Gift Yourself
It’s the little things in life. Would you rather get a $38 tube of lipstick in a utilitarian brown cardboard box … or in a beautiful white Chanel-branded mini shopping bag filled with samples wrapped in a silky pouch, all […]
A Smaller Nordstrom Footprint
Retail analysts and executives have long known that the U.S. is \”overstored,\” with far more retail space per capita than other countries. More specifically, one could say the U.S. is \”overmalled,\” with roughly 1,200 malls (depending on exactly how you
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A Radical Visionary Envisions Nike’s Dominant Future
When you see the image of a swoosh and hear or read the words “there is no finish line” or “just do it,” what brand immediately comes to mind? If your answer is “I don’t know,” then you have been
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NRF Holiday Forecast at Risk
For the last 25 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) has kicked off the holiday shopping season in early October with its forecast for holiday retail spending, covering the critical November-December retail sales. This year, however, it waited until the
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Beauty’s Shifting M&A Landscape
As a beauty journalist who came of age in the 1990s, I was shocked and a little sad to see that Perricone MD, a proto \”doctor brand\” that made its debut during that era, recently changed hands for a mere
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Grey Is the New Black
An increasing number of major brick-and-mortar retailers-led by Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and The Home Depot-will not open their doors on Thanksgiving, giving employees the day off and pushing more spending to digital channels. What’s more, fewer promotions have been
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The Quest to Nest
The home furnishings industry finds itself in the ultimate Venn Diagram (a graphic representation of circles that shows the sweet spot where different datasets overlap): the confluence of Americans spending much more time at home, much less time traveling and
Reimagining JCPenney
Several weeks ago, a colleague asked me which retailer(s) I thought were genuinely innovative. For me, \”innovative\” and \”retailer\” rarely fit in the same sentence, but, my immediate response: Carvana. Disruption for Detroit The world of used, or previously owned
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Pandemic Fashion: We May Never Wear Real Clothes Again
Not much of coronavirus’ impact on the fashion industry was predictable. Sure, sweatpants did eclipse evening gown sales and lipstick took a nosedive, as expected; but some of the more lasting effects of Covid-19 on the fashion industry could not
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Rerouting Retail
In 2015 NIKE opened a Community Store in Brooklyn; It’s not in Williamsburg or Dumbo, it’s in Flatbush. Flatbush is hardly an international retail mecca. In fact, the store is near the last downtown stop, at the end of the