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Eddie (no vision) Lampert: A Century Late and an Idea Short

What’s old is new again. It’s back to the future. Mobile phones are the new stores. These and many other metaphors reflect how the technology ...
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Seasonal Line-Cycles:Going, Going…Gone

Zara’s Process Innovation Trumps Product Innovation Zara was first in envisioning what the newly emerging techno-empowered 21st-century consumer would be demanding of the fashion world. ...
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Is Kohl’s Flatlining?

Brilliant Strategists Blindsided? Since 2012, it would appear that Kohl’s might be flatlining (which is drastically dire especially in medical terms). Revenues grew a meager ...
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You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide

Scraping the Bottom for Another Share You are about to open the door into the “house of horrors.” If you’re already in a bad mood, ...
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Planes, Trains, Trucks and Ships

It seems Amazon is now “nuking” everybody.  Last week it was nuking the fashion industry.  This week, the armed ballistic missile is pointed at the ...
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Amazon’s Fashion “Nuke”

Several years ago, Jeff Bezos said that Amazon had to figure out how to get their fashion business “right.”  Subsequently, they began building an organization ...
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From Near Death, JC Penney Is Ready For Take Off

Marvin Ellison delivered. In his first year as the CEO of JC Penney he has achieved enough positive growth measures to give credence to his ...
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Happy New Year!

Not Much Happy or New About It, Except… This Holiday Season, Santa’s sleigh was so overstuffed that he was able to leave a lot of ...
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