Retail behemoth Target Corporation’s recent announcement that it has committed to spending more than $2 billion by 2025 on products and services from Black-owned businesses, including ramping up the number of minority-owned brands on store shelves and Target.com to at […]
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Purpose-driven retail is more than just a buzzword… it’s the new standard. Contrary to popular belief, purpose-driven retail and conscious capitalism are not the same thing. Conscious capitalism works to elevate humanity through every component of a business, while purpose-driven
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Buzzfeed has a fun quiz that lets people know if they\’re a millennial or Gen Z based on the clothes they like. Bucket hat? Gen Z. Skinny jeans? Millennials. To the casual reader, it might seem silly. To fashion marketers,
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A funny thing happened on the way to Retailageddon: they forgot to tell some retailers. And while there’s no denying the past year has been especially harsh on much of the retailing industry when it comes to their physical store
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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 challenge the giant’s behavior in the ecommerce retail sector. While Amazon is clearly the market
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Recently I received an email about Becca Cosmetics’ upcoming makeup launches, and I immediately emailed the brand publicist back: “I’m confused,” I wrote. “I thought Estée Lauder was shutting Becca down?” Covid Casualty After assuring me that that was in
I feel safe aligning my economic view with that of Janet Yellen, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, then with a bunch of traditional, last century economists who define inflation as it was
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How do you understand and motivate today’s workforce? Being a corporate leader today has never been more complicated than it is right now. The demands of operating a business are daunting between the logistics of sourcing products, managing supply chains,
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How can pandemic-crushed specialty retailers that were too slow or ineffective ramping up their e-commerce capabilities come back from the brink? Don’t look to Amazon, the big-boxes or category killers for inspiration, advises Wharton Professor Thomas Robertson and director of
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Do the math: Walmart says that over the next decade it wants to move $350 billion of its merchandise buying activity to American-made products. Easier said than done. Much easier. Because as noble a pursuit as that is, when you
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