It is my great pleasure to announce the 10 Finalists of the 2019 Radicals Awards. A year ago, we announced the inaugural Radicals Awards in collaboration with SAP, to seek out and identify radical and innovative thinkers and doers, exclusively […]
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Imagine owning Carnegie Hall and not ensuring that each performance was so special and so distinctive it would be considered ovation-worthy by your audience. Now imagine owning iconic retail stages across our nation and not having the organizational creativity for
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If you\’re not preparing for the next 5-10 years, you\’re going to go the way of the fax machine. Rapidly changing consumer behavior and expectations, anytime-anywhere connectivity, and technology that knows what shoppers want before they do, will all continue
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RH (AKA Restoration Hardware) opened its new flagship this fall in an architecturally spectacular space in NYC\’s Meat Market across from the Gansevoort Hotel around the corner from Soho House. RH left its old flagship location in Broadway and 22th
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How about getting lunch from a vending machine? Strangely enough, maybe yes. The seemingly antiquated technology behind enterprises such as the Automat are taking on modern aspects and resurfacing in unexpected ways. One version is being rolled out by, no
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Every day the self-care revolution enlists more and more consumers to its cause as the walls separating Health, Wellness and Beauty are falling. It\’s a movement that offers savvy retailers and manufacturers of health, beauty and wellness products that are
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If you think brick-and-mortar stores are in turmoil because of the internet, you would be wrong. The recent closing of Lord & Taylor\’s iconic Fifth Avenue store was not preordained by the impact of e-commerce. The real problem was its
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Heads Up! Your deadline to join 10,000 meetings at Shoptalk is Friday at 5:00 PM. If you work for a retailer or brand and want to meet eight interesting new potential partners–including startup tech companies transforming the world of retail–and
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Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos was once asked about what he wanted in a relationship; he replied: \”I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life\’s too short to hang out with people who aren\’t
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Not too long ago, the sales of private label products stood as a useful barometer for food retailing and the economy in general. When the economy was in decline, which caused a drop in food sales, private label sales increased
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