Driving from the Jacksonville, Florida airport into downtown, you pass by one of Amazon’s new distribution centers: a mammoth building of more than a million square feet surrounded by a 5,000-place parking lot. It is a reminder that while e-commerce […]
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The Robin Report has written extensively about the many retail business models that are rooted in the 80s, mostly oblivious to the technological advances that could streamline inefficiencies, better allocate capital while also increasing customer satisfaction. Today, most retail C-suite
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The 18th century was the beginning of the consumer revolution, where “shopping went from being primarily a matter of obtaining the necessities of life, to a pleasurable leisure activity in its own right, associated with sociability, sensory experience, the fashioning
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Traditional retailers have been in panic mode for a while now. The shifting consumer landscape is rapidly destroying what years of sameness has built. The blame has erroneously been placed on Amazon, the internet, technology and over-saturation when the truth
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Amazon is continually finding ways to better implement Bezos’ “last mile” (the most costly and often the slowest delivery distance from final distribution point to one’s home or pick-up location) more efficiently and expediently. Secondly, through data analytics and machine
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This summer, Amazon celebrated its third annual “Prime Day” by offering 30 hours of sales on more than 100,000 products on its sites worldwide. It declared a brand day on the calendar as if it were a holiday, which is
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The notion of time plays a powerful role in inspiring and guiding fashion. Designers formulate their creative perspectives through the influences of the past, the urgency of the present, and the possibilities ushered in by the future. The result is
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I ask retailers lot of questions and one of my favorites is, “What keeps you up at night?” One of the most telling answers came from a senior supermarket executive several years ago who replied: “Waking up in the morning
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OK, here’s today’s retail quiz: How many companies that make household appliances have opened up their own stores on one of the most expensive retail shopping streets on the planet, New York City’s Fifth Avenue? OK, time’s up. The correct
When you’re in the retail business there’s no end to the way competitors and disruptors can derail you. Online competition has to be top of mind, but there are cultural disruptions as well, such as the decline of shopping malls
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