Ross Stores is on a roll. When many retailers are contracting, Ross is on the move opening 40 new stores this fall to meet its goals of 100 new stores in 2022 – delivering on its 2021 growth plans. It […]
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It’s hard to talk about fashion going into 2023 without using words like “surreal” and “otherworldly.” The reason? Dystopian fashion reached new heights this year. From the “eyebrowless” makeup trend to Balenciaga’s beat-up leather wallet fashion show invites, helping customers
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Talk to any lululemon customer and he or she will be the first to tell you that lululemon is a community, a club, an affinity group – anything other than a retailer. Calvin McDonald’s ability to not just sustain but
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Just a year or two ago, many people believed that the Covid-19 pandemic had sparked a massive, permanent acceleration of ecommerce adoption. This thesis became the conventional wisdom among executives at pure-play ecommerce retailers and other companies that stood to
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American Eagle Outfitters is an amazing success story, propelled by next gens who love it for its honesty and relevant, trending style. It’s the perfect example of a brand from the early aughts that managed to evolve into a Gen
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Last year saw a resurgence of retail foot traffic, as consumers were excited by the easing of Covid restrictions and looking to spend their stimulus money and pandemic savings descended on brick-and-mortar stores. But now, the pent-up demand of 2021
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Ikea, the retailer known for those gargantuan shopping emporiums out on the edge of town, is in the midst of a retail reinvention to rethink its footprint, experimenting with smaller stores in more urban locations. But it’s most certainly a
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While I’m sure it was just the way it all shook out, there are only men – seven of them, in fact — quoted in the mid-November official press release announcing the acquisition of Tom Ford by Estée Lauder Companies.
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Ralph Lauren As the most financially successful American designer, Ralph Lauren is also the quintessential aspirational lifestyle designer. He designed an American dream that was living the idea of the life of wealthy WASPs (White Anglo- Saxon Protestants– in case
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