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Mary Jo Pile’s well-earned career in retail is a great example of taking what you have learned and then applying it to your own business. She worked her way into store, district, and regional management; then vice president, executive vice president, and shop owner.
Spoiler alert: Consumers are not simply trading down. They are reallocating trust, loyalty, and wallet share to brands and retailers that make their value unmistakable. Too many leadership teams still treat this behavior as a temporary pricing problem when the real issue is the company’s value proposition.
If the name doesn’t ring a bell, maybe you’ll recognize its former name: Bed Bath & Beyond. Not the fabled Big Box category killer that fell on hard times and eventually melted down. This is the resurrected entity that has changed its name, corporate strategy, place of business and personnel more times over a shorter period than just about anybody else in the retail space.
Join Shelley and Michael Beecham, President of California Pizza Kitchen, as they reveal why the founders were brought back and where the smartest path to today’s diner may lead to a vending machine or the frozen food aisle.
Unlike many of the “walking dead” retail brands that went out of business but have hung on in a virtual state, TRU is aggressively opening stores and pursuing retail partnerships. Its owner WHP, is not playing around.
After I listened to NPR’s Life Kit broadcast, I drove to Burbank over the weekend to see for myself, and I counted 214 digital price tags in one aisle of the local Walmart. Not one of them changed while I stood there, but that doesn’t settle the ESL war.
As celebrity merchandise gets increasingly extravagant (see Beyoncé’s $900 empty box), a new kind of endorsed merchandise is on the rise: food. Some of the most memorable celebrity partnerships take place at an unlikely venue—the drive-thru.
Walmart and Macy’s are inching upward into fashion-forward style, and iconic couture designers are spreading a version of their vision to a more mass audience at Uniqlo, Zara, Gap, and H&M. Is it working?
At first, one might think that this DTC cookware company, being sued by two of the biggest players in the business— Groupe SEB and Meyer—for false and misleading claims, that then turned around and used the suit in their marketing to prove the worth of their products would be a TRR Hit.
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