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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Why aren’t young people drinking like they used to? The world is recovering from a global pandemic and contending with a youth mental health crisis. Yet, in this environment and counterintuitively, drinking rates are on the decline. A 2022 Gallup
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At TRR when we want a snapshot of a city’s cultural and socioeconomic health, we look to retail. Retail is an especially effective bellwether of a city’s zeitgeist — even for the casual observer. So, in that spirit, we recently
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In December 2023 Bang & Olufsen opened the doors to its new flagship concept on London’s upscale New Bond Street. More than showcasing the brand’s full range of high-performance speakers, headsets, and televisions, the new flagship store has been reimagined
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If you thought all the drama surrounding the Bed Bath & Beyond brand was over when the company went out of business in 2023, you thought wrong. The hits just keep on coming. Lemonis as non-CEO CEO looks like he
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Many (Western) China watchers have been foretelling the economic decline and collapse of the world’s second-largest economy for decades. This outlook, often fueled by a certain amount of wish fulfillment, has been reinforced of late by a growing list of
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