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Retail Unwrapped Podcast

Blunt Talk About Retail News Headlines

Want to find out about the underside of retail today? Join Shelley and TRR contributor Mark Cohen, who is an industry veteran and former director of retail studies at Columbia Business School, as they reveal the back stories on what’s making retail news headlines.

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Shipping Logistics at a Crossroads
Operations

Shipping Logistics at a Crossroads

Retailers with rail-heavy networks may need to reevaluate their long-term exposure. That doesn’t mean abandoning rail altogether, but it does require stress-testing the network for vulnerabilities and building in alternative routes and modes where possible.

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Indie Sleaze Still Having a Moment
Experience

Indie Sleaze Still Having a Moment

If the staple of grunge core is tartan plaid, indie sleaze’s core staple is a pair of frayed black skinny jeans. Now that the trend is experiencing its second life, it’ll be rooted in structured workwear blazers and motorcycle jackets, rather than the greasy hair and smudged mascara still haunting millennials’ dreams.

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The Latest Play Kids Toys for Grown ups
Experience

The Latest Play: Kids Toys for Grown-ups

The boomer generation never met a nostalgic reminder of their youth that they didn’t respond to. And with more time (and money) on their hands, they are likely to continue to drive this trend for the foreseeable future.

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Retail Unwrapped Podcast

Surprises About Rising Food Costs

While consumers fixate on tariffs as the primary force behind rising food prices, the reality is far more complex and revealing. Regulatory changes, labor costs and operational expenses coupled with new tariff pressures on some food categories are creating uncharted supply-demand dynamics.

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Warnings and Revelations about AI
Technology

Warnings and Revelations about AI

From simple stone tools to complex genetic engineering and information technology, the history of technology is the history of human invention. The speed at which the invention of these tools and technologies is being delivered now has become exponential as the application of machine learning and AI becomes the ubiquitous open-source ingredient.

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American Eagles Sydney Sweeney Ad Spawns a Culture War
Opinion

American Eagle’s Sydney Sweeney Ad Spawns a Culture War

The American Eagle disaster proves that retailers can no longer afford to confuse stock market performance with DEI awareness. Not in an era when customers dissect corporate messaging, then build communities around it on social media. The Sweeney ad demonstrates what happens when a company’s entire chain of command neglects to question the implications of what they’re putting out in the world, or how that messaging fits into the global climate.

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