As retailers compete for consumer time with a seemingly never-ending sale season, there are so many competing deals it’s almost crippling. But retailers take note; flooding consumers with cheap offers will not win you favor in the Millennial market. Smart […]
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The warning to “improve the retail experience for shoppers” often puts me in mind of the cliché about weather: “Everyone talks about it, but nobody does anything about it.” Specific reasons for the lack of progress on the retail experience
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Philanthropy and Your Brand I first heard of Toms nearly five years ago while wedding dress shopping with my niece. To judge the right length of the dress, the sales person asked what type of shoe she was planning to
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In 1983, “New York Times” journalist and eminence grise of retail reportage, the late Isadore Barmash, reported on the then newly revealed Sears Roebuck “Store of the Future:” \”Admittedly playing catch-up, Sears last week introduced its sleek,226,000 square-foot prototype store
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Not Just Talk, Not Your “Grandfather’s” Conference About five minutes into the conversation, I realized that Anil sees the world through the eyes of an entrepreneur, with a unique vision about thought leadership that, in my opinion, is achievable. The
As often happens in the retail technology space, hype can be distracting. Consider Square. As 2016 opens, Square is surrounded by its initial public offering hype and CEO drama. That’s unfortunate. Because retailers should be focused on what the company
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“What I wouldn\’t give for twenty more years! Here we are, protected, free to make our profits without Kefauver, the goddamn Justice Department and the F.B.I. ninety miles away, in partnership with a friendly government. Ninety miles! It\’s nothing!” —
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The “Runway, Same Day” movement is not really a game changer. The game has already changed. The recent discussions around the \”Runway, Same Day\” business model, solidified by Burberry’s recent decision to combine both its men\’s and women\’s collections into a
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It has been credibly rumored that, following 20 years of driving book stores out of business, Amazon is now planning to get into the bookstore business. The CEO of mall operations for General Growth Properties, Sandeep Mathrani, commented to “The
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Bain & Company forecasts the size of the global personal luxury market at $230 billion. And it worries it will grow by only one percent this year. Bank of America says, \”No! This is too narrow a definition: Think of
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