brands in shops and on the streets of every major city in the world. ...
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Every Consumer is Now a Retailer
Robin Lewis
November 11, 2015
Hey! It’s a Store in Every Closet As if the traditional industry’s beaten and battered retailers don’t already have enough angst sitting on top of ...
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Bruce Roberts: Iconic Industry Leader and Dear Friend
Robin Lewis
November 8, 2015
Last week, the fiber, textile and apparel industry lost one of its most revered leaders and a dear friend of all. Bruce Roberts was a ...
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The Great Retail Charade – Diving Into an Economic Black Hole
Robin Lewis
November 2, 2015
Charade is a nice way of describing what I believe to be the biggest issue in mainstream retailing today. The charade? “Spinmeistering,” including many of ...
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Walmart – “It’s The Right Thing To Do”
Robin Lewis
October 27, 2015
Here is one more glaring example of the absurd and frankly, stupid “short-termism” of Wall Street and the investment community. Doug McMillon, Walmart’s relatively new ...
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Holiday, Schmoliday
Robin Lewis
October 21, 2015
Retailers Must Hope for a Lot of Blind-Hope Consumers It’s speculation season again, a time to hope that consumers will temporarily forget about the economic mess around the ...
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