Paris, fondly referred to as the City of Lights and renowned for its rich cultural heritage spanning centuries of art, architecture, beauty, cuisine, fashion, and literature is in full prep mode to host the 2024 Summer Olympics — Paris 2024. […]
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With the specter of inflation seemingly tamed and the prospect of the U.S. Federal Reserve lowering interest rates as many as three times throughout 2024, an increasingly higher level of consumer confidence is already creating a sense of optimism across
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Lifestyle branding is ubiquitous in marketing-speak circles. Companies spent over $7 billion on lifestyle advertising last year and are expected to allocate some $10 billion by 2027, nearly a 10 percent compound annual growth rate from 2022, according to Statista.
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Okay, take a deep breath, relax, and cut through all the Arkhouse and Brigade noise about their tenacious acquisition threat to take its $5.8 billion offer directly to Macy’s Inc. shareholders. Yada, Yada, yada. I’m not going to cover what
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To kick off retail’s transformative year, NRF was a one-stop shopping moment to take the pulse of the industry. If a meme is an idea or behavior that spreads by imitation or repetition, the meme for NRF was artificial intelligence.
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In the end, Showfields and Neighborhood Goods billed themselves as department stores, and they did what so many department stores have done: They went out of business. Any post-mortem on Showfields and Neighborhood Goods will have to deconstruct the factors
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Columbus, Ohio is the 32nd largest metro area in the U.S. ranked by population and known, primarily, for its Ohio State NCAA Big 10 football team. But according to one of Placer.ai’s geolocation benchmarks, Columbus is also home to America’s
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Call it the Great Reckoning. After a few consecutive years of suspiciously explosive growth in the indie beauty scene, an era when virtually everyone you know was slapping their name on a line of menopause skincare or “clean” mascara and
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Running a big retail chain is no easy job in the best of times. In a year like 2023, it was a bitch. After two years (2020 and 2021) of an insane wave of conspicuous consumption funded by government checks,
The argument is simple: malls may not be the income powerhouses they once were but we’re still enduring their pain. Malls have been through the mill: online retail, consumer recessions, retail bankruptcies, political and economic upheavals, the impact of the
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