You can find just about anything for your home on Wayfair.com. But what you can\’t find is any black ink. In the middle of what is undoubtably the greatest surge of online buying in the history of the business, Wayfair […]
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I recently participated in a retail webinar on wellness. My main message was that retailers limit themselves if they think of wellness just in terms of products consumers use, wear close to their body, put on their skin or decorate
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The industry has paid a lot of attention to what stores need to do to reopen, and rightfully so. Big questions loom: how to arrange a store to enforce social distancing, how to provide PPE and sanitation to both employees
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Walmart recently sent a shot across Amazon\’s bow by partnering with Shopify Inc., the currently valued $88 billion, Canadian-based all-in-one e-commerce solution/tool. Shopify allows one to build a functional e-commerce store from scratch, without a designer\’s or developer\’s help. Shopify
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Admittedly it was a very \”Barbie In Her Beauty Bubble\” stance to take, but this was my first thought when Forbes dropped its \”Kylie Jenner fooled us about her billionaire status\” bombshell: Wait — by Forbes\’s calculations she\’s worth $900M?
Even before the dreadful coronavirus pandemic, most specialty apparel retailers were already playing a dangerous game. They continued to operate their online and brick-and-mortar businesses with levels of inventory inaccuracy that were clearly ill-suited for the omnichannel era. RFID and
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In the wake of the most devastating period in modern American retailing history when the coronavirus pandemic shut down more than two-thirds of the stores in the country, the way retailers pay their suppliers has changed dramatically – perhaps irrevocably.
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Business continuity planning alone is not enough to survive a global pandemic. There is no amount of planning that could have prepared retailers for what has transpired over the past several months. This is especially true for retailers and brands
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Ten miles is the average distance that 90 percent of the U.S. population would have to go to reach one of Walmart\’s roughly 4,700 stores. That is often cited as the real competitive advantage over Amazon for convenient shopping, pick-up
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They say retailing is a zero-sum game. For every winner there is a loser. For every Amazon there is a Sears. It\’s all about market share and at no time will that be more accurate than in the period we\’re
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