The Millennials Love It It’s a strange world and these are strange times we are living in. We witness nerdy Edward Snowden, outing and vilifying the NSA for seeking to make the world’s population transparent, while at the same time […]
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Are they Nuts? Could it be that that Lidl executives have taken leave of their senses? Maybe so. They’ve announced plans to plant a large number of stores in the US, notwithstanding its overseas industry peers’ wretched record of failure
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Actually, lemmings are a lot cuter than most investors, but investors are sure acting like lemmings, all heading over the proverbial cliff. And while lemmings in real life do not partake in mass suicide, venture investors in real life have
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Consumer Facts from Cotton Incorporated Lifestyle Monitor™ Once consumers became comfortable purchasing apparel online, brands and retailers sought to enhance the experience through social media sharing options, crowdsourcing — and online customer comments sections. What may have begun as a
Consumers Are Talking…Are Brands Listening? Read More »
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard the National Security Agency vehemently denying that its spy program is trampling on the constitutional rights of citizens, while privacy advocates bellow about the rise of Orwellian dictatorships. They do love
So, What’s a Little Surveillance Between Friends? Read More »
For more than 40 years, I’ve been making the pilgrimage to the greenhouses on the campus of Wellesley College. Named for the eminent Horticulturist Margaret Ferguson, the 16 interconnected greenhouses contain some 1500 different types of plants. The Brooklyn and
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Conventional supermarket retailers can’t catch a break — even sometimes. Conventional operators — Kroger, Safeway and the like — face a vast array of competition developing on all sides. That includes food purveyors such as deep discounters, mass merchants, membership
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While luxury brand managers don’t advertise it (in fact many are reticent to acknowledge their outlet presence at all) outlets are increasingly used as a growth strategy. It’s explicit for Coach, and to a degree, Ralph Lauren, but look for
Luxury/Designer Brands at Outlets– Brand Erosion or Market Expansion? Read More »
Hardly a day goes by without an article or discussion about “dynamic pricing.” By now, we all know that dynamic pricing refers to the ability to present prices to specific consumers at certain times based on their behavior, or in
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Should food retailers permit themselves just a little schadenfreude as they watch the tempest swirling around apparel retailers? And quite a tempest it is: the apparel industry has a mammoth problem with manufacturing conditions. This was illustrated far too well
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