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Where An Oil-Driven Past Gives Way to a Consumer-Driven Future
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2/19-2/20 No, it’s not about golf. Yes, there’s that. More importantly, it’s where you should plan to be next February. It’s the ...
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Is Nordstrom in the Vortex of Deflating Value?
It’s not surprising that without enough strategic foresight, Nordstrom would default to its “lowest hanging fruit,” and apparently its easiest path to growth — the ...
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Arhaus: Reversing the Luxury Home Recession Trend
The U.S. luxury market is rapidly falling into a recession (if it isn’t already there), according to Chandler Mount, founder of the Affluent Consumer Research ...
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The Boomers Aren’t Quite Done…Well, Booming
I am of course not exactly objective about this topic, but when a major new research report confirms it, that’s a big deal. Baby boomers, ...
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Amazon Dumps Yet Another Failed Brick-and-Mortar Experiment
Here’s a glimpse of a strategic disaster. I gave Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, kudos as he took the top job as, in my opinion, Amazon ...
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Meta’s Strategic Transformation Yields Impressive Results
Things are starting to click again at Meta. Throughout 2022, the company’s outlook was clouded by metaverse malaise as the NFT hype was evaporating and ...
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Female Retail CEOs: MIA
Only six new retail CEOs in a 2022/23 Korn Ferry study were women, clocking in at 15 percent. And even more troubling, half the companies ...
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Is Toys”R”Us a Rising Phoenix Metaphor?
Let’s speculate about Geoffrey, the lovable giraffe-like “mascot” of the once category-killer Toys”R”Us stores. To review, the brand went public in 1978, and during the ...
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