Suburban Sprawl Gives Way to the Not-So-Mean Streets of the Big City The Great American Dream isn’t dead, but it’s certainly on life support. After decades of unprecedented growth, suburbia has been surpassed by the inner city. It is — […]
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Check out the complete article \”A dying breed: The American Shopping Mall\” on the CBS Sunday Morning web site >>
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The Death and Diminishment of Malls and Other Big Footprints We are on the edge of the Great Retail Demassification. Prior to the “great disruptor” (that would be the Internet), and before the marketplace became ridiculously over-stored and over-stuffed, consumers
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Is there any store more associated with the holiday that Christmas has become in America than Macy’s? After all, how many retailing corporations are the stars of their own legendary motion picture that celebrates the spirit of Christmas? And how
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Marigay McKee’s Revolution? First of all, along with many industry luminaries, I extend a warm welcome to Marigay McKee to this side of the pond, and especially to New York City: the most intensely competitive city in the most ferociously
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Is water washing full-price mega brands down the drain? Well, maybe so, given that major bottlers have lost consumer credibility to the degree that they can’t market product under their own brand names. But let’s start at the beginning. As
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The last 20 years have been a time of incredible upheaval in the retail order. So with the recent announcement of a new chairman at retail design agency Fitch, I was curious to hear the perspective of an agency that’s
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Little-Known H-E-B Shows the Way As the post-recession era drags on, the dynamics of retailing are changing, adjusting to the new normal. As we’ve seen lately in the pages of the Robin Report, some retailers that didn’t fare any too
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L Brands Deep Dive I recently attended L Brands half-day investor meeting, where management presented its long-term strategy. While the absolute priority remains growing the North American business, in fact doubling it, L Brands hopes to sustain significant international growth.
All of us move through our lives with a clock ticking inside our heads. Even in troubled economic situations, time, rather than money, is our most important commodity. That clock tends to tick at relative degrees of loudness. You can
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