It’s 2022. Why am I having to worry about whether the Pantene Mist Behaving Dry Conditioning Mist I have tucked in a bathroom drawer, or the Neutrogena Ultra Sheer aerosol sunscreen my husband spritzes on before tennis, are giving us […]
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Retailers and consumers alike have made supply chain a household conversation. With favorite brands missing from the shelves and out of stock messages showering the websites, all of us went into a pre-holiday spiral. News of offshore containers, late seasonal
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A year ago, Kohl’s beat back a campaign by four activist investment funds to unseat its board and shake up its operations. The activists settled for smaller changes at the board level: adding three new directors, creating a standing finance
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Barbie may have struggled with math in the 1990s, but now she is minting NFT’s and logging some entries to the blockchain. Barbie’s latest luxury collaboration is with Balmain, but don’t expect to find a decked-out plastic doll in the
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Is Amazon a suitor for Kohl’s? If not yet, perhaps it should be. And maybe Kohl’s is entertaining the possibility. Back in 2017, I stated that Kohl’s was launching its first few Amazon in-store shops as tests to drive younger
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Over the past two years, buy now pay later (BNPL) services have rapidly gone mainstream in the United States. As recently as 2019, U.S. BNPL payment volume totaled just $3 billion. That rose to an estimated $55 billion last year.
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For years we’ve talked about the 72-million strong millennial generation (born between 1981 and 1996) as the next-gen customers for luxury brands. But now there is an even younger generation on the horizon, Gen Z (born from 1997 to 2012),
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NRF’s 2022 Big Show was far from big but it was the first in person gathering at a scale that the industry has seen since early 2020. Similar to what happened at CES this year, most of the big tech companies such
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The luxury market has been built on exclusivity. The U.S. is still the largest global luxury market and luxury sector sales continue to soar – even through the pandemic. But how we define luxury is changing. First of all, the
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As an industry, we have long averted our eyes from the nasty environmental side effects of the manufacturing processes and the distribution of the things we sell. We continue with business as usual, giving a nod to sustainability as the
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