For those who have not yet had the pleasure of visiting Minneapolis in winter, I can testify from firsthand experience, it is a bone-chilling experience. This year’s Super Bowl is sure to give many more people a taste of the […]
It’s Cold in Minnesota: Menswear Brand Askov Finlayson Wants to Keep it that Way! Read More »
Buyers of online apparel subscription services, which have been likened to a virtual personal shopper, reach just over four percent of the online apparel buying population, according to NPD’s Checkout e-commerce data, which analyzes purchases at the receipt level. This
Mickey Drexler, the former CEO of the Gap and J. Crew, and the man once dubbed the “Merchant Prince,” and frankly one of my iconic heroes back “in the day,” recently made some really Mickey Mouse statements. Back in May,
Product Management, Not Product Read More »
A winning quarter does not necessarily qualify as a turnaround. But, the initiatives and strategies CEO Kevin Mansell and his team planted during what I questioned might have been a flatlining period (Is Kohl’s Flatlining?) (roughly between 2012 and 2016)
Kudos to Kohl’s CEO Kevin Mansell – “Greatness Agenda” Kicks In Read More »
By Robin Lewis Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, and New York Times op-ed contributor, authored the book The World is Flat, published in 2005. In a nutshell, the thesis of the book claims that “when the world is flat,
The World Is More than Flat Read More »
Contrary to the creative perception most people have of the fashion and retail industries, the biggest challenges facing these industries are institutional risk aversion and, for many, a lack of creativity. While a cautious attitude is warranted given all the
Retail’s Creative Destruction Spawns a New Commerce World Order Read More »
Reachify: Solving for too many options and too much information in software solutions It’s all moving so fast with too many technology solutions promising to solve retail’s new problems. Where should a retail C-Suite executive begin? There’s no tech playbook
RetailTech Companies That Will Help You Navigate The New Normal. Read More »
Ponce City Market opened in 1926 as an industrial site in Atlanta built by Sears Roebuck & Company. A massive brick warehouse and distribution center with more than two million square-feet on a sixteen-acre site, in 2017 it remains one
Urban Icons in Transition Read More »
By Robin Lewis Old world brands, as well as their marketing models, big and small alike, across all consumer-facing businesses, are entering an era in which many of them are in danger of becoming extinct. At best, they are slowly
The Future of Brands Read More »
Those of us who were around in 1976 may remember the movie Network, starring Peter Finch. There is a memorable scene in the movie in which Howard Beall, a famous television news anchor played by Finch, completely loses it on
I’m as Mad as Hell Read More »
