Let’s speculate about Geoffrey, the lovable giraffe-like “mascot” of the once category-killer Toys”R”Us stores. To review, the brand went public in 1978, and during the peak of its power in the 1980s, had 1450 locations globally, selling 18,000 different toys, […]
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During the pandemic, American consumers bought furniture like they didn’t have a stick of the stuff in their homes. Ever since, not so much. Among the consumer product categories riding the biggest retail roller coaster during Covid and thereafter, retailers
Many retailers count on holiday sales for 20 to 30 percent of their annual sales, with some stores deriving even more annual revenue from the short time period between Thanksgiving and year-end. With that in mind, here is a cliff
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Despite all the pre-IPO hype that the listing of Birkenstock shares would rival the meteoric launches of other household footwear names like Nike, Crocs, and Skechers USA, the company’s recent debut in public markets was a pretty resounding flop. And
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After the upcoming holidays, around the time when retailers bid goodbye to garlands, Christmas décor and the occasional Menorah, Best Buy will be removing DVDs and Blu-rays from its shelves as well as from its online store. It’s the end of
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Brands currently spend $78.45 billion in video ads each year. The short-form video hosting service, TikTok, is making strides to secure its slice of the pie. This isn’t without irony, as TikTok was founded with the goal of escaping the
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It’s the retail crisis du jour: Crime. Specifically, in-store theft and robberies are what the industry still refers to as shrinkage. Theft seems to be rampant and it’s practically all anybody in the business can talk about. Make no mistake
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Think luxury fashion, upscale boutiques, and glamour. Then think fjords and Oslo. Maybe it’s not the first place to spring to mind. Well, you could be way behind the times my friends because Norway’s capital has quietly (would the Norwegians
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For years, the big national drug chains led by the biggest of the big – Walgreens, CVS and the now bankrupt Rite-Aid – have been opening stores at a brisk clip, usually on corner locations which all three believed were
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It isn’t particularly scientific, but with just a cursory search of my inbox, I can legit report on trends within the beauty industry. And what my stuffed-to-capacity Gmail is telling me right now is that the once red-hot CBD beauty
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