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Dick’s Sporting a Whole Team of Formats

Sporting goods has to be one of the most exciting sectors in the entire retail industry now. Consider this: There’s a new brand specializing in ...
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Psycho Bunny Doubles Down on Physical Stores

What can we make of a brand that’s taking a look at everything else that’s happening in the retail industry and doing the exact opposite? ...
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Bloomie’s Breathes New Life into Tired, Predictable Retail

What’s in a nickname? Nearly everyone has one or knows someone who does. Some are a shorthand version of a longer name. Others are more ...
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Primark’s Now Questionable Value Proposition

When Primark, the next-gen’s fast-fashion retailer of choice, opened its first U.S. store in Boston’s Downtown Crossing in October of 2015, I said, “Primark’s value ...
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Walmart and Amazon Vie for Fashion Crown

What a difference a year makes. Amazon recently eclipsed Walmart as the retailer with the highest apparel sales, and its growth doesn’t show signs of ...
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Luxury May Not Be the Success Story You Think

By now you’ve heard the news that leading luxury brands are bringing in cash hand over fist. LVMH, with its Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Fendi ...
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The Great Fragmentation and AI: The Case for Neighborhood Shops

If you think of yesterday’s “mass market” as a nice glass bowl, that market today has shattered into a thousand small fragments of glass. This ...
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Is J.Crew Adapting, Or Abandoning its Signature Style?

J.Crew was one of the most beloved brands of the early aughts. But the preppy retailer fell hard and fast, filing for bankruptcy during the ...
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