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The Retail Workforce of the Future

Millennials and Gen Z make up around half of the global workforce. Many are frontline retail workers whose jobs were impacted during the pandemic. Whether ...
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Will Shopify Solve Amazon\’s Antitrust Issue?

The easy answer to whether Shopify will solve Amazon’s antitrust issue is no, but the more nuanced answer is hmm. Amazon’s FTC investigation does not ...
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Five Macrotrends That Will Drive Traditional Retail’s Big Comeback

For the better part of a year – ever since the onset of Covid-19 – the doomsday diviners of retail have held center stage, pushing ...
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Betting Big on Going Bigger

The other afternoon on Dateline White House on MSNBC, Nicole Wallace mused with a female guest about what will happen when they can go outside ...
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So, You Think You Know Ikea?

If you continue to think of Ikea as that Swedish — or is it Finnish? — retailer with those humungous stores on the outskirts of ...
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Immersive Retail

First there was Sleep No More, an immersive production of Macbeth that redefines theater, staged in the multi-storied McKittrick Hotel on West 27th Street in ...
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Close in and Personal: The Giants go to the “Hoods”

Three clicks on your mobile device or laptop will deliver (most often for free) whatever you want the same day, or in a day or ...
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Walmart Town Centers: One More Wow!!!

Wow! Another huge disruption coming out of McMillon\’s Walmart. They seem to have one speed only: meteoric. One could say I spend too much time ...
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