Beauty retailer Mecca hasn’t tried to copy anyone else. It’s critical for every retailer to find its own way based on its leadership, vision, talent, and resources. Beauty retailers, as well as those in other categories, should take inspiration and confidence from Mecca to find their own way toward innovation and maintaining relevance.
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Hey, we get that wherever Sydney Sweeney goes controversy follows. Companies who have used her in their marketing think they are getting good publicity when she dresses—or undresses—provocatively. But her new campaign for Novig, the sports predictive betting site, is bad publicity and bad for the brand.
Novig: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week, 9. 19. 26 Read More »
The luxury industry has traditionally positioned employees as brand ambassadors. But employees cannot convincingly represent a brand they can’t relate to or no longer believe in. When career stagnation, poor management, unfairness, or exhaustion erode that belief, the same employees who once enthusiastically and convincingly communicated the brand’s values can become its most credible critics.
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Apparently, the marketing and promotion planning folks at Petco never studied their retail history about programs that went terribly wrong or they would have never created a loyalty program that resulted in a loss of millions of dollars of sales due to “customer point redemption volumes (that) far exceeded our initial projections.”
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The business world thinks Shein’s recent Hong Kong IPO —which valued the Chinese ecommerce fashion giant at only a quarter of its 2022 high—is a sign of the company’s downfall. While Shein probably should have listed in Hong Kong years earlier, observers are wrong to see Shein’s stock market debut as a failure; more likely it is a new beginning.
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From selling cheeseburgers to Lego sets, the modern vending machine has evolved into a convenient storefront in the retail world. Wait until you see what’s next.
It’s Not Your Father’s Vending Machine Read More »
Join Shelley and David Wachs, founder of Handwrytten, as they reveal why personal attention beats personalization. They unpack what scalable tools retailers can use to keep customers feeling valued.
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So many DTC companies have struggled after going public; Reformation’s IPO comes at a time when its customer base has significantly diminished, and the brand may no longer inspire the same confidence that fueled its rise. Can Reformation transcend younger consumers’ newfound negative perceptions?
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Hey, don’t get us wrong, we’re all in favor of retailers testing new store concepts and experimenting with different formats. But how long is it going to take Nike to get anything right? The report that they are shutting down their Nike Live—rebranded as Nike Well Collective (whatever that means)—it’s another dead end for a brand that was once king of the footwear and sports apparel sectors; now it seems in a foot race to failure.
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Retail media is a money grab dressed up as innovation. The industry likes to talk about enhancing the shopper journey, but what gets these programs funded is squeezing incremental trade dollars out of CPG brands already stretched thin by tariffs, climate changes that affect supplies, a war in Iran that is increasing transportation and farming costs, and a retailer’s own margin pressure. No shopper ever asked for more screens in a store.
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