Heading into the home stretch of the 2019 Holiday season it looks like a bipolar mix of optimistic mania on one extreme and relative ho-hum on the other. Customer Growth Partners holds the mania ticket, predicting 5.6 percent growth (even […]
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Wayfair, your WeWork/Uber/Slack/et al. wake-up call is here. After yet another quarter of dramatically increasing losses and despite an equally dramatic increase in revenue, Wayfair is in danger of being caught in a dangerous vortex in the investment community. The
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This is the tale of two paths to brand building. One approach is through careful message management and paying a lot to keep that control. The other way is to depend on free media – publicity generated by news coverage
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As if social media didn\’t have enough of an impact on consumer behavior, Instagram is rolling out a new pilot program in the U.S. to help brands generate excitement for their product drops. Brands that are signed up for the
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From the person who said we all have too much stuff and if you pay me some money, I\’ll show you how to get rid of all that stuff, comes STUFF! It\’s news that even the irony-challenged will have no
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Get the scoop on \”The Aging of eCommerce.\” And vital issues such as the health of the consumer marketplace from three of NPD\’s leaders: Don Unser, President of NPD\’s retail practice; Matt Powell, VP/Senior Advisor over the sports segment; and
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Let me start with Walmart\’s Q3 2019 results, which by now, you are aware of. I will repeat the highlights only as a segue way to a couple of other signals that Amazon must be noticing that their Walmart headache
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It begins now. The elders of the generation labeled \”Z\” will enter the active consumer class in 2020. This generation, born between 1996 and 2010 is estimated by the NRF to have $44 billion in buying power either through influencing
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Fast fashion is finally on its way out and the cost-per-wear value metric is making a comeback. Companies that were forced to reduce the quality of the materials to manufacture clothing just to stay alive in the race-to-the-bottom can finally
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Headache sized issues in \”The Chaotic New World of Retailing\” features Robin Lewis; Don Unser, President of NPD\’s retail practice; and CEO of Vince, Brendan Hoffman. Listen in as they discuss personalization, sustainability, distribution strategies, the future and how NPD
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