In April 2011, I read my New Yorker cringing at Reed Krakoff’s comment on his design process at Coach: “I bang it out,’ he said.‘I know what came before, I know what’s coming next, I know how it will work […]
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Multi-Faceted, But Not Beyond Understanding Retailers need to tune into the 18-to-30 crowd that comprises almost a third of all Americans – a bigger population segment than Baby Boomers. The Millennial generation numbered 79 million in 2011, with an outlook
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Remember when Nick Graham launched a rocket into space with a pair of his Joe Boxer brand shorts in the nose cone? Or, were you there when he did the first live-streaming fashion show (from an airline hanger in Iceland?)
Now It’s The Post-Prep Digital Menswear Evolution? Read More »
Changing markets and disruptive technologies have shaken many retailers to the core. Many are flailing about in all directions in hopes of chancing on a solution. Barnes & Noble wanted to convert to a technology company, but couldn’t. JCPenney wanted
Delhaize’s New Way Forward – A Blueprint for Retailers? Read More »
In my last article, I talked about “Data, Data Everywhere” and how critical it is to simplify retail analytics so we can use the data to take the right actions to help more customers buy, and less time analyzing the
A New Strategy: Individualizing Store Growth Read More »
Organized retail crime is escalating, but can law enforcement cope with a global crime spree and a new class of criminal? When I was eight years old, me, and two equally nefarious friends, decided to hit the local Woolworth. The
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Today’s fashion companies operate in a highly competitive environment, driven by increasingly fickle, price-conscious consumers, rising costs and clothing trends that change at light speed. With increased drops, the proliferation of SKUs and an incessant demand for newness, the big
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P&G’s Tide: Just One Canary In the Mine Preposterous!!! You must be thinking: “he’s finally gone off his wheel,” when I say iconic brands like Tide, and suggesting that other P&G mega-brands, Chevrolet, Levi’s, Nike, Coca-Cola, Wheaties, Cheerios, Skippy, Ralph
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The ‘fat lady’ is getting ready to sing. I don’t know if Eddie Lampert’s recent quote in The New York Times was intended to be a tutorial on business or if he was just whining about his long and ongoing
Now it’s Eddie “The Whining Professor” Lampert Read More »
In 2011, at the TED conference in Long Beach, surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrated an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Dr. Atala and his team
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