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Strategy
An Argument for Neighborhood Stores
Ken Hewes and Steve Morris
March 26, 2023
Specialty retailers – from legacy brands and DTCs to startups – are all facing the same challenge: Declining mall traffic and higher downtown office vacancy ...
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New Revenue Streams, Higher Margins Are Walmart’s Focus
Robin Lewis
March 22, 2023
With a Walmart store within a 10-mile dash from every consumer in the U.S., and a split-second key tap away, they have clearly established a ...
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Insights for Retail Innovators from Shoptalk
Robin Lewis
March 13, 2023
Identifying the critical trends that are shaping retail (short- and long-term) is an art supported by science. And that’s what Shoptalk does every year to ...
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The Culture Power Brand. Designing Brands That Move People.
Roberto Ramos
March 8, 2023
We are living in extraordinary times as we come out of a once-in-a-lifetime collective reset. And as we heal, recalibrate, and seek joy, we are ...
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Quality Counts: Why the $2 Billion Bidding War for Aesop Makes Perfect Sense
Dana Wood
March 1, 2023
When a number of reputable business news outlets recently reported that none other than LVMH, L’Oréal and Shiseido were allegedly embroiled in a $2 billion ...
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Behind the Scenes with Krystina Gustafson
Robin Lewis
February 27, 2023
How do you curate great content for 10,000 digital innovation leaders who have high expectations for learning something new that will help them navigate the ...
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Jassy to Employees: Redefine Amazon
Robin Lewis
February 15, 2023
I’m not going to do an “I told you so” (but I just did). Actually, I’m sharing a leaked recording that a very alert Insider ...
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By Canceling AmazonSmile, the Company Challenges Its Consumer Centricity Claim
Pam Danziger
February 12, 2023
Amazon just announced it was shutting down its charitable-donation platform AmazonSmile, effective February 20. Launched in 2013, AmazonSmile allowed customers to donate 0.5 percent of ...
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