Boost salaries and you boost the whole economy. Armed with more money for spending, consumers can increase purchases of homes, consumer goods, leisure activities and much more. Most Americans-working-class and middle-class Americans-have been waiting many years for pay raises that […]
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Last week, the Shoptalk and Groceryshop management team (Anil, Simran, Zia and Caroline) embarked on an 8,000 mile journey to Pune to spend the week with our rapidly expanding engineering team. Pune is one of India\’s fastest growing tech hubs,
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Is Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart beginning to buckle under the pressure from last century\’s comfortable mindsets and a culture that has succeeded by doing the things they\’ve always done, but just doing them better? Are stakeholders pushing back (the
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Radical transparency is disrupting the retail industry. In the past, retailers could pick and choose what information they shared with potential customers. However, due to mobile browsing, environmental deterioration, and call-out culture, customers now expect brands to have every detail
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Ask any retailing expert, guru or know-it-all worth their weight in consulting fees and they will all tell you the same thing: the future of physical stores rests with \”experiential\” formats that present shoppers with an immersive atmosphere that can\’t
Second-hand luxury retailer The RealReal just went public with an initial goal to raise $270 million. But on REAL\’s first day of trading they did better than that, selling 15 million shares at $20 each for $300 million. TheRealReal was
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Pick up almost any textile or apparel industry publication and you will be inundated with claims by apparel producers, brands and retailers about joining in or initiating their own high-profile efforts to address the issue of environmental sustainability. There is
Sustainability? Not a Chance Without Consumers Declaring War Read More »
Check out my podcast on being a Radical in retail. I recently sat down with industry heavyweight Steve Sadove (former Chairman and CEO of Saks and former President of Worldwide Beauty Care and Nutritionals at Bristol-Myers Squibb) to discuss the
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It\’s good to be an off-pricer these days. The TJX group of nameplates – TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, et al – and Ross Dress for Less are both outperforming virtually every other physical-store based retailer in the country. In the
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Retailers still don\’t get it. How many times and in how many ways do I have to rant and rave about the one enormous competitive advantage the brick-and-mortar players have over the online experience? According to a survey by Elastic
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