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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Luxury retailers leased a record-breaking 650,000 square feet of retail space last year, according to a new report from JLL. Turning their attention stateside, luxury brands recognize that the U.S. is the most robust luxury market in the world, with
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Variety may be the spice of life, but is it the future of online shopping? Signs point to yes: Online retail marketplace sales in the U.S. will grow by 10.2 percent this year to comprise more than a third of
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I know we all have enough acronyms and abbreviations in our lives already. Talking via Whatsapp over the past couple of months to my 18-year-old – now a college freshman studying in the Netherlands – has been a crash course
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Newsweek just named Boot Barn to its list of top U.S. retailers for 2023. It’s an interesting list, filled with the usual suspects like Wegman’s, Trader Joe’s, L.L. Bean, Target, Costco, and Wawa, then there are the not-so-usual ones, like
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