Those of us who have followed the food-retailing industry for a while recall well that just a few years ago it was widely predicted that Walmart Stores’ grocery aisles — increasingly burgeoning with low-priced product — would crush the conventional […]
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Consumer Insights From MasterCard Advisors Despite the sluggishness of the so-called recovery, industry experts are predicting a pickup in the housing market early next year. This will have broad implications for retailers of furniture, furnishings, and other home items. How
In the mid-1990s, when Lancôme had l’audacité to nudge long-time spokesmodel Isabella Rossellini out the back door after a 14-year run because she refused to share the limelight with Spanish stunner Inés Sastre, I wasn’t one of the many beauty
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I was questioning my dark view on the economy during a phone conversation the other day with a major retail CEO. I recounted how surprised I was that the words “double dip” or “another recession” was never even hinted about
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Interviews with Robin Report CEO Robin Lewis, Goldman Sachs Economist Andrew Tilton Warnaco CEO Joe Gromek, Iconis CEO Neil Cole and Gilt Groupe Founder Alexis Maybank at The Inaugural Robin Report-Fashion Group International C-Level Seminar Series at The New York
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Is this recession’s so-called recovery period different enough from past recoveries to lead people to think that while it’s slower and a more painful slog back, we will nevertheless return to some pre-recession “normal,” or, is it so different that
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Consumers have been transformed, but not by the recession. The metamorphosis, which started long before the economic downturn, will prevail regardless of what Congress, The Fed, or Europe does. Here’s what everyone from Proctor & Gamble (PG) to Neiman-Marcus needs
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If you were to ask Ken Hicks what he does for a living, he’d tell you “I sell sneakers.” We got the opportunity to sit down with this down-to-earth, Harvard Business School-educated, part-Native American straight-talker from Texas, who shared with
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The American Dream that many so-called “hippies” of the 1960s counterculture movement embraced, chanting their mantra of “Peace and Love,” became something very different once the 1970s, which Tom Wolfe named “the Me decade,” came along. Somewhere along their free-loving,
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Imagine if you crossed a car dealership with a funeral parlor. What you’d have would be a furniture store. The retailing of furniture may not be the most archaic, antiquated and illogical form of merchandising in American business today…but it’s
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