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Can Walmart Connect Threaten Amazon’s Lead in the Advertising Business?
Just as Amazon and the internet in general continue to disrupt and transform the legacy publishing and broadcast industries, we are in the early stages ...
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Amazon’s Gift to Shopify
For the record: Amazon, based in Seattle, WA, is a global, primarily online marketplace which sells vendors’ and their own goods to consumers. Shopify, headquartered ...
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Is Amazon a Kohl’s Suitor?
Is Amazon a suitor for Kohl’s? If not yet, perhaps it should be. And maybe Kohl’s is entertaining the possibility. Back in 2017, I stated ...
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Luxury’s Got a New Change Agent: Gen Z
For years we’ve talked about the 72-million strong millennial generation (born between 1981 and 1996) as the next-gen customers for luxury brands. But now there ...
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Makers Dominate the Entry Level Luxury Market
The luxury market has been built on exclusivity. The U.S. is still the largest global luxury market and luxury sector sales continue to soar – ...
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One Step Closer to Circularity
As an industry, we have long averted our eyes from the nasty environmental side effects of the manufacturing processes and the distribution of the things ...
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A Perspective on Luxury from a Global Citizen
Let’s talk context. The origins of luxury goods go back to the 18th century when the retail model was developed for an aristocracy – the ...
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Will 2022 be the Year of the Dark Horse in Retail?
My father grew up on a farm in central Iowa in the 1930s and 40s, and although life in the post-Depression heartland was pretty harsh, ...
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